Good Morning, Quilters!
I have been absent from blogging for quite awhile and I want to thank all of you who sent messages hoping I was well….
I can assure you, I have been quite well–though often quite tired!
The last few months have been busier than usual. I have so much to tell and share–sewing, quilting, creative projects galore!
(Get ready because I have a lot of projects, sew-a-longs, exciting news for YOU!)
And I’ve also been busy with FAMILY…
Faye’s Wedding!
EDITOR’S NOTE-This post is overflowing with gushing statements by an emotional and very proud mama–and includes asking a favor of YOU!
Faye and Steve were married on Saturday at the 100 year old, Basilica of St. Mary’s in Minneapolis followed by a lovely evening of dinner and dancing at the historical Minneapolis Club.
Family and Friends
Family and friends watched as Faye and Steve exchanged vows, then celebrated with them as they danced their first dance as a married couple!
Send Faye and Steve a Note!
The Happy Couple is honeymooning on Kauai. I imagine they are drinking pina coladas and rehabbing their dancing feet in the sandy shores right now!
Please help me surprise them on their return….
Wouldn’t it be fun to flood their mailbox with postcards and notes from ALL the readers from all the countries of LKQ!?!!!
If YOU have time, please drop the couple a note:
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Janke
c/o Lori Kennedy Quilts
PO Box 423
Bayport, MN 55003
New Year
I hope 2020 is filled with love and happiness for all the readers of Lori Kennedy Quilts!
And I hope you will follow along as we fill the year with machine quilting, sewing, creativity, projects, books, tutorials, videos and so much more!
Cheers!
One Proud Mama
Lori
79 comments
Joanne
I can certainly see why you are so proud…what a lovely couple and the photos tell what a beautiful and memorable wedding day they had.
Shari
Congratulations!
Susan Cohen-Pessah
Congratulations to all!! What a lovely moment in time.
cyndy
Congrats! Everyone looks fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing and looking forward to all your exciting news!
kathleen
Great photos Lori! Thanks for sharing! Welcome back….
Raewyn
Congratulations to you all!! You have been busy! I too thought I must have dropped off the subscribers’ list but checked, and guessed (hoped) you were on an extended Christmas break! Postcard in today’s post 🙂
Pat Crawford
Having met Faye at JCCNSchool last fall, I can attest she is as lovely inside as out. Best wishes to a long and happy marriage—especially with the support of this loving family.❤️
Cindy Anderson
Beautiful!
patricia
Félicitations aux jeunes mariés. Merci de nous faire partager ces moments magnifiques. Vous avez une belle famille.
J’ai marié ma fille cet été dans le Verdon (Sud de la France), au milieu des champs de lavande. Un vrai bonheur.
Comme souhaité je vous transmets une carte postale du Pradet, où je réside.
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Lavender fields!? What a lovely setting for a wedding! I’m sure it was beautiful! Thank you for sending a card. I’m sure they will love greetings from France!
Mary Kay Finn
Takes my breath away – how darling your daughter looks in the first photo – and everyone looks so excited and happy for the newlyweds. I can only imagine how beautiful the wedding and reception were in that beautiful church and the traditional club. So glad you took time off to enjoy this very special time in your life -spending precious time planning with your daughter. Congratulations and blessings to the new couple!
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Thank you Mary Kay! It was a very elegant event indeed. And my feet have mostly recovered!
Marta
The first photo posted above of the bride in her dress really took my breath away. She
is beautiful and the dress very exquisite. The couple looks so happy ! So sorry your mom missed it. We all have folks we miss during holidays and important family events. Congratulations and more blessings to all of you!
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Thank you Marta! I’m pretty sure my Mom was present!
And how are you?
Marta
Doing good, thank you! Just sewing all the time. Chemo maintenance will be finished in Sept. So good to turn into 2020 and look forward to that finish. Get you some well earned rest now…go to bed before falling asleep on the keyboard! (advice from an old gramma!)
auntiepatch69
You have a daughter old enough to get married?!?!? Congrats to all of you!
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Lololol!
Carol
Congratulations to the happy couple and all the family. Everything looks lovely.
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Thank you!
Darlene TaylorDarlene
An absolutely gorgeous wedding and beautiful couple. Congrats to both sets of parents! I am so glad you are back, but family time, especially celebrations like this are so important. Glad you were able to be present and unconnected – that is – completely present in the present! Missed your blog but looking forward for the posts to come. Now that you are a magazine contributor, will you cut back a bit on blog posts? I love your posts!
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Hi Darlene. Thank you for your kind words. As for being a magazine contributor- do you mean with American Quilter Magazine? I have been a contributor for a number of years- but I’m always in the back of the magazine. The best way to read The magazine is to flip it over and read it from the back lolol
Jeanne
Congratulations! A beautiful bride, groom and family. Looking forward to what you have to share.
Maureen B. in B.C.
Faye glowed. Her gown and shrug were beautiful, but the glow came from within. She’s a beautiful woman, and no woman looks more beautiful than on her wedding day, because of the glow. It’s a combination of happiness, wonderment, knowledge, amazing luck to find just the right partner in all this world, dreams, and a touch of sweetness to finish off. Faye had it all. You also had some of each of those, along with the sigh of relief that it’s all come off swimmingly. You’re a very lucky woman to have so much family and love around you. Now you can put your feet up and recover. We won’t expect much from you for a while yet.
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Thank you Maureen! Your description is spot on!
deiselrn
Congratulations! So glad you’re back.
Susan J
Was thinking of you this week and realized we had not heard from you for a long while. I thought maybe I had accidentally unsubscribed. Lol After a little more thinking It came to mind that your daughter was getting married and you’d not be blogging for awhile. Glad you are back. What beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing with us! I’m sure you had a wild and wonderful time. Many memories made. Looking forward to seeing what’s in store next!
Holly Ann
Same thing with me, Susan. Began wondering if my subscription had failed with the new website format when I saw Lori’s heart motif posted on Bernina’s “We All Sew” site. Now I know.
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Sorry! I should have sent a “wedding vacation” post- but honestly it just crept up on me!
thebiasedge
Congratulations ! 🙂
QuiltShopGal
Congratulations to you and your extended family, especially the newlyweds. Wedding photos look stunning.
You probably already know, but there is a Hawaiian tradition where the first quilt made for them is supposed to be a Breadfruit Quilt (I have ours on our bed right now and we’ve been married almost 33 years). Maybe you can create a FMQ Breadfruit motif?
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Oh dear! I’m already behind on three wedding quilts. Perhaps a breadfruit pillow?
Sally
Congrats! How exciting!
Rita S
Lori Congratulations to all of you. It takes the whole family to make such happy memories. Hope you can sit back and relax a little.
Marianne
Congratulations to the newly weds! Highly recommend a visit to Po’ipu Beach Park. Our favorite spot to catch a basking Monk Seal on Kauai’s south shore!
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Thank you. I passed this on to the happy couple!
Deborah Buckley
Beautiful pictures of a beautiful couple. Can’t understand why you were so busy.😊
Rebecca Andrews
So happy for your family!!!! Faye looks radiant–love her dress and yours!!! Looks like a beautiful event. Congratulations!!!!
Mary G
We had a family wedding at the basilica last August – it is a beautiful setting for the start of their new life together. God bless…
Cheri
Congratulations to the happy couple! Having gone through 3 daughters weddings I understand the hours and hours of time that go into this celebration as you do.
Rest up a little and then show us what you have! (In new motifs)❤️
SC New Quilter
What a wonderful reason to be gone…Congrats to the happy couple and also congrats to the very happy parents!! Everyone looked exquisite! So glad to have you back and look forward to what you have in store for us!! The pictures were just lovely!!
Suzanne
I WAS a bit worried…but delighted at the reason why you were so quiet.
Your photos are exquisite and everyone looks happy, perhaps with the exception of your husband? If he’s like my sweet hubby, sometimes I have to drag a smile out of him. (I think it’s his Marine Corp training).
I LOVE the elegant simplicity of Faye’s wedding gown as well as the gorgeous dark green bridesmaid’s dresses. Less is definitely so much more! Often a bride selects such an elaborate dress that it overshadows how lovely she is herself. I think that’s a shame. I made my daughter’s gown 26 years ago (I decided never to make another-it’s too much work!) and she insisted on so much “frou-frou” that I didn’t like it at all. But she was happy and that’s all that really mattered.
And is that a rabbit fur shrug Faye’s wearing in the first picture? She looks adorable in it. I wore one of those to a prom when I was a teenager MANY years ago.
Congratulations and best wishes all of you!!
Adele
Georgous wedding and fabulous photos! Congratulations and Blessings to the couple!
Gayle O’Grady
Congratulations!! What a beautiful wedding! I did miss you a lot but have to say that you have given me enough inspiration for a long time. Now I can keep myself busy enough to allow for your occasional break from blogging. Lol.
Elle
Congratulations! What a beautiful wedding. Will send a card from my neck o’ the woods!
Janette
Congrats to you and your family.
Your pictures are amazing.
Looking forward to all your coming tutorials!
God Bless
Kari
God’s blessing on your family and wedding. The bride’s dress simply elegant and classy.
Betty Monroe
I have missed you and so glad the reason was a family wedding. Lovely photos congrats to the couple! I am in Florida for the winter will return to Minnesota in May. Had to escape the Minnesota winter…
Lori
We are frequent visitors to Kauai and know the kids are having a wonderful time. Lots of wishes for a lifetime of love, health and happiness!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you! Any special places I can tell them to find on Kauai?
Janice King
Congratulations on your new addition to your family!!! Beautiful bride and lovely wedding photos!!!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you, Janice!
kate brousseau
Congratulations to the couple (posting a card today!) and to you, Lori, as well as all the family. Happy New Decade!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Happy New Decade to YOU! And thanks for posting a card–they’ll love it!
bumblebeebarb
Thank you sharing your happy news and all those wonderful photos ! Congratulations and best wishes to one and all!
Now to go find a note card…
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you! and thanks for sending a card!
Judy
Congratulations to all! Our daughter was married end of December so I hear you when you say you were happy, busy and TIRED! Congratulations, again, to all.
Vicki
Congratulations to all! Great job, Mom! Love that wedding dress, too. Faye looks very happy! Her eyes are sparkling.
Rosemaryflower
WOW Beautiful wedding.
Congratulations to the lovely couple. Beautiful pictures
Congratulations to all of your family
Rose Landon
Glad your back but family always first and such a celebration. Congratulations to all!
gloria olson
Congrats! yes, it’s a lovely church and… what a lovely name…my sister married a Janke 🙂 blessings to all!!!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
That’s so funny! Perhaps they’re related!!!
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so glad you’re back, i’ve missed you in my in box, mazel tov on the new couple, glad you were able to have joyous family time.
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you! It’s good to be missed too!
Elizabeth Fketcher
Wonderful pictures. Congratulations to everyone.
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you, Elizabeth! It was a wonderful weekend!
Karen
Wow!! Getting a daughter wed is a job in itself…. What a happy couple….wishing them the best….
Now some rest for the Mom!!!
Can’t wait to see what you have coming up….
Just love your site!!
Karen
Lori Kennedy Quilts
I’m so happy that you are excited about the things to come! I’m excited to be back at my desk blogging and at my sewing machine too!
Di Gross
Sooooo lovely! Thanks for sharing this wonderful day for your family! Is this your last wedding? I loved the last wedding when you shared a picture of your sweet Mother. Looking forward to the coming year!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Thank you so much, Di! My five daughters are all married–just my son left–but I’m hoping that will be in the next decade LOL!
Louise
What beautiful photos, church and venue! You look as lovely as the bride herself! Glad you are back and all is well! L
Lori Kennedy Quilts
YOU are so kind! Thank you Louise!
Susan Coolidge
What a lovely couple!
Lori Kennedy Quilts
Indeed! Thank you!
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