Happy Anniversary Girlfriends! MUSICA
Today is the day we’re going to begin our June celebration for two wonderful events ~ It was June 11, 2009 that we started connecting with our wonderful Friends on Facebook. Two years 
later, on June 9, 2011, the Blog went live (still quiver when I think about it) and our connection to our Girlfriends began! That’s pretty good! But it makes me wonder, why June? I didn’t plan it that way, in fact I was kind of surprised to see how close the dates were. Maybe we were inspired because it’s such a pretty month. I’ll tell you one thing, it smells like heaven here on the island. The Beauty Bush and the Mock Orange are in bloom (to name just two), I picked my first four strawberries today and look at the foxgloves!
Magic.♥ One more reason to celebrate.
Three years ago, when I first started blogging I had NO idea how it would go ~ “going live” was so scary! I wondered how people would find me, and if they would even come. I knew how I wished it would go and tried my best to make it something 
everyone would like, hoping everyone liked dishtowels, dishes, and old movies as much as me! Any of you with a blog knows exactly what I’m talking about. Saying to yourself as you are writing a post or putting something up on Facebook, “I hope they like this!” then letting the chips fall where they may! Scary! And first time you’re “liked!” Or, then, to be “shared!” How wonderful it is to get your first comment! How amazing to have your first give-away! And that excitement and amazement really hasn’t gone away. Traveling to England together put the frosting on the cake. I loved it so much, we’ll definitely do it again (yes we will!). I just wish there were more hours in the day for blogging. Such a creative way to connect with kindred spirits. So how do we celebrate? Easy: By saying “Thank You” to everyone who helps to make this dream come true. Which would be YOU, thank you very much.♥
As many of you know, it has been my dream for years, way before there was any such thing as a blog or even the Internet, that the people who’ve written me such wonderful personal 
letters (since 1987 when my first book came out and I started getting mail), could meet each other. The letters were so nice, so full of love, I always thought it would cheer people up to know that despite what we see and hear on the news, the world is filled with wonderful home-loving, creative, family-adoring people, in all countries, all parts of the world, and even in countries where we might think our “enemies” live.
Even there, the cities and towns are filled with regular tea-drinking, flower-growing, music-loving, tender-hearted, 
soup-making, peace-loving kinds of people just like you and me. You just don’t hear that much from them because the other kind are so obnoxious and loud. But there are many more of our kind of person in this world than of the obnoxious ones. Truly. No matter how different we may look from each other on the outside. And we need to band together in our appreciation for beauty and a gentle way of life. It must be scary to live in a land where the maniacs have the keys to the castle. You would probably feel trapped and worried about your children all the time. Let’s pray for them, and then give them this 
place, and each other, to meet and celebrate the little things that make life sweet ~ and especially, all the ways we are so very much alike. They like apples, we like apples. They like gorgeous blue tablecloths ~ we like gorgeous blue tablecloths. They like picnics and the sounds of nature and going barefoot, and we do too! They like starry nights and big moons and us too! It’s an amazingly wonderful beautiful world.
Imagine all the people, living life in peace ~ You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one . . .
So, to celebrate all of this and all of us, we are having not One, not even Two, but Three Give-aways in this blog post, and this contest is open to everyone everywhere on the planet! If someone in a faraway land is chosen in this drawing, we will mail their package to wherever they would like it to go. Because it is true, we are the world. What the Internet has brought has surpassed my wildest dreams . . . I thought it would be good, but I didn’t know it would be this good! So here we go, let’s start off with some inspiration! Mas Musica? Frank? Oui!♥
You should probably get a cup of tea or something cold to drink . . . this could be a long one! The inspiration for this giveaway came from a request in a Girlfriend’s comment a couple of months back ~ she asked, “Could we see more of your quilt collection.” Oh boy, yes, you can! Here we go!
From the very first quilt I got, which happens to be the one my Great Grandma made for my Grandma who then gave it to me, it’s always been the colors. I love the old-fashioned fabrics, the soft pastels and simple patterns and I love that they used lots of white. These are the colors that inspired my watercolors.
A little worn, a little faded, and never signed. Just so lovely and artistic, and humble and oh, if they could talk. You know they were made by creative women, and often in groups. Could we please listen in on one of those conversations, oh dearest back-in-time genie?
All those tiny little hand-made stitches. I have so much appreciation for this art.
It’s easy to relate to the hearts that made them.
I made a few quilts when I was young, never as beautiful as this one, but then I learned to paint, so I painted quilts instead, and I learned to go to antique stores and there I found old quilts . . . which I’ve collected for years . . . now I drape them over sofas . . .
It’s not a huge collection, and I don’t have all the scientific information on them, I just like to drape them on bedroom chairs . . .
at the ends of the beds . . . so I can look at them and be charmed and feel happy.
I like them in the kitchen in the winter, folded over the back of a chair, even though it really doesn’t make any sense, I just like to look at them . . .
At one time I had a “Heart of the Home” store on the Central Coast of California where I sold a few vintage quilts whenever I could find them (or part with them). These were in a pile in a corner of the store, they weren’t for sale, only for inspiration, so my shopper Girlfriends could see how pretty a stack of quilts can be and begin the search to get a stack for themselves.
From the beginning, my watercolors were influenced by the beauty and the colors of these quilts. I painted what I loved. I don’t make stitches so much anymore, I paint them.
You can kind of see quilt-influence in the things I’ve made in the past . . . everything feels a little like a 1930’s quilt.
The other big influence on my watercolors was the dish variation of the quilt. To me quilts and dishes have everything in common: home, practicality, love, beauty, history, delicacy and most of all, that color again. They also reach out when I walk by at a flea market, take my hand and say right out loud, I’m going home with you. And I say, thank you, I could not agree more.
I love painting my own rendition of pattern ~
Almost as much as I love finding and collecting old dishes…
You see? Dishes ↑ and Quilt fabric ↓ ~ See the resemblance? Kissing cousins.
Especially when it’s me choosing the colors.
This is fabric from my long extinct “Tea Party” Collection of fabric.
And lots more than quilts was made from those designs. These were made at the wonderful embroidery studio at Crabapple Hill. They sell the great old-fashioned embroidery patterns you see here and in the photo before this one and lots more.♥
Even this Tea Tin is a “sub-unit” (made that up, like it) from the design of quilt fabric.
And because of the fact that all of this fabric is now gone from the market place, and there’s no more available anywhere . . . except right here in my hot little hands, the First Give-away turns out to be everything you see here . . . except of course Jack. He is not included. He is a sub-unit of me.
I hope everyone likes yellow, because the words “everything is included” means this bolt of several yards of “Honeybee Yellow” fabric.
In addition, I found a yard (or maybe a little more) of each of these three fabrics, from my “Sweet Baby” collection, the dot, the check and the lambs with the hearts. In they go!
And yes, “everything” includes a complete set of the “Tea Party” Collection in “Little Fat Quarters.”
Little Fat quarters and the bolt of bees (and the little lambs), and also a gift card from me to the winner of the drawing with love.
You can see better some of the fabrics in the pile of Fat Quarters. I hope someone out there can put them to good use! OK, so that is Giveaway # 1! This officially puts us on . . .
. . .’cause here comes the rest of the Give-aways!
Next? OK, this is Give-away number #2. Again, the cat is not included (but try taking a picture without him in it!). What these are are the unbound proofs for our brand new 2015 Wall and Mini Calendars ~ you can’t hang them, but they’re just too nice to throw away. The color is beautiful, they’re on heavy paper so I thought possibly, someone would like these, maybe to do some scrapbooking with?
Here is Jack with the Mini Calendar, you can see, the pages aren’t hooked together . . . every time I try to take a picture, he jumps into the middle of it, he makes me laugh. Kissing occurs.
But here’s more of the inside of the Mini Calendar — lots of bookmark-making or card-making possibilities here too! Knowing you, there are a 1000 possibilities!
And here’s some of the art from the Wall Calendar. Both calendars have been approved and the finished products should be arriving at the Studio any day now. So this is Give-Away #2, both of these brand new calendars, and both signed.
(Oh, don’t worry, in case you were, the big Blotter Calendar is still on schedule for shipping in late August.)
And Now, Number Three Give-away to celebrate our FOSB Girls and our Blog Girlfriends, this 53″ x 74″ quilt made with my “Martha’s Vineyard” Collection of fabrics, also quite extinct and no longer available (except for today, here).
The pattern is called “Hearts and Flowers” ~ I designed it and it was made and presented to me by the fabric manufacturer.
And I signed it with the year it was made . . . this little quilt is behind door #3 of our Drawing. I hope one of these doors suits your fancy!
And FYI, we still do have a few bits and pieces of some of the fabric collections, still have a few patterns for aprons, pillowcases, and appliqued dishtowels, many of which are free (especially our really cute gored apron). Just go HERE.
Girl Kitty thinks it’s all just lovely. She likes quilts too.
One more rather exciting thing! My AUTUMN book went to the printer yesterday! I’m so very proud to announce that the Tenth 
Anniversary Edition of AUTUMN from the Heart of the Home will be in stores by October first! Autumn will be published in the USA by Spring Street Publishing, and just so you know, this new edition is exactly like the first edition in every way except this one comes complete with a ribbon bookmark and will have a different publisher. (We weren’t completely in charge of the ribbon the last time, this time we are, so voila, we get one!)
All my most favorite recipes and most inspiring ideas for Autumn fun, both indoors and out, are there. Pumpkin Cheesecake! Corn Pudding!
Including crafts and sewing, because Autumn is the most creative time of the year, all that good Back-to-School energy never goes away! First whiff of September and I want to make something! And Yes, we are having a Pre-sale for the book, beginning TODAY. 
We have ordered an early shipment of books to be sent to the studio just for our Girlfriends. We always seem to run out of everything (no matter how carefully we plan), it seems to be our M.O. but if you have ordered a book in our web store, you are guaranteed to get it the minute they come in, before we begin shipping to the bookstores and Amazon. Although the publication date is October first, we will start shipping your books by the middle of August and maybe even sooner if we get lucky! Perfect timing, because by then, we are going to be yearning for those fall breezes. (But not yet.)
And one more thing, if you are the kind of person who likes to do their Christmas Shopping early, here is a combination that will give you something to give away and something to keep, a win-win. To celebrate our Anniversaries, we’ve bundled the two books for a very special, limited-offer, thank-you-for-being-here price.♥
You all know how to enter the drawing ~ it’s easy, just leave a short comment below and in a few days we’ll draw names. (For those to whom the blog is mailed, you should click here www.162.240.10.175/~susanbs3/susanbranch/, scroll to the bottom of the post, look for the tiny letters that say, “comment” ~ click there and leave your comment. I don’t know why, but the senders of the email blogs do not include a way to leave a comment.)
I will warn Vanna to exercise a bit more this week, clear her head, get that arm pumped ~ she has a big job choosing three winners! The first name chosen will win prize number one (fabric bundles) the second name chosen will get the calendars, and the third will have the signed quilt. And I’ll email the winners and let them know the minute I know.
I’m going back to the garden. I’m reading Gladys Taber in preparation for next week! Very exciting! Makes for a very nice life, reading this book, and smelling the flowers. Hope the same for you. Love you, Girlfriends. Happy Anniversary! XOXO
Wonderful things to give away, Susan! Say hi to my sister Karen at the Gladys Taber event on Saturday – she’ll be there from Seattle!
Happy Anniversary! My 7 year old daughter was just reading through some of the old paper Willards the other day and running her little fingers over the pages. She loves to draw and paint. Another budding artist! I have enjoyed your books, website and blog for a very long time and still get giddy every time there is an email alerting me to a new post! And the days when I check the blog and find you have updated it BEFORE I even get my email makes me feel like I have stumbled upon a secret no one else knows about. 🙂
Hope you and Joe are enjoying Spring on the island. It is so wonderful to see such lush green everywhere after the very long, white, snowy winter.
Thank you, again, Susan, for your wonderful posts that are always joyful and beautiful! I also favor the “1930s style” fabrics and colors! Your art, photography and writing are THE BEST! Please enter me in the drawing.
Happy Anniversary Dear Susan! Thanks for all that you do!
Fondly,
Maureen in New Orleans
Hi Susan great blog, beautiful pictures, beautiful kitties and beautiful girlfriends! AND GREAT GIFT AWAYS!!!! What’s not to like????As usual, I don’t want to be left out, so count me in.
Happy Trials to All
Connie from Abilene
I use your blog daily to take me away from my desk job for a few minutes. It’s precious to me! Thank you!
Happy Anniversary Susan. Today is my 26th wedding anniversary. I’d love a celebration at the “Somewhere in Time” hotel too. Best wishes for another creative year. xoxo from California…
Happy Anniversary Donna!
Susan,
My daughter and I love your blog! She wants to go to England and Ireland, so she loves all your pictures…..some day we will make it to Martha’s Vineyard too!
Hopefully you will come to Wisconsin on one of your book tours and get to see our wonderful state!
By the way, I loved your hooked rugs!
Good Morning Susan – I’m so excited for whoever the lucky ones are to win! I appreciate all of your hard work in making this one of the best blogs to read!
GOOD MORNING from MO 🙂
Susan,
I love all of your quilts as I am a “quilt lover” for sure. I especially love the giveaway one with the Martha’s Vineyard fabrics!
I have a question…do your foxgloves bloom every year or every other year? I tried to start some last year and then read that they typically bloom every OTHER year. Yours are divine. mine have not showed themselves this year…..
Also, I am waiting for my black-eyed susan seeds to show themselves with leaves popping up…I just love those 🙂 And my happy returns lilies and my pink Asiatic lilies..ahhh..thankful for flowers…thank you for sharing yours and for this beauty of a giveaway….
blessings from MO <3
Biennials are funny people . . . read this HERE . . .
I love all your inspirational musings. You make the world a better place and more fun too!!
Thank you Susan for being the way you are!.Everytime I see one of your post, it definetly make my day! How happy I would be to get one of your give aways. You are such a kind person, and I´m sure you are surrounded by a wonderful team!.Thank you all.
OMG! I’m speechless! Your art in this post just sent me! Thank you for your continued inspiration! It means so much!
Your quilt collection is just gorgeous! Like you, I love the colors, the muted the better! I still have a lot of your fabric in my “stash”!! You’ve given me some ideas of what to do with some of it!
Enjoy the start of summer! 😉
Happy Anniversary!! Things look so lovely on the Island—your long hard winter weather is finally a memory. Thanks for the lovely give-a-ways!
There is nothing as comfy as a quilt to wrap yourself in, to feel against your cheek, or to drape over a sofa or chair as eye candy. I have an old quilt from my husband’s grandmother, who farmed in northern Wisconsin. Winters were harsh, and quilts made from scraps were treasured. I also have old dishes from my mother and my grandmother (I am 67), including stemmed glassware that my great-grandmother gave to my mom as an engagement present, and pieces of old Bavarian china that my grandfather gave to my grandmother as an engagement present at the turn of the century when he proposed to her in Germany (my mom was later born in 1915 in Berlin, to give you a time reference). A few pieces of that china made it in her steamer trunk during the transatlantic journey from Germany to Ellis Island back in in 1923. How precious! The china dishes that he gave her have a dainty border of violets, because my grandmother loved violets and her windowsills were filled with them. How romantic! The cherished pieces are displayed in my china cabinet along with their engagement photograph … and a small, faux pot of violets. Cherish the small things around you that bring joy to your heart. As my girlfriend, Mary Margaret says, “We didn’t have anything valuable in our home, but everything was precious.”
Love your posts and I would be so happy to have Door No. 1, Door No. 2 or Door No. 3. Love to have your fabrics. I missed them here in my area. Keep up the good work.
Hi Susan! Thank you thank you thank you for spreading your joy and happiness and inspiration to so many of us!!!
Such fun! Now I want to drop everything to go out and find some beautiful old quilts! And how do you get your foxglove to do so well? Mine is a bust every single time I try it, but keep trying I will (I sound like Yoda!).
Hi, Susan!
I am come lately to this party, but I am here! A joyous celebration! I was also here when you went “live” – I was so excited you were going to blog…the chance to get often doses of “Susanisms”! 🙂 It has been the best ever since! Your comments about it here remind of “If you build it, they will come” (circa Field of Dreams) and Sally Field’s exclaim “You like me, you really, really like me!” 🙂 Oh what fun this has been.! We sound like broken records, but it’s truism to say that you add so much to this business in life we are all working so hard at! Can’t thank you enough for doing what you do and sharing so much of it all along the way! So, from one tea drinking, flower growing, music (and book!) loving, tender hearting, soup making, peace making, home loving, family adoring hopeless romantic to another – Congratulations on mastering the art of living and for reminding us always what is truly important in life!
You are so sweet Tina!
So happy you decided to blog. Seeing a message from you always puts a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing all that you love.
Happy Anniversary to you (and us) Susan! thank you for enriching our lives with your creativity–I for ONE am happy you took that leap of faith!
Hi Susan, I cherish the quilts I have been given thru the years from grandmothers, great-grandmother and mother. I would certainly hold dear to my heart anything that is passed along from you. I enjoy your posts so much, each one brightens my day. Please continue to share your life with us, it brings much joy to so many. Thanks from Oklahoma.
Kathy Bussey
The big blotter calendar is coming back — Yippee!!
Your quilt collection is beautiful!
Wishing you many more happy years, blogging, sharing and loving what you do. You make a difference each and every day in the lives of those of us who love life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
If you ever get tired of Martha’s Vineyard ( probably not possible!), come to Western NY. There are many like-minded gals around here, and you would fit right in! Jeanne
Hi Susan,
As always, your cheery words and bright colors make me happy. the happiest of anniversaries to you!
Helen
A Fine Romance sits on my nightstand, your tea tin sits on my kitchen counter, your Autumn cookbook sits on my sideboard, and your calendar is hung on my fridge. I know I could find a perfect spot for that gorgeous quilt in the new home my husband is building for us! You are a continual inspiration to me. Thank you for giving us so much!
Your website just makes me happy. I was telling my husband about it last nite, about how inspiring I found it, it made me long for more creativity in my life… I used to watercolor paint and sew much more than I do now. thank you for your lovely site!
Many years ago I used to wish I was more creative! Honestly even after maybe five books. I thought that word was for everyone else and wished I could be like my creative girlfriends. Then one day I looked around my house and was surprised at how much of it I had made. You probably have that too….then you find out just how creative you really are. ♥
Happy Anniversary – it’s such a joy to read your blog. Thank you for sharing your home – you give us so much inspiration to create our own little sanctuary. I’m privileged to have a couple of tiny pieces of your fabric – I use them for special occasions – hate cutting into what I have, but better to make something some (or I) will enjoy than have the fabric languish on the shelf. Looking forward to more years of loveliness, recipes and ideas.
Lovely pictures, and a giveaway? Count me in!
There is one gift at Christmas that I truly love and wait so patiently for – my Susan Branch Calendar. My dear sweet sister, De De, introduced you to me and I fell in love with everything about it. Now my youngest daughter, Kirsten, has taken over the role of giving me the gift of your calendar. I read your blog on a regular basis it makes my day. Oh and by the way I keep all my old calendars.
You have a very sweet family!
I’m so thankful for the friend who suggested I check out your blog (over two years now). I was truly amazed that their is another person who enjoys what I enjoy and reading your blog and your newsletters and your books, etc., just answers a need I can’t explain. Thank you so much for all that you share. Can’t wait for your new books.
Hi Susan, question regarding your Dream Charms. Will you be getting any more listed on-line? I see now is only available the Kitty and the Girlfriends (which I have both). I need more please.
Three more in the hopper now…all new! 🙂 Your wish is my command!
do love your gorgeous prints! Have twin granddaughters expected to arrive in December and those wonderful fabrics would just perfect for new baby quilts! What generous giveaways!! Happy anniversary!
Be still my heart! Behind each door a spectacular treasure! Yooo Hooo-Vanna….
Happy Anniversary!!!! Well done! That you would share such God given talent with us is a blessing in itself! There is not one of your posts that I dont take away something to improve my life or heart. I have loved all things ‘Susan Branch’ I have for years just because of how pretty they are. Now I am happy to know the person and the heart behind them-thank you. I must say cuurently you have bridged a gap with me and my mom with Gladys Taber. She remembers, and I get to know a whole new world. Thank you, Susan for all your generous gifts you share. God Richly Bless you!
Your most gorgeous giveaways yet! The quilt and fabric designs just make my heart happy. Thank you for the opportunity to enter the drawing.
Your Gladys Taber trip is fast closing in. I’m so looking forward to one of your glorious blog reports about it.
Blessings. Love reading your blog. And books. Truly inspiring.
Happy anniversary!!! Such beautiful quilts!!! I have downloaded the free quilt patterns but I wasn’t really into quilting when your fabric was available. I think it needs to make a comeback. 🙂
I have the Autumn cookbook and refer to it often.
Again, happy anniversary Pam
All I can say is, “Oh my!!!”. You have been such a blessing in my life!
The fabrics are gorgeous and your kitties are darling. 🙂
Happy anniversary! I have followed your work since you provided your wonderful recipes and artwork in Country Living magazine–so many moons ago! My daughter’s nursery was inspired by your work and she was married last year and I’ve saved all my Peter Rabbit treasures for the day that she needs them. Thanks for sharing your talents with us!
Susan, you make my day when you post . Love, Love, Love the quilts, dishes, recipes, and everything you write about. Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Happy Anniversary! I’m new this year, but enjoying everyone of your blogs, old and new!
Oh, I would LOVE to win! I WISH your fabrics were still available! I NEED them! 🙂
So happy to have found you on facebook! I’ve been a fan for many years…my kids, born in the 80s, grew up loving your chocolate shot cookies. And I’m so sorry to see that the fabric is no more…I somehow missed it, and I love it so much.
Happy Anniversary! I always look forward to reading your blog because its such a delight to read!
I just love you, Susan Branch! You bring such inspiration! I’ve been a fan since forever. All your books have found a place on my bookshelf and your yearly calendar is always on my wall. Thanks for sharing your inspiration so freely with us. Fabulous!
The 3 surprises are a wonderful way to celebrate “our” anniversary. I recently stopped working (outside the home, lol) and my secret project is to start a special crazy quilt. It will be tucked away in anticipation of someday, somehow getting a grandchild. Sigh, my daughter would be in major “Oh Mom” mode if she knew, but it will be my little secret tucked away. You never know! — Wouldn’t the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island be the perfect place for a convention! There is even a tea shop on site. Congrats to Susan and all the girlfriends for this unmatchable fellowship.
“Outside the home” is right . . . maybe you’ve just narrowed it down to only one job! 🙂
Wow Susan! Almost 3,000 comments!
Well this post was one of the lovliest you have ever done – all that joyous color!
I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed that Miss Vanna chooses my name – here’s hoping!
Happy Anniversary! Every visit here is a feast for the eyes and anyone would be thrilled to get one of these three lovely gifts! Thank you for your art and your generosity.
Happy Anniversary Susan. It is going to be difficult to pick just 3 out of the 1000’s of comments…but….I hope my name is one of them!!
I met you in Wichita, Ks when you were on book tour. Still buy your items…still love you.
I am a quilter and would love some of your goodies. I will enter the drawing and hold my breath, (well, not really). Crossing my fingers.
Hugs,
Sharon
Thank u for opportunity to win something love your pics posts books blog dishes calenders. Quilts …well, all of it!
Dear Susan, If I only had one little bit of your creativity I would be blessed for a lifetime! I so love your blog and your books, your home and your heart, and all the warm fuzzy things that make me happy!! Thank you for being you and sharing with me! Happy Day!!!
Thank you for bringing so much color to our lives. The picture of the dishes that you have (Johnson Bros.) is the same pattern my great-grandmother Etta, and my Mom, Lianne, has. I love those dishes! Happy Anniversary! We make your Candy Cane cookies every Christmas!
Hello beautiful Susan! How beautiful your white foxgloves are! My sis and I planted some in cream and lilac colors and they are oh-so lovely! Your blog brings me pleasure to read and look at…thank you for sharing your heart with us! I pray for you and Joe every day. Blessings, Katalin
Oh, my goodness! Is it anniversary time already! Seems like only a short time ago that we started this journey. As always, love everything you create — and, Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversaries!! Love all things Susan and would be thrilled with anything your magic had touched 🙂
Happy Anniversary!!! Love reading you blog. It puts me in such a wonderful, peaceful mood.
Happy Anniversary! I’m relatively new to your site although I have several of your cookbooks that I bought years ago as much for your beautiful illustrations as the recipes. I think the first one was your Summer cookbook. I didn’t know you began with those fantastic quilts from your grandma! I love your statement about how quilts and dishes go together!! We have lived in our Queen Anne tower home for 34 years and raised our five children here (31, 29, 23, 23 and 20). They’ve all flown the nest and none live in Indiana — but I’ve been in love with quilts since our 2nd child was a baby. I started out loving all things Amish because our lake house is on a tiny island in northern Indiana and we shopped with the Amish for kerosene since at first we didn’t have electricity. Now we do but I still love the Amish! I also love old dishes and began with just mismatched dishes with roses. Now I’m into just white ironstone. Goodwill is a Good Thing and I’ve found most there!
So, oh my goodness, I could put that fabric to good use as I’m a quilter! Anything you have designed would be treasured!
Thanks for the opportunity to enter your contest(s)! I hope I’m not too late!
Blessings,
Pam in Indiana
Absolutely gorgeous fabric….Love the colours….So romantic
What a lovely giveaway! Beautiful fabric…I still have a few FQ’s of part of a collection of yours.
Happy anniversary! Always makes my day to see a new blog post by you. I love vintage quilts. Fabulous giveaways!!!
I love your blog and enjoy your artwork so much! Thanks for doing a giveaway! Fun!
Susan, your blog added so much sunshine to my day! Thank you!! You are so right! I can see the quilt colors and the dishes in your watercolors! So inspiring!! I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE any of your gifts!!! Bless you!
Noreen [email protected]
Hello Dear Susan,
I love to lose myself in your blogposts!! I feel better and inspired after spending the time with you. Thanks for sharing so much with us!
Hi Susan,
If I need a happy fix, all I have to do is come to your blog, or look at one of your books and that takes care of it. We just got back from three weeks in Great Britain and I read A Fine Romance before we left. In fact, I took the book with me because I wanted to re-read what you experienced in some of the places we got to visit. It was wonderful!
Happy Anniversary on your blog! And thank you again for sharing your talents and personality with us.
The BEST giveaway EVAH!!! Thank you for this excellent chance to participate. Have been a fan for years.
Happy Summer…
Thanks for the chance in your fabric giveaway…oh the things I could make!
Happy Anniversary! Just finished reading A Fine Romance Loved it! Also love old quilts and china. My grandmother started a depression glass collection. And I continue to collect today. Passing on this tradition to my daughters!!
What a fun post to read and each of your giveaways are fabulous. The colors you use in your fabrics, books and calendars are perfect for my home. I am going to order the Autumn book right away. Thanks for an inspiring post, I have been a little out of it lately and I feel more like getting things done.
Hi Susan!
I have loved your version of life since I first encountered your cookbooks. I think I have every one, and now I love sharing your recipes with my daughters as they are now learning to cook (they are 10 and 12).
What a treat it would be to have some of your fabric! I wish I had known it was available years ago, for I would surely have scurried to buy it!
Best wishes on your Blog anniversary! I hope there are many more years to come filled with your stories, photos, and drawings.
Love Gladys Taber and read her books years ago! Hope you have a great weekend. Wishing I could be there for the event but I live too far away. Enjoy!!
Beautiful things!
Your blog is such a treat to read & always inspires me to make my little corner of the world a cozier, happier place. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself & your life with us!
Happy Anniversary, Susan! Your Autumn book is one of my most favorite, and I go back to it again and again. This is such a lovely give-away. I would be SO happy to win any of the offerings!
Every time I see your blog I get inspired to craft <3 Those quilts are unbelievable! So gorgeous! Thank you for all the beauty you bring to this world 🙂
WOW! Just WOW WOW WOW!!!!
Three amazing give-aways in one blog! You are a generous soul Susan <3
I love all your quilts (and you have a lot!) … I too have one from my grandma; and you've inspired me to pull it out and drape it over the foot of the bed.
Thank you for sharing your heart, your home, your talents, and your 'stash'! 🙂
What a beautiful collection of things to share with your girlfriends. You are a most generous friend. Thank you for brightening so many of my days with your always cheery, upbeat letters.
I love Susan Branch! I am a fan from way back. Thank you for sharing all the beautiful things. I love to study this blog …. it is truly a treat for the eyes and soul!!
What else can I say! I just love all your quilts and designs and artistic work. When you surround yourself with things you love, how can you not have a happy day! Thanks for being part of my happy day.
What a way to celebrate your blog anniversary Miss Susan! Your blog has been such a joy for me to look and I love it when you have a new post. You always have the loveliest pictures. Thank you for pouring yourself into it heart and soul – it shows!
What an amazing giveaway! I am so glad I did not miss it. I love everything quilty and everything Susan Branch. Plus I collect the Johnson Bros Rose Chintz china too so I love seeing your pictures of it. (even though I am a bit jealous)
Warm hugs
N.
Happy Anniversary! One of my favorite things to do is sit with a cup of tea and read your blog. It always transports me to a place of serenity and beauty.
Everything you do just makes me happy looking at it! Happy Anniversary!!
Love, love, love the quilts and the “quilt warmers” (aka your beautiful kitties)! Thank you!
Happy Anniversary to us! I have all your books, I collected them from the very beginning. Now my goal is to get them autographed!
Well. I’m late to this party. I always save your posts for when I can really enjoy them, not just read quickly and get onto the next thing. So much to savor. Quilts and dishes and fabric and tea towels and more loveliness. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity and thank you for sharing your life with us.
Hello! I love reading your blog and newsletter. And I would really love to win one of the awesome prizes you are giving away. The quilts are beautiful and remind me of my Grandma and simpler times.
Wow. When I need to feel loved I pick up one of your books. And I have some of your fabric lines and when I saw the hexi design I hope to be a lucky one as I would love to create one. Thank you for sharing your talent with us all
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That’s pretty!
What a beautiful bunch of prizes for the giveaway! Happy anniversary FOSB!
Those fabrics are to die for! I could make many lovely things from them!
I look forward to all your posts. They add a little joy to my day. Love quilts. My grandma was a quilter, I never inherited her patience for that skill. I paint instead, WATERCOLOR is my favorite. Would love to receive any of your giveaways. A pretty quilt, fabrics etc. Have a great grandchild coming in October. The fabric would be great for a special handmade gift for my first great grandchild.
I love your fabrics and your artwork!! Always feels like home.
Happy Anniversary, Susan, from Marietta, GA! And thank you for never failing to bring JOY to my heart! I kind of feel like you’re a long lost sister who I’ve not yet had the pleasure to meet in person. Hopefully, one day… 😉 I’ve enjoyed visiting Martha’s Vineyard two times. Once was with my beloved daughter Megan who was battling cancer and so yearned to see the Vineyard before she passed (at the tender age of 30). We girls had hoped to just run in to you there so that we could thank you in person for all the sweetness and beauty you had brought into our lives. This is less personal, dear heart, but please know that I thank you for all the joy, inspiration, AND comfort you’ve provided over the years! Blessings always, Mary Ann Johnson White
Just met a new friend who has promised to teach me to quilt…would love that bundled fabric♡♡♡♡
Oh my STARS, what lovely gifts. Happy Anniversary. Clearly you must know the joy you bring to all your readers. I have made quilts using your fabrics and they are the cuddely ever! I cherish every remaing scrap of your fabric. Thanks for all the smiles you bring!