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
Your website is one big smile and a hug too! Thank you for making my day joyful!
Happy Anniversary 🙂 What a blessing you are…I am inspired each time I read your blog 🙂
OH I would so love to be one of the lucky ones! Thank you for the chance and for all the beauty you create
Everything is just so…..spectacularly beautiful!
Oh where do I start…this is so exciting Susan. How good you are to your girlfriends. I cannot wait until you have Vanna pick the winners. I now own all your old books…little by little I have acquired them all and they along with my Gladys Tabor books are my treasures…I just this week tracked down the Autumn book, but NO ribbon can you tell me what color ribbon will go in the newly publshed copes? I could maybe add my own….The fabric is glorious too! I am a quilter and quilt saver…I know just how valuable they become to the special place in our Hearts Hope maybe I can be lucky and be picked for this wonderful give away…Love from Las Vegas
I love your fabrics–especially when I am teaching sewing and quilting!
Happy Anniversary…loved peeking in your cozy home! Love the quilts! Could be an addicting hobby! Jack is so adorable…sending kitty hugs!
Wish you still produced fabric as I love your designs. Love all the other things to and can’t wait for Autumn.
Hi Susan! My oldest daughter got married two weeks ago. She loves quilts and old family pictures. We hung quilts around the walls to decorate. I made quilt circles (Dresden Plate) to go on tables with old pictures and teacups. The guests signed quilt squares with their names and well wishes which we will put together as a quilt for the happy couple. Thank you for your beautiful ideas and art!
What a fabulous memory you are making Taryn!
I lived in Arroyo Grande in the early part of the decade and loved the little village. Sadly, the craft shops have gone away and with them, some of the charm. I am a scrapbooker and loved using your stickers, my two grandsons have your work in their baby albums. I love to peek in your window to see your quilts, your cats and your wonderful home. Thanks for your blog , it is so good to hear from you again!
Happy Anniversary, Susan. I’ve been with you every step of the way! And what a way to celebrate….such incredible give-aways. I hope there are many more wonderful years to come.
Reading your blog always gives glimpses of the happiness that is ours to enjoy everyday. Nature provides the palate of colors and you show us how to appreciate it!
Happy Anniversary !! Hop there are many more to come!!
Susan, looking back like that you must be so proud of all you’ve accomplished! My friend makes sure I get at least one of your books to add to my library a year, not to mention one your beautiful patterns for my sewing room.
This giveaway is wonderful idea for a treat, especially since I rarely get to see your fabric up here in Ontario, Canada.
Colleen
P.S. Glad to see the big calendar is back! My fridge is bare without it!
Happy Anniversary! Reading your new blog posts is one of my favorite things to do.
LOVED reading your new book “A Fine Romance”!
We’ve started saving for our trip!
Dear Susan, Happy Anniversary of your blog. I am so excited to see every nook of your home esp. your quilts. I’m a quilter and I have some of your original fabric and just love all your designs. I think it would be fabulous if you came out with another line,it would be out of the stores in a heart beat. Happy Summer
Hi Susan,
Once again, you have inspired me. I can’t wait to get to the fabric store to start working on recovering my outdoor furniture cushions and my kitchen chairs. But, I don’t think I will find anything as nice as your fabrics.
~Carolyn
What a lovely way to celebrate your anniversary…always thinking of us! Thank you for all the lovely photos you share with us. Your collection of quilts is just beautiful. I especially love the photos of your quilts hanging on the line. My maternal grandmother was an avid quilter but both my grandmothers had passed by the time I was 6. My Mom was never crafty (although she could sew) so I had to learn to quilt from classes. Would have loved to have learned at her knee. All the give-aways are so very special and we would be blessed to receive anyone of them. Thanks again for thinking of us and look forward to seeing who the lucky ladies will be. Happy Anniversary!!!!
I would love to win. Your website and blog are wonderful. Thanks for doing them. They are so pretty and informative. I have a fat quarter pack of your Tea Party fabric and, for some reason, I have not been able to cut it. I look at it many times but I just can’t pull it apart and cut. I guess I am a hoarder.
Hi Susan, I love to read your blog. It always make me smile. It also makes me want to create something fun and pretty. We also have a boy kitty that looks just like Girl kitty. His name is Pete. Thank you for your blog
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! What a joy it has been to follow your delightful blog. So glad you decided to “go live”!!
Thank you so much for including us in your Anniversary Celebration! You are a “soul friend” to so many of us…I am fortunate to have discovered you and your lovely books and art! I found my first Beatrix Potter figurine, Sally Henny Penny, at a church tag sale two weeks ago… It was an unexpected find and made my weekend! Thanks again for being you and graciously sharing so much of your life with us!
Many best wishes for your anniversary! I know we all love you and all your sweet things you do for all us girls! Like everyone else I would love any of the giveaways!!!
Hugs
June Greetings Susan!
And congratulations on celebrating your two anniversaries! You must feel so proud at all that you have accomplished and I am selfishly so thrilled to be one of your “girlfriends”. Your blogs are like little gems of your life that are to be read over and over again and cherished!
Your recent blogs have been so wonderful and I do love your quilt collection photos as I, too, collect antique quilts and display them around our house like you do. And, I also am addicted to those Rose Chintz dishes and Emma Bridgewater’s pottery! Help!!!
Have a wonderful summer Susan and thanks again for sharing your life with us!!
Michele
You must be on cloud nine! Almost 3000 comments on your lovely blog post. So colorful and detailed. Congratulations on five years…and on everything else wonderful in your life.
Love seeing pictures of your home. My heart is in New England. Loved A Fine Romance so much that I kept my copy and bought two for gifts. Love visiting your blog…it’s impossible to be sad or cranky when you come here!
Thank you.
Bobbi
Happy anniversary! Love your work. It is amazing! Awesome giveaways!
Susan–You are the best! Congratulations on your anniversaries!! I’m a faithful reader of your blog and share your passion for linens, glassware, dishes, aprons, flowers and all things girly. It is so fun to read the chatty comments and beautiful, inspiring photos on your blog. I wish you many more years of doing what you love!
I love the pictures of all those beautiful quilts. I have one that my grandmother made many years ago, it has butterflies all over it. It is very heavy and my mother used it on her own bed years ago.
Happy Blog O’ Versary and Many More!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking through your blog reminds me of my childhood with my mom. The quilts and plates, etc. bring me back to those days. I was young when my parents died, but the memories are still in my head! Thank you for helping me turn back time.
oh susan, what lovely giveaways! and no gladys taber books? ah well, i don’t blame you….thanks for being a color inspiration and the artist i wish i could be….
This is a great opportunity for someone whose favorite color is yellow. For a long time I switched my favorite color after being told that yellow indicates a nervous, anxious person. Now at almost 63, I love yellow…..oh, I’m neither nervous or anxious! (Big smile)
Happy Anniversary, Susan, & thank you for all the pleasure you give us, your readers. Your foxgloves are wonderful – we only have the ordinary purple ones – I tried to grow pink & white ones, but without success.
It was a treat to see your quilt collection, thank you, & thank you for your generosity.
I usually find your blog peaceful, comforting and inspiring…..but THIS TIME, my heart started beating a little faster and the adrenaline started pumping! Quilts, fabric, painting, colors, calendars, Autumn! All my favorite buzzwords and passions! I love to hear where your inspiration comes from…thank you for sharing so openly with your heart on your sleeve.
Love, love, love it all. I have been reading and collecting your books for years. My sister once went to a booking signing in Illinois for me (I lived in Washington) and she called me and you talked to me for a bit. Still a highlight. She even had Joe sign my book also. 🙂 Thank you for the many years of love and inspiration. ❤️
How I love gardens, dishes and fabrics! You hit all of my favorites in this post.
Please Vanna, pick me! What a giveaway! Love your blog, Susan.
Susan, your blog is so delightful! Thank you for blessing us these last past years. Happy Anniversary to you! Thank you for offering this giveaway. Good luck everyone!
My Friend introduced me to your blog and your books and ever since then I have been everything Susan Branch! I was able to get a lot of the bucks on eBay and I am very happy with them and love paging through them. I am excited to enter this giveaway.
Loved looking at all the quilts! I would love to win the fabrics to make one of my own.
Susan, your giveaway is wonderful!
The lamb fabric is adorable, and I love the fat quarters, I love looking at my calendars every day! You are so talented, I wish I was blessed with your artist’s gift. Have funnest week! 🙂
It is so much fun to see all the pretty quilts. Wish I could see them in your home. Love the blog posts.
Just love all of your treasures. The quilt looks like dogwood flowers to me, one of my favorites. And one can never have too much fabric!
Congratulations on your anniversaries!! Your giveaways are always the best!
Such lovely giveaways! What a privilege it would be to be the happy owner of such rare Susan Branch treats ! Thank you for parting with these! Bless you, Laura
Happy Anniversary!!! Thank you for the beautiful pictures of your quilts and kitties–lovely as always 🙂
Have a good summer!
Pick me!! Lol Happy Anniversury!! Everything you do is so wonderful and inspiring!! Thank you so much for your commitment to giving us amazing things and words!
Wow! Thank you for sharing such treasures. I love your blog and your artwork. You are such a charming treasure and a joy to “know”. I always hope to win, like so many others do, but it’s so nice that we all win by getting to be “girlfriends”. Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!
Pick me!! Lol Happy Anniversary!! Everything you do is so wonderful and inspiring!! Thank you so much for your commitment to giving us amazing things and words!
Ooooh what a wonderful giveaway! Happy Anniversary!
I have a bit of each of your fabrics, and I just haven’t been able to cut into them quite yet. In my last house I had curtains of the watercolor fabric – I designed them and my mother sewed them up for me because she is amazing like that. They are the green stripe with the border pattern that says flowers flowers flowers and has a picket fence. I’ve just moved into a new house and haven’t decided where to hang them yet… so now that I’m in my long term house and settled, I plan to make lots of Susan Branch quilted placemats, a quilt, and maybe more curtains…. you are a treasure, and it’s such a joy to have those beautiful fabrics. I hope that someday you’ll make some more fabric, it’s truly a joy to surround myself with your artwork!
Whoever wins the giveaways will be so very lucky – is it tacky to say that I hope it’s me?
Susan,
I love you sharing your inspiration for your designs–fabric, tins, etc. Thanks and Happy Blogaversary!!
Fabric calls my name…….must touch…………
I can spell.. I swear!! Lolo
Count me IN! I love your blog and I have a set of Rose Chintz dishes too! Delicious give-aways, as usual. Vanna, pick me! ;))
Hi Susan and a Happy Anniversary, not only for you but more for us. You have made me look at the world through different eyes. What wonderful beauty abounds. The give-aways, as always, are fabulous. Thank you for all the great things you do and show us. What a way to see the world. Have fun on your next adventure!!
Stephanie
I love everything you create but especially the fabric! Happy Anniversary ♥
I always leave your blog with a smile and a refreshed spirit! Thank you so much, Susan, for sharing your life with us “girlfriends.” No one has as beautiful a blog as you! I thoroughly enjoy Jack and Girl Kitty’s antics portrayed in your snapshots– they always warm my heart. We have two of our own (tee, hee)–both of which have us wrapped around their cute little paws!
Hi Susan and Happy Anniversary to one of my favorite blogs and artist! Love your work mostly because you are so inspiring and such a positive ray of sunshine in this crazy world we live in. Thank you for your books, art, and blog!
Happy Anniversary! And what a wonderful way to celebrate!!! Wonderful give aways…and cake…is there cake??? One must have cake!!!
I love your watercolours. How I would just love to win anything at all written, painted or loved by Susan Branch. Maybe I will be lucky. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Happy Anniversary Susan! Your blog is such a delight to read, just regular everyday things that you have a way of making extra special. I am currently on vacation but so glad I checked in to see what was going on in the wonderful life of Susan Branch.
Happy Anniversary!!! I have truly enjoyed your blog and all of your other work for many years. I love the fabric, quilts and dishes. Thank you for the generous gifts.
My mother makes art with all her heart, specifically quilts. I am the eldest of the nine children who are blessed to call her Mom. I would love to win the fabrics to pass on to her and encourage her creative endeavors!
What could I say but Love You Big! You have made my little world much bigger and brighter. I am calling you my friend from now on. Glad you were blessed with so much you just had to share!
YES!!!…I’m in! I’m entered!…it’s exciting just being here!
I have loved you forever! YOU are truly an inspiration…so blessed with happiness
and joy…and we get the overflow! I’m imagining winning…wildly wielding scissors, scraps of fabric, or paper flying everywhere…I might twirl around in the honeybee fabric so fast I’ll become the new bolt!..Oh, what a cute little tent we could make to nap in…with lots of fat quarter pillows, softened and sweetly scented with your island air. Promise me, if I win the quilt, you’ll hang it on your clothesline for a week before you send it! ~love u
What a thoughtful way to celebrate an anniversary! I *love* your art, your style, and your generosity. I visited your store in Arroyo Grande many times and was so sad when it closed. You had an O’Keefe and Merritt stove in pristine condition in your store at one time that I drooled over! Sooooo reminded me of the stove my Grandma used when I was young. Thanks again for this opportunity!!
Wow! What wonderful give-aways! I am just getting back into quilting after 20+ years of raising my children and getting back into the work world. My first quilt? For my soon to be first grand-baby! What a joy to pick out fabrics for her. Scrapbooking? I do that too, and we used your papers and recipe cards for my daughter’s bridal shower -and created a wonderful keepsake cookbook of favorite family and friend recipes! You are such a creative inspiration!
I love June and maybe it is because it is my birthday month (Flag Day as a matter of fact)! Finding your blog and facebook page has been like coming back to an old friend. I seem to have lost you for a while but so happy to have found you again. Thank you for going to all the trouble to give three of your readers such lovely gifts! I wish the best for everyone but can not think what a wonderful birthday it would be for me to win, too.
I have a serious passion for quilting and would LOVE to have the chance to work with your gorgeous fabrics!! Or an original Susan Branch Quilt?? Be still my heart! What a lovely post and a look back! Thanks for the chance!
Oh boy, over 2800 comments… the odds are against me. Still, congratulations on your anniversaries! I love to read your blog, newsletters and books! Makes me wish I could only once see the beauty of Martha’s vineyard and your view of the USA. Ah, maybe one day 😉
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful and unique view of the world!
Marjolein
Susan, your blogs posts and your pictures just always make me SMILE and give me a happy feeling inside…Thank You!!!
Susan,
Thank you for continuing to bring joy and for providing delicious eye candy through your blogging and store. I look forward to reading your Blog, it is like getting away to a secret hiding place. Please know that we support and appreciate all you give of yourself. Hope your Summer brings many new experiences. Oh, create wonderful memories at the Gladys Taber event.
Happy Anniversary! Love how your light just keeps on shining–‘let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!!’ (musica)
Hi Susan I have never won anything in my life that I remember but I am leaving a comment anyway…………I admire your work and adore the book A Fine Romance. I am English and so it captivated me, I have gone back through it several times. You do what I can only dream of doing. I love to paint and blog and quilt, so naturally I am a follower of yours. I would love to know what the water colour paints are that are pictured above.
All the best Janice
I’m in a funny place and can’t see which ones they are right now, but if you go to About Me on the top of the blog, you’ll see a post about watercolors . . . learning to paint. One of those will have the paints I use. Hope this helps Janice!
Happy Anniversary! You already give us so much joy with your art and your blog…we should be giving gifts to you! That would be overwhelming…huh! Can you imagine millions of your fan sending you fat quarters??? Heh, heh, heh…ok, so I have a whacky sense of humor! So glad you are around to brighten my day! Thank you for all the celebrating with the very cool quilt fabrics and artwork (who sez they cannot be framed?)…if there is a will, there is a way…hummmmmmm!
Your art, and books gives me such joy. Thank you for sharing your God given talent with us. I have your “A Fine Romance” book on my coffee table along with some English cottages I picked up when we lived in England. Brings a smile to my heart every day. <3 God bless.
It is all awesome eye candy that goes straight to the heart!!
Oh, Susan, what a wonderful giveaway. I am a quilter and would love to be one of the winners. I tried to find your tea party fabrics when they came out in the fabric stores, but could only get one of the fabrics in the line. Of course, I bought a few yards of it. As I said, I’m a quilter, I had too 😉 How exciting it would be to win all those lovely fabrics and make a beautiful quilt!! But, just so you know, I would also love to win the quilts or the calendars. Thank you, Susan!
Congratulations on the Anniversaries, Susan. You are such an inspiration to me. I am so happy every time I read anything of yours!! Thank you for being “YOU”! God Bless you and Joe!
Oh! How exciting! I would be thrilled to win any of your beautiful offerings! I am new to quilting, so I would love the fabrics. But than again, the quilts, the book,…..I love it all!
Susan, I have followed you for so many years. My love for you and your love for the dear author, Gladys Taber is something that we both share.
I would love the chance to win any of the lovely items in your drawings.
Happy Anniversary…see how easy that was 🙂
Ohh dear what lovely things you are giving away this time, love all of them and would be thrilled to win just one.
You flowers are so pretty, I have planted two foxglove but they aren’t doing much yet, will keep my fingers crossed that I get some blossoms.
Happy Summer!
Wonderful giveaway! I truly have loved your work from the beginning! The quilt is beautiful!
Happy Anniversary…… Oh Susan, you are so sweet! Besides the loving souls that reside in a home,(and the kitchen table) a quilt is the one item that comforts generations and shares the years with them. I love that you shared all the different patterns, dresden is my favorite pattern, which is funny because I heard it was named for a city in Germany. I was born in Germany when my father was in the Army..Again, Happy Anniversary!
Hi Susan,
What a wonderful drawing! Any of your creative items would be a fabulous gift! My Mom purchase one of your cookbooks for me, signed by you, when you were in Santa Barbara for the CALM Author’s Luncheon years ago. I still have it. Maybe you should consider a return trip, as the Author’s Luncheon continues to be a very popular fund raiser for CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation). I also saw you at the Remnants of the Past show a couple of years ago. I will be in Martha’s Vinyard for a vacation tour with a girlfriend in September and we hope to stop in to your shop. Love Jack, he looks like my Sam’s cousin!
Love CALM, hope to do that again one day!
Happy anniversary! So excited about the Autumn book! And your fabric is fabulous!!!!!!!!
Greetings, and Happy Anniversary! What a joy it would be to win any of the prizes you have thoughtfully selected. Almost 10 weeks ago I became a grandmother for the very first time! <3 Elanor Joanna would love a quilt made from the lovely fabrics, or a calendar for her wall, and even a ready-made quilt signed by Y-O-U! Fingers crossed! Thanks!
Hi Susan!
Love your blog and all of your wonderful creations! I have a new niece that I’d love to make a quilt with those fabrics! The yellow is so happy! Thank you for the chance to win!
Katie
Just love your blog and all that you do! Love Martha’s Vineyard but haven’t been there for a few years. Have one of your books, Vineyard Seasons, which I bought from the wonderful bookstore in Vineyard Haven!
I would absolutely love to have my name picked…what wonderful fabric goodies to win…thank you for the opportunity! I so enjoy reading your blog….I have so many of your books and have given quite a few as gifts…some of my friends I have given “Girlfriends and
to my daughter I have given Autumn and others…
I have started to make some quilts about 2 years ago and I simply love it!
Happy Anniversary, Susan! Thanks for all you do to make our days brighter!
Hi Susan –
You are a wonder, you just sparkle with creativity. I love reading your blog so much and all of the wonderful pictures that you share with us. I feel like I’ve actually been to your house and sat in your kitchen with Jack and Girl-Kitty peeking over your shoulder and watching you whip up something wonderful. The little things on your window sill tickle me and I drool over your gorgeous vintage stove. You take me on walks with you thru your garden in the spring to see what glorious surprise has popped up out of the ground. I’m able to view your neighbors place thru frosty window panes in the winter. I picture myself napping with Peter Rabbit in that special little room you have upstairs. Don’t even get me started on the trip to Beatrix Potter’s house or what it was like driving the hedge lined country roads in Britain. I’ll never live to go there but because of your lovely spirit and willingness to share I feel like I was actually there. So you see, I’m living a bit vicariously thru you and it’s fun! Thank you so much, Happy Anniversary, I hope the journey never ends. XX00 Linda
So many gorgeous happy things!! Thank you Susan~ you are always so generous and your blog makes me smile any time I read it 🙂 Blessings!
Love those old-fashioned quilts! My mother was an expert quilter and I and my two sisters have the quilts among us. We were very fortunate and blessed to have the Mom and Dad we had. I love old dishes also. Especially the chintz dishes of which I have a collection of. Like to look at them, they’re so “happy”!
In fact, I hope to find some on my way to FOGT Reunion. My sister and I will start out tomorrow. Can’t wait to see you there Susan!
A lovely post, as usual. I just love fabric! (That was a hint, Vanna!)
Happy Summer, Susan and Joe!
I’ve enjoyed your artwork for years, and am so happy to now enjoy your blog, and wonderful pictures and stories, also! Thank you!
Love the fabrics!!! And your quilts! Just divine!! Katry