light the world

Since a new star first appeared above Bethlehem, Christmas has been a season of light, reminding us that Jesus Christ is the light of the world. This December celebrate His birth by making the world a brighter place. All we have to do is follow Him—His life, His example, and His teachings. In doing so, we can help #LIGHTtheWORLD.

This year, we have an amazing opportunity to share that light by choosing to do the things Jesus Christ did. Every day leading up to Christmas, you can focus on a different Christ-like behavior and serve others using the suggestions found on comeuntoChrist.org or coming up with your own way to serve. There are so many ways we can serve others and light the world. There is a wonderful video to give you a few ideas, and to help inspire you to LIGHT the WORLD.

I hope you check this out


I am still cranking out neutral 4 patches for En Provence mystery quilt. I am about half way there.

I discovered these charm squares in a clean up moment. I would love to pass these on to someone that might use them.? If you are interested email me or leave a reply and I will let you know Dec 1. 5 in. squares 33 of them

I am linking to:
Fiber Tuesday
Fabric Tuesday
Free Motion by the River

And for Val's Archive the theme is memory quilts.
This is a quilt I made for My Handsome Son. The pattern was called Smokey Mountain Stars a Bonnie Hunter pattern. We love camping in the Smokeys, especially Joey.

I added family pictures of some of our fun together that year as part of the plain star centers.

Yummy donuts

I finished quilting my friend Carolyn's quilt. She had me sew the binding as well. This is a moda bakeshop pattern. It's called Flower Patch by Kathryn Ludowese.  I used an all over Paisley design. This would be great for a layer cake.

Last night our women's group ( Relief Society ) had a weeknight activity. Making Donuts was our primary goal. We had a great teacher, and she made it seem so easy. I think I could do it now. It was a great story of how she decided to learn to make them. Her son had served a two year mission in Seoul Korea. His mission President was Elder Ringwald, the son in law of Russell M. Nelson. And it was a tradition in the Nelson family, that when the men went to general conference, the women in the family would make donuts.  When the men came back they would sit and eat the donuts and talk about all they had done. So, in keeping with that tradition, all the missionaries in Korea had homemade donuts for general conference. The missionary loved it and told his Mom, and she decided to learn how to make them. And then we benefited from this tradition. I love stories that remind us how small the world really is when we are part of the family of God.

A little mixing...

A little cutting...

A little raising...

A little frying.......

A Whole lot of yummy. They were soooo yummy!

We also had a knitting class for those who are doing the Knit the sky KAL

and, we made itsy bitsy spiders for the littles. Although, in a rare moment of weakness, I might eat the sucker.

Fun fun fun

I'm linking to
TGIFF
finished or not Friday
Whoop Whoop
Fort Worth Studio

clean up

We were so blessed to have over 120 people from all over Indiana join us for a day of service to clean up some of the tornado damage. Our church donated chainsaws and wheelbarrows, gloves and goggles and the city asked us to work near the resevoir.  We broke into 3 teams and started to work. The weather was perfect and it was fun to be apart of helping hands.

My husband used the chainsaw

and I was on wheelbarrow duty

There is still so much to be done and people are still trying to figure out what to do. We met several older folks with damaged homes and this is very stressful for them.

I am ready to cut more dotty bow tie blocks

I have cut for the hedgehog, thistle and firefly in the forest quilt I would be lost without the stickers.

And I am trying to gather stuff to make project bags. I want to try both of these patterns.

I'm linking to:
sew cute tuesday