This week I hosted six children in my quilt studio to make Quillows.  They were practically giddy they were so excited! We planted the seeds of lifelong sewers and quilters, and they were beaming with pride and tightly hugging their Quillows when they left.

On Monday we started by making a mini-Quillow.  This turned out to be quite important to understand the whole process.  The real Quillows were so large it was easy for the campers to get lost in the fabric and what step we were doing, and they really liked doing the smaller sample first.

Overheard at Quilt Camp this week:

• “Duh!” – a lot
• “I don’t want to sew through my dog’s eye/nose/mouth!”
• “The machine came unthreaded . . again!”

Here’s our Quilt Camp by the numbers:

• 5 girls
• 1 boy
• 3 homeschoolers
• 3 private schooled
• 1 horse fabric
• 1 chick fabric
• 1 dog fabric
• 1 floral fabric
• 1 plaid fabric
• 1 motorcycles & baseball fabric
• 6 pincushions
• 250+ pins
• 24 yards of fabric
• 12 yards of batting
• Priceless memories and confidence.  These campers completed a long quilting project and have the skills to tackle any sewing project they want in the future!

A big Happy Birthday wish to Camper E. who turns 12 next week and had her rock-climbing birthday party today!  A rock-climber and a quilter – you go girl!