My Quilt Retreat gifts

I went to a Farm Girl quilt retreat at Thimbles and Threads in Draper, Utah.

I have wanted to go on a retreat for about 10 years now, this is my first one :)

Cathy aka Tazzie from Tasmania Australia, was able to fly over from down under to join us.  

We have been so excited to meet!

Cathy and I are the only ones who haven't met Joanna, Vanessa, Kristie and Lynette, who were all at a Farm Girl retreat last year.

We are all Instagram Besties, we chat a lot and have become great friends :)

This is a souvenir block that I made for Cathy.

Everyone else is making her one too, all 26 of us.

The famous and fabulous Lori Holt will be our instructor. 

We are all making her a flag block too, this is the one I made for her.

I made a gift bag for all my IG bestie :)

The pouch is from the book "Sweetly Stitched Handmades" by Amy Sinibaldi.

The pouches are really little and oh so cute!

I added a little sewing machine charm to the zipper pull.

I used up the rest of my "dream quilt create" ribbon :)

I made this one a little different, just for fun!

 I included a little gift for Kristie's daughter Hailey who is really adorable, and always tags along with her Mom :)

I'm so excited about the retreat!

I'll post lots of photos next week :)

My selvage dress!

Sewing a dress made out of selvages has been on my sewing bucket list for a few years :)

I finally got it done!

I used Kona white for the base.

I hand picked the selvages from all of my favorite fabric designers.

You can even read cute quotes on some of the selvages, namely Cotton and Steel!

Selvages used to be just circles with the colors of dye used for the fabric.

Not any more!!!

Now, even the names of the fabrics are really cute!

I can also tell you what project I used most of the fabrics for.

I topstitched every single selvage, that was a lot of sewing!

Next on my list is a skirt, and maybe a dress for one of my grand daughters :)

Vintage pop up Tent Trailer Makeover

My friends Tanja and Doug bought an older pop up tent trailer for their family to use when they go camping.

Tanja is a creative artist and she knew she could remodel this trailer!

Notice the linoleum floor?

Wait until you see what she did with it!

Tanja chose the beautiful red geometric print for the cushions, and Bonnie and Camille fabric for the cute curtains.

I love how the curtains make the red cushions pop!

Such cute red chevron curtain toppers too :)

Tanja also painted all the outdated wood cabinets white, so fresh looking!

She changed the linoleum floors to wood, and painted the countertops.

A great touch is the chalkboard paint on the door :)

Finally, Doug painted the outside of the camper white.

It's amazing what you can do with some paint and fabric!

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Girls Camp 2016

Well, we survived girl's camp, and had the time of our lives!

This is our Stake Young Women presidency wearing one of our matching outfits.

The camp theme was the Olympics, Light the Fire Within :)

This is where I taught my hour long Destiny class, in the woods.

My class was "My Three white Dresses", the blessing dress, the baptism dress and the temple/wedding dress.
I made the first 2 dresses and the wedding dress is mine :)

There are six levels at camp, one for each year, and I taught each level once.

Kate and Julie taught Destiny classes and Pat taught Personal Progress.

Another one of our outfits and if you didn't guess, our country was the USA!

Here we are with the Stake Camp leaders.

We shared a yurt together and talked and giggled into the night!

These ladies are so much fun!!!

They are the ones who planned and organized the whole camp!

They are very dedicated and hard working :)

The beautiful Craft Ladies :)

Our Stake camp leaders were synchronized swimmers for the day!

Our Youth Camp Leaders, they had so much spirit!

Their countries were Italy and Jamaica.

Our fabulous cooks worked tirelessly around the clock and never ceased to amaze us with their menu that was always made from scratch!

My awesome ward!

I love the young women, they are such bright lights :)

Our wonderful bishop, ward leaders and Young Women ;)

This was the last night of camp, right before our testimony meeting.

If you can't tell, I love being with the Young Women, they are happy, exemplary Young Women!

I'm very thankful that I have the opportunity to work with them :)

Girls Camp

I haven't been able to sew, all my time has been spent preparing for girl's camp!

Our girl's camp is for young women ages 12-17 years old.

There are 180 girls signed up, we go to a beautiful camp in the mountains, and have all our meals prepared for us by lovely chefs :)

Here is my gear layed out, ready to be packed!  Lol

I'm teaching a Destiny class this year, my topic is

"My Three White Dresses".

These are all the visuals for my class!

I teach it in the woods, I hope I'm able to string clothesline around some trees to hang my dresses and quilt :)

That's my wedding dress stuffed in the bin!

It's layers of lace of soft polyester lace and never seems to wrinkle.

The theme of our camp is "Light the Fire Within", the Olympics.

My three friends and I are Team USA.

Each day we'll be wearing matching outfits.

I made tutus for us to wear for one of the days, 36 yards of tulle!

This is just two of them, don't they look pretty on the red chair, with the sunlight streaming through the window?

Wish me well, I hope we don't attract any bears or other critters!

Cotton + Steel Sew Together Bag

I made another sew together bag, I love making them!

Why, you ask?

I love choosing the fabric from my stash!!!

This is my 7th bag, and I still haven't made one for myself :)

It's all Cotton + Steel fabric, except for the red blocks, they are from Lori Holt's Vintage Happy line.

I tried some different quilting techniques for this bag.

It's such a great feeling of satisfaction to finish one of these bags.

Let me be honest, they are difficult to make!

Did you notice that there are kitten heads on the binding?

*Meow*

I'm not even a cat lover, but they are adorable!

I was saving these cute lining pieces for myself, but I used them for this bag instead.

I thought they were so perfect and so interesting!

I remembered to add the cute label.

See the kitty heads? Awwww.....

 I didn't notice until I was writing this post, but the "Sacramento Railroad" is written on that #2 pencil.

That's so close to where I live!

Bonus!!!
Not to mention the cutest little pandas which I used for all 3 of the pocket linings.

For my LDS family and friends, I always add a Salt Lake temple zipper pull.

For daughters, I sew in the "PS I love you" label :)

 The Sew Together bag pattern can be found at Sew Demented.

Google it!

Have a great week :)