The Baberton Mains History Group (BMHG) thought it would be interesting to do something different as part of the history project and therefore, as well as preparing and publishing a booklet, a decision was made to ask if the children from Juniper Green Primary School could become involved in an Art Quilt project . The school were delighted to agree to this initiative. The project had many objectives;
1.to be a creative and fun hands-on experience for the children and for them to get a feel for all the different fabrics, threads etc., as well as learning to sew the shapes that had been cut out to depict the different background stories of the area
2.for the children to learn more about the land that Baberton estate was built on
3.to produce a piece of textile art that could be hung and displayed in the school.
Over a 10 week period, 5 or 6 children each week worked on aspects of the quilt, enabling all 52 children from Primary 6 to be involved in the project. The children worked on a one to one basis with an adult, learning a range of stitches and finishing techniques to improve the standard of the finished product. Judy Hill, one of the volunteers was determined to keep standards high, with her mantra of "Small stitches, we must have small stitches!!"
Although all the children were keen to participate, some were a bit apprehensive about doing any form of sewing, with "It will be too difficult"; "Am I supposed to get this completed today?" being common cries at the beginning of each session. By the end of each session, it was really rewarding to see the sense of achievement on the children's faces and the pride they had in taking their work back into the class to show their classmates and teachers what they had produced. The cries had now changed to "See what I have done", "I thought this would be boring, but it was fun", "It was more exciting than we thought".
Additionally, of course, they learned something about the history of the Baberton area before it became a housing estate. 
Once the finishing touches of binding the quilt had been completed, the children and teachers were delighted and once again the young creators of each block were keen to identify which pieces of the quilt they had worked on. It was summed up nicely when one boy said, "I did not realise it was going to be so big; I was working on the bottom border and it didn't look that big!". The finished quilt, with each block depicting an event in the History of Baberton Mains, was produced on schedule by the end of March 2014 and due to the generosity of the BMHG members donating some of the materials, we were able to make the quilt for the princely sum of £22.10.
On 20 June 2014, the Quilt was officially launched and was displayed at the School Assembly. Here you can see the children and adults involved in the project. 
During the summer of 2014 the quilt was shown at a number of local shows, Colinton Art in the Park, Currie Art Club, Currie Horticultural Show and the Balerno Quilters Exhibition as well as the Juniper Green Farmers Market, generating lots of interest. It was mentioned to the group that Scottish Parliament will sometimes take Art Work to be exhibited. So an application form was completed and submitted with support from Sarah Boyak, MSP. The application was considered during September 2014 and we were delighted to receive confirmation that application has been successful and the quilt displayed in the Parliament Building in May 2015.