Scrap Crystals with the Quiltville Fans of Washington!

Oh, how quiet this room was as everyone trundled down the hill to the dining hall at Royal Ridges Retreat as the dinner bell rang!

Meals are promptly and expertly served at 8am, 12 noon and 5pm –I’m beginning to feel as well fed as the 50 horses stabled up here!

My belly has never been happier.  There have been gluten free and vegetarian options at every meal.

In fact, just the other morning I was running a bit behind because the blog was taking so long to upload on slow internet, that by the time I arrived, my gluten free pancakes were waiting for me in the warmer, and they were DELICIOUS!

(I like my pancakes with peanut butter and real maple syrup.  It’s been an obsession since childhood!)

Dinner last night was barbequed chicken, sweet potato casserole or mashed redskin potatoes (or both!) and a huge tossed salad with all of the fixin’s. There was home made cornbread on the side, both gluten free and regular, and dessert was amazing.

Go hungry on retreat?  Not a chance!

We needed all of this fuel for our Scrap Crystals Workshop!

Look at our design wall!

It was so great to see these beautiful blocks be placed on the design wall one by one as the evening passed by.

It may have been rainy and slushy and windy and yuck when I arrived – one lady had to drive through a scary snow storm coming over Snoqualmie pass to get here during our fist group –and here it is nearly the end of May!  But the sun has been out the past few days, and yesterday it left our sewing room quite warm.  Windows and doors were open to catch any hint of breeze.  But as things are in the wonderful pacific northwest – after dinner things cool down to blissful, and the cool coming through the windows was so wonderful we wanted to linger and sew and laugh and chat until we couldn’t keep our eyes open any longer.

You gotta love our Quilt-Wear!!

And mother and daughter teams who come and sew together!

It touches my heart to watch the interaction between these two.  They are having a great time and making some wonderful memories along the way.  I’m happy to be included amongst them!

Well done girls!

I hope to see many quilt finishes when I return for another double dose of reteat fun with the Quiltville Fans of Washington in 2019!  Dates are set, I’m already ready for a reunion.

Catch the rest in the slide show below!

It has been balm to my soul to be here in the midst of all of this beautiful nature in Washington state.  For the first sound I hear in the morning to be the whinnying of horses in the horse barn just above where my little cabin is.  For them also to be the last sound I hear at night as I snuggle under the Roll Roll Cotton Boll quilt that someone else’s hands lovingly made.  To greet these faces at breakfast with a joyous “GOOD MORNING!” and have it returned 10 fold.

This has been just WONDERFUL beyond words.

And I’ve been sewing my brains out too!

I want to thank everyone who left supportive comments on last evening’s post.  It meant a lot to me to know that #1 you had NO idea this was going on behind the scenes.  That meant that my silence did what I hoped it would do for so long.  #2 That you agree it is time to stand up and share my side of what has been an awful series of events over the past 1 1/2 years that I fear will continue on if I continue to remain silent.  #3 That sometimes it is VERY necessary to stop bullying in its tracks.  There are only so many times a person can be kicked repeatedly in a public forum such a professional facebook page before standing up for themselves becomes the right and ONLY thing to do.  Thank you.

This morning as I write this post I’ve got the door to my cabin wide open.  I’m listening to birds singing back and forth to each other, with the occasional frog croak coming from the nearby rivulet of running water.  The breezes are gentle, letting me know it’s going to be an awesome day.

This morning I give my last presentation to group #2, followed by THEIR Show & Share, which to me is the best icing on the cake.  The afternoon/evening are designated for as much free sewing time as we can squeeze in.  I hope that design wall be be chock full of blocks by the time bedtime once again creeps up on us.

Tomorrow -  HOME!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Vintage four patch quilt found in Washington.

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