I got them to the point of hand stitching the binding and then stopped. These bindings are piling up I may have to make 2019 the year of bindings. LOL
Oh there was lunch in the afternoon, Deli Buffet.
Next up was this little wall hanging for Halloween.
I got it all fused and started top stitching.
We were on our own for dinner so a few of us went down stairs to eat at the Italian restaurant. Cheryl and I shared a veggie pizza. She is on a very restricted diet for health reasons and even though I am a huge meat lover, it's pizza what's not to like about pizza. :) That's Annette to Cheryl's left and left of Annette with the Red hair is Katie.
After that Cheryl and I headed home - because I used all my room credits for the kids visiting I didn't stay at the casino for this retreat.
Saturday morning we got there early and sewed a little before going down stairs to the regular buffet for breakfast. After that we went back up to the sewing room and got back at it. I continued to work on top stitching my Ghosty for a while then got to a point and switched to my Fa la la Flannel quilt. Another friend had made a quilt with this panel and fabric and then gave me the scraps. Well there were blocks sewn together and parts of a panel and so I paired it with a big hunk of red flannel I had and thought I'd figure out something.
So I cut up the panel and squared that up - then started sewing these blocks and hunks in to blocks to match the sized of the panel blocks.
Here's what I came up with.
Next I was trying to see if it would look good having a red sash. The blocks are just laid on there.
It does - so I worked the rest of the retreat on putting borders around the blocks.
Here is our last mornings breakfast.
Everyone packed up early this time. We try to stay until the end but everyone was packing up right after breakfast so we packed up and were loading our cars at 11am. We took the wagons down the back ramp (so much easier) and I waited with them while Cheryl and Gloria got the cars.
This retreat is our short one - we start around 9 am Friday and leave Sunday early afternoon. However this time it was even earlier. Oh well it's fun even if it is short. We have a gift exchange on Saturday night and it's always fun as we steal each others gifts. It used to be a white elephant exchange but after a few years of doing that and the elephants keep getting thrown back it - they're no good anymore. So this time we did new gifts. This year we also had an ugly tie contest. This was my entry:
I did not win. However Cheryl got 2nd place with this one.
We have an extra retreat this year and it is coming up in a couple of weeks - so I will work more on the flannel one and not sure what all else. This one Starts Sunday afternoon and goes through Wednesday early afternoon so 3 days instead of 2 and I'm staying this time so less time spent traveling. Hopefully more time sewing. :)
Oh and yes Stacy and Jay came up the opening day of the retreat before they left and got to see what this crazy quilter does at the retreats. They loved it. Jay was asking a lady how she was doing the paper piecing Stacy had fun talking to my friends and loved how friendly everyone was. Great weekend.
Blessings - Lynn
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