My 4th-grade friend Claire has been coming over on Wednesday afternoons to create her own quilt. Here are the blocks on the “design wall” (batting hung like a curtain over my office windows).

She’s quite the artist and has an eye for color. The fabrics were selected by her on Saturday’s trip to a fabric store. I got a big kick out of her studying the various ocean-themed prints and deciding what she liked.

The fabrics are much more vibrant than this photo, which has the light coming in from the windows. Claire sewed 16 of the blocks together this past week. We had a system. I would pin, she would sew and I would iron the seams.

Yes, quilting can be that simple.

Her parents assure me she is having fun. I know I am!