Design Wall Monday

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Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday and Monday Making.

This is the graduate school project my daughter is working on for her class.

She has to do something to show a gap in the social work arena.

She decided she wanted to make a quilt and came to me for advice and help to complete it.

Her project is the gap in getting vets help with PTSD.

The road in the center depicts some of the stages on the road to health.

She picked out the different parts of the road (pebbles at the beginning, cobblestone next, bricks next, and smooth).

I didn't have any of the first three fabrics, so she picked the picture and printed it on fabric.

This took time putting that road together.

She had never appliqued before.

She practiced on a heart and then finished the road yesterday.

There are footprints on the road.

I need to try a couple of different methods for her to applique them and then teach her to do that.

If anyone has an idea for those tiny footprints, I would love to hear them.

She wants two hearts and some people with expressions and without for alongside the path.

Then, she will want words on the quilt in the spots, but she wants to research a bit more on what she wants the words to depict.

We worked together to find the shape of the people and the words for the puzzle heart.

I did the digitizing because it would have taken too long to teach her that process.

She picked all the fabrics (from my scrap bins) and the thread colors for items.

I think she is doing well with the process.

The T-shirt quilt is coming along.

Of course, this is not the layout, because there are many more shirts.

I'm trying to balance colors as I go.

The school colors are black and silver, so these colorful shirts will be all-around to balance them.