Women of Faith and Courage

With only one block left after this one, we wanted to take a minute to thank you for your participation in "Women of Faith and Courage.  We have recognized women who have exhibited faith and courage in their lives as they have served and cared for others and been wonderful examples for us all.  We realize the ones we chose to highlight are just a few of the many we could have.  As you have worked on the blocks, we hope you have considered some of the characteristics of these individuals that have made them such examples.

Block 12 - Emma Hale Smith

 

 

The following information is taken from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints website.

 

 

 Emma Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, played a prominent role in the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Her mother-in-law, Lucy Mack Smith, praised Emma’s character: “I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has always done. ... She has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty; ... She has breasted the storms of persecution, and buffeted the rage of men and devils, ... which have borne down almost any other woman.”

 

 Born on July 10, 1804, in Willingsborough (later Harmony), Pennsylvania, Emma Hale was the seventh of nine children of Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale. The wealthy family lived on a 90-acre farm in the Susquehanna River Valley, where Isaac shipped meat and other merchandise downriver to Philadelphia and Baltimore.

As a child, Emma developed a deep sense of religious conviction and devotion to God. Methodism became popular in the Susquehanna region in the early 1800s, and Emma began attending with her mother at the age of seven. A family tradition suggests that Isaac Hale overheard his young daughter Emma praying for him in the woods near their home and that this contributed to his spiritual conversion. Emma most likely attended the female seminary in Great Bend Township, and she later taught school.

Emma was 21 years old when she met 19-year-old Joseph Smith at the end of October 1825. Joseph had come southwest from New York seeking employment in the Susquehanna Valley. His lack of education and resources contrasted with Emma’s respectable situation, but she was immediately impressed with his character and morals. They courted for several months while Joseph worked to improve his financial situation. Isaac and Elizabeth Hale were opposed to the relationship, disapproving of Joseph’s religious pursuits and his work for Josiah Stowell, who had hired Joseph to help him dig for purported lost Spanish silver in the area. Emma and Joseph eloped on January 18, 1827, in South Bainbridge, New York, and then went to live with the Smith family. They returned to Pennsylvania in December 1827 to live near her family and work on the translation of the Book of Mormon.

Emma delivered a baby son who died soon after birth on June 15, 1828, when she nearly died herself. In September 1830, she and Joseph moved to Fayette, New York, to live with the Whitmer family. Emma left the Susquehanna Valley and the Hale family for the last time, never to see her parents and many other relatives again. She would eventually bear nine children and adopt two others, four of whom died at birth or shortly after, and two who died as toddlers.

 Emma was baptized into the Church of Christ by Oliver Cowdery in Colesville, New York, on June 28, 1830, shortly after the Church was organized. An unruly crowd gathered, delaying Emma’s confirmation, and Joseph was arrested and imprisoned on charges of disorderly conduct. When Joseph returned to Harmony, he received a revelation for Emma, now known as Doctrine and Covenants 25, calling her “an elect lady” and encouraging her to comfort and support Joseph in his afflictions. She was also charged to act as a scribe to Joseph, to expound the scriptures, to exhort the Church, and to coordinate the publication of sacred music in a hymnbook.

Emma had already assisted Joseph as a scribe during the early stages of the Book of Mormon translation. She soon began selecting the hymns to be sung in church meetings, working with W. W. Phelps to print some of them in 1832 in Church newspapers at a time when male clergy typically assumed responsibility for hymn selection. The first Latter-day Saint hymnbook was printed in Kirtland in 1835 under Emma Smith’s name.

Emma served the needy: in Kirtland, she and Elizabeth Ann Whitney coordinated feasts for the poor, and in Nauvoo, she opened her home to the sick, orphaned, and homeless. As the “elect lady,” she presided over the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo from its founding in 1842 until 1844, providing relief to new immigrants and destitute families. Her service in the Relief Society, however, achieved much more than benevolent work. As president, Emma taught the women doctrine, managed membership, and publicly defended principles of moral purity. Emma was the first woman to receive temple ordinances; she then initiated other women in these sacred rituals. As the first lady of Nauvoo, she hosted diplomats in her home, made public appearances with Joseph at civic and community events, and presented political petitions in support of the Church and her husband.

 Despite the difficulties of poverty, displacement, and persecution, Emma and Joseph maintained a deep love for and bond with each other. Their marriage faced unusual challenges due to the hardships of founding and leading the Church. Together they weathered the financial collapse and threats against Joseph’s life in Kirtland, Ohio; the persecution of Church members in Missouri; and the separation imposed by Joseph’s imprisonment in Liberty Jail. Their correspondence reveals not only their difficult circumstances but their commitment to each other. “My heart is entwined around yours forever and ever,” Joseph wrote to Emma in 1838.³ Emma wrote to him in Liberty Jail in 1839: “I still live and am yet willing to suffer more if it is the will of kind Heaven, that I should for your sake.”

 For this block you will need:

 Red:

    1) 4 1/2" square

    8) 3" squares

Blue:

    8) 3" squares

Background:

   12) 3" squares

    4) 2 1/2" squares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To create the block, you will need to draw a diagonal line on the back of each of the 3" background squares and two of the red 3" squares.

 

Place each of the red squares with the drawn lines with a blue square making sure the right sides are together and the outside edges are aligned.  Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the line.  Cut on the line.  Trim to 2 1/2" and press open.

 

Match the remaining blue and red squares with the rest of the 3" background squares making sure the outside edges are aligned and the right sides are together.  Create 12 red with background and 12 blue with background 1/2 square triangles.  Trim to 2 1/2" and press open.  

 

Use the photo below to arrange and assemble the block.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy sewing!

 

April mystery fabric

We will be using Lori Holt's Bee Plaids line with a vintage blue/green background for the April Mystery quilt.

Give us a call at 801-465-9133 to reserve your kit.

March Mystery Quilt

This month's mystery quilt was inspired by a quilt top Becky inherited from her grandmother (shown below).

We decided it was just way too many appliqued tulips and leaves to reproduce the quilt so here is our version that pays homage to the original with a little twist (and not quite so much applique).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We used a fusible interfacing method for most of the applique.  Becky wanted to include a short tutorial of the process so read on if you are interested.

Trace the applique design onto the non fusible side of the interfacing. Cut out the shape leaving between 1/4 and 1/2 inch of interfacing from the drawn line. Place the fusible (bumpy) side of the interfacing against the right side of chosen fabric. Sew on the line.  Trim about 1/8" from the line.

Cut a small slit in the interfacing.

Turn right side out.

Position and sew the applique in place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To create the stems, cut a 1 x 6 inch piece of fabric.

 

Spray generously with Best Press or your favorite spray starch.

Fold the edges (lengthwise) toward the center of the strip (wrong sides together) and press.

Position in place with the raw edges underneath the stem and the ends tucked under the tulip blossoms.  Stitch to secure.

Have fun!

Women of Faith and Courage

Block 11 - Helen Keller

 

 The following information is quoted from "Helen Keller-Ivy Green" website.

Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. and Kate Adams Keller of Tuscumbia. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, was a retired Confederate Army captain and editor of the local newspaper. Her mother, Kate Keller, was an educated young woman from Memphis.

When Helen Keller was 19 months old, she was afflicted by an unknown illness, possibly scarlet fever or meningitis, which left her deaf and blind.

Helen was quite intelligent and tried to learn in her own way with taste, feel and smell. She developed a rudimentary sign language with which to communicate, but soon she realized that her family members could communicate with their mouths instead of signing. This left her isolated, unruly and prone to wild tantrums. Some members of her family considered institutionalizing her. 

Keller would later write in her autobiography, “the need of some means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred daily, sometimes hourly.”

Seeking to improve her condition, in 1886 Helen and her parents traveled from their Alabama home to Baltimore, Maryland, to see an oculist who had had some success in dealing with conditions of the eye. After examining Keller, he told her parents that he could not restore her sight, but suggested that she could still be educated, referring them to Alexander Graham Bell, who despite having achieved worldwide fame with the invention of the telephone, was working with deaf children in Washington, D.C.

After the visit Bell connected the Kellers to The Perkins Institute and by March 3, 1887 Anne Sullivan came to Ivy Green to be Helen’s teacher.  The strong willed Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Perkins school, met her match in Helen. The two worked together even though Helen pinched, hit, kicked and even knocked out one of Anne’s teeth. Once she had gained Helen’s trust, the real work could begin.

Anne began teaching Helen using finger spelling into the child’s hand. Although Helen enjoyed this, she didn’t understand it truly until Sullivan was steadily pumping cool water into one of the girl’s hands while repeatedly tapping out the five letters in W-A-T-E-R. She continued finger spelling while pumping the water again and again as young Helen painstakingly struggled to break her world of silence.

Suddenly the signals crossed Helen’s consciousness with a meaning. By nightfall, Helen had learned 30 words using this process.

After Helen’s miraculous break-through at the simple well-pump, she proved so gifted that she soon learned the fingertip alphabet and shortly afterward to write. By the end of August, in six short months, she knew 625 words.

By age 10, Helen had mastered Braille as well as the manual alphabet and even learned to use the typewriter. By the time she was 16, Helen could speak well enough to go to preparatory school and to college. Sullivan interpreted lectures and class discussions to Helen. In 1904 she became the first deaf-blind person to graduate cum laude from Radcliffe College.

Helen became one of history’s most remarkable women. She dedicated her life to improving the conditions of the visually impaired and the hearing impaired around the world, lecturing in more than 25 countries. She helped to create the American Civil Liberties Union advocating for the rights of women and of those with disabilities.

During her life she performed on the Vaudeville circuit, earned an Oscar, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, traveled to 25 countries and met every President from Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy, 12 to be exact.

Keller stopped her public appearances in 1961 after she suffered a series of strokes. She was unable to attend the ceremony when President Lyndon B.  Johnson awarded her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Keller’s 1968 funeral was held at the National Cathedral, and more than 1,200 people were in attendance. Alabama Senator Lister Hill gave the eulogy. He said, “She will live on, one of the few, the immortal names not born to die. Her spirit will endure as long as man can read and stories can be told of the woman who showed the world there are no boundaries to courage and faith.”

 

For this block you will need:

Background:

    4) 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"

    1) 4 1/2" square

    4) 3 3/8" squares

Red:

    4) 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"

Brown:

    1) 2 7/8" x 24"

 

   

Sewing:

Cut 8) 2 7/8" squares from the brown strip.  Cut each of these in half diagonally.  Sew two triangles to opposite sides of a 3 3/8" background square.  Press.  Sew triangles to the remaining sides of the background square. (Same method as used in block 10.)

Sew a 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" red strip with a 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" background strip along the length of the strips.  Create 4 units.

Use the photo below to assemble the components and complete the block.

Happy Quilting! 

Construction update:

The last of the sidewalk in front of our building was removed yesterday.  Please feel free to enter through the back door during the construction.  Thanks so much for your patience. 

March Mystery Fabric

 We just returned from an amazing retreat at Ruby's Inn near Bryce Canyon.  Becky taught a couple of classes and we had a great time vending and renewing friendships.

Thanks for your patience while the shop was closed.  We will be working to get caught up and the shop in order for the next day or so.  We did bring back some fun new projects that we prepared before the retreat. Come and check them out.

 

 

 

We will be using fabric from the Spring Gardens collection for the March mystery quilt. We can all use a little Spring and sunshine in our lives - right?

Call us at 801-465-9133 to reserve your spot.

Thanks so much for your support.

February mystery quilt

 The February mystery quilt is revealed!

A simple, but striking patchwork.

We added a first border which can be purchased separately if desired.  The patches are strip-pieced so they work up pretty easily.

The kits are cut - come and get 'em!

We are so grateful that so many of you have found your way in during the construction on Main Street.  The construction is moving right along.  We are so excited to see the finished product. You are welcome to use the back door during the construction.

Note: We will be vending and teaching at the Spring Retreat at Ruby's Inn next week (March 4 - 9) so the shop will be closed that week.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

February mystery fabric

Sorry this info is so late in the month but we will be using fabric from the Heartfelt collection from Riley Blake for the February mystery quilt.

Beginning this month the price of the mystery quilts will be $39.00 as long as you sign up before the reveal.  If there are kits available after the reveal they will be offered at regular retail price. 

It is our goal to provide a quality product at an affordable price.  We are grateful for your participation and support.

 Call us at 801-465-9133 to reserve your mystery quilt kit.

Women of Faith and Courage

 Block 10 - Edith Cavell

 

 

Wikipedia states that Edith Louisa Cavell (/ˈkævəl/ KAV-əl; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides without discrimination during the First World War and for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Cavell was arrested, court-martialed under German military law and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German Government refused to commute her sentence and she was shot. The execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.

The night before her execution, she said, "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled her to help all those who needed it, including both German and Allied soldiers. She was quoted as saying, "I can't stop while there are lives to be saved." 

Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston, a village near Norwich, where her father was vicar for 45 years. She was the eldest of the four children of the Reverend Frederick Cavell  and his wife Louisa Sophia Warming. Edith's siblings were Florence Mary, Mary Lilian and John Frederick Scott.

Cavell was educated at Norwich High School for Girls, then at boarding schools in Clevedon, Somerset, and Peterborough (Laurel Court).

Work in Belgium

In 1907, Cavell was recruited by Antoine Depage to be matron of a newly established nursing school, L'École Belge d'Infirmières Diplômées (or the Berkendael Medical Institute) on the Rue de la Culture (now Rue Franz Merjay), in Ixelles, Brussels.By 1910, "Miss Cavell 'felt that the profession of nursing had gained sufficient foothold in Belgium to warrant the publishing of a professional journal' and launched the nursing journal, L'infirmière". Within a year, she was training nurses for three hospitals, twenty-four schools, and thirteen kindergartens in Belgium.

Cavell was offered a position as matron in a Brussels clinic. She worked closely with Depage, who was part of a "growing body of people" in the medical profession in Belgium. He realized that the care that was being provided by the religious institutions had not been keeping up with medical advances. In 1910, Cavell was asked if she would be the matron for the new secular hospital at Saint-Gilles.

When the First World War broke out, Cavell was visiting her widowed mother in Norfolk. She returned to Brussels, where her clinic and nursing school were taken over by the Red Cross.

Assistance to Allied soldiers

In November 1914, after the German occupation of Brussels, Cavell began sheltering British soldiers and funnelling them out of occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands. Wounded British and French soldiers as well as Belgian and French civilians of military age were hidden from the Germans and provided with false papers by Prince Réginald de Croÿ at his château of Bellignies near Mons. From there, they were conducted by various guides to the houses of Cavell, Louis Séverin, and others in Brussels, where their hosts would furnish them with money to reach the Dutch frontier, and provide them with guides obtained through Philippe Baucq. This placed Cavell in violation of German military law. German authorities became increasingly suspicious of the nurse's actions, which were further fuelled by her outspokenness.

Arrest and trial

Cavell was arrested on 3 August 1915 and charged with harbouring Allied soldiers. She had been betrayed by Georges Gaston Quien, who was later convicted by a French court as a collaborator. Cavell was held in Saint-Gilles prison for ten weeks, the last two of which were spent in solitary confinement. She made three depositions to the German police (on 8, 18 and 22 August), admitting that she had been instrumental in conveying about 60 British and 15 French soldiers, as well as about 100 French and Belgian civilians of military age, to the frontier and had sheltered most of them in her house.

At her court-martial, Cavell was prosecuted for aiding British and French soldiers, in addition to young Belgian men, to cross the Dutch border and eventually enter Britain. She admitted her guilt when she signed a statement the day before the trial. Cavell declared that the soldiers she had helped escape thanked her in writing when they arrived safely in Britain. This admission confirmed that Cavell had helped the soldiers navigate the Dutch frontier, but it also established that she helped them escape to a country at war with Germany. Her fellow defendants included Prince Reginald's sister, Princess Marie of Croÿ.

The penalty, according to German military law, was death. 

Baron von der Lancken is known to have stated that Cavell should be pardoned because of her complete honesty and because she had helped save so many lives, German as well as Allied. However, General von Sauberzweig, the military governor of Brussels, ordered that "in the interests of the State" the implementation of the death penalty against Baucq and Cavell should be immediate, denying higher authorities an opportunity to consider clemency. Cavell was represented by defence lawyer Sadi Kirschen from Brussels. Of the twenty-seven defendants, five were condemned to death: Cavell, Baucq (an architect in his thirties), Louise Thuliez, Séverin and Countess Jeanne de Belleville. Of the five sentenced to death, only Cavell and Baucq were executed, the other three were granted reprieves.

When in custody, Cavell was questioned in French, but her trial was minuted in German; which some assert gave the prosecutor the opportunity to misinterpret her answers. Although she may have been misrepresented, she made no attempt to defend herself, but responded to have channelled "environ deux cents" ("about two hundred") soldiers to the Dutch border. Cavell was provided with a defender approved by the German military governor; a previous defender, who was chosen for Cavell by her assistant, Elizabeth Wilkins, was ultimately rejected by the governor.

Execution

The night before her execution, Cavell told the Reverend H Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain of Christ Church Brussels, who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, "I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."  Cavell's final words to the German Lutheran prison chaplain, Paul Le Seur, were recorded as, "Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe, and that I am glad to die for my country."

From his sick bed Brand Whitlock, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, wrote a personal note on Cavell's behalf to Moritz von Bissing, the Governor-General of Belgium. Hugh Gibson; Maitre G. de Leval, the legal adviser to the United States legation; and Rodrigo de Saavedra y Vinent, 2nd Marques de Villalobar, the Spanish minister, formed a midnight deputation of appeal for mercy or at least postponement of execution. Despite these efforts, on 11 October, Baron von der Lancken allowed the execution to proceed.

On instructions from the Spanish minister, Belgian women immediately buried Cavell's body next to Saint-Gilles Prison. After the war, her body was taken back to Britain for a memorial service at Westminster Abbey and then transferred to Norwich, to be laid to rest at Life's Green on the east side of the cathedral. The King had to grant an exception to an Order in Council of 1854, which prevented any burials in the grounds of the cathedral, to allow the reburial. 

For this block you will need:

background-

    4) 3 3/8" squares

    5) 3" squares

    1) 2 1/2" x 25" strip

blue-

    5) 3" blue squares

    1) 2 7/8" x 24"  

 

Sewing:

Draw a diagonal line on the back of each of the 3" background squares.  Match these with the 3" blue squares making sure the right sides are together and the outside edges are aligned.  Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line.  Cut on the line.  Square up to measure 2 1/2". Create 10 half-square triangles. Press toward the blue.

 

Cut 10) 2 1/2" squares from the 2 1/2 " background strip. Match 2 of these with 2 half-square triangles to create a four-patch as shown in the photo below.

Create 5) four-patch squares.

Cut 8) 2 7/8" squares from the blue strip.  Cut each of these in half diagonally.  Sew two triangles to opposite sides of a 3 3/8" background square.  Press.  Sew triangles to the remaining sides of the background square.

Create 4 of these patches. Trim to 4 1/2" if needed.

Assemble and sew the patches as shown in the photo below to create the block.

January Mystery Quilt

 The January mystery quilt kits are ready.

Just a reminder - Main street is under construction, making it difficult to access our front door.  You are welcome to use the back door. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for finding your way in.

We will post photos of February mystery fabric as soon as we find them.  Please stay tuned.

Beginning in February - the mystery quilt price will be $39.00.

The shop will be closed next week (Feb 5 - 10th) as we participate in the annual quilt retreat at Ruby's Inn near Bryce Canyon.  Thank you for your patience.

 Happy Quilting!

Women of Faith and Courage

 Block 9 - Lena Anna Kern Gill 

Lena was born 26 March 1889 in Wipkingen, Zurich Switzerland.

Lena's mother showed interest in religion, her father frowned upon it. Lena, her mother and younger brother would attend different churches. They were always asked by her father upon returning, "Where have you been". He wasn’t happy about them going to church. Mother was introduced to the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and decided to attend a sacrament meeting. While at the meeting, Lena turned and saw her father at the back of the congregation. Mother told her to pretend like he wasn’t there. When they returned home he was pretending to be asleep in his chair. As they were getting ready to attend the meeting the following week, her father  asked where they were going. They said to church. He replied, "Why aren’t my shoes shined. I’m going too". Never had they polished his shoes so quickly. Shortly after, they accepted the invitation to be baptized and became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

Persecution influenced them to move to America. Not being able to afford all to travel at the same time they sent Lena 11, and younger brother 9 year old Jacob to America first. With faith and courage they set sail leaving all they had but a few clothes and some Swiss chocolate. They were teased that they didn’t have all their passport papers and would have to be thrown overboard. Upon arrival in America (New York) a young “whippersnapper” grabbed her satchel and ran. Her brother Jacob took off after him and a few minutes later returned with it. Leaving New York, they traveled to Logan Utah to stay with her Father’s sister Louise Harris who was married to a nephew of Martin Harris. She was not very nice to them. She took Lena’s new dresses her mother had sewn to give her own daughters and gave Lena the old ones to wear. 

They started school in Logan and were made fun of by other children because they couldn’t speak English. She milked 18-20 cows morning and night besides other chores. Eventually her father came and they began farming in  Preston, Idaho. Lena was sent to Nebraska to stay with her mother's sister who had lost a daughter and was struggling. Her aunt treated her well. 

Lena's mother and younger brother came to America and the whole family gathered in Idaho. One day father was on top of a stack of hay and the wind blew hard. He fell off and landed on a pitchfork and died. 

Lena married Alfred Orin Gill when she was 21 years old. They had 9 children they raised in a very humble home in Idaho. The depression made food scarce. Lena could practically make soup from a rock and an old shoelace. With faith Lena tried her best to raise her family to teach them to be hard working and use the talents they were given. The family never seemed to get ahead financially. Money was always a struggle, yet their faith was strong and they trusted in the Lord. 

She lost two sons from illness. 

Lena and her husband retired to Payson Utah. She was known by many because she was very giving of her talents. Many people in her stake received dolls made from bleach bottles, crocheted items or stitched dish towels. She gave food, shoveled snow for neighbors and hand sewed temple clothing. She was a proliferous quilter. She served in the temple regularly. It was common for her and her husband to do about 10 temple sessions each week. 

She passed away May 4 1974 from a stroke while making someone temple clothing. 

This woman always exhibited strength, love, faith and courage and I am so grateful to call her my Grandma.

I'm sure you all have ancestors with similar stories that are meaningful to you.  I hope you are reminded of them as I share the story of a life that is so important to me.

For this block you will need:

2) 5 1/2 - inch light blue squares

2) 5 1/2 - inch background squares

5) 4 1/2 - inch dark blue squares

1) 2 1/2 - inch by fabric width

Cut 16) 2 1/2 - inch squares from the 2 1/2 - inch background strip. Draw a diagonal line on the back of each of these squares.  These are placed on the corners of four of the dark blue 4 1/2 - inch squares with the outside edges aligned and the drawn line running edge to edge.  Sew on the drawn line.  Trim 1/4 - inch from the line and press.

Place a 5 1/2 inch background and light blue square together with the right sides facing and the outside edges aligned.  Draw a diagonal line on the back of the background square.  Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line.  Cut on the drawn line. Press the resulting half-square triangle toward the blue.  Repeat using the remaining background and blue squares.

Place two of the background and blue half-square triangles together with the blue of one square facing the background of the other square. The seams of both squares should match up and run the same direction.  Draw a diagonal line on the back of one set perpendicular to the seam.  Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the line.  Cut on the line and press.  Trim the resulting quarter-square triangles to 4 1/2 inches.  Repeat with the remaining sets to create 4) quarter-square triangle sets.

Use the photo to assemble and sew the block.

Happy Quilting!

A reminder:

Main street will be closed for construction beginning Monday.  We have a back door you are welcome to use.  You will pass through our work area to access the front of the shop.  Parking may not be as convenient for which we apologize.  We really appreciate your loyalty and support!  THANKS!!

January Mystery Fabric

We will be using fabric from the Gingham Cottage Collection for the January mystery quilt.

 

It will be another fun project!  

Just to make you aware - Main street in front of the shop will be closed mid January through June for construction.  We are working to make our back entrance a little more convenient.  We appreciate your patience during the construction and hope you will still find us without too much trouble.

We are grateful for your support!