A small finish

I picked up these fabric squares on the way to retreat and didn't have any charm patterns with me so decided to just make something simple. The little top came home with me. I kept with the theme and kept the quilting simple too. I used the left over fabric plus a scrap from my stash for the binding. I think it's simple and pretty, the colours remind me of the sand and water at the lake where the retreat was.

Charity Quilts

Hi, it looks like my computer is back up and running. lost a few photos, but luckily had not deleted a lot of at them from my camera.

I wanted to share a few of the charity quilts my quilt made last year. We decided to display them at HP before donating them.

First ocean quilt we were asked to make ocean / beach blocks which we put together as a group.

These other quilts we were given direction on what to make the blocks and the colors to use.

One of our group aims this year was to make more masculine charity quilts.

I think they look terrific displayed among the old cars. And am sure they have gone to loving new owners.

Floss

Computer woes

We after my last post I was going to be so good and try to post more often but before I got the change my computer died. We saved it with a new hard drive but taking some time to get it back up to normal and I lost some photos. Was going to put the ones still on my camera back on only to find the card reader isn't working. DH said he would look at it today. Hopefully back up to speed soon.

Floss

HP Quilt Show

Well I have been a bad blogger, the Heritage Park quilt show was held the last weekend in May and I have been meaning to share a few photo ever since. The weather did not hold out, but all the indoor area were great so still a great show to visit. On the bright side with only quilter at the part the line ups were a lot shorter than other years. I put three small quilts in, I think I have posted all of these quilts before but will share anyway.I am so please with my bunny quilt, I knew that I wanted to put it in, you can see from the photo this was displayed in on of the historic homes child's bedroom.

One of the organizer belong to the guild I go to and she had asked for a few smaller quilts to be enter so I also enter the green table topper and the wall hanging made from left overs.

Hopefully I will be better at blogging.

Floss

Cat Pictures

Haven't really done much quilting since I have been back from retreat so thought I would share a couple of recent cat photos.
Here is Taz is showing us how to relax and Fritz thinks that we got her a new chair.

Not sure when I will get back to doing some quilting, its has started to get nice here and will need to spend some time tiding up the back yard, and the front yard could do with a little bit of gardening too. Want to enjoy as much of the nice weather as I can, our summer here are so short.
Floss

More Retreat

Had a spring snow storm here this week, my back is still hurting for all the snow I had to shovel just to get to my car, and here we are a couple of days later and most of the snow has melted.

As promised I was going to share what a couple of the other ladies were working on at retreat.
This is another version of the guild BOM project. I love how bright this is.

As a guild we have also done this Indian Summer quilt. Here is one top that was finished at retreat and one the was half completed. I love see how group project can turn out so different just by people fabric choices.

I also though I would share these jar block, I love how different they look than mine, and it's only really the background fabric that changed. We have shared allot of fabrics. It looked a lot nicer when they weren't on the funky couch.Lastly here are a couple of little extra I can home with. One of the ladies had little gift for all of us, and behind that is the yellow fabric that wanted to come home from the store with me. I have very little yellow fabric and I saw this and wanted to make a scrappy purple and yellow quilt. So another project on my to do list. But I did get one top done on this trip so think is OK to put one back on the list.

Retreat

This last weekend was retreat and it was a fun weekend. We rented a cottage near a lake and it was perfect for the small group. 9 of use had a great weekend. We are thinking of going back in the fall, but make need to find somewhere a bit larger if more people want to come.

I really enjoyed myself and even got a fair bit done. The retreat stared at lunch on Friday, but I didn't get there until closer to 3, but got to work right away.I knew that I would need a pillow for the chair and had one that just needed to be put together so that was the first thing I did.

After that I started on my purple square quilt, which I managed to finish the top for. I am so pleased with how this turned out. It was pretty straight forward and I was done by Saturday evening even with a shopping break in the afternoon.

I will share what I picked up shopping on the next post, except for some charm size square I picked up on Friday (I made a small detour on the way to retreat) and by Sunday morning I had turned them into this simple wall hanging. I think there is even enough left over for scrapping binding.

Not wanting to be done I moved onto some jar blocks for a table runner. I had been sharing fabric with one of the other girl and when she started on her block (which she got finished) I had to start on mine. I think they will be great.

I will share more of what the other girls were working on next post.

Cheers

Floss