Quilty friends...

...make the best pen pals. Thank you Amy for some beautiful happy mail! I hope you like bright colors. ;)

Oh and I finally found a way to get on Instagram without a smartphone! :D You can find me @gracelovequilt, although my feed is looking rather pathetic at the moment. ;)

Holly's Tree Farm block of the month

My first two blocks for the Holly's Tree Farm block of the month arrived today! The fabric arrived on Monday and I can't wait to get started! This is going to be one cute quilt.

They even sent an adorable mini block ornament. So cute! I think I may gift the ornament but the quilt is all mine. :)

One thing I did notice is that the embroidery instructions listed the same floss colors as the Feed Company BOM. But if you look on the quilt pattern (where it lists the fabric requirements) you will find the list of colors needed for Holly's Tree Farm.

If you're stitching along, here are the embroidery colors that you need (all DMC):

Red: 816

Green: 471

Blue: 503

Grey: 640

Cream: 746

More happy mail

I love happy mail :)

The layer cake will eventually be made into a quilt for my sister's silent auction. She's fundraising to sing in Austria and I love how there's music notes in this collection. Fitting, right? :)

I've been eye-ing Farmer's Wife quilts for awhile now and I finally bought the book. I plan on making a queen size quilt for our bed (I know, crazy!) but there's no deadline and I expect it to take me a year or more to complete. Just something to do during down time.

The Japanese book is a very fortunate find. It's out of print and crazy expensive if anyone is selling it. But I found it on Amazon for less than $30! I had to get it and I'm so glad I did. The patterns are so cute and I can't wait to try my hand at paper piecing some cute blocks.

Happy Mail

I love getting mail. Maybe not so much bills, but I love getting catalogs, letters, cards and packages.

Especially packages that contain pretty fabric. :) I ordered some fabric for two quilts and a little something for my stash. Pretty fabric is my weakness, I hoard it like nobody's business.

On the bottom left is a fat quarter bundle plus some yardage from the Flats collection. I'm using it for my mom's quilt and I can't wait to cut into it.

In the middle is a layer cake plus some yardage from the High Street collection. The colors are even brighter and prettier in person! This is for my friend Jenny but I might have to buy a charm pack or two for myself.

On the right is a 10" stacker and some yardage from The Simple Life collection. This collection, at least certain prints of it, is getting hard to find. I found them on Etsy and I'm glad I got them right when I saw them because they were gone within the day. I'm hoarding this and don't plan on cutting into it until the perfect project comes along.