My granddaughter, Sommer, is almost a year old and growing fast. She is a joy and a very easy baby to care for, which is a blessing since Mike and I still watch her 5 days a week! About a month ago she was playing with toys in the middle of the studio and I was choosing fabrics for a quilt. When I had settled on just the right ones I left them in a pile near my stash and went to answer the phone. Sommer was just starting to do a bit of crawling at this time and when I turned around she had crawled over to the fabrics and was reverently petting them one by one as if to say “great choices grandma”!
Well, she caught onto the crawling thing quite quickly and a few days later I just happened to have the camera nearby when she decided to do some exploring. She’s really into “open” and “close”. I hope you’ll indulge me:
“Sommer, whatcha doin?”
“Grandma, I think there’s fabric in there!”
“Oooooh pretty!”
“Just look at it all”!
“Gotta touch it …………….. and there’s more over there!”
“Flannel and fleece!”
“It’s so soft. Wanna feel it Grandma?”
And I did, so the photo shoot was over. Do you have any pictures of your kids or grandkids enjoying fabric that you’d like to share? Please email them to me at . I’d love to see them and it might be fun to share them on a future blog.
Shirley Mahoney says
What a cutie. Yes a future quilter indeed!
Lori M says
How adorable! You are sooooo blessed to have a little helper.
Carolyn Vogel says
Isn’t it amazing how they gravitate to the colors and then the flannels. Great pics. Without the cords, she would have been recombining the colors !
Juleen says
Chris, Sommer is a beautiful little lady! With you as her grandmother, she can’t help but be a future quilter!
Evelyn says
How precious! Maybe I can come over to see her this summer.
Chris says
You’re welcome anytime!
Judy says
She is just too cute. How fast she is growing. You should make up a basket of scrap material for her to play with. She will have fun with all of the colors.
Pat G. says
Chris, Bob and I so enjoyed your granddaughter and your story as the future quilter. She is adorable and you are quite the story teller. We love you both! I’m glad we got to meet her and will have to touch base again soon.
Tracy Reeb says
How fun. I think she will be a quilter. Enjoy this time.
Tari says
Oh my goodness, she is adorable!!
My 6yr. old granddaughter is into helping me fold fabric when I’m cleaning up from tearing through it at the beginning of a project. I just let her fold it, put it in the totes, then when she goes home, I pull it out and refold it so that it all fits back in!!