L. has just started working on a Silly Stripes quilt with her sewing club at the library and I thought I’d share the pattern idea for moms looking for an easy sewing project for their kids. To make this project you just need strips of fabric. It doesn’t matter what width the strips are as long as they are at least 12 inches long. Actually, using a variety of sizes and fabric patterns makes this project more interesting. And if you’ve never ripped fabric, you should try it. It’s the fastest way to cut fabric into strips and what makes this project so easy to do. Once you have a bunch of strips, the kids then sew them together on a sewing machine until they have about 12 inches across the width. Since the strips are all different widths, it doesn’t show as much if the seams aren’t exactly straight. Once the kids have the approximate width, just iron the seems open and use the a rotary cutter to cut to the square size you want (L.’s making 12″ squares). Once the kids have enough squares, they can lay them out both horizontally and vertically to make an interesting pattern before sewing all the squares together. I thought this was a great project to not only teach kids to sew, but to also use all that old fabric hanging around the house.