Sayonara 2020🐭, Yōkoso 2021🐮

Farewell 2020! Welcome 2021!!! Here's a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2020, and a preview of what's to come in 2021, the year of the ox/cow in Japan! First, 2020:

I quilted 106 quilts in 2020, 49 of my own, and 57 for others. Of my own 49 quilts, here's the breakdown:

🎀 Best of 2020 🎀

Welcome to my "Best of 2020" blog post! Cheryl over at Meadow Mist Designs is hosting a gathering of quilt bloggers' best five blog posts of the year!

There are no rules for listing the top five. I'm listing mine according to blog posts with the most views. You can see my "Best of 2019" here.

Starting with Number 5 for 2020:

🌾Meadowland🌾Number 6--Folk Friends

Meet my 6th Meadowland quilt!!!

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🍼Baby Things🍼

The best thing that happened to us in 2020 was the birth of our granddaughter!!! There are so many fun things to sew for babies. Here are a few things I made for Laurel for Christmas!

Here's Laurel wrapped up in one of the Cuddle blankets I made for her baby shower. ⤴️ DD1 reported that is her most useful blanket, and could I make another, in a darker color. YES, of course I can! Well actually, I made two:

🎁Taylor for Tyler🎁

Christmas gift reveal!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Taylor by Gudrun Erla

Behemoth 🐘 Block Baby 🍼 Quilt

 I really enjoy making a baby quilt after working on a big project!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Behemoth Block by Broadcloth Studios

勇気 Courage, Dear Heart 💝

Here is my 13th and final quilt on my "2020 Resolution" list!!! I've been wanting to make this lion since I first saw it displayed at the Minneapolis Spring Quilt Market in 2015. 

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💝 Christmas Swap 💝

My small group, Scrapbaggers, did a gift swap this year for Christmas, a 12" quilt block! Many of our members have tabletop quilt stands that hold a 12" quilt block.

Here's the "Swoon" block I made for Marcia, who had requested a Spring theme and likes raspberry colors:

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Swoon quilt block

👣 Cabin Rules 🎣🚣

Here's a super fun panel quilt, made by the panel queen, Susan!!!

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🌾 Meadowland 🌾

This is Meadowland, the quilt pattern that quilters can't make just once! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

Pattern: Meadowland by Then Came June

🚘 Mini Brick Road 🚙

Here's another Mini Brick Road!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Pattern: Mini Brick Road by Atkinson Designs

𝍤𝍭 Strip Off # 2 𝍭𝍤

Here's my second Strip Off quilt, part of the current QAL with Gudrun at GE Designs!!! 

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𝍭𝍤 Strip Off # 1 𝍤𝍭

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🎉 Quilt #700: Llamas In Sweaters 🎉

This is my 🎊 700th quilt 🎊 to quilt since I bought my longarm in 2012!!!

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Fabric: Llama Navidad by Michael Miller

🏇🏿 Saddle Quilt 🏇

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

Pattern: Saddle by Laundry Basket Quilts

🍼 Strip Lash Baby Quilt 👶

Gudrun is having a scrap QAL using 1 1/2" strips, featuring 6 of her patterns to work from and is giving tips on her bi-weekly video show. Info can be found here: GE Designs blog. 

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Strip Lash from Stripology 2 by Gudrun Erla

💖 Valentine Elvira 💘

 

Maker: Susan of Dakota County Star Quilters

Pattern: Elvira by Gudrun Erla

Size: 63" X 84"

Batting: Frankenbatting

Thread: Glide--Cardinal

Quilting: Conversation Hearts by Jessica Schick

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💝 Two For 𝓠uilter 𝓑onnie 💝

 My sister, Quilter Bonnie, has been up to some sewing goodness! Here are her latest two quilt tops:

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

Fabrics: Batiks

Size: 31" X 31"

Batting: Quilters Dream Poly

Thread: Glide--Tar Heel

Quilting: Ginger Ice

Interesting Info: Bonnie made this table center for her BIL & SIL for Christmas. They live in White Bear Lake, and this fabric line features polar bears!

🔀 Interweave Baby Quilts 1 & 2 🚼

I love this quilt pattern, Interweave! I enjoyed whipping up two more baby quilts for Jack's Basket using Interweave:

I made this version first, using leftover scraps of yellow, grey and black:

💝 Use Kind Words 💝

Panel: Use Kind Words, by Sweetwater

"Upload Failed: Server Rejected"

Update: Gretchen @ Gretchen's Little Corner gave me a tip that worked! I signed out of Blogger, then logged back into Blogger, and I can upload photos again. Thank you, Gretchen, and everyone who offered advice!!!  

In an emergency measure, we moved my mom into our home with us two weeks ago and I took a blogging vacation. This week we found a wonderful residential care home for her nearby.

I came back to my blog after two weeks, on "Blogger" platform, and have run into the following problem: when I upload a photo to a blog post, I get the following response: "Upload failed: Server rejected".

Calling all Bloggers!!! If you have experienced this problem, were you able to fix it, and how??? I have googled the problem, but can't come up with a solution that works.

A quilt blog without photos is like our world without the sun!!! 🌞 Until I can get this fixed, follow me on Instagram @graceandpeacequilting

Thank you for any help you can offer!

Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

🐼 Fresh 🐯 Faces 🐰

Our daughter is expecting our first grandchild any day now! Here's the latest quilt I made for her:

Pattern: Fresh Faces by LJ Simon

🍁 Autumn 🍂 Abundance 🍁

Maker: Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting

Courage, Dear Heart ⼼ ❤️

"Courage, dear heart", said Aslan, the great lion to Lucy, in the book Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of the books of The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis. They are all overtaken with fear, but with those three words, they realized there was nothing to be afraid of, and never had been.

Quilt Maker: DD2, FunkySusanna

✨Dreams and Wishes 🙏🏻

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Quilt Maker: Karen

Quilting: Flower Puff

❑ Modern View ❒

Quilt Info

Quilt Maker: Dorothy

Pattern: "Modern View" from McCalls Quilting magazine, 2013; or, a download purchase here.

💝 Two More For Jack's Basket 💝

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Quilt Maker: Quilter Bonnie

✂️ Another Quarantine QAL, Or Two! ✂️

Gudrun of GE Quilt Designs held another Quarantine QAL on August 16, 2020. Three thousand quilters quilted along on that day. Gudrun designed a new pattern called "Harmony" for the event. The block is two fabrics, wrapped together, linking arms, to represent harmony. I made 2 baby size Harmony quilts!!!

1st Quilt Info:

Pattern: Harmony by GE Quilt Designs

🌐 A Minnesota Quilt 🌐

Quilt maker: Quilter Bonnie

Fabrics: 2020 Quilt Minnesota fabrics

A Fairy 👸🏻 Princess' Quilt

Quilt Info:

Maker: Paula of Knitting Pipeline YouTube and Podcast

🌹Rose's 3 For Jack's Basket 🌹

Here are 3 fun quilts Rose made, and I quilted and put binding on, for Jack's Basket, where babies with Down syndrome are welcomed and affirmed!!! 💝 

Maker: Rose of Something Rosemade

→ Arrow Point Path Quilt ←

My nephew asked if he could order and buy a quilt from me three years ago. I told him I don't typically sell quilts--my business is quilting for others. But since he's family, he just might get one from me someday. I put Andrew's quilt on my quilt resolution list for 2020, and here it is, made in his requested color of blues, in queen size!!! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Nancy of Grace and Peace Quilting

One More 🎄 Christmas 🎄 Panel

Susan had one more Christmas panel quilt! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Susan of Dakota County Star Quilters

🎄Two Christmas Panels 🎄

Susan is getting a jump on Christmas with these two cute Christmas panels!

I quilted the gold quilt first, so let's take a look at it.

Quilt Info:

Maker: Susan of Dakota County Star Quilters

Missy's 🇺🇸 Made In USA 🇺🇸

 I have a beautiful patriotic quilt to share, made by one of my most productive friends, Missy:

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

A Llama 🍼 Baby 👶 Quilt 🍼

Our DD1 is expecting a baby girl!!! This will be our first grandchild! DD1 especially loves llamas, so I made this baby quilt for her out of llama fabric and coordinates:

Quilt Info:

Maker: Nancy of Grace and Peace Quilting

☞ Grab N Go 🏃🏼Tote 👜 SAL

Gudrun at GE Quilt Designs hosted another quarantine sew along on July 21st and 28th! This time we made a "Grab N Go Tote", big enough to tote several quilts!!! ⤵️

Sew Along Info:

Maker: Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting

🍼 DrEAMi Baby Quilt 🍼

DrEAMi stands for Drop Everything And Make it, which is what I did one day recently when I made this baby quilt! I made this quilt from start: inspiration and fabric pull, to finish: binding & label, in one day! 

Quilt Info:

Maker: Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting

🌾 Quilter Bonnie's Meadowland 🌾

Quilting for my sister is always a joy! She makes such beautiful, fun quilts with fresh modern fabrics! Here's her latest quilt--photo taken by a mural in Frogtown:

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Maker: Quilter Bonnie

▦ Granny Square Baby Quilt ▦

We found this mural in Frogtown, St. Paul, Minnesota:  

Quilt Info:

Maker: Nancy of Grace and Peace Quilting

☒ Missy's Irish Change ☒

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Maker: Missy

🌾Quilting Cousin Sue's Meadowland 🌾

My Quilting Cousin Sue made this beautiful Meadowland quilt during the spring QAL!!!

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Maker: My Quilting Cousin Sue

㆕ Four More Charity Quilts 🎁

I picked up four more quilt tops from Minnesota Quilters--Quilt For Others curbside drop-off last week. Here are the results: 

Here's a review of the quilting designs I used. First up, I quilted this small quilt using the edge to edge design called "Curly Weave":

🍬 Bonnie's Pinata 🍬

Quilt Info:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

㆕ Four Charity Quilts 🎁

During this time of global pandemic,  Minnesota Quilters  is not able to meet in person, but there is still a need for charity quilts. MQ has made it easy to help by having curbside Quilting For Others pick-up and drop-off every Wednesday, from 11 to 1 PM. They have quilts in all stages to choose from--blocks to be made, squares to be sewn together into tops, and quilts to be quilted. As a longarm quilter with a newly added computer to practice with, I took home 4 quilt tops to quilt, with backs and battings.

🇺🇸 A Patriotic Wreath 🇺🇸

With the 4th of July around the corner, I made a patriotic wreath! This is my 3rd wreath made from 2 1/2" strips. You can find my tutorial on how to make this wreath here. These are the first two wreaths I made:

Missy's ✸ Stargazer ✸

Another beautiful blue and white quilt made by Missy!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

Pattern: Stargazer--a free pattern designed by Edyta Sitar

Two ☮ Unity ☮ QALs

I have, not one, but TWO Unity quilt along quilts to share with you today, with the first being amazing! Hang in there for the second one!?!

First Quilt Info:
Maker: Lisa