Two Retreats!

What a week I had----full of fun and quilting!  Two retreats in one week.  Monday through Wednesday was spent with the girls from Sit and Sew.  A day off on Thursday to do laundry.  And on Friday off to another retreat with the girls I have met online--the DFW Gang.

The top three pics are from the first retreat and the bottom two from the second retreat.  Both facilities were wonderful.  Create-A-Way near Collinsville and Rayline's Retreat in Springtown.  The second facility had a family of ducks that even came up and tapped on the door for us to come out and feed them---we had a good laugh at them!

It was so much fun laughing and talking to everyone.  What nice ladies go to these retreats.  Now it's back to the mundane, everyday tasks.  Doing lots of laundry to catch up today.  Even though I have to brag, my hubby did laundry while I was gone and *gasp*  he made out the menus for the meals this week AND went grocery shopping for them!  He is a keeper!  After 44 years, he still gets my vote!!!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Retreat!

It was a smaller in number group than usual, but we still managed to get a lot done in the quilt department!  I've chosen just a few pictures of quilts to show you----in some cases, it's just pieces of quilt tops, but they are well on their way!

The first picture shows Dequita with her barn quilt center block.  Her barns quilt is really looking good!
Next is Elaine's music baby quilt---her pattern---isn't it neat?  Third, is JoAnn's Snowball quilt.  Love the colors in this one.
Fourth is my little quilt called "Urban Cabins" from Atkinson patterns.  I was lucky enough to win the  red FQs lotto game and since I had the pattern with me I decided to use those red FQs right away.

Next are Ruby and Jackie's "starts" to beautiful quilts.  Don't remember the names of these.  Sorry!

Last is Elaine's Lover's Knot using a Eleanor Burns pattern.  Deborah did some stars in blues and reds that were pretty, but I was unable to get a picture of those.  Isn't it fun to see what everyone else is doing?

Have a great week-end!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

What I did over summer vacation....

I went to a fabulous 3 day retreat and had a ball. We arrived at Create-Away Cottage around Noon on Monday and got moved in and set up, ate our brown bag lunch and started in sewing. We stopped for supper and then sewed some more. I did make 2 trips to the local quilt store....what a fun place to look and buy fat quarters and a quilt kit that was 1/2 price--just couldn't resist! Then more sewing and chatting and eating! I finished my Grandmother Flower Garden wall hanging, 4 Yellow Brick Roads for Operation Hope (a charity that one of the other girls is working with) and a square of redwork. It was a very very productive 3 days for me! I was very happy! We left at 3:00 on Wednesday afternoon feeling very satisfied.

Create Away Cottage was such a wonderful place to hold a retreat--lots of lighting and lots of space to work--we each had our own big table to spread out on, and there were 2 cutting table and 2 big board ironing tables. The sleeping accommodations were lovely. We brought our own food that our dear, fearless leader had planned ahead of time and we each had signed up for--that worked out very well and everything tasted so good!!! All in all a wonderful place to get away for three days. Of course I thought the company of women I was with were excellent!!!! Such nice people! Everyone should go on at least one retreat in a lifetime!!!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan