Rainy Days & Quilty Pleasures!

I snapped this photo as I was hiking back UP the drive in between rain showers yesterday morning and Hubster Dave was coming down the drive with dogs in tow, just giving them the excitement of a CAR RIDE to Lowes and back.

(Say it, and they go nuts.  Here we are as fully grown adults spelling out C_A_R_R_I_D_E so they wouldn't know what we were talking about beforehand...)

Yes, I'm still walking my drive down and back up again after breakfast before heading to the inn.  It takes 10 minutes.  But it is only 10 minutes of terrible.

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The Last Motif In Place!

This is where I left things as I started in on that last large motif that would fill the corner.

Checking for placement.

Looking to be sure I didn't end up with the same fabric touching itself anywhere...because if you know you know. 

Those same aquas need to keep their distance, dagnabbit!

And then...while some random thing was playing on the TV...I completed that last motif.

The last one. No more counting down.  It was time to start sewing these units together.

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The July Quiltvillians Quilt Gang!

This was just the most fun productive week - every time I walked into the house, rounding the corner into the Quilting Quarters, there was something finished, and something new underway.

No fire pit night (threat of rain that never came) not even shop hop trips.  No night time games or organized swaps.  Just 12 ladies getting in as much sewing time as they dreamed of, stitching their projects surrounded by conversation and laughter.

We are half-way through our 7th retreat season and for 7 years these ladies have built these friendships. They started out as strangers the first year we opened, and have formed a strong sisterhood in the process.  I love them dearly!

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UFO Projects Getting Done!

I think I've found a theme for the July Quiltvillians retreat.

Find it and Finish it!

It's wonderful to see quilt projects that have been in time out in a bin, some that needed unstitching to take place so things could be fixed, some projects that were adopted by friends who were no longer able to quilt, and fixed and completed on the sly with the intent to gift them back when done.

It's been a wonderful week of "Let's see what we can do to get this in the done column." And so inspirational!

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