Earning Farmgirl Sisterhood Merit Badges

Stitching & Crafting

7. Quilting

Beginner Level

• If you don’t know how to quilt, learn.
• Pick a simple pattern like a doll-sized quilt that will help you learn the basics, even just sewing squares together.
• Learn how to add a backing and batting and do simple quilting stitches to hold everything in place.
• Finish your quilting project. There is a three-hour minimum time investment required.
• If you already know how to quilt, teach someone how to quilt the beginner project.

Intermediate Level

• Continue on your quilting journey, but step up the pace by picking a harder project this time. Try new patterns that tax your sewing ability and push you to new limits.
• Start and finish a new quilting project of intermediate status. There is a 20-hour minimum time investment required.
• Quilt in the company of a friend for a total of five hours.

Expert Level

• You are ready to learn how to be called a quilting queen now! Learn three new techniques and/or patterns.
• Start a new project of Expert Level. There is a 50-hour time investment required.
• This section of the badge can not be earned until you finish your project.
• Teach at least five other people how to quilt.

January, 2015 Edition