This Was Our Weekend!

I'm just going to put this right here front and center.

If you go hungry at retreat, it's your own doing.  LOL!

This was our Sunday lunch spread - as Sunday was the last full day of retreat, everything came out of the fridge for the best snacky kind of lunch you could ever have.

The last day of retreat is the best day to revisit all of the leftover tasty morsels from the previous days of plentiful food.

There's something here for everyone!

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Friday In The Rain!

The rain came in torrents yesterday morning.

I had finished writing yesterday's blog (my desk is in the basement) and when I went upstairs it looked like 5pm in the winter outside.

I texted over to Jen - no walk, rain incoming!

And right when I sent the text, the sky opened and whooo-doggie! It POURED!

Thus began my "accomplishing little to nothing" day.

This was the scene I walked into later as everyone was on the porch for lunch.  Rain had moved on...

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We're Just Getting Started!

Well this makes things interesting!

I'm really excited to see my "Just Another String Star" coming together.

I was a bit intimidated at first - not that I haven't done Y seams before, but it had been a while and there was the additional stretch and bulk of diamonds with bias on ALL edges, and also all of the seams in the diamonds from the string piecing.

I've developed a system and things are now coming together smoothly!

Except for Hazel. Always Hazel!

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Sew Fabulous!

This week got a little bit hijacked with our Gift-Away Trifecta and the drawing sign-up snafus...but here we are, all of the quilts and projects over the porch rail with the August Quiltvillians 2.0!

We worked around the weather, finding an afternoon full of sunshine so we could get these photos taken.

We had so many newbies, and that was exciting! I always love seeing things and feeling the excitement of first-timers as they discover the fun we have here.

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