The retreat was sew much fun! I sewed for a total of about 40 hours! Meals were provided and no house work to do. We could stay up as late as we wanted and sew...the last night I crawled into bed at 3:30am.
I went through two full spools of 500 m Guterman thread, and emptied 7 completely filled bobbins. I got an email from our host that I won the bobbin contest! Yipeeee!
We had a Jelly Roll quilt race contest, weee... me an my tiny cheap Brother machine...came in third clocked at 39 minutes and a few seconds! Ya, a complete quilt top done in less than 40 minutes!!!
I also completed two Just For You quilt tops, my blue n white block of the month, and 34 blocks on my string quilt. The totes of scraps kept getting tossed in my searching the strings which made the totes look even more full when I packed up to go home! Yikes! I think they are still reproducing in the dark!
We visited two fun quilt shops and I bought fabric I don't really need but I had that strong urge of "regret fear" if I didn't get that 30 piece fat quarter pack and pattern. I know me and if I didn't get it right then and there I would spend twice that amount trying to find it again!
So, all in all I would say it was a wonderful quilt retreat weekend to remember! But, I still have two full buckets of string scraps!!!
I went through two full spools of 500 m Guterman thread, and emptied 7 completely filled bobbins. I got an email from our host that I won the bobbin contest! Yipeeee!
We had a Jelly Roll quilt race contest, weee... me an my tiny cheap Brother machine...came in third clocked at 39 minutes and a few seconds! Ya, a complete quilt top done in less than 40 minutes!!!
I also completed two Just For You quilt tops, my blue n white block of the month, and 34 blocks on my string quilt. The totes of scraps kept getting tossed in my searching the strings which made the totes look even more full when I packed up to go home! Yikes! I think they are still reproducing in the dark!
We visited two fun quilt shops and I bought fabric I don't really need but I had that strong urge of "regret fear" if I didn't get that 30 piece fat quarter pack and pattern. I know me and if I didn't get it right then and there I would spend twice that amount trying to find it again!
So, all in all I would say it was a wonderful quilt retreat weekend to remember! But, I still have two full buckets of string scraps!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment