Quilt Retreats

So how can anything be more fun?  Time spent with friends, doing something you love, a great work space and good food.

Some of the Variable Stars spend the weekend at the Hankard Inn at Pleasant Lake.  A few friends and relatives were also included.  There was scrapbooking, quilting and painting going on, lots and lots of conversation, naps, late nights and just time to decompress.

I got back our last mystery quilt from Wendy who quilted it for me.  This time I decided to go with some brights, quite different from my usual civil war reproductions.

I also finished putting borders on a mystery quilt from a couple of years ago.  I would never have thought of using greens and purples together, they just weren't in my pallet but I always enjoyed quilts at guild guild that were that color combination.  So for this mystery I decided to try green and purple.  I think it turned out good.  Looking forward to seeing what Wendy does with it. I think the pattern was called inlaid tiles.

I had planned to work on a quilt for my nephew, Darryl, this weekend but left behind my background fabric.  So I sewed as far as I could get with the fabric I had with me.  This quilt is a great scrap user.  It's going to be a queen size so I have a LOT of blocks left to make.

Last of all, in the box I took with my projects in were a bunch of 4 inch squares that I had cut after making a floral quilt for my sister-in-law.  They were all soft, faded looking florals.  I had along a medium green fabric that I had bought so I figures I would just sew the square with a narrow 1 1/2 inch sashing between and see how far I got.  Ran out of the green.  I have one more column to add, I think, the sashing horizontally and then a border.  I think this will be for my great niece, Molly.



Finally just a few pictures of some of the girls ladies at work.

Doesn't everyone look serious?  Nose to the grindstone.

Finally a couple of TA-DA's  Becky and Roxie finished a couple of projects.

Becky's finished quilt

Roxie's son-in-law's tee shirt quilt

Now, back to the work that pays the bills tomorrow. Updates on Molly and Darryl's quilts coming up.