A2MQG Retreat

I can't believe a whole week has gone by and I have not blogged or written about the wonderful retreat I went to with the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild.  

The retreat was held at the Hankard Inn and the facility was fabulous. 

 As a bonus we had our breakfast and dinners provided so no cooking!

I went with WAYYYY more than I thought I would be able to finish, but did not want to run out either. 

 I had some specific tops that I had to get done.

  I managed to get three of those tops completed!!  

First up was the wedding quilt that I have to gift in a few weeks.  

The back is also finished and both are at my quilter to finish.

Next up is the paper doll quilt.  

I can only say that this one has a special destination but will say more once it is gifted. 

 I love how it came out. 

 Not sure you can see but the border was done using a lot of I-Spy type of blocks.  

I managed to get the back sewn up for this one too.

Last but not least was a real oldie. 

 I bought a traveling design wall and went over to a friend's house to lay

 this One Block Wonder out using the wall. 

 I pinned all the blocks on the wall at that time.

  I managed to get a few rows sewn when I had to pick it up. 

 It had been folded up in a drawer for a few years now. 

 So long in fact that the plastic bag was disintegrating! 

 I really miss that wall so this one was up next so I could reclaim my wall.  

When I took it out of the bag it looked like this.

I had to press EVERY block before I could assemble them.  

Many were not the right size so I had to trim over half of them before I put them together too. 

 This is what it was beginning to look like as I moved forward.

I had gotten up at 7am and worked all day.

  The Doll quilt was finished by lunchtime and after lunch I started this one.  

This is what it looked like around 1am! 

 All finished.  

Don't look too closely, there are 2 that don't have the correct pair. 

 Pretty good all things considered. 

 I am not in love with it, but happy that it is now finished. 

 I will be donating it to Margaret's Hope Chest, where I hope someone will love it!(mistake and all). 

 I just can't bring myself to make the correction now that the whole top is complete.  

What would you do?

I do have some more pictures of the rooms we were sewing in and other people and 

theie works but will have to save that for another post.

I also managed to get the borders and sashings cut for 2 additional quilts so hope to get both of those tops done in the near future too. 

 Trying to bust some UFO's!

I had some minor surgery on Monday and am still a little uncomfortable.  

I had a couple of dermatofibroma's removed.

  One on my arm and one on my leg, so I have some new holes and stitches, ew. 

 Both were benign which is good.  

I hope you all had a nice 4th of July.

  I will write more later about the rest of the retreat!

~XOP~