My youngest son started his school year off with 2 teachers. His afternoon teacher was having a baby, and meant to work until May before having her baby hopefully late in May. She ended up having to leave work early for bed rest and had her baby a bit early. The children in class love this teacher and have missed her VERY much. Having done a similar project with a grade 1 class a few years ago, I offered to help the class make a quilt as a gift for the teacher and her new daughter.
The children each colored their own block with fabric markers and then I put it all together!
TADA! The finished product! A VERY girly, very bright baby quilt! (names smudged for posting the pics here - not just messy coloring!)
A bit of a close up of the quilt
The children are in French Immersion so many of the greetings are in French, which is fun!
The back of the quilt - a nice polka-dotted fabric with a marbled binding. You can see a bit of the machine quilting here as well - just stitch in the ditch along the blocks and sashes.
I can't wait to give it to the teacher. She is going to be so surprised... she has no idea we're doing this! :) I think she'll be pleased! (If I remember correctly, the last teacher cried when she got her quilt like this!)
side note: (the first paragraphs in the post are coming out with smaller print and I can't quite figure out why. It shows FINE in the html of the post editor here in blogger and when I try to change it, it doesn't change anything. I apologize for the small print.)
