Training Our Daughters to be Keepers At Home . . .
and to Reach Out to the World!

Paper Piecing

      When we go to the coast for a few days this spring, we are planning to take all of our sewing machines and learn how to do paper piecing with my dear Aunt Joanne.  I found a free pattern for this cute heart pillow from the website, www.YouCanQuiltThis.com in one of the emails they sent me, so we’re going to give it a try!  I think we’ll use different colors, though, as we weren’t too fond of the shade of green thrown in with the pinks and reds.  LOL. 

     I don’t know if you are familiar with that website or not, or one of their sister websites, www.YouCanMakeThis.com.  Last winter, I won some free patterns from their website (YCMT) and I was also able to download a bunch of free patterns from both sites.  Brittany made a white chef’s hat (free pattern) with my mom last June while the rest of us were out of town at a Christian homeschooling conference, and she enjoyed that a lot, although the fabric that I bought for her ended up being a bit flimsier than I wanted, so we may need to try it again.  Anyway, it’s a neat site for preteens and teens and adults, too.  If you have daughters in this age range, they might really like YCMT and might find some free and easy patterns on there to try for themselves.

     We’ll try to post additional sewing projects here on the blog as we finish them.  We’re really enjoying getting into sewing!