Seamy and Laying Out

I bet you weren't thinking of quilting when you read that title. Everyone got up Monday (10/15) and got to work. Sewing up all the seams and laying out their blocks to create a quilt.

Well our time at Twelve Pines Retreat was a success. I think the gals present all agreed according my survey I had them fill out.     Fair warning the next few blog post may be on a photo overload.     A new lady to our group was working on this quilt for her son I believe she said.

And look she (Sandy) is even smiling. Before the retreat was over she completed the top. She is now hand quilting it. Sandy works across the hall from me in the Audit department.           

Then there was my over achiever Barbara Kay. She is also a newby to the group. She's fussing over the sashing. It wasn't lining up.. You know what that means........ she ripped that baby up and re-sewed it. It came out really pretty. 
See...

These are some blocks Barbara Kay aquired I think through a swap. Now she needed to figure out a layout and sew them up. See what I mean she's a busy bee.

Jane is working an adorable fleece tie quilt.

I almost forgot to share Cindy's blocks. She normally works on the tiny quilts and blocks but these blocks are big blocks.  I love these blocks in Christmas fabric! Sew pretty.
Cindy's Aunt Joanne was supposed to be joining us from Indiana but about 2 weeks before the retreat she fell and broke her hip. She had to have surgery and it's going to take her about 4 months of recovery and rehabilitation. We really missed her at retreat. All the girls wish her well in her recovery and hope she gets to join us again next year.

Since Joanne couldn't join us Cindy invited her sister to join us.
Her sister Joy created this block. Joy was a total Joy to have around. Her laugh was infectious.
Hope she gets to join us again next time I have  openings.

Donna had picked up a magazine I had thrown in the My Trash Your Treasure table last time and decided to use the 1930's prints she won during one of our Left Right Center games. It's coming together. I had saved this pattern Dressed to the Nines somewhere but I have no clue where. I made her give me the magazine back so I could scan it again.  LOL  Indian Giver, That's me.   You can leave me a comment with your email so I can email you the pattern. The pattern was from the May 2009 McCalls Quick Quilts Magazine and was designed by Jeree McDade.  Donna Marie will be adding some lace, ribbon and other embellishments.

This is a quilt our friend Sandy B made at a previous retreat. It's similar to Donna Marie's but it has a little T-shirt under the dress. It's really cute too. This one was from Fat Cat Quilt free patterns. Not if you click on Fat Cat above it will take you to the link and then look under free patterns.

Then Pat, a regular in the group is working on a string quilt based on the book "Just a Quilt by Dalen Keys. Dalen came to our guild one year and his wife helped with a workshop to make this quilt in the book. Pat bought the book.  The quilt pattern is in the children's book.

I bought the book and took the workshop back in about 2013 .   It's a fun quilt and a cute story. If I remember right Dalen wrote it with his son in mind. This is the one I made in 2015 for my friend Kim and Chess for their little guy Jaxon.

See everyone is hard at work.  All but one in this picture is new to our group. Far back left is Jane and she's been a part of my retreat group since 2014. Across from her is her friend Vicki. On the far right is my sorority sister Sheryl and across from her is her aunt Diane and next to Diana is her friend Barbara Kay. And up front left is Sandy.












Right before dinner the Retreat owner came in to tell us if we left the retreat do not turn left on Hwy 75 because the bridge is about to go under water due to flooding. We were safe but not if we left and turned north unless we jumped up to I-45.  At this time the rain had subsided.

This was our dinner. Monday night we were served a tasty chicken pot pie with salad and a dessert.  It was very yummy. Fluffy, flaky and full of yummy goodness.


After Dinner Donna Marie hung up her "Swoon" quilt top that she had started a couple of retreats ago but has finished quilting and has it bound now. She came to my office today saying she now has it hanging on her office wall. I need to go check that out.

The wall hanging isn't all that big and those pieces were rather small. Too small for me. She did an excellent job.

Then my long time friend Denise and retreater finished this sweet churn dash quilt for newest grandson. The fabric just looks grey in the picture but it's a pale blue checked. For some reason the color made me think it was made for a prince.  Then I'm sure she thinks he is a prince. What Grandma doesn't think her grandson is a prince?

My sorority sister Sheryl who came to retreat with us isn't a quilter but she is a crafter. She worked on some felting projects and was learning how run a cookie business and make cookies. She made these to share at retreat. They were really tasty good.   Her Cookie company name is Country Cottage

On Tuesday (10/16) Denise pulled out a quilt top that she's worked on at a couple of different retreats and has finally finished. She began piecing the back with left over fabric. I worked on putting the binding on my Round Robin Quilt so that it can go on Mine and David's bed when we move in December to the Rock'n K. It's a huge king size quilt. I had it custom quilted by Betty Baker @ T-shirt quilts of Texas.
I share pictures of the quilting and the whole quilt once it's finished.




It started raining today again. Water was standing around the retreat but we were high and dry inside.

Here's a picture of a couple of the quilts on the comfy beds we slept in.

 
Just for grins this is the hallway for the 4 bedrooms of 4 ladies each and on the right is the baths for each room.

It's time for bed so I'll stop for tonight.
Stay turn for the last day and a half of retreat fun and Rock'n K progress.


Until next blog....

Carla💚💜