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Do you love sending a small something to a friend?  That is what I have for you today, a little "Love Notes' mug rug!

*** BUTTON Club Project ***

Every other month the Fat Quarter shop sends out the Button club package and I create a little project to use the buttons on.

My pattern is free, downaload after my tips below!

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I love button club month! these treasures are shipped out every other month from the Fat Quarter shop.

It's so much fun to design fun ways to use these and today I'm show you how they look on a block and then share one of my favorite pumpkin runners from a few years ago that I did for the club 

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• Halloween Fabric https://shrsl.com/2gckb
• Pumpkin fabric is from Scaredy Cat at https://shrsl.com/2gcko
• Button Club buttons I'm using https://shrsl.com/2gcfw

Layout the order you like

then it's so easy ...

**** Button Club be well Buttons *** 

It is so fun to design a project for the Fat Quarter Shop's Button Club. I like to have the buttons sit on my desk for awhile. That lets me find a fabric or a inspiration to start the pattern.  The setup buttons I really love the Buffalo flat fabric and I was seeing the plaid as a spool of thread.

• Buffalo Flats prints https://shrsl.com/2ebcq 
• The Button set https://shrsl.com/2ebd2
• All the Buttons at https://shrsl.com/29cc5
• Subscribe to the Buttons club https://shrsl.com/29ccc

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**** Button Club Happy Buttons *** 

It is so fun to design a project for the Fat Quarter Shop's Button Club. I like to have the buttons sit on my desk for awhile, it' lets me find a fabric or a inspiration to start the pattern.  The purple and yellow were my inspiration and when i found the Tula Pink Monkey Wrench fabric, I had to do big flowers! It turned out so cute!

• Tula Pink Monkey Wrench https://shrsl.com/29cbe
• The Happy Button set it at https://shrsl.com/294mp
• All the Buttons at https://shrsl.com/29cc5
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*** Taking our Pulse ***

How are you friend? 

I thought it was worth repeating today my 'Let It Go!' Daily challenge. Because it's good to take a pause and be sure we are on the right track with things. Not getting to crazy.  It's good to hit the reset button too and just breath a bit.  

Life is upside down for so many right now.... actually for most of us. Even if your area has few virus cases, you are still needing to change most of how you operate in order to not transmit and to be safe. 

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First.. be sure you watched my fireside chat and entered by giveaway

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** Button Club FREE Pattern **

I've been designing patterns to use the Fat Quarter Shop's button club for several years now. I love doing small projects to showcase the buttons!

This month we have a darling box with little letters for FROST and it has a penguin, snowman, stars, moon and a polar bear button!  It's a lot of fun for me to come up with a cute design to show off the buttons. 

FROST BOX ...

*** Project ***

My FREE wreath pattern is very quick to do!  And I must say I gave myself a challenge with this one that I'll explain below.  The Fat Quarter Shop's button club kit is called 'Jolly' so I used the letters on the sashing! Then decorated the wreath with the super cute buttons. 

My Pattern Download is after my tutorial below along with the fabrics and supplies I used

*** Fabric ***

1. I started with this Fat Quarter bundle of Winterberry
2. There were so many cute options! The text print is amazing.  But I had to narrow it down to ...