Having a daughter turn ten is a very happy thing. Ten is a good year to be, plus as a parent you get to celebrate a decade of having done pretty well, actually. And then, ten is the beginning of being a tween. Of course, they didn’t call it “tween” when I was that age, but I remember it being a time that was as aggravating as it was fun. Beebs is still very much a little girl at this point, but this quilt is for the coming years and all their hard spots. If the girls at school are mean, or the boys ignore her, or she thinks her parents are particularly wrong, and she feels quite alone, I hope maybe that she’ll look at this and realize that she’s not.
Yes, it’s a bit of a heavy-handed birthday present. Whatever, it needs to be said. Hopefully, the Denyse Schmidt prints in her favorite colors lighten it up. (Thank you Erin.) Plus, you should imagine the words being said in a bit of a sing-song voice, like on the Juno soundtrack. I had originally thought I’d do the same words in cross-stitch, but I couldn’t get excited about it. Then the Proverbial Quilt that Melissa has been working on, plus the more free-form lettering of cauchy09 in this quilt, lead my do do it in fabric. I used the same tutorial as the flickr quilt for the lettering. It more fun than I thought it would be.
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it’s lovely in every way. And it sounds like the perfect time to give it to her (that is, before the emotional rollercoaster begins).
A very thoughtful present…wish my mom had given me something like that at that age–sometimes it really was hard to remember. A beautiful sentiment.
What a sweet gift for a very sweet girl.
I. Love. This.
I am totally in love with this. What a perfect little reminder.