Monday, March 30, 2015

BFTPqal Week 13

Welcome to week 13 of The Blocks From the Past Quilt Along!

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This week we are headed over to Tiffany's place for pages 29, 30, & 72 over at Sewinsomethin.blogspot.com




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Monday, March 23, 2015

#BFTPqal Week 12

Welcome to week 12 of The Blocks From the Past Quilt Along!

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This week we are headed over to Barbie's blog over at thequiltingmill.blogspot.com where she will be teaching 
us about pages 27, 28, & 70




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Friday, March 20, 2015

Secret Book of Maps Tutorial

Ah, at last!  The tutorial I have promised has FINALLY come to fruition!


So, forever and a day ago, my sweet friend April made me a "Maps" book.
When ever I made a quilt, I needed a "map" to make it.


Now, for all of my friends birthdays, I make them one too.  
Here is how you do it!

You will need:
fabric 22" x 10.5"
heavy fusible interfacing (I use Pellon 809 decorbond) 22" x 10.5"

Fuse interfacing to the wrong side of your fabric.

Fold over the ends, about a half inch, press and top stitch.




Fold your fabric in half, wrong side out.  Place it over the actual notebook you are going to cover.


Fold the ends in over the notebook flaps.  Make sure it is snug.



Pin the folds in place.  Do this for both sides.


Sew a generous 1/4" seam (or a VERY scant 3/8') all the way 
across the top and bottom.
Clip the corners as shown above.


Notice how the stitch line goes all the way across the top (and bottom) of your cover, as seen above.  This creates a scoring line so you can fold it down nicely.
  

(it isn't shown here, but you will then stitch the fold down along the top and bottom to hold that fold down nicely.


Ta- da!  Now you are finished :) 



Don't forget to add a label :)


I most often use fat quarters to make these.


I use my smaller left over strips to make fun designs.


Monograms are fun too!




My boys decided they all wanted one too!


Even their friends!


They all wanted the "Ninja Star" fabric.


And some cool flames!


And my youngest son suggested a pencil holder.  
I think I will add them from now on!



Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Sawdash Blocks

For a while now, I have been obsessed with bear paws, churn dash, and saw tooth designs.

I made this little cutie for my Red & White Modern Block Swap quilt.


I decided that this design would be AWESOME made out of my Mimosa fat quarter bundle.






I have 16 blocks finished and they all are 16" square.



Monday, March 16, 2015

#BFTPqal Week 11

Welcome to week 11 of The Blocks From the Past Quilt Along!

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This week we are headed over to Natalie's blog over 
at Natalie-Ever-After.blogspot.com  where she will be teaching 
us about pages 25, 26, & 69




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Friday, March 13, 2015

A New Temple Bag for ME!!!

A little more than a year ago, I hosted a quilt along making a 
temple bag for my daughter and mom :)  
(Scroll to the bottom to read more about what a "Temple Bag" is)


You can see all of the posts HERE.


I never made one for me... until last week while I was at 
Cabin Fever II quilt retreat. 
(I had a BLAST!!!)


I decided to use Happy Go Lucky and Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille.


The colors are SO cheerful


I LOVE the zippered pocket fabric!


There is a tutorial HERE on my blog for the super easy herringbone pattern.


For the front flap I went with a mini Swoon by Camille Roskelley.  I found it fitting (and ironic) that she designed the fabric and the front flat block :)


Under the flap, on the front of the bag, there are two small pockets for Family File* cards and my temple recommend**.  The larger pocket is for whatever goodies I need to slip in, like keys or my phone ;)


This cute bag is going to make #TempleTuesday*** so much more exciting ;)

We are SUPER excited because a new LDS temple will be opening right here in Payson, Utah.  For about a month, April 24–May 23, 2015, anyone who would like to (Mormon or not) may tour the inside of the Payson Temple.  



Open House details can be found HERE.  If you would like to come and see the temple, please let me know.  I would LOVE to take you!!!

Current information can be found on the official Payson Utah Temple Facebook page HERE.


FYI- Some of you may be asking yourself, "What on earth is a Temple bag?"  Well, in my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka "The Mormons"), when we are adults we attend our temples for sacred worship. While we are in the temple we wear special/sacred clothing.  We use small suit cases or other bags to carry this clothing to and from the temple.

Life is too short for an ugly temple bag ;)

*Family File Cards- we use these to keep track of sacred Priesthood ordinances we do for our deceased ancestors in the temples of our church.  

**Temple Recommend  In order for members of our church to enter into our temples, we must meet with our ecclesiastical leaders (every two years) to determine if we are living in accordance with church principles and eligible to worship in the temple.

***#TempleTuesday- Each week my husband and I try to attend the temple.  We try to go Tuesday morning, but often have to adjust and go another day.  It doesn't matter which day you attend, or exactly how often.  We are asked by our church leaders to attend as often as our circumstances allow :).  Most of the LDS temples are open Tuesday-Saturday.  We are very lucky as the Provo temple is open Monday-Saturday.  The Provo temple is INSANELY busy.  We are very lucky to have two new temples opening soon in our area :)

PLEASE please PLEASE feel free to ask me any questions you have in the comments below :)