Cathedral Stars, Day Two, Camp Weed!

Smile and retreat!

Laugh and sew yourself silly!

Talk and visit and catch up on all the goings on ---

It’s been a year since the last retreat and there is a lot of ground to cover, we don’t want to miss out on ANY of the good stories now, do we?

We gathered yesterday after a yummy breakfast in the dining hall ---back over where the sewing was set up, all 42 retreaters raring and ready to for our Cathedral Stars workshop on Day Two.

We’d done some of these units already – tackling the Easy Angle Ruler and half square triangles in the previous day’s My Blue Heaven workshop –and this gave us a chance to try them in different sizes with different size strips.

We learned some 4 patch tricks!  We spun seams!

We had an absolutely fabulous day at Camp Weed in Live Oak, Florida!

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Galaxy-Gram! Cathedral Stars for Everyone!

Workshop day too weed in Live Oak, Florida is winding down!

These ladies have been going hard at it all day and they have a lot to show for their efforts.

So many colors!

So many ideas!

So many opportunities to take this quilt and make it their own. 

We had a special visitor today - I was pleased to meet Stephanie of Modern Sewciety!  Have you listened to her podcast? She has a wide selection of previous ones you can tune into and does new interviews each week with all kinds of people in the sewing industry including quilting people.

I will post a link to her website when I get a chance later, I am sending this up from my phone on my way to dinner!

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Blue Heavening, All Day Long!

Dogwoods are blooming in Florida!

It really has been heaven to be here --- so very low key, so very fun! 

We are offering 3 workshops while here at Camp Weed for our retreat with the Lady of the Lake Quilters ---

And they are eager and willing to try new things, diving in with the Easy Angle ruler and the Companion Angle ruler for yesterday’s My Blue Heaven workshop.

There are bins of scraps to dig from---discovered you didn’t bring enough variety to your liking?  Grab up a few strips, trade a few strips, bring it all together and let’s sew!

Of course, our walk from lodgings to sewing center is just lovely.

There is so much more to discover in Florida, than just BEACHES and Disney.

I am just about 50 miles south of the Georgia border, inland…and this is our view instead:

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Camp Weed, Day One! My Blue Heaven!

What do you get when you bring 40 Retreaters together with loads of scraps, lots of excitement, and a huge treat table?

A whole lot of fun in one big room!

Camp Weed is a great facility - just look at how much space we have! 

We can walk around the tables or even do the Macarena and there is room to spare and room to share.

We started our My Blue Heaven workshop at 9 a.m. this morning with a break at noon for a yummy lunch served in the dining hall.

Many of the ladies are still going strong sewing away, while I took a break at the end of my day to squeeze in a wonderful hour long massage and a little walk back to my room to send up this blog post before dinner.

These ladies are a hoot and I know there will be lots of sewing and laughter into the late night hours.

I am giving up on the idea of catching any beauty sleep at all!

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