sewing

sewing with my mom on Sundays for the past a 2 years. this last week, 7/4/10, we are working on a scrappy- using up all the small pieces form all the other quilts that we have made. this one is using up the longest pieces, 2in wide, or smaller. you need the longest ones for the middle of the block. you sew them from corner to corner diagonally, using dark colors on one side and lighter colors on the other side of the square, the name "sun shine shadow" you can put it together with the dark colors together to the light ones, ether way it look nice and fun to make because there is no real pattern to follow and or to mess up.
Mom said that her mom use to sew all the center pieces 1st before the children could cut them in to small pieces, so then mom and her brother, and other children of the family would sew the rest of the pieces on. so making this is fun in two ways, mom and i working together and hearing what mom did as a kid, the more things change the more they stay the same...