June mystery quilt

 The June mystery quilt kits are ready.

This is a quick and simple project that will work up fast for the dinosaur lover in your life.

We are planning on "Christmas in July" using the Holiday Cheer collection by Riley Blake for the mystery quilt next month.  We'll post a photo when we get the fabric.

Happy sewing!

Country Summer block of the month

We are grateful to all of you who are participating in our new block of the month.  So often, we hear you lament that you have so much fabric that needs to be used.  Part of our goal with this quilt is to help you find a home for some of those pieces.  Becky has worked to design a beautiful, scrappy quilt.  We are happy with the way it turned out.

So...

for this quilt we will provide part of the fabric for each of the blocks.  You will supply the rest from your scraps.  Each of you will end up with a quilt that will be uniquely yours. We are anxious to see the results of your efforts.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential library and museum website explains,

"During the Great Depression money was hard to come by and so people were not able to go to the store or order whatever they wanted or needed online. In fact there was no online in those days! People became creative in the way they used, and reused, what they had. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” became a popular saying. Today we call that “repurposing” or “up-cycling.” 

I'm sure most of you have heard this "make it do" phrase at some time in your lives.  We are here to help you use it up and hopefully have some fun in the process. 

 

The cost for this quilt will be a $10.00 sign up fee and $4.00 per block.  The first block will be released June 8.  Subsequent blocks will be available the second Saturday of each month for the next 12 months. Latecomers are welcome.  

Block One:

Cutting-

Background:

    24) 3" squares

    16) 2 1/2" squares

Black check:

    8) 3" squares

Four different pinwheel prints:

    4) 3" squares from each (We have provided fabric for two, the other two will come from your scraps.) 

Sewing-

 Draw a diagonal line on the back of all 24) 3 inch background squares.  Match one of these with each of the black check and colored 3" squares. Make sure the outside edges are aligned and the right sides are together. Sew 1/4 inch on both sides of the drawn line.  Cut on the line and trim to 2 1/2 inches.  Press the squares open.

Use the photo below to arrange and sew the block together.  The block should measure 16 1/2 inches square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We would love for you to bring a friend to join the fun!

May mystery quilt

Another mystery is solved.  The quilt is shown below.

We will be using fabric from the Cretaceous line from Riley Blake.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This will be a great quilt for you dinosaur lover.  Call us at 801-465-9133 to reserve your kit.

Women of Faith and Courage

 Block 13 - YOU!

You are part a group of amazing folks.  You spend hours selecting just the right fabric, cutting it up into little pieces to stitch it back together in intricate and beautiful patterns, only to give it away as an amazing symbol of love, comfort, and caring. You are among the first to offer comfort and warmth to individuals who have been displaced, forgotten or just need a little lift.  You take care of your family, serve your neighbors, volunteer at your kid's/grand kid's schools, make dinner for a new mom, grow a garden, serve your church and community, and still take time to mentor a friend who is just beginning her quilting journey.  You are a person of faith and courage!

Your quilts create a legacy that will influence others for generations to come. You are truly amazing!   

For this block you will need:

 

Background:

    1) 3" x 42" strip  

    2) 2 1/2" squares

brown:

    1)  3" x 24" strip

pink:

    1) 3" x 24" strip

red:

    1) 4 1/2" square

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the 3" x 42" background strip cut:

    12) 3" squares

    2) 2 1/2" squares (these are in addition to the two that are provided)

From the 3" x 24" brown strip cut:

    8) 3" squares

From the 3" x 24" pink strip cut:

    8) 3" squares 

Draw a diagonal line on the back of 2 of the 3" pink squares.  Place each of theses with a 3" brown square making sure the right sides are together and the outside edges are aligned.  Sew 1/4" on both sides of the line.  Trim to 2 1/2" and press open.

Draw a diagonal line on the back of each of the 12) 3" background squares.  Match each of these to a 3" pink or brown square and create half square triangles as described above.

Use the photo to arrange and assemble the block.

Thank you for taking this journey with us as we have honored women of faith and courage.  We realize this is but a small sample of the many inspiring lives lived.  We hope you have been uplifted in some small way as you courageously live and give and quilt.

We will be starting a new block of the month in June.  Becky is designing a scrappy quilt, paying homage to the old saying, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.  The plan is to help you use up some of the scraps you have on hand.  We will provide part of the block each month and you will pull from your scraps to complete it.  We look forward to seeing the variations you come up with.  We will have fabric available for those who might not have scraps.  

A sampling of some of the blocks we are working on is shown below.

Pricing will be determined as we get the quilt finished - stay tuned!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

April Mystery Quilt Revealed

 The quilt is done and the kits are ready!

Becky is on a Grandma quilt kick lately.  The background color and the scrappy feel of the prints reminds us of a quilt grandma may have made.  We washed it to get that krinkly, cozy, used feel.  Hope you love it!

We will be using fabric from the Bellissimo Gardens collection by Riley Blake Designs for the May mystery quilt. Space is limited so call soon to reserve your kit (801-465-9133).

 

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.