Meet Jill Majers, the May Challenger for Desire to Inspire, who has presents of her own to give you!

Meet Desire to Inspire May Challenger, Jill Majers.

Hi, My name is Jill Majers. I live in a small town in central Utah. We moved here recently and have spent the last seven months trying to get settled. We’re getting there but it takes a while.

I have a wonderful family that includes my husband, two sons, a daughter, two

daughter-in-laws, and three grandchildren. We love the times when we can all get together and spend time enjoying everyone.

I grew up in an even smaller town about thirty miles from here and had a

wonderful childhood on a large farm complete with animals and room to roam

more freely than most children today. My Mom kept us busy with all sorts of

crafts. By the time I was twelve, I could sew, knit, crochet, embroidery, and

needlepoint. A memorable saying in our house was there is no such thing as

boredom, only lazy minds so get busy. 

As a young mother I sewed most of my children’s clothing, as well as a good portion of my own. In 1993 we moved to northwest Montana to an area that has a passion for quilting. I had always wanted to quilt and since my children were getting older and no longer wanting homemade clothing, it seemed that now was the perfect time. I took a beginning class and loved it.

I love the challenge quilting provides and especially enjoy designing quilts. I love piecing, applique both by hand and machine, and foundation piecing. I also love buying fabric!

My goal with these fabrics was to show what can be done with one panel. I

separated the panel into separate projects and had a wonderful time just creating with it. 

First I used the large center Santa and made a wall hanging. I included all of the other fabrics that I was supplied with in the project.

Then I used the gift box pieces and the large Christmas lights down each side to

make a table runner. I also included many of the other fabrics in this project.

Last I made two sets of potholders with matching hand towels. the first one again used the the large Christmas lights, on the sides of the panel, and the fabric with the all over small Christmas lights. The potholders are backed and bound with red snowflake fabric.

The second set is the only project that doesn’t include anything from the panel. I used the Santa face fabric, the black snowflake fabric and the green scattered Santa fabric.

All my projects were fun, fast, and pretty easy. I’ve included instructions if you

would like to try any or all of them.

Many thanks to Henry Glass for giving me this opportunity. The fabrics are a joy to work with! If you would like to see more of what I do, please visit my blog at:

http://appleavenuequilts.blogspot.com

I’m also on Instagram at @jill.majers.

And now, a Merry Christmas present to you from Jill: 

Jill has included a PDF of the instructions for all these projects here!