Quilts and Dogs: Judson

Monday, September 21, 2015

The Ill-fated Retreat - Some Beautiful Work By My Retreat Mates

FIRST: I want some newsprint fabric or fabric with words in columns like newsprint. I have a niece graduation from International Journalism in the spring. Any ideas?

Ok.................

I love going on retreats, but this one was difficult because I was on the phone with either the nursing home or hospice. And the only way to get phone service in the sticks was to stand in the field with the horses!

But I did get three tops done and the rest of the people did some fabulous work as well.

None of these are mine, but they are the talented work of my retreat mates!

Come back tomorrow and I will show you mine!

And you don't even have to show me yours!

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Didja Miss Me?

You probably didn't really miss me since I had the posts scheduled to run each day, but I have been at a Quilt Retreat in the piney hills of mid-Louisiana just a tad below the Mississippi borderline. We were just north of Jackson LA. There was lots of sewing, lots of eating, even walking a mile every day on the trails in the woods. It really is a great place to get a lot of work done!

I made a pink asterisk for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Renee
said it looked like Gumby, so this might just have to be my rainbow Gumby Quilt. Maybe next month the color will be GREEN! LOL Remember Gumby and Pokey? Yes, I am that old!

I finished this panel with some fabric from my mom's stash and a complimentary print I found on sale at one of the shop closings.

This is the son of the couple who runs the retreat center. At 8, this is his 4th quilt. He became fascinated with quilts by seeing the guild retreats as he helped his parents with chores.

These coasters were our group project on Saturday afternoon. the foot of your wine glass fits right in there

One of our walks took us over this wonderful covered bridge.

And over this little creek.

Here is the quilt kid with his dad riding horses. They are a working farm family.

Joni and her Bonnie Hunter Mystery Grand Illusions.

Another walk on another trail took us through the pasture with this guy.

Charlene and her scraps just go together!

These two just got back from a Quilt Cruise where they made these very Caribbean Quilts!

Barbara finished this table runner.

This was a group quilt we made for the manager of the last retreat house. We changed venues last year and no longer go to that one.

Here is the Devil's Lense I have been working on. I had a problem with all the seams coming together in the center. My machine would not sew through the thickness. So I changed it up a bit by putting a small strip of black as a sashing. I need to see if I can find more black Dimples to put the blocks together.

Caroline was working on pink.

Here is another pink quilt someone was working on.

I got some pink foxes done for the rainbow scrap challenge. A couple more later will be added. I would never have thought pink and blue foxes would be a good thing. But I LOVE them.