Quilt Retreat, here I come!!
My local Miami Co. Quilters Guild has a retreat planned for next weekend at Tall Oaks Conference/Camp Center. It's a great place to "retreat" and I can hardly wait! I've been working like crazy on graduation T-shirt quilts over the last 2 weeks and this retreat is going to be time for my stuff. Normally I take only one project to focus on, but this time I'm taking at least 2 projects--my Bonnie Hunter Celtic Solstice (which is finally beyond the cutting stage--well, mostly!) and a BOM I'm doing with Lil' Red Hen Quilt Shop--a Pat Sloan design that I'm at least 2 months behind! And who knows? I might even have my Gemini Sky mystery quilt, done about a year ago and sitting on the landing rail while I figured out how to quilt it. It's on the frame now and about 70% done--but I did change up the quilt design on one of the blocks after the first row and will "unsew" them and re-do. So it may not be finished quilted and ready for binding by Friday. We are expecting a major storm tomorrow--so may get some quilting done assuming we don't lose electricity. But it also means I won't be in the garden. I'm going to try "straw bale gardening" this summer on a small scale. Got the bales from a friend tonight and will keep you posted on this experiment.
My daugher Rebecca and sister Lee are also retreating with me and I really look forward to their company and that of the ladies of MCQG for the weekend. We can get an amazing amount of work done while at the same time getting a little rowdy.
T-shirt quilts-- wanted to make my grandneice's a little more feminine by using puffy, poly bat. Plus she lives and will go to school in Iowa, so warmth is important. But found that the puffiness made it hard not to get some wrinkles in the T's despite being well stablized. Won't use it again on T-shirt quilts. That's the thing about quilting--you are always learning.
