Pinwheels and HST

Today is my "Plan-a-lot-amus" (nick name from my daughter) day but also my plan of action day.  Tomorrow the 3rd of 3 retreats in a row starts.  This one is 4 days and I am staying over so I'm trying to make sure I have everything I need.  I do only live 30 mins away if I have to come home, but who wants to take an hour out of their sewing time.  :) I usually cook all day on these days, but hubby still has lots of food left over from the last one so other than making him a big bowl of salad, he should be set.  

At the 1st retreat in this trio I started working on a ufo that was my Black and White Pinwheels from 2009 or 2010.

There are 2 more of the pinwheel blocks that need to be made and then there are 640 Half Square Triangles.  At the 1st retreat I got several HST done, and some trimmed.  At the second retreat I got more sewn and this week I've been trimming them.  However - I still have this many to sew together.  

Then I will have them and these to trim. 

Once that is done I can start sewing them together to make a square 

Then two of the squares will make this little sashing unit. 

There needs to be 80 of these units.  So now that I have listed all these steps - what I want to do is link this up as my One Monthly Goal over at Elm Street Quilts. 

 

The goal is to make the 2 Pinwheel Blocks remaining and get all 80 of the sashing units sewn together. Wish me luck  :). 

Now head back over to see what others are sewing and what their goals are.  

Thanks for stopping by - Blessings, Lynn 

Havasu Quilt Show 2019

November first and I started it off on the go.  A few of us got together and drove down to Lake Havasu City to go to their Bi-Annual Quilt Show.  I have to say there were some super duper quilts.  I only took a few pictures and I did not get the details recorded of who made them. *Sorry* But I know a lot of these ladies and the ladies that quilt them so I wasn't as concerned with that.  And since my friend Cheryl and I just did two different retreats with people mostly from Havasu, we were all like "Hey There, I know you"  because we just saw them. :) 
Here are just a few that caught my eye.  
This one are blocks of machine embroidery of cute sea animals, but click on it and see if you can see the quilting on the borders.  That is really cute too.  

 I really like the hot air balloons, and haven't had a lot of luck getting to see them in person.  It has rained  or been too windy each time we try, but this quilt with London Bridge behind is really neat.  

 Because I love everything Christmas - this was cute.

 This was really neat too.  

After the quilt show we went to lunch at Shugrues.  Funny we are about 3/4 done with our lunch and our friends from our own guild that we saw at the show - walk into the restaurant.  What are the chances.  Anyway after we're done Jean's Sister Carol hadn't been to Lake Havasu City for many many years even before the London Bridge had been reconstructed so we wanted to take pictures.  

After I took pictures of Jean and Carol we start taking other pictures -

Then this one is because they tell me to go over so they can take a picture of me and then they walk away so I'm like - so I don't have any friends in my pictures.  :)  

Jean was nice and came to my rescue

 Then Donna.  :)

 We had a fun day.  Nice hanging out with good friends.  We went to a quilt shop after this and then home.  I didn't find anything I wanted.  And so my only purchase (other than lunch) was a panel I got at the show.  I want to do an attic window quilt with it. 

The fold lines in the fabric kind of show you what it may look like as window panes.
Tomorrow I will be gearing up for the 3rd retreat.  It starts Sunday morning.  I won't have to do much cooking hubby still has food in the freezer, but I want to do a little cleaning.  I am staying at this one so need to pack clothes and then just make sure all my projects are together.  I also need to figure out what I want my One Monthly Goal to be and do a post for that so I can link up. 
Until then - Blessings,
Lynn

October OMG Fall

Fall has left the building, in two ways.  Fall here in the desert came and went rather quickly, I think we are already entering the winter months.  For us highs in the 50's and 60's are cold.  The transition between temps of 120 and 60 doesn't take as long as one would think.  Anyway the 2nd Fall to leave is the Fall crazy table mat that was my One monthly goal. These table mats are for my friend Cheryl. I get the pleasure of stitching them and she gets to have them.  As I stated in my link up post, I was ready to put the back on and bind it when she thought it would be nice to have stuff in the middle since she won't be putting anything on them. She likes squirrels so I appliqued them and embroidered leaves - here it is finished and bound.  

 Here's the back.

Now I'm linking up to One Monthly Goal, over at Elm Street Quilts. 

Have a Blessed Day!  Lynn 

River Quilters Retreat

All of our retreats except one are held at the Tropicana Laughlin Hotel and Casino.  The retreats which are mostly held in the Coranado Room differ in lay out depending on who the host is. This one is put on by River Quilters which we refer to at the Helga Retreat.  Helga Brown, Judy Jorden and Susan Sacco are from Lake Havasu City and they are the ones that put this together and call the group River Quilters.  This retreat normally includes 30 people and the layout works to not crowd us. 

 Here are the welcome gifts. 

And our name tags.  

Here are the lay out pictures I took while people were setting up.  I am facing the front of the room from the middle of the room and taking pictures from the right going to the left. 

This picture I am standing at the door look straight back. 

This picture is from back of room looking to the right. 

 This picture is from back of room looking towards the door. 

  This picture is from back of room looking to the left.  My seat at this retreat is just beyond Ann next to window. (See the turquoise jacket on the chair) 

I did not work on the project(s) that I thought I would so I guess I'll have them for the next retreat.  I was just going to do a couple steps on my old mystery bom ufo, then bring home do trimming and get set up for the next steps.  Well I got excited and kept going.  :)  

I was going to just make these units and then bring home to cut. 

like this, because it was using a special ruler/template ....

but I went ahead and cut.... and then I was able to do the next several steps - 

At that point I was able to do everything except the 2 borders. 

I didn't bring it with me because I wasn't going to go that far.  LOL.  

After I got that done - continued on with the HST that I thought I was going to work on.  I wanted to get them sewn so I could trim during the week and then I'd be able to start putting that ufo  together.  

Sunday - the last day of this retreat was my Birthday!  Happy Birthday to me.  My daughter asked if I was having fun I told her yes I was in my happy place - sewing.

And what are the chances - there was another lady there, that got into the retreat because someone canceled and it was her Birthday too.  

It was a super fun weekend and retreat.  They had games, raffles and door prizes.  Oh and lots of sewing and laughter.

Time to gear up for the next one.  

Have a Blessed Day! Lynn 

All the Little Pieces

Good Morning - 
I'm gearing up for another retreat, 2nd of my 3 in a row.  I started sewing my HST on the last day of the last retreat. They will be part of the little pieces that make up one of my older UFO's.  I've decided lately that I want to use these retreats to finish up UFO's (if I can). 

I only got about 1/3 of the 640 sewn, but figured it would be helpful to get what I could trimmed before heading to the next retreat.  It will probably take me most of the retreat to finish up just this part.   :)

I have a bag of untrimmed, I trim and then they go in another "Ready" bag - then I can press open and sew them together. 

Since my big machine is still in the shop - I have been using my smaller/travel machine and I didn't want to unpack and have to pack back up in just a couple days so I've been working on trimming and then also a little on my embroidery

Lots more to do on it but having fun with it.  And no it won't be done for this Halloween.  

Since I'm staying over night on this one, I did my marathon cooking for Hubby too.  Beans in the crock pot on the right, chili sauce, (cooked salsa) on the left pot.

Spaghetti sauce in the middle pot for the spaghetti w/ french bread and Caesar Salads. 

Sausage egg and cheese breakfast burrito's.  and not pictured hamburger patties.  

Kinda like prepping for a camping trip.  :)

That's for now, I'm going to finish packing and I'm sure I'll let you know how the retreat goes.

Blessings, 

Lynn