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.)