Back from Retreat

For at least 10 years about 15-20 of us have gathered in spring and fall at the Westminster Retreat Center for a long weekend of sewing, eating, talking, sewing, sharing, sewing . . . .

This is The Big House where we go for incredible home cooked meals at 8, noon & 6.


Then we walk off some of the meal by heading down the path to the Little House and getting back to work.

This is the room 10 of us were working in. Looks kind of messy, but you know what they say about creative minds and boy were those minds working overtime this weekend!

The couches become our storage spaces (and resource centers for anything we may have forgotten).

I am lucky enough to share the weekend with two of my daughters. Here is my oldest with her scrappy quilt created from swap fabrics. She finished the quilting and got the binding attached on this one along with working on several other projects. She knows how to take advantage of a weekend of sewing with the kids home with Dad!

Didn't get a pic of youngest daughter but here is the baby quilt she put together for a co-worker. She even wanted to miter the borders so she'd know how (and only had to redo one!) She spent the rest of her weekend catching up on sleep and working on her knitting projects.

And then there were my projects, most of which I neglected to photograph (but will soon). I finished piecing 2 of these Bunny table runners, put the final borders on the Quilt Along Bears in the Farmhouse quilt and started piecing two Hungry Caterpillar tops.

The hubby made a sizeable dent in the honeydew list I left for him and was busy with his own projects when I returned on Sunday, so I continued my retreat here and was able to finish the Caterpillar tops and baste the Bunnies for quilting before calling it a weekend. Another weekend of power sewing is now a memory and I'm looking forward to our next gathering in October.

Deanna