May the blessings, bless us all!

You're probably thinking....

"hey! You're not supposed to start the Sew Along

 until January 2nd!"

Well I can't win any of the prizes,

 so I can start whenever I want....neener neener!

I made a set of 6 place mats for my wonderful DIL out of these

 bright modern prints from Robert Kaufman.

I used a pattern from my new book that I received just this week.

It's Sweetwater's Simple Home and it's 55% off

over at Connecting Threads.

It has 35 projects in it and I'm already trying to decide

which one to do next!

About 15 years ago we were at church one Sunday and a young girl was being baptized.

 Her uncle was there and asked the Pastor if

he could say something after the baptism was over.

So immediately after the baptism, the Pastor had the uncle

come up to the microphone to share what was on his heart.

You could see that this man was not used to public speaking

and that in the emotion of the moment, he had completely forgotten what he wanted to say.

He stood there quiet for a moment and then he said,

"May the blessings bless us all!"

It was so cute!

It was clearly not what he had intended to share

that afternoon, but we liked it so much in our family

that we say it often :)

So this is one of those instances where that quote

comes into play for us again.

My son was doing an estimate last week

and called me to ask me

if I knew who Robert Kaufman was.

Hello? Um YES!!!

Turns out that's where he was

and he mentioned that his mom was into quilting

and the guy hands him this fat quarter "mega" bundle

to give me!

Yeah....40 fat quarters!!!!

My wonderful son brought me this lovely stack

on Friday night and now I've made a set of

Christmas place mats for his little family.

So once again,

the blessings have blessed us all!!!

I wish you all a VERY blessed New Year!