If you are in the Salt Lake City area on Saturday June 18th, we are having a Boutique sale at Brenda’s Quilt Shop! This is at our Home during our yard sale.
Everything we currently have is on sale and needs to be sold so that we can make some new things for the upcoming holiday season!
All of our items are discounted from our regular prices and will be up to 50% off if not more!
Come by and see us at 6275 West 3705 South in West Valley City from 9 AM to 1 PM and get some great deals on homemade crafts and holiday items!
Hello everyone I hope that you are having a great winter. I love this time of year. But I love it better when it is OVER and Spring is in bloom. I am getting ready for Spring already. I love to plan what plants I will plant this year and what fruits and vegetables that I will grow in my garden. I love organic fresh home grown foods.
This week I decided to make my baby Tristan a new smaller portable crochet blanket. I made him a wonderful blanket when I was pregnant with him, (Tristan loves it) But it is a large crib sized blanket and it is too large for him to drag around. Tristan is starting to roll places and he is already doing the beginning motions of crawling, and he wants to take his crochet crib blanket with him everywhere. He gets tangled in the blanket often when he is playing on the floor. Tristan is the type of child that loves textures and he loves the feel of string, ribbon and yarns. So I decided to crochet him a smaller portable blanket that he could crawl around with and not get tied up in. Because Tristan loves the feel of strings so much I have added on lots of tassels for him to grab. He loves to just twirl the strings in his fingers. If you have a child that loves strings also, I would suggest adding a bunch of tassels to a small blanket for them.
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Hello everyone,
I hope that you had a wonderful week. It was a great week here. Everyone is healthy and the Weather is Wonderful.
This year one of my New Year Resolutions was to get more organized. We all have this goal in some form or another. This year I wanted to come up with a system that was easier for my children to know what chores were expected from them each day, so they knew when free time was. I also wanted to come up with a system so each person in the family knew what their job was for Family Home Evening.
Family Home Evening in our family is when we set aside one hour, one night of each week to talk about lesson from our religion that we want to teach our children for that week. We each take a turn teaching the lesson. The children love to come up with Games to go with the lesson that they are teaching.
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Hello everyone,
I hope that you are having a great week. It has been a fun week for the family. It is nice to get back on a normal routine. Leatha has started her science fair project this week and it was fun to work with her. Leatha is doing a project about natural foods versus man made or man altered foods. Basically natural versus chemical or chemical enhanced foods. She is doing a comparison between Twinkies and home-made yellow cake (not from a box), Whipped heavy cream versus Whipped topping, Fresh apple slices versus Fast food chemical enhanced apple slices, and fresh home-made French fries versus the typical fast food chemical French fries. We have placed samples of each out on a plate and put them in a room temperature corner of our kitchen. Over the next week we will see the difference between each item of manmade chemical versus natural foods. It should be very interesting.
As promised I told you I would tell out about what Cameron received from the family this year for our homemade gift exchange for Christmas.
After looking for a long time in the craft store, Amelia decide that she wanted to paint something for Cameron and when she saw the collection of treasure chests she was very excited. She decided that she wanted to make him a treasure chest to put all of his money in. Cameron was using a plastic jar as a piggy-bank at the time. She picked out the size of box she wanted and she asked if Dad could cut a hole in the top so Cameron could place his money in. We thought this was a great idea. Cameron needed a new bank.
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Hello everyone,
I hope that you are all having a great 2011 so far. It has been a great year for us!
I have had a lot of great comments about the Snuggies that Leatha has made; she is very excited and proud of them. To continue on with the homemade gifts theme, I am going to talk about what everyone made for Leatha this year for Christmas.
Cameron and Amelia both love to paint, so they wanted to be able to make something that they could paint for Leatha. After looking for a long time at the Hobby store near us, they both decided they wanted to make Leatha a Jewelry box and they wanted Dad to help them. They were very excited to find the wood items in the craft store and they found exactly what they wanted to make. So we let them pick out the box that each of them wanted to give Leatha.
Amelia picked a cute box with a Mirror inside it and two lift out drawers, so additional items could be stored underneath.
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Hello again. Well I have decided that now Friday will be the day of the podcast on Brenda’s Quilt Shop. I hope that the posts from Brenda either helped you or inspired you to do something creative. Now, onto the podcast
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-Justin
Hello again folks! Justin Here. Below is the second part of the snuggie pattern from Tuesday, check that post out here if you missed it.
The only thing left is to sew on the pockets. My children love pockets so; Leatha place 2 pockets on each Snuggie. Cut out the size of pockets you want. Leatha wanted oversized pockets. Sew a hem on the top of the pockets with a one inch seam. This strengthens the top of the pockets. Now place the pockets on the snuggie a few inches lower than where the person’s waist would be. Place the Pockets even distance from the center line, at the same height as each other.
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Hello everyone!!!
Boy was it a busy holiday season! I hope that everyone had fun the end of 2010!! I know I did!
I had a great time with my family. For Christmas this year, we decided to make a special present for everyone in our family. We had a lot of fun with this. My children are very creative and did a lot of work on each present that they were giving to each other. This was such a fun idea that my children have asked to do this every year, so now it is one of our traditions.
I wanted to take a few posts and show you what my children did for each other to give you inspiration on what you can do for others in your family. These homemade gifts are wonderful for grandparents. What grandparent does not love an item made from their grandchild?? You can make these gifts for any holiday.
I will start this post with what Leatha made for her siblings.
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hello folks and welcome back for Podcast #2! I am looking for input from you folks, on things that you would like to hear on the podcast! Please let me know what you would like to hear about by emailing us at justin@brendasquiltshop.com or brenda@brendasquiltshop.com.
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Links from Today’s Podcast:
- Brenda’s Quilt Shop Maillist
- Brenda’s Quilt Shop Merchandise
- Brenda’s Hobby Sites
Thanks for listening!
-Justin
Hello! Well, it is time to add some more “stuff” to Brenda’s Quilt Shop! This will be the first of several podcasts for this site, so I would love to hear what you think about it and if you would like to hear more. I would also like to know if anyone would be interested in an eBook series of the budget crafting series and the crafting posts. Please use the comments below to tell us!
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Links from Today’s Podcast:
- Brenda’s Quilt Shop Maillist
- Brenda’s Quilt Shop Merchandise
- Brenda’s Hobby Sites
Thanks for listening!
-Justin
