Sayonara 2025🐍, Yōkoso/Welcome 2026🐴

Farewell 2025. Welcome 2026! Here is a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2025, and a preview of 2026. 

In 2025, I quilted 143 quilts total, 76 for others, and 67 of my own.

Of my own 67 quilts, here's the breakdown:

Pippa 🇯🇵

 This is Pippa, the 12th and last quilt in the Stripology Quickies Club that I've been working on for over a year.

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In Memoriam of a Quilt Husband

Thank you to all of my friends and readers who have been praying for my husband. It is with deep sorrow I share the news that Mahlon, my beloved husband of 39 years, was called home to the LORD on December 3, 2025, at Mayo Clinic while awaiting a heart transplant. 

Two Prayer Quilts

Two quilts by two quilters, made with love, prayers and well wishes.

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Maker: Lynn

RSC November

Here's my finished 2025 Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt!!! I was inspired to make a 9-patch & snowball quilt by Saiji's quilt, here, who was inspired by Blue Elephant's quilt, here!

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Breezy Table Runner + Heart Update

I bought a kit at Pine Needles Quilt and Sew in Rochester, MN, just a short drive from Mayo Clinic, and sewed this table runner!

Here's what came in the kit: a charm pack, accent, border and binding fabrics, and the pattern, all tucked inside a fun zipper pouch! ⤵️

Margot🇫🇷 + Mayo Clinic

Gudrun recently did a one day virtual Stripology Retreat, with 2 sessions to choose from. I did the first session, on Saturday, October 18th!

The virtual retreat was held on zoom. Quilters from 48 US states and 8 countries around the world participated. There were 250+ quilters signed in at each of the two sessions, making a total of more than 500 quilters for both sessions combined, plus some quilters participated as a group from quilt shops.

Winny

My finished Winny quilt, quilt number 11 in the year long Stripology Quickies Club!!!

This is my 2nd Winny. I made my first during the Stripology Virtual Retreat in March, 2024, when Winny was exclusively designed for that retreat. Later that year, Gudrun included the pattern in her book, Stripology Quickies. She asked me if she could include a photo of my Winny from the retreat! Here it is pictured inside the book--mine is the large quilt in the photo! ⤵️ I used fabrics from the retreat but changed the background fabric.

RSC October

I pieced my Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt top together this month. Evidently I didn't plan the quilt math out because it came out quite large--66" x 90"! My throw size quilt goal is around 60" x 80". 

I'm thinking of removing two horizontal rows. The blocks I take out can go toward making a baby quilt. I'd like to remove one vertical row but that is a lot more work and would make the quilt rows asymmetrical. 

Speaking of baby quilts, I finished 3 this month! Some of these go to family and friends, most go to Bundles of Love, a local charity delivering bundles of newborn baby items to families in need here in Minnesota.

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Quilt Inspiration

Two quilters + 1 longarm quilter (me!) = 3 quilts!!!

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Maker: Susan