A Week on the Seamy Side with the Material Girls

 What a wonderful week. Hanging out with the talented and fun Material Girls. 

My friend and sorority sister Sheryl rode with me. We talked the whole way. We stopped in Halletsville to pick up some groceries and eat an early dinner before checking into the retreat.  We were early so we met Donna Lynn at the Vintage Market an antique shop. 

Found all kinds of pretties but I had to save my money for fabric.  LOL We will be going on a field trip to a shop we've never been before. But I saw a great T-Shirt.  Gotta love it.

We had dinner at Los Cabos San Lucas. We stopped there each time we go to retreat at Three Oaks in Yoakum. Food is good and so are the margarita's so they say. 

Three Oaks is a great retreat and the venue is run by Kat and she's great to work with. Now that I've said that... there is big news on this subject.  Kat announced yesterday the venue will be changing ownership to Wanda Moss who is a super nice lady. She drove the Calico Crossing Queen bus full of quilting goodies.. The venue name is changing to The Oaks at Yoakum. All retreats are in tact that have been booked and she'll be adding a few surprises. I can only wish Kat the best in next chapter. 

But while we were there we were comfortable and had lots of laughs and we made a new friend. I had one bed left so I sent out an email to 5 people on my backup list and Anita Moore was the first to reply "I want to come". We had never met and she us, but she was a delight. She fit right in. 

Pat hung up her vintage Santa Quilt on the design wall. Hers came out so cute.

Then Denise shared her quilt she had been working for a couple retreats. This girl makes some of the most awesome quilts.

 

Donna Lynn put her dresden blocks and went to work putting borders on them.

 

Sunday morning was breakfast tacos. This is the half I couldn't eat. These things were huge and yummy. Didn't expect to be so big but they all got ate by the last day of retreat.

Ellen will shoot me probably because she hated this project. The rest of us were impressed and thought it pretty cool. She put it away and went to work on her next project. A Rosary quilt. It came out looking great.

  

Denise went to work on her UFO. Pretty. Can't wait to see her finished quilt top.

Kathy and Sheryl are my two non-quilters. Kathy was crocheting. a really pretty throw.. She also did some embroidery work. She was working on all the green grass blades. Sheryl was felting. She was working on little gnomes for wine bottle toppers.

 

  

A couple retreats ago a retreater (Vicki) made $1 bills into origami shapes for our game of Left*Right*Center. She inspired Donna Marie to make some this year. 

A dress, an elephant, a shirt n tie, a house and a heart. So cool. I think my fav was the heart but the elephant was almost everyone else's.

Donna said she'd never do the elephant again. It was difficult and a pain. LOL

I tried to capture a few of the reactions at the end of the game. It was close. You're not out until until you have no money and your neighbors have no money. These ladies were hoping to be the last one holding a dollar.

Poor Anita dropping her last dollar in the pot and Elly was so happy to be back in the game. But that was short lived.

      

The last one holding money was Denise. She had never won when we've played with fat quarters or now with money.  This will be her shopping money for our field trip to Shiner to visit a quilt shop called the Square Quilter.  

I'll stop for this post because there are so many pictures of my quilty friends I want to share.. And the fun just keeps going....

Until the next post.... Life is quiltisentially about being together