I hope your new year is off to a good start. Our holiday was very busy but it was wonderful. I loved spending time with the family and friends. Holidays are a lot of hard work but so worth it. It is nice to be back to the regular grind though.
This morning Doodles and I started back to her home school routine. We didn’t take a lot of time off during the holidays. We had lighter days of work but, we still did some school work most days, accept the holidays.
She has been busy learning the 50 states and to locate them on a blank map. I thought it would be fun this morning to change things up a bit with her geography lesson and make a travel blanket with her.
She pulled out her little Hello Kitty machine and did most all the sewing herself; however, I did help a bit with the pinning of the pieces and the top stitch afterwards. We used a pre-printed fabric panel. We found the panel at Hobby Lobby. It is the perfect size for a lap blanket for a child and I love the colors and the graphics are very neat. We also just used a piece of polar fleece for the back. We didn't use any batting. I wanted to keep it a very simple project for her.
She is excited about the idea of taking it as a lap blanket on road trips and also adding the buttons on the states that she has traveled to.
Today she is up to Pennsylvania, remembering the states in alphabetical order. She loved using her blanket to show me where all the states are. It was a fun little project and I would have taken photos of her while she was sewing but she wouldn’t allow it, since her hair was up in curlers.
Hope you all have a very blessed 2012
Very good job,Hannah.It is pretty and congrats on learning all the states.
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