February Quilt Retreat

 Every February a few of my friends and I go on a fairly local quilt retreat.

  It's about 2 hours from home for me.  

This year I invited my friend Kailie.  

She is living close enough to drive here.  

So on Thursday she and her dog came to my house. 

 We packed up her car, left her dog with Chris and headed out to meet up with my other 2 friends.  

We always have such a great time!  

WAY too much food, talking, movies and laughter. 

Some shopping at the quilt shops nearby.

 Oh and we sewed...a LOT this time!

First quilt shop was Seven Sisters in Carson City.

Kailie, Mary, Me and Cori

Mary found a few things, LOL

Mary had the first finish of the weekend.

Followed by Cori.

Mine was up next.

I have 3 of these to do!

Pattern is by Apples and Beavers.

It is called Unicorn Garden.

One of 4 is completely finished and you saw it in the last post.

Saturday we went to Creative Passions quilt shop.

Kailie finished this baby quilt while working on her Cranberry and Lace quilt.

Mary finished three more tops for her granddaughters.

Such happy quilts!

Cori finished another top.

Pattern is Double Slice and uses a layer cake and a bit of white

I made the FPP fairy at home.

I managed to finish the 3rd unicorn.

Three down one to go!

I showed Mary how to glue baste and machine bind.

She was able to get binding on TWO pretty sizable quilts.

I only remembered to snap this photo though.

Kailie made significant progress on her Cranberry and Lace top.

She continued to work on it when we got back to my house on Sunday.

It is a beauty!

Pattern is Denim and Lace by A Crafty Fox.

It was tough to leave as we had all been so productive!

I will see them all in July at retreat though.

Kailie and I returned home and Chris prepared a great spread for watching the Super Bowl.

I think Chris tired Ebby out!

Apparently the cats were exhausted as well, LOL.

I was right there with them.

I think I stayed up past 2am every night we were there!!!

A good time was had by all and we are all looking forward to seeing each other in July.

I have my first mamogram since my breast cancer diagnosis on Monday.

Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Last time I was in was for my annual, and we were supposed to leave for NC the next day.

Instead, BAM...breast cancer!

It's ok though, all is well as far as I can tell.

I will feel a lot better after Monday that's for sure!!

~XOP~

Quilt Retreat Weekend

I went away for a quilt retreat this past weekend with my SIL and a good friend.  

It was about 2 hours away from home.  

We go every February and July. 

 It started out in July to celebrate my friends and my birthdays.  

Then we decided once a year was not enough so we planned a February one.  

I packed a lot of things but ended up workin on only one project.  

I make and trimmed SO MANY HST blocks!  

I spent all Thursday night and Friday sewing and trimming HST.  

I need to make 15 more blocks to have what I need for my Ocean Waves quilt.  

I brought one block so I would be able to lay them all out correctly before I sewed them.  

I got all 15 blocks worth of HST cut and trimmed to the correct size 

(Thank God for Block Lock rulers!)

Friday we took a break and went to Seven Sisters quilt shop.  

Always a fun trip!  

(I always look bald when I pull my hair back!)

I didn't take a lot of pictures as I was too busy sewing. 

I made some mistakes on Saturday so put the project down and went to bed.  

I got up on Sunday and fixed them, but that took me over 3 hours of ripping and resewing 

and ripping and resewing some more.  

I finally finished 7 of the 15 I need for this quilt.  

I guess they will go with me to the next retreat! 

 It is going to be pretty when it is finished.  

I am cutting into my hoarded, beloved, Neptune for some of the blocks too.  

I didn't have enough of the navy to make the whole thing out of that but 

I did cut up some of the navy and all the colors.

Cori finished 2 quilt tops for the veterans.

My SIL, Mary, finished this quilt top for her grandson, using the Double Slice pattern

She got all the applique fused to this llama quilt top but still needs to stitch around it all.

She cut all the flowers and letters on her Cricut.  

I love how they turned out.

That llama face is adorable!

She got much of the applique fused on this under the sea quilt for her grand daughter too.  

She still needs her fin and everyone needs their faces finished.

So I finished 7/15 OW blocks and they got much bigger projects finished.  

'm still happy about getting as much done as I did.  

It is so boring to sew the same thing over and over but I know the quilt will be amazing and 

it is going to go on my bed!

~XOP~