Sayonara 2022🐯, Yōkoso 2023 🐰

Farewell 2022! Welcome 2023!!! Here's a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2022, and a preview of what's to come in 2023, the year of the rabbit in Japan!

 First, 2022: I quilted 120 quilts in 2022, 51 of my own, and 69 for others.

Of my own 51 quilts, here's the breakdown:

💮Best of 2022💮

We quilters love quilt parties! Cheryl @ MeadowMistDesigns is having a year end quilt link party, her 8th year hosting the Best 5 Blog Posts of the Year!

🎄It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas🎄

Happy 4th Sunday in Advent!!! Christmas is coming next weekend! I was inspired by Sarah at Confessions of a Quilt Addict to share my Christmas decorations, some hand made, some from Japan, celebrating the birth of Christ!!!

The view from our front door--we got a bit of snow this past week!!!

4 Fun Quilts🪡

Here are 4 fun quilts, pieced by 3 quilters, that I quilted recently!!!

Quilt Info #1--Retro Santa Panel:

Maker: Susan

Lucy Boston Day

Happy birthday, Lucy Boston! She would be celebrating her 130th birthday today. Lucy Boston, famous to quilters for her "Patchwork of the Crosses" quilt, was also a British author, an artist, and a restorer of an old cottage and English garden. She was born on December 10, 1892 in Southport, England, and lived to the age of 97. 

This is Lucy Boston's original quilt called "Patchwork of the Crosses", made in the 1950's: 

Tama Quilters is a small group of quilt friends that met in each other's homes in Tokyo, Japan, in the 2000's. We continue to do biannual "summer homework" where we make 6 blocks--one to keep and five to swap with the other members. For the summer of 2019 it was decided we would make Patchwork of the Crosses blocks! Here's my finished POTC quilt!!! ⤵️

I-Spy 🔍 JOEE Quilts

Here are four I-Spy quilts for children in Japan!!! I had help from four quilt friends who pieced the quilt tops!!!

JOEE Info: