What a nice retreat. The retreat was limited, but enough to
make it social. The participants were mothers and daughters, neighbors, sisters,
friends. They fed us snacks, meals (killer lasagna made by the owner!) Oh, and
there is a coffee place/smoothie place right across the parking lot. What more
could you ask for? Well we asked to have a sleepover in the store the next
time J
Big girl pajama party! Not that anyone really plans on much sleeping!
The pattern turned out to be the Chained Nine-Patch from Twisted
Classics by Jeannie Stauffer and Sandra L Hatch. This was my first go at
paper piecing. I will give it another try, but not a fan at this point—removing
the papers is a bit aggravating to me.
Michelle HIbbitt was the instructor. She was very good, and
helped with ironing and seam ripping <sigh>. She had the clues (steps)
cleverly done, and paced them well to the tenor of our particular group. Everyone
got their picture taken with the finished portion of their quilt. We all brought
an apple recipe and are anxiously awaiting our class recipe/scrap book.
It did turn out so nice that I wanted to make it bigger, so
the delay has been that I have been agonizing over the borders. I finally decided
on those, and ta-dah!! Now it is on to backing it and then basting it together.
I will be hand quilting it, not quite
decided how yet. Some ideas, but I don’t have to make that decision until it is
basted and ready for marking. Probably get to this over the weekend.
I think the next project is a flannel quilt that is not a
rag quilt. Patchwork
Pennies by All Through the Night-Folk Art designs with a bit of
Whimsy-Designed by Bonnie Sullivan. Seems we have been forecast a long, wet (in the form of snow) winter L
I am not a fan of snow. At least you do not have to shovel rain!
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