Friday, February 26, 2010

Retreat 2010-last of the quilts

Thought I got them all in the last one, but found a couple more photos! I really had a lot of fun this year and can't believe how many of the little projects I got done. Was a great way to work even though I didn't have any big quilts to show. I need another retreat to get the purses/bags done for people!







Retreat 2010-More quilts

More quilts:






















Retreat 2010-Other people stuff!

Wow - 31 people can do amazing things! I don't know most of the names. I sometimes wish we'd wear badges. But all are wonderful and friendly and helpful and creative....



I HAVE to make one of these! I wanted to go to the guild meeting, but it's hard for me during the day.



This lady is awesome! She helped me at my first retreat when I ran out of binding on my cousin's baby quilt. Her guild has donated more than 40,000 quilts to Project Linus!




From Marti Michell templates.


Same quilter, also from Marti Michell templates. The look so easy this way!

Retreat 2010-part 3

My other buddy's quilt. She's making it for her son - a big sport's buff. It's her own design and amazing! Baseball, football and around it all is a track out of striped fabric. I can't wait to see it finished.
My table buddy - a sweet lady here with her daughter. They both did beautiful and precise work!




Retreat 2010-part 2

My friend's quilts: one for a baby. The blue has tiny little bees on it - so cute! She gave me some of her flying geese flip corners to make a mini Sister's Choice block for my collection. I have some scraps to do one for her too.
Gave her my double of the 60 degree ruller runner. She made her own "striped" fabric and the runner since she wanted to make one anyways. The scraps from her discard pieces she put together and gave me in trade for the pattern. It ended up the backing of my Halloween hexagon. The red has really subtle leaf pattern in gold and the gold fabric also had leaves. It looks so rich!
She was making fun of me for climbing under the tableto plug everything in and snapped my picture. Had to get her back! LOL!

Monday, February 15, 2010

Post Retreat Post

Well, got home from quilt retreat nearly a month ago and still haven't posted photos! Here are my projects. Most have pics, but some don't. Quilts form other people will be in the next post.

I finished:
At least 16 4-patch blocks for the groups charity quilts. (no photos)

7 Table toppers/runners
6 of them were one-sided and one was reversible

5 miscellaneous gifts
4 of the gifts were doll diapers
3 Tiny Sister's Choice blocks (5 inch finished)

2 Christmas gift bags

1 Advent Calendar
1 BOM for the 12 Days of Christmas Quilt (no photo until i do the embroidery)
And 1 dog pillow filled with scraps for the local dog rescue (donated already)

Also started working on a bag for my friend, but with the directional stripes, there isn't enough fabric to do matched fabric straps. Have to rethink that project a little. Might do cording straps out of one of the contrasting colors she bought. That will be interesting.