Sunday, December 31, 2017

Sayonara 2017! Yōkoso 2018!!! 🐕


Welcome 2018!!! Here's a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2017 and what's to come in 2018, the year of the dog. First, 2017:

Saturday, December 30, 2017

📕 Every Quilt Has A Story 📔 ...

And this one is super sweet! Kathy's granddaughter asked her if she would make a quilt for her out of her old pajamas. What grandma could refuse such a request!

This is Kathy's first quilt and she went with simple squares consisting of knit, flannel, polar fleece, gauze, cotton and more!

Thursday, December 28, 2017

🎌 Dr. Who Goes To Japan 🗾

My son is a Dr. Who fan. Here's the quilt I made for him for Christmas this year:

On the design wall, being arranged and rearranged:

Saturday, December 23, 2017

🍼 Arabella's Quilt 🚼

Michele made this sweet baby quilt for her newborn granddaughter, Arabella. Isn't that a beautiful name!


It's a Dresden plate quilt made with adorable animal prints and coordinates:

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

✂️ Staff Retreat ✂️

     One of the benefits of working at Quilt Cove is the twice yearly staff retreats. Our owner, Sue, runs a beautiful retreat home in New Prague, Minnesota, called "The Getaway" that can accommodate up to 20. It overlooks Cedar Lake. 
     We each had our own table. Here's my set-up:

I'd like to highlight some projects the 9 of us were working on. First off are all these adorable Dresden plate Christmas ornaments that Cindy finished:

Friday, December 15, 2017

❀ Plum Blossom Quilting ❀

My sister, Quilter Bonnie, made this quick quilt from a stack of indigo blue and off-white charm squares.

Bonnie requested some quilting that would spice it up a bit:

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

🚗 A Quilter's Road Trip 🚙

And a quilter's DH's road trip! We took a 4 day trip last week, and left Minnesota during a ❄ blizzard ❄. No snow by the time we reached Iowa. Our first stop: Iowa Quilt Museum, in Winterset. Who was behind the counter but Marianne Fons herself!

The view from the mezzanine floor:

Friday, December 8, 2017

🎄 He Is the Reason For the Season Quilt🎄

Vicki made this soft, beautiful throw quilt from a faith panel.
I loaded it the narrow way to accommodate the quilting design:

Sunday, December 3, 2017

A Scrapbaggers Christmas Quilt Swap🎄

My small quilt group, the Scrapbaggers, had our Christmas party recently at Laura's beautifully decorated home, featuring a sparkling 10-foot tall Christmas tree and many Christmas quilts, and a delicious potluck meal. My bad--the only photos I took, besides our quilt swap, were Patty's Christmas cookie tray--Patty and her cousins amazingly made 30 varieties of Christmas cookies over Thanksgiving weekend!

And this bundt cake, also made by Patty, which was as delicious as it was beautiful, with jelly filling inside.

The big event of the evening was our Christmas quilt exchange. At our October meeting we brought a charm square pack in a brown paper bag. We then drew a bag, not knowing who's charm pack we had, or who had our charm pack until the big reveal. The guidelines--make a small quilt or tablerunner for the original charm pack owner using at least 75% of the charm pack. Here are the results:

Friday, December 1, 2017

Logs ⽊ & Fire ⽕

Vickie made this lovely quilt in memory of her son, for her daughter-in-law.

It measures 86" X 86" square. Here it is on the bars:
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