Hello, Gretchen! Gift-Away!

Are you ready for some fun and exciting paper piecing?

Are your saved scraps overflowing and out of control?

If so - Hello, Gretchen! just might be the pattern you've been waiting for, the quilt you've been eager to dive in and make.

I was completely obsessed with making this quilt.  It uses EVERYTHING, even those cut-off corners you've saved from doing things like stitch n flip where you put a square on the corner of a base unit, stitch the diagonal to become a corner triangle, and trim the excess.

There is a lot of fabric waste in that excess!  Actually...I consider those to be BONUS triangles because there is so much you can do with them.

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This, That & The Other -

I don't know about your camera roll, but mine is full of things I took photos of with the intention to share what I've found, but somehow in the vast array of photos from quilters and projects on retreat they just fell back into never never land.

When I went to see the neuromuscular guy on Friday, I had just enough time to wander an antique mall I hadn't been in for months and months and months -

I found a COUPLE of things. I noticed this quilt right away...

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Between The Rain Showers!

We must have all been doing quite the rain dance - because once Saturday rolled through and we stopped to take a photo of the dam that no longer had water flowing over it on Wilson Creek - 

It rained for nearly two days straight - yesterday being the heaviest of all, so I'm glad we had opted to take our over-the-porch-rail photos on Saturday afternoon between cloud bursts!

Take a look at all of these Lupine & Laughter beauties!

The sky may be grey, but these quilts are sunshine.

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Quilting Weekends and Happy Birthdays!

What's it like to spend your birthday on retreat?

Fantastic of course!  All of your best quilty mates around you to help celebrate, and eat your cake.

And yes, there was ice cream as well.

I love to spend my own birthday doing something I love (In somewhere far away from here) and it tickles me that folks will plan their retreats around their birthday month so they can continue to celebrate all month long.

And you just have to know that any gifts are also quilty, right?

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