We Do Love Our Quilt Retreats!!!

What better activity to be involved in when the weather is gloomy and the ground is almost frozen and we just like to quilt anyway!  This week five Mora Quilting Friends made the long, long journey to The Pine City Scrapbooking Co. in Pine City.  It's really not very far and in 20-25 minutes we were checking in and hauling in carloads of projects.

Ron and Marni are the owners of this 12 bedroom retreat center and scrapbooking store.  They are so accommodating and nice!!!  We threaten to go back again in late Feb.  Yay!

Here are a few pictures of one of the projects we each worked on...

 

Deb is working on a wall hanging that has had her
stymied but she's now on the way to finishing it! Yay!
 

 

Won't it be gorgeous???

 

 

Mary Ann has used Christmas prints in

combination with light fabrics and as you can tell

she's a happy woman!!!

 

 

Theresa completed her foundation (newspaper)

pieced quilt blocks with scraps she's collected.

 

 

Barb worked on this pretty fall appliqued wall hanging!

 

 

And I got my new Scottie Dog nap quilt tied and buttoned up!

So that's how I spent three days and two nights last week.  I feel so relaxed now and I'm going to really try not to get stressed out again.  I think I inherited that part of my personality so I'm not sure how successful I will be.

Take care,

Bonnie

Hello! I'm back!!!

Oh well - its been a few weeks since I've posted something - anything!  I guess I've been on sabbatical. 

I did participate in a five - yes, 5 day quilt retreat!  It was so much fun.  Usually we go for four days but we extended our October retreat.  Yay!

My little great granddaughter is one year old today!  So while at quilt camp I made her a couple of things.  I made her pillow case and bag that match the quilt I made her when she was born...remember the Crawling Baby quilt with the matching diaper bag.  I made her a little fabric ball too with kitties peeking out for her to see.  And you never have enough catchall's for sewing stuff so this little item wraps a coffee cup and is so handy!

Tote with matching pillow!

Raggy ball and sewing catchall!

This Halloween wallhanging has been in the works for a couple of years now...so I completed it - finally!!!  Now to find a place to hang it up for the next week.  It was so much fun to make but I never got it quilted and bound until this weekend.  Walla - fini!

Crazy Halloween wallhanging made with a charm pack!

There were a couple of other things I completed and a couple of things I almost completed.  Always a stack of UFO's - I find that comforting...never bored, always something waiting for me.

Now to get ready for our Holiday Sale Nov. 11 and 12!

Take care,
Bonnie