Friday, April 8, 2022

Quilt ~ Masterpiece



Her name is “Masterpiece”, she was created in 2021. She came to life in Vernal, Utah at the SewSimplyStitched quilt retreat. The pattern “Secret Garden”, was designed and taught by my friend, Jennifer Harrison.  All of the fabric was purchased in Richfield, Utah. PoppieCotton, and Jina Barney designed the fabric and spanned three different fabric lines. The quilting was beautifully stitched by Michelle Jensen. 









 
















Saturday, April 2, 2022

Books in Review ~ Dressmakers of Auschwitz


 I was drawn to this book from the cover decorated with thread and title referenced my passion of sewing.  Lucy Adlington told the intertwined stores of the beautiful girls and women who survived only by continuing to sew.  The fabric, needles in-needles out and sewing in the dedicated salons provided safety from starvation, death and torture.  All things from the Jewish Stars, Nazi uniforms, high quality ball gowns, everyday dresses, children's clothing and prisoner uniforms were made by these beautiful and strong women. 

The ladies performed alterations, fittings and repairs on the clothing of the same folks that were torturing, killing and hiding all of the horrible things that went on behind the fences, military force and gas chambers during WWII.


Mikey is using Grandpa Larry's Guns


 This report just in.  Mikey is using Grandpa Larry's guns to shoot coyotes to protect the baby calves on the Ranch in Elko, Nevada. The guns were gifted to Mikey during the Christmas of 2021.  Grandpa Larry had the guns in his possession at all times since early 1970.

Reading to Learn

2024
Feasting on the Words of Christ
Just one more Sleep
The Perfect Retreat


2023
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Call of the Wild
The Flame and The Flower #1
Glucose Revolution: The Life Changing Power of Balancing your Blood Sugar
The Joy Luck Club
Naked in Death #1
The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo
Misery
Britt-Marie Was Here
Peach Blossom Spring
The Poisonous Solicitor
Coming of Winter #1
It Ends with Us
The Lincoln Highway
Atlas of the Heart
Boundaries


2022
Around the World in 80 Days
Jane Eyre
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz; The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Threads West: An American Saga #1
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
The Hunger
Made in China: A memoir of Love and Labor
Josephine's Guest House Quilt
American Dirt
Daisy Jones and the Six
Unmasked
The Summer Seekers
100 Ways to Create Wealth
How to Stitch an American Dream
Robinson Carusoe
Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space
Journey to the Center of the Earth


2021
Persuasion
The Stand
Educated
The Forgiving Quilt
Man Eater
The Nest
The Queens Gambit
Eleanor Oliphant
The Secret Garden
The Midnight Library
Unfinished Business

2019 
The Good Earth #1
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Roots
The Color Purple
The Bell Jar
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
The Cross and the Switch Blade
The Bridge to Terabithia
The Guardians
One Day in December
Year One - Chronicles of the One # 1
Quilts Thier Story and How to Make Them
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Oysterville Sewing Circle
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party
Cottage by the Sea
Into the Wilderness #1
Sarah's Quilt #2
The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Alice Network
The Reconning
More Sewing to Sell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Maid
Echo
The Nightingale
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up

2018 & Prior
Prisoner B-3087
One Thousand White women
Outlander #1
The Divide
These Is My Words
Where the Heart Is
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Giving Tree
Moving On
The Traveler's Gift
The Present
Green Eggs and Ham
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
A Light in the Attic
Rhinoceros Success
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
On Becoming a Leader
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Cat in the Hat
Love you Forever
Ross Poldark #1 
The Four Agreements
Alicia
The Goal
Follow the River
One Minute Manager
The Poisonwood Bible
The Five Love Languages
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Simplify your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things
The Freedom Writers Diary
The Things They Carried
The Outsiders
Following the Light of Christ into His Presence
One for the Money #1
The Notebook
Are Your My Mother?
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I doing in the Pits?
The Secret #1
Go Ask Alice
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban#3
Rumors of War (Children of the Promise #1)
The Shack
The Gurnsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society
Our Heritage: A brief History the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Christ
The Hunger Games #1
Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix #5
Uglies #1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows #7
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire #4
A Christmas Carol
Gospel Principles
Twilight #1
Dear John
Lonesome Dove #1
Flowers in the Attic #1
Who Moved My Cheese?
Eat, Pray, Love
Gone with the Wind
Children's Songbook
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Devil in the White City
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone #1
The Help
Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets #2
Utah Atlas
For the Strength of Youth
Marriage and Family Relations
Safe Haven
Young Women Personal Progress
Wonder
Wild
Daughters in My Kingdom
A Man Called Ove
The Boys in the Boat
Fresh Eggs Daily: Raising Happy, Healthy Chickens
My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She's Sorry
Zucchini Pie
Quilt As You Go
The Girls on the Train
Deseret Recipes
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince #6
Sewing to Sell
Iris & Lilly #1
Lovely Little Patchwork
The Radium Girls
The Forgiving Quilt: East Parry County Series Book #1
The Quilt Block Cookbook
Mercies in Disguise
Come, Follow Me - For Individuals and Families
The Chemist
Hardcore Twenty-Four #24
Quilt As You Go Made Vintage
The She Was Gone
The Flying Sewing Machine





My Sewing Beginning's

  My story starts like many other women who had grandmothers and mothers who sewed out of necessity.   My grandmother earned money mending c...