Is there a way to create your own category in Yahoo! Groups?
I am looking to start a group entitled Make Poverty History. I was looking for a category on charity but all that came up in the search was hobbies and charity quilt makeing which didn’t meet my requirments. When I researched in the Catagory of Christianity nothing came up under charity in the suc catagorys. If I can’t submit a new category this kind of limits ones choice as regards setting up spacific groups
You can’t create your own category, but you can make a suggestion to Yahoo! Use this feedback form: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/groups/cgi_moderators to make your suggestion.
Lonni Rossi Part 1 of 2 Andover Fabrics Schoolhouse
Is there patterns that kids can understand for quilting?
quilting for kids. patterns that kids can do
That depends mostly on their ages. Very small children can understand some shapes and patterns but not nearly as well or much as say 11-year olds or older.
It also depends on who will be cutting out the pieces (even if they sew them together) because that can involve more skills yet. If the pieces are precut, for example, the kids can have fun putting them onto a paper grid (or in rows and columns without a grid) if they’re old enough (probably as squares, or as 2 “half-square” triangles which will be sewn together to make a square).
I once gave 2nd or 3rd graders I think, a preprinted rectangular grid on cardstock (the grid was a “quilt” which covered a little kid in bed with head sticking out at top) so they could gluestick into the grid squares any tiny fabric squares and half-square triangles I’d cut out for them, and in any color/pattern they wanted. They had a blast… some recreated the Around the World or other patterns I’d shown them at first, but many just made up their own.
If the kids are not too young, they would probably just start with the kinds of patterns that adult beginners would start with. Those patterns would be ones using only squares or only rectangles, and later they could move into half-square triangles along with those.
You might want to check out previous answers of mine about “easy quilt patterns for beginners to try” which are more specific as to names of particular patterns, links to examples, etc:
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