A few years ago I was approached by a wonderful woman who wanted to make a quilt to hang on the wall of her husbands office. He was a newly called mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Missouri Independence Mission. The temple in their district was the Kansas City Temple. She wanted to make a quilt of the Kansas City Temple and have all the missionaries that came to that mission sign the quilt. She soon found out that a pattern didn’t exist. I told her that I would design a pattern for her and so it began. I found out that it would take a while to put together the actual pattern for her so I pieced it as I was designing it. The pattern would have to come later. I gave her the finished block in 2018 as you can see here. She finished her beautiful quilt and had over 600 missionaries who signed it.
I went on to creating another identical temple block along with the pattern. Here we are several years later and it is finished and available for purchase here. I love how it turned out. I set the block as a center piece surrounded by a brick layout. I wanted this quilt to symbolize how we are built brick by brick. In 1 Corinthians 6:19 it says that “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” Our bodies are temples. They are the vessels in which our spirit resides. We build ourselves piece by piece – brick by brick, mentally, physically and spiritually. Building this quilt helped me do that. I love it with all my heart and I hope you will too.
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