In April our Crazy Eights had another retreat. It was another wonderful weekend of quilting with these wonderful ladies!
These retreats are so great for the soul... so much laughter, sharing and wonderful talent!
We had so many silly moments...
Only 3/4 of use made it for the first night so we sent out a text to others that we were missing them!
The food was as amazing...as you can see here...two plates for Sheryl!
We also got tattoos...temporary of course and even posted it to Facebook. Of course none of our friends believed us!
We have been going to Sew Cozy Lodge for a year now and was one of the first groups to come to the lodge. We love Lori the owner and decided she needed a quilt to represent the eight of us. We decided to do a block swap among us and used the Dwell Block pattern from Camille's book... We also decided to make blocks for Lori. Marie put all the blocks together and I quilted and did the the binding. When we presented it to her she as just shocked. It was the first quilt that anyone had ever made for her!!
There is so much talent in this group and everyone has such different tastes.
Debbie had been working on these wool blocks at our sewing camps and finally got them all done and put together
At our July Quilt retreat last year, we celebrated Debbie's birthday and got her one of the Cake Mix Recipes by Miss Rosie. Her is the quilt she made from the Cake Mix Recipe:
It makes me just want to make one for me!
Terrie once again had quilts that just screamed her:
Ange continues to astound us with her quilts
Esther wins the prize for the most quilts done! I was only able to capture this one while we were there.
But she dropped these off the Lori to quilt while we were there for the weekend:
I need to learn how Esther can get so much done!!
Marie is one very talented women...just look at these quilts!
The rest of us did not have quilts on the wall but we sure did get a lot done!
While the rest were turning out works of art, I was busy working on Easy orders. First up were the lanyards for Foundation.
March was such a busy month for Etsy orders! I'll blog about those later. One of the quilts was the "Car, planes, trains and things that go" quilt. It was the first Etsy order that I had received of this quilt. I spent most of the retreat working on the Etsy quilts. I was able to piece all the strips and appliqué all of the pieces.
This quilt gave me a little more trouble as I decided to use a polyester lofty batting that Lori no longer needed...and I can could see why. The quilt was indeed more lofty that I had been used to and had to do some additional work to make the pieces not look quite so "poofy". I used some invisible thread to sew around some of the windows and I secured the buttons so that it went through all the layers. This helped "ground" the appliquéd pieces and it looked much better.
While I didn't get to work on something for me, I made great progress on Etsy orders...making me money as well!
We also decided that we were going to have "quilt wills" since we know our families won't want our quilts... Angie and I have our eyes on a couple of Esther's!!
As always it was a wonderful weekend of sharing, laughing and making great memories. I can't wait for the next one.
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