Sayonara 2024🐉 , Yōkoso 2025🐍

Farewell 2024! Welcome 2025!!! Here is a Grace and Peace Quilting review of 2024, and a preview of what's to come in 2025!

First of all, in 2024, I quilted 159 quilts total, 69 for others, and 90 of my own.

Of my own 90 quilts, here's the breakdown:

Last Quilts of 2024

Lynn and Missy both made one last quilt for 2024!!! 

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Lynn

Pattern: Koby from GE Designs

💮Best of 2024💮

Meadow Mist Designs does a "Best of" link party at the end of every year. Here are my 5 Best of 2024 blog posts!!!

Cheryl lets us pick the criteria for our Best 5. I am listing mine according to blog posts with the most views. Here's a collage of my top 5 viewed blog posts for 2024:

Dragons🐉Trucks🚚Flowers🌸

Here's some quilt inspiration that comes from Susan and Lynn!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Susan

Pattern: Bookends by Mountain Peek Creations

❄️Blizzard❄️

Missy made this masterpiece quilt!!! The pattern is Blizzard from Laundry Basket Quilts!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Missy

Pattern: Blizzard by Laundry Basket Quilts

✦Skyler x 2

Skyler is the second pattern in the Stripology Quickies quilt along! It's the same block in two different layouts.They look quite different from each other. I couldn't decide which version to make, so I made them both! 

Quilt Info #1:

Pattern: Skyler from Stripology Quickies by GE Designs

Quilts x 3

Three quilts by three quilters. I'm one of them!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Ebb Tide from Villa Rosa Designs

Kyle's Kwilts x 3

Kyle is my co-worker at the local quilt shop, Quilt Cove. Kyle has worked there 20+ years and works the shift after me, so we usually get to catch up with each other. But the quilt shop closing date has been announced now--November 30th. For all employees, last week was our last week to work! The owner is running the shop alone for the final 2 weeks. The shop is at 40% off.

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Kyle

✥Lilo x 2

I'm joining in the Stripology Quickies Quilt Club this year, making 12 of the quilts from the new Stripology Quickies book, over a year's time! 

This is our first quilt, Lilo!!! The cutting out video was released on September 25th and the teaching video, on October 9th. 

Quilt Info #1:

Pattern: Lilo from Stripology Quickies Club by GE Designs

Sunny☀️Inspiration

Sunny is back and has 2 sunshiny quilts!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Sunny

Baby Quilts & Panel Quilts

This week I have two baby quilts and two panel quilts to share with you! 

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me!

Three✦Quilts

Here are three quilts to inspire!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Kyle

💠Prisms💠

Class Pack Volume 3 was released by Gudrun of GE Designs in June, while we were traveling. I finished the second quilt, Frequency, in August, and you can see it here.

Here's the first quilt from the class, Prisms, which I had a late start on with that aforementioned road trip, finally finished!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Prisms from GE Designs

Fabrics: Blueberry Delight by Bunny Hill for Moda

Quilter Bonnie's Quilts

Here are four quilts made by Quilter Bonnie!

Also, please read to the end for an update on Excel College in Black Mountain, North Carolina, where our daughter is a student.

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2 Quilts❖

Here are a couple of beautiful quilts I quilted for Missy!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Missy

Mia & Stripology Quickies🏎️

On August 21st, Gudrun at GE Designs had a Stripology Quickies quilt along! The pattern is Mia, and here's my finished version!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Mia from Stripology Quickies by Gudrun Erla

Four ㈣ Quilts

Here are 4 quilts made by 3 stellar quilters!!!

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Kyle's❄️Kristmas❄️Kwilts

Kyle, my co-worker at our LQS, had 2 cute Christmas tops for me to quilt! 

Read to the end for an update on the local quilt shop we both work at.

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Missy's 7 Minis

Missy is a member of the Little Quilts Club, a monthly subscription from Laundry Basket Quilts. Every month she gets a surprise pattern along with Laundry Basket fabrics for the top, binding, backing and notions! Here are her first 7 months of Little Quilts!!!

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⚡️Frequency⚡️

Here is my Frequency quilt from the GE Designs 3rd "Class Pack", released this summer! This class pack includes 2 quilt patterns--Prisms and Frequency, 6 video classes, 2 zoom sessions and a group forum where everyone shares photos of their quilts!

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Several Little Quilts

Here are 4 quilts ranging in size from miniature to doll size to baby quilt!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me

Pattern: Mini Maze from Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings

2 Panel Quilts

Two panel quilts by two talented quilters!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Kyle

What the Judge👩🏼‍⚖️ Said, 2024

We just had our county fair, August 5th through 11th! Having grown up in 4-H, I still get the urge to enter my latest projects in the county fair!!!🎡

This year I entered 5 quilts and 3 other fiber entries, 8 items total. It was the same quilt judge as the last two years, and once again, she had a lot of comments. I received: 1 Award of Excellence, 4 Blues/1st Place, 2 Reds/2nd Place, 1 White/3rd Place and 1 Pink/4th Place.

🌈RSC Orange🧡

August's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is orange!

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern. Here are close-ups of my orange blocks:

Sibling Quilts

Have you made quilts for your siblings? I just quilted 3 quilts in a row made by quilters for their siblings!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Karen

Fabrics: Scottish Wool

Four✦Quilts

Here are 4 quilts made by my family and friends!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Quiltin' Cousin Sue

Pattern: Koby by GE Designs

7 More Minis, 25 Minis Total!!!🇯🇵

These are the last of my mini quilts for now! I managed to squeeze all 7 of these minis onto a 1 yard cut of backing--it was a juggling trick!

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🌈RSC Aqua🦋

July's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is aqua!

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern. Here are close-ups of my aqua blocks:

14 More Minis!!!

I quilted 14 miniature quilts at once, each in a different design!!! ⤵️

Here are the finished quilts! ⤴️⤵️  Details below!!!

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▪Some Mini Quilts▪

Lisa Bongean at Primitive Gatherings is doing a Monthly Mini QAL! It started in April and runs for a year. A new mini quilt pattern is released on the 23rd of every month for $5. When the next pattern is released, the price for the previous pattern goes back to the regular $12. Here are my first two!!!

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🌈RSC Blue🔷

I'm doing the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) in 2024! June's RSC color is blue! Angela at Super Scrappy posts a new color every month.

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern from Robert Kaufmann.

With this month being all shades of blue, and Japan being the country of "Blue & White", 10 of my prints were purchased in Japan, so I'm not going to ask if you have any of them! There is also, a Tula Pink print, a Decostitch, a Floral Elements, and others, 6 in all, thrown in!

Three ㆔ Quilts

I have 3 quilts to share with you today, made by 3 different quilters!!! In the order I quilted them...

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: 'Lil Saga by GE Designs

Strawberry🍓Season

Don't you love strawberries?!!! Today's blog is a combo of Strawberry Season, Mother's Day and a new quilt!!!

Quilt Info:

Pattern: Amalie Supersized from GE Designs

Scrap Quilts & Projects

I discovered a box full of scraps that I had totally forgotten about since we moved into our current home 9 years ago!!! My original thought was to cut all these scraps up into 10" squares, 5" strips, 5" squares, 2 1/2" strips or 2 1/2" squares, in that order, as I usually do with scraps.

Then I ran across this video ⤵️ and changed my mind! I decided to try Tracy's method from The Sewing Channel and make a scrap quilt out of them!!!

▶ 4 Quilts ◀

I have been busy quilting and must catch up with blogging! Here are 4 beautiful quilts I've quilted recently:

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Kyle

👛 Bags 👜

 It was time for me to make some new bags! I made three!!!

Bag Info #1:

Pattern: Snap Bag

🌈RSC Pink🩷

I'm doing the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) in 2024! It's a great way to work through your scraps and turn them into quilts! May's RSC color is pink! Angela at Super Scrappy posts a new color every month.

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! Some are old, some are new! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern from Robert Kaufmann. Let me know if you have any of these fabrics in your collections:

2 Quilts🍃by Kyle

Two quilts--one snuggly soft and the other colorful!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Kyle

Pattern: Honor from Villa Rosa Designs

🪡2 GE Quilts🧵

Here are two GE Designs quilts I quilted this past week, the first by me, the second by Quilter Bonnie!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me!!!

🌈RSC Yellow🟡

I'm doing the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) in 2024! It's a great way to work through your scraps and turn them into quilts! April's RSC color is yellow! Angela at Super Scrappy posts a new color every month.

This year I'm making butterflies from my spare stash of 5" squares! Some are old, some are new! I'm using the Hope Takes Flight free pattern from Robert Kaufmann. Let me know if you have any of these fabrics in your collections:

2024 GE Designs Virtual Retreat

On March 14, 15 and 16, I participated in the Stripology Virtual Retreat 2024, along with 200 other quilters!!! The following week, March 20, 21 and 22, 150 more quilters experienced the same virtual retreat! The 350 virtual quilters represented 43 US states and 7 countries: USA, Canada, Australia, England, Scotland, Denmark and Sweden!!!

These are my 3 finished quilts started during the retreat! ⤴️ And here's the retreat box!!!⤵️

🏆Villa Rosa Designs Blog Hop Winners!🏆

The Villa Rosa Designs Blog Hop in March was a blast!!! So fun to see all the different versions of these fast and fun patterns!!! Thank you to everyone who commented on my VRD Blog Hop!!! 

I asked everyone to comment on which pattern they would like to make first. The definite top winner was Twinkle!!! A distant second was Gypsy Rose!!! Ebb Tide, Clover and 31 all came in close to each other, in that order. 

Twinkle takes the most time of all five patterns, so I was surprised that it was the most popular, but it definitely has the cuteness factor!!!

Here are the winners from my blog, drawn by random generator:

Winner of the 5 VRD Blog Hop patterns: Nikki, VA

1. Winner of a quilty prize: Johnna, OH

2. Winner of a quilty prize: Nancy, CA

3. Winner of a quilty prize: Anne, TN

1. Winner of entry to grand prize drawing: Rita, NC

2. Winner of entry to grand prize drawing: Sandra, FL

3. Winner of entry to grand prize drawing: Tawnee, MT

Congrats to the winners!!! They have each been contacted. And btw, Rita, NC, won the grand prize drawing of "A Big Box of Mystery Quilt Goodies"!!!

The prize winners of all 28 blogs are listed on the Villa Rosa Designs blog, here.

The patterns can still be purchased from Villa Rosa Designs, here! They truly are FAST and FUN!!!

Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

Check out the quilt inspiration at: Sew & Tell, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, Monday This & That.

3 Quilts ㆔ by Lynn

Here are three quilts Lynn has been cooking up recently!!! 

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Lynn

Pattern: Koby from GE Designs

🦠Amoeba🦠

Here are two quilts I quilted this week that both have "amoeba" quilting!!!

Quilt Info #1:

Maker: Me!

Pattern: Dina from GE Designs

Shenandoah Quilt

This is one quilt!!! Front and back!!!! How cool is that?!!

Quilt Info:

Maker: Lynn

Happy Easter!!!🐣

 Happy Easter!!! The day that changed history!!! He is risen!!! 

Here are some of my Easter decorations and handmades: the bunnies and wooden eggs were carved by my Dad, the decorated eggs were made by my childhood friend and next door neighbor, and I made the bunny hop mini quilt, fabric basket and felt bunny item.

Four more fabric baskets I made, and each one stuffed with a Squishmallow!!! ⤵️

And the real reason for the season, we celebrate Jesus, laying down His life for us, defeating death and giving eternal life to all who believe in Him!

Happy Easter!!! 

Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

Check out the quilt inspiration at: Patchwork & Quilts, Sew & Tell, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musings, Monday This & That.