Xmas + BD Quilts

I have 3 special event quilts to share with you, made by Quilter Bonnie and Kyle!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Quilter Bonnie

3 Panel Quilts

Here are three panel quilts I quilted this week, and the second and third might look familiar!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Susan

🚚 Trucks & Cats 🐈

Lynn has a couple of super quilt gifts ready for two lucky children!!!

Quilt Info #1:

I-Spy 🔭

These two quilts will be going to Japan to help teach English to children in orphanages!!!

Quilt Info:

Gift for: JOEE for Language Learning, located in Japan

🚂 Good Nite Train 🚂

Quilt Info:

Maker: Patty

Pattern: Good Nite Train from Nite Owl Quilting

🎠Merry-Go-Round🎠

Quilt Info: 

Maker: Kyle

🍃Dinosaur Friends🍃

Quilt Info:

Maker: Kyle

Size: 67" X 94"

Batting: Quilters Dream 100% Cotton

Thread: Glide--Eggnog

Pantograph: Obsidian ⤵️ from Urban Elementz

🏆Best of 2021🏆

Welcome to my Best Five blog posts of 2021!!! I'm Nancy, the quilter quilting these quilts. I've been quilting for 41 years. I bought my APQS longarm 9 years ago in order to get my own quilts quilted. I added a computer to my longarm in 2020. I quilt for family and friends, too. We lived in Japan for 24 years so a lot of my quilts feature Japanese fabrics. I love the modern fabrics and colors as well!  

Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs hosts a link party for quilt bloggers every year end. The guidelines for one's best 5 are open to interpretation. Here are my Best Five!!

🎂Happy 1st Birthday!!!🎂

Our granddaughter had her first birthday!!! She and I are birthday twins, which is super fun! 

Our daughter planned her party with a llama and cactus theme! Here are a few things I made for our granddaughter's first birthday!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Circle Time Quilt by Pretty Little Quilts

More To Come 🙌

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes sewing going on in the Grace and Peace studio right now! Here are some things to look forward to:

Kelly Young is hosting a blog hop featuring her new book, Scrappy Improv Quilting, and I'm a part of it!!! I'm very excited to introduce the quilt I've made from this fun book on September 22nd! 

Kelly makes improv easy for everyone, with her illustrated steps and instructions to make 22 mini improv quilts!!! I'll be sharing my version of Kelly's pattern, "Downpour", on September 22nd, so come back on that day to see it!!!

Here's the full blog/book hop schedule with links:

Scrappy Improv Quilting Blog Tour Schedule-

8/31- Intro, Single Block Beauties, and Simple Shapes

9/7- Seasonal Sensations, Standards With a Twist

9/13- Summer Blossom- Lori @ Crossquilt
           Up, Up, and Away- Sandra @ mmm...quilts!

9/15- Flutter- Rose @ Something Rosemade
           Botanics- Diann @ Little Penguin Quilts

9/20- Face the Sun- Laura @ Slice of Pi Quilts
           Full Spectrum- Jayne @ Twiggy and Opal

9/22- Prismatic- Anja @ Anja Quilts

           Downpour- Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting ➡️ ME!!!

9/27- Funkytown- Vasudha @ Storied Quilts
           Cherub Wings- Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty

9/29- Chapel Window- Kris @ Sew Sunshine
           Winter Frost- Leanne @ Devoted Quilter

10/4- Heartstruck- Rebecca Grace @ Rebecca Grace Quilting
           Star Spangled- Christine @ Triangles & Squares

10/6- Birds of a Feather- Preeti @ Sew Preeti Quilts
           Fall Foliage- Susan @ Quilt Fabrication

10/11- Ornamental- Gail @ Quilting Gail
            Churn, Churn, Churn- Cynthia @ Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

10/13- Sunset Crossing- Kate @ Katie Mae Quilts
             Positivity- Sarah @ Sarah Goer Quilts

10/18- All Dressed Up- Linda @ Flourishing Palms
             Shockwave- Anne-Marie @ Stories From the Sewing Room

10/20- Sweet Bee (a bonus thank-you pattern), Finishing, and Wrap-Up 

The second event I'm sewing behind the scenes for is this little cutie's birthday party, mid-October!!!

We got to spend some time with her, our daughter & son-in-law and 2 granddogs over the Labor Day weekend! 

The birthday party theme is llamas and cactus, so look for some related stitching, to be revealed after the party, mid-October!!!

The third event I've been stitching for behind-the-scenes is the National Cat Day Quilt Link Party over at Susan's blog, QuiltFabrication. It will start on National Cat Day, October 29th, and run for several days. I have a new Japanese-inspired cat quilt I will share on that day! So get ready to link up your cat quilts and/or quilt cats on that day!!! You can link from a blog or Instagram.

I invite you to come back on these special days!!! Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

Linking up with Midweek Makers, NTT, Put Your Foot Down, TGIFF, Whoop Whoop, Peacock Party, Finished Or Not Friday, Off the Wall Friday, From Bolt To Beauty, Patchwork & Quilts.

Child's Keyhole🔑Quilt

Michelle made another quilt to add to her pile of quilts for her grandchildren to pick from when they come to visit!!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Michelle