de Jong Dream House: Jewel Box quilt

Happy Halloween. I'm going to be short and sweet with my One Monthly Goal update because I finished midway through the month and I've already written the post! I'm so grateful for these monthly motivations from Elm Street Quilts!

I love this quilt for two big reason. First of all, it has been donated to Quilts of Compassion as part of the Quilts for the Carolinas deployment for those affected by Hurricane Florence.

The second reason I love this quilt is that I made it while teaching my Dutch daughter, Marissa was visiting from the Netherlands. She did such an awesome job and has a warm and gezellig reminder of her visit back to her American home.

Be sure to head over the full post to see how we many our quilts and if you want to make a Jewel Box quilt, you can print off a coloring page I created.

To see more pictures of this quilt, check the hashtag #CarolinaJewelQuilt on Instagram. To see what I'm currently working on, please follow me at deJongDreamHouse.

Previous OMGs:
October 2018 - Carolina Jewel Quilt
September 2018 - Mrs. Knoch Labyrinth Walk
August 2018 - Anne of Green Gables Quilt

July 2018 - Dutch Canuck Quilt
June 2018 - Daybed Pillow

May 2018 - Oops and Ophan quilt started

April 2018 - Lots of Love Wedding quilt

March 2018 - On Ringo Lake: Top complete!

February 2018 - Grandma's Kitchen complete!

January 2018 - Project Linus complete!

December 2017 - Cards 'n' Cowboys quilts complete!

November 2017 - Cancer Can Kiss My Donkey quilt complete!

October 2017 - Stella's Memory quilt complete!

September 2017 - Texas Strong quilts complete!

August 2017 - quilt shops in Europe visited!

July 2017 - Lainey's Ladybug quilt complete!

June 2017 - no goal

May 2017 - why I gave up on Brutus

April 2017 - not finished with Lainey's Ladybug

March 2017 - Nana's Last Quilt quilts finished

February 2017 - En Provence quilt finished!

January 2017 - Zeke's first year quilt complete!

December 2016 - Falling for Alex quilt finished!

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

One Monthly Goal :: October 2018

It's the start of October, which means that Elm Street Quilts is reminding me to make another One Monthly Goal!

When we built the de Jong Dream House, it was always our intention that we would open our doors to friends, family, students, coaches, teachers, refugees...anyone needing a place to rest their head. Over the last seven years, I've lost count how many guests we've welcomed, but it's well over 100. This summer alone we hosted my mom (and her dog) on and off since June, six Challenger soccer coaches, one family of five, one incoming University of Akron student, and currently, our very first exchange student, Marissa!

When Marissa leaves this weekend, we will have the house to ourselves for the first time since the first week of June! When Marissa started making her plans to visit us, I asked if she would like to make a quilt. The second quilt I ever made was actually gifted to her when she lived with us in 2013!

She loved the idea and she picked out a pattern before she arrived. She pinned this version of a Jewel Box quilt from Auntie Em of Quilt Crossing.

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While Marissa is making her quilt with scraps of blue, teal, turquoise, and green, I am also making a smaller lap quilt with blue, teal, turquoise, and purple. Mine will be donated to Quilts of Compassion for their Quilts for the Carolines drive. If you aren't aware of the great work this group does, please check out the Facebook page.

We've lost a bit of time to jet lag, a minor surgery for me, and all of the friends who want to see Marissa while she is here, but we have a good start. Marissa is a natural!

Mine is coming along, too, though I may stop to help Marissa finish hers before she goes.

My OMG for October is to help Marissa make her very first quilt and for me to finish my 116th!