Retreat day 1

A beautiful morning for a drive to quilt retreat. There was no nearby interstate or four lane for me to take. I had to go over the Mississippi river and was it ever foggy, I couldn't see the river even! Fifteen minutes past the river the sun cleared the way. I saw a pair of Eagles having their breakfast of squished racoon. My path took me past lots of farms including a few Amish ones. After two hours I arrived at retreat. This is the same place I went last year, it is perfect for the 12 of us. Six bedrooms with twin beds, four bathrooms and two large rooms that are connected for sewing in plus two kitchens. We take turns making meals, a team of four each day with two meals a day. Don't worry we didn't go hungry, there is always the snack table!

Lots of projects were brought along in various stages.  I finished the applique on these two buffalo plaid snowman runners plus binding them and sewing on their button eyes. The quilting and the stenciled snowman were all done at home prior to retreat.  

After that I moved on to the applique and binding of two of my Tilting Trees runners. I still need to bury my threads in these four as I forgot my self threading needle. It won't take me long to do that when I get home. Once again the quilting was done on my longarm prior to retreat.

Don't worry there was plenty of time for socializing and munching. The first day we were on our own for meals. But watch out for the second day! 

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Back from quilt retreat

Oh I had a wonderful week in Wisconsin at a quilt retreat. Thanks to my friend over there that invited me. What a wonderful group of friends that attended this. Twelve ladies in all made for the perfect size retreat. Here is the outside of the cottages. There are two identical cottages, each holds six people, attached by big sliding doors so we could open it up to interact with each other. It was just a beautiful cottage.

Just inside that sliding glass door was the sewing area, that's my area right next to the door. See I am working away on table runners.

Here is the dining room and living room. I forgot to get a pic of the kitchen.  There were three bedrooms that each had two twin beds. 

And now you probably want to know what I accomplished while there. Lots of laughter, chatting, and I really did get a lot of sewing done. Remember this pile contained 22 projects to work on...

I worked on 21 of them, getting them all to the farthest stage I could do at the retreat. Since returning home Friday morning I finished up five of them and got them listed already.  Here's one of them. This is my Tilting Trees pattern that can be found HERE.

I'll share more in the coming days. 

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Three finishes

 Last week was a busy one. In addition to meeting several of my goals I finished three more table runners.

These are such fun ones to make, it's hard to stop!  Which ones you ask...gingham table runners of course!  These are made using my Accuquilt 3" strip cutter, I have a tutorial for them on the Accuquilt blog. 

They really are super fast to make, sew strips, cross cut, sew into rows. It takes me about an hour to sew one. 

It's really fun to pick three fabrics that coordinate. 

I have used the orange and yellow fabrics for one last year, but this one has a different white background fabric.  You can even use a fat quarter for the light fabric.  These two are now listed in my Etsy shop.

I had a little extra time one day and looked around my sewing room to see what I could work on. I always have lots of projects in the works.  This snowman runner was the closest to the finish line with only needing binding. The pattern for this runner is called Tilting Trees and can be found in my Etsy pattern shop.  I used my Accuquilt 2.25" strip cutter to cut bias binding quickly. They have a good tutorial on how to do this.  

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