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

Blog Break

Well it looks like I took an unintentional blog break. Shortly after my last post I come down with a bad stomach flu which had me down for about two weeks. Once I was better there was allot of catching up to do. This last weekend was LM baptism, so we had a house full of people, it was wonder to visit with every one, but it does not allow for time in the sewing room.

I did get a little bit done. I finished the last of the pinwheels for my flower quilt

Her are all the piece, all I have to do now is put them all together. I learnt that I should label the fabric when I buy it, all of the was keep together as a project, but had to rally think about which of these fabric went where. I think I have worked this out, guess I will know for sure one I put more of it together.

And here is the start to putting it all together, as you can see I still have a way to go. I did get a couple more border done after this photo was taken. I am upto the first row of pinwheels. Having most of the pieces made I think this will get large quite quickly.

This next weekend I an going to retreat. So I should have more guilty stuff next week.

Guild BOM

Well it took longer between post than I expected, but I still wanted to share with you the guild BOM block I finished at the mini retreat. I only made 6 of the blocks and will make this into a small quilt, I just wanted to feel like a part of this project. A couple of the ladies were working on their tops and its amazing to see how different they are.





I can't wait to see them all done, I just love how they are all turning out. I think mine may look a little sad next to the beautiful quilts the others are making.



I have managed to do a bit of sewing over the last two weeks, I pulled out an UFO that has been sitting for a couple of years and started working on the last batch of flower pin wheels. It feels nice to be working on a larger project as I have only worked on small projects for a very long time. OK this is only small pieces, but just knowing that its part of a much larger project.
Hopefully I won't take so long for my next post.
Floss.

Split 9 patch

This weekend my guild had a in-city retreat. One of the girls found a great new location with a big bright sunny room. I was not able to go both days but did manage to go for a big part of Saturday. It was a super fun day. I had to leave early as going out for supper for DH birthday (which will be this week) and had friends coming over for a games night. It was a long, but very enjoyable day.

I started by working on the little nine patches I shared last week. I made them into a mini split nine patch top. A while ago the group did this as an example of what you can do with a charm pack. I think you can tell which one is mine :) I love seeing how different fabric can make a pattern look.

I also worked on my guild BOM, but more about that next post.

Small projects

This last week I did manage to find some time to work on a small project. I am finding that I can get handwork done more easily than getting to the sewing room. I had made these small stickery in the evening while watching TV, and managed to make it into a wall hanging this week. I even tried to do the piecing while LM was in the hospital, but the lighting was bad and I still need to work on my hand piecing.. The pattern and buttons were a gift a couple of years ago. I think this is such a cute little wall hanging, its about 6 by 12 inch.

I also stated work on this nine patch project, these are from a charm pack and so far I am happy with how they are turning out. Hopefully you see whats happening to these nest week.

Little Miss update

LM got out of the hospital on Tuesday and was an out patient which meant 3 trips to the hospital a day. Luckily we were able to go the the closer hospital, but this was still tiring on all of us. Today we went for reassessment and she has a good report. She is onto oral medication and will be able to go back to daycare next week. So far she has made more fuss about taking the new medication than she did about having an IV.

Hopefully my blog will return to more quilting things next week.