She wanted blues yellow and greens. My resourceful and creative sister-in-law Julianne shared this color scheme she wanted to do for her son. We loved the stripes and brightened the colors for Jaley's room.
While looking around we found a yo-yo quilt. We fell in love with it .... only it was over $1,000.I told Jaley she could start saving her money or she could make one.
Soooo....
she decided to make one as one of her Young Women Personal Progress Projects.
She calculated we need just under 1,700 yo-yos.
We started this project 2 years ago, but she wasn't quite ready for the undertaking.
This past April, she decided to start it up again. With 40 yo-yos done ... we were well on our way ;o).
Here is our progress:
Cut out 1,700 circles out of fabric to compliment her room. We traced around a blank cd/dvd. Jaley cut and cut and cut and cut.
And then we began sewing. By hand. Where ever we went, we brought a ziplock bag filled with circles, needles, thread and scissors. We plugged along! It takes us just 2-3 minutes to sew one yo-yo.
Last week we finished sewing all of the yo-yos!
My dear quilting friend, Linda D. from IL helped me figure out how to assemble this quilt. We put the yo-yo's on the dining room table according to fabrics.
We had 25 different fabrics (but not all the same number of yo-yos in each).We put 25 yo-yos in each baggie.
Now we are sewing them into rows of 5.
And then into blocks of 25.
And still, where ever we go, we have a baggie filled with needles, thread, scissors and yo-yos.
Each square is taking under 1 hour (depending on the interruptions). This project is keeping
us out of trouble!
We have 72 blocks to sew together.
and then we need to attach it to the black think quilt we picked up at Target that you can see at the foot of her bed.
At the last General Conference, Elder Eyring gave a talk that encouraged Moms to participate in the Personal Progress program with their daughter. It has been a lot of fun to do this project with Jaley. We have listened to books on tape, sat and talked, or just enjoyed each other's company. The YW value projects are to take at least 10 hours. We have passed that a LONG TIME AGO!
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4 comments:
Wow! This is quite the project. It is going to look incredible when it is done! I love the color scheme! :) I think I should begin learning some sewing fundamentals. My mother-in-law always laughs when she comes to my house and asks for a needle and thread and I do not have either. I do now, but they are rarely used. I know that a time is going to come when Olivia is going to want to embark on some kind of project, whether related to YW or not, and I hope that I will have some skills by then to take on that project rather than pay 1700.00 dollars for one that is similar. Right now, I would just fork over the money. ;) The memories that go along with making that quilt are worth so much more than $1700.00; which makes it worth your time! Good luck!
so CUTE! love the paint job, and love that yo-yo quilt! can't wait to see the finished product! :()
You are awesome! What an undertaking! You always find time for the most amazing projects.
She will always have that quilt too and remember working on it with you.
Complement.
Not Compliment.
This has been another episode of 'grammar nazi'. Thank you.
-Lance
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