What happens at retreat, stays at retreat...but I can tell you this much

I had a terrific time. The Kincardine Sunset Quilters Guild booked the Crieff Hills Centre for a 2 1/2 day retreat. We arrived Tuesday morning and left Thursday afternoon. We all brought projects to work on. Each person had their own table. Irons were set up in the hall outside the sewing room. We were bunked in at two to a room.The food was great and the company was even better. This is me at show and tell. On the design wall behind me is a lap size double slice quilt top and I am holding up a tiny bricks baby size quilt. I got four tops assembled at the retreat. The blocks were done and I had laid them out in rows before going, so the sewing was pretty mindless. Also got a start on the Braille Quilt Along. Thanks to all the organizers for a wonderful time. that being said we thought we should be somewhat circumspect when describing the experience so we would not have too much competition for the limited number of spots next year. Yes, next year is booked already. Piecefully, Joanne

This is how we tie one on, well maybe knot

These are two of the five quilts we tied at Scrapbag Quilters yesterday. The top one is all wild and bright polka dot fabrics. The lower picture is a double slice from the Missouri Star You tube video. I made the kits up for that workshop. We had a good day. We are all up to date with our quilts. We donated just over 190 this year and we have a dozen in reserve for January for emergencies. Our ten year total is close to 1200 donated. I am on for February so I need to get my thinking cap on for an idea and I need to start getting my kits ready. Piecefully, Joanne

Medium size double slice

I finished this little baby size quilt recently. It is another double slice style/pattern. I started with 7" blocks because that is what the scraps would allow. It is bright and cheerful and with a soft blue flannel backing it will keep some baby warm at night.

Not many finishes recently as we have been dealing with far too many health issues and our planned trip to the Netherlands is off.

Double the laughs with Double Slice

No pictures today to protect the identities of the "guilty" parties. What a day we had at Scrapbag Quilters yesterday! We got a good start right at 9:00. I had two sample quilts to show the pattern. I posted pictures of these a couple of weeks ago. I explained how to do the block, showed it with a sample and handed out written and pictorial instructions. All I can say is then let the fun begin. By the end of the afternoon we were giggling something fierce and suggesting that "mistake" was variation 10. We doubled the salary of our presser when we doubled her responsibilities and added quality control to her title.
All in good fun and we finished the day with 5 good size quilt tops either assembled or almost assembled. Mine is to the blocks stage but I had other things to do so did not get as much sewing in as I had thought I might.
Next month we are having a finish up day where we will work on kits that have been made for other times and not yet completed. Joanne