Lots Accomplished By the Quilters Are Crazy Retreaters

All the quilters accomplished a lot at the retreat, though I did miss getting pictures of everything.
Tammy finished the first quilt of the weekend, a scrappy charm plus 1 yard of fabric quilt.


This is Cindy's 1600 quilt. She's making it a bit bigger and hopes to have it for her grand-kids one day.


Tammy was working on the same quilt, only she added a charm pack. She was working on the borders.

Michelle put binding on this super cute baby blanket she quilted. She was using it for practice to learn to quilt on her frame.

Emilee made several black/white blocks!

Jane made this cute baby quilt with paper pieced hearts. She was learning to paper piece with the Carol Doak beginners book.

Michelle made this placemat and worked on her quilting. She did a scallop throughout it. It turned out so cute.

The back shows the quilting well. She used the Easy Scallop tool to draw on her placement lines before she began. Darlene was working on a table runner in the same manner.

Darlene worked on quilting her grid table runner and getting it all squared up.



Lois made this baby quilt and worked on quilting it throughout the weekend.

Jenn made several bags for her kids during the weekend, when she needed a break from her big quilt.

Bev was making purses all weekend. The runaround bag was her first zipper and she really enjoyed making it.

Michelle made this fancy pillowcase with the scalloped borders out of French General.

Cindy made a Zippy Strippy bag. Darlene and Michelle joined her in making them as well. They used their fat quarters and zipper that were gifts during the retreat.

Jenn spent a majority of the weekend working on this quilt for her grandpa. It's made with all his old shirts. It turned out so neat!

Jane paperpieced this tablerunner and added the pink piping in to make it stand out. Aren't the bunnies so cute?

This is Emilee's Snapshots quilt fro the class she took from me a few weeks ago. We were discussing borders or no borders.

All in all everyone seemed to be extremely successful and get a lot done. I always enjoy seeing what everyone is working on throughout the weekend.

Quilters Are Crazy Retreat - Day 3

Sunday morning started off bright and early I cut out the setting triangles for my Mocha Meringue quilt before anyone else got up. We had delicious breakfast burritos for brunch. My dad stopped by for a visit. I showed him all the bright/black/white blocks we made during the weekend.

Before everyone left we used the timer on my camera to take a group photo.

Emilee and Darlene, who had never met before found they had someone in common. Emilee's grandma and Darlene were best friends in high school. So all weekend they were BFF's and when we found the magnet at Peterson's it just had to come back with us.

Just before we left I finished the setting triangles on the Mocha Meringue quilt. I plan to add a couple more borders, but needed to get some of the gray first.

My shopping experience added a few more yards to the stash. I picked up these two pretty purple batiks.

Here's all the fun door prizes and gifts I brought home from the weekend.

One of my favorite door prizes was the fat quarter pack of Central Park.

I did bring a few fats home with me as well. I'm sure they'll get put to good use!

This is one of the black and white blocks we made. We were able to make 60 blocks and Jenn, Cindy, and Emilee each took home a set of 20 blocks.


The weekend was tons of fun and we really enjoyed sewing together. Next year we hope to do it again and have even more friends join us. I'm so excited to start planning!

Quilters Are Crazy Retreat - Day 2

The Quilters Are Crazy retreat day 2 was Saturday. We started the morning with a huge breakfast. We had egg bakes, peach upside down muffins, and an apple biscuit dish. We definitely ate well!

I started the morning putting the borders on my friendship swap quilt. It looks more wrinkled then it is, but I was a good little quilter and measured everything (I kept saying because Tammy's here watching me)!

Around lunch we played the LRC fat quarter game. Jenn won all the fat quarters! She did share some as did Cindy from some she had won previously.

I'm wearing my new runs with scissors shirt Ed got me. Emilee and Bev are setting next to me.

The lodge was starting to take on a whole new disastrous look! We were all over the place.

The kitchen was full of food, but we also did a lot of cutting on the counters.

Saturday I made the little confetti blocks and after we got back from supper I put them all together. This one is for a class I'm teaching in April. It doesn't have any borders, so I'm calling it done! Two tops finished so far.

We enjoyed supper out at the Steakhouse and took in the Peterson's Variety experience, doing a bit of fabric shopping.

Quilters Are Crazy Retreat Friday - Day 1

The Quilters Are Crazy Retreat, officially held and named for my mom began on Friday March 2nd. Mom loved the song God is Great, Beer is Good, and People Are Crazy.  Jenn and I loaded my car full to the brim! We couldn't have gotten much more in there. We took pictures of the full car before we unloaded.

It took us right at 2.5 hours to get everything set up. Tammy and Cindy arrived shortly after us. Michelle, Darlene and Emilee arrive within an hour. We all chose our spots and got everything arranged. Emilee, Jenn and I shared the large table.

We had an ironing board over by the window and one by the wine cooler.

Jenn, Emilee, and Tammy having supper and a few good laughs. The counter held all the snacks.

From my spot at the table, you can see Michelle and Cindy at the table they shared with Darlene. The view out the south window is breathtaking.

This is the view from over by the ironing board looking back at the room.

Some of the quilters shared gifts. Cindy made the cutest little paper baskets. They held candy and a zipper we could use to make a bag.

The zippers coordinated with the fat quarters Michelle and Tammy gave as gifts. Tammy picked the pink sewing fabric fat quarters because they reminded her of my mom.

Tammy also brought paper bags for scraps and fat quarters from Fabric City. Jane gave us folders for recipes and patterns and made name tags. Jenn made us the really cute bags in the center.

Jane made me this super cute heart wall hanging and everyone signed the back. Everyone gave me a gift for hosting the retreat. It was so fun to see what everyone gave me. I got slippers, books, candy, lotion, a rice bag, and many other neat gifts!

Bev, Lois, Jane, and Sandy joined us Friday night after work.


Friday was very successful for me! I finished up the binding on the mug rugs I had made for everyone. Then I made a few black and white blocks for the giveaway. I also put together my friendship quilt blocks. I pressed all my Merry go round strips as well.

September Groovy Girls

Friday night was our first Groovy Girls of the new year. We had lots of new faces as well as a lot of returning members.
Darlene and Michelle, the two in center front, are the girls I worked with at the shop before. It was so good to see them and catch up. Shonna in the white and Jenn hidden in the green were also there. They stayed to sew as did Pam and Sue. It was so good to catch up with everyone after the summer break. Sherry and Emily were able to be there as well. I always enjoy my evening out with the girls.

Tammy does the program and this month was on the Kindle cover. She's showing the one I made out of the Maxine fabric. I have a co-worker who will be getting it for Christmas.

She also showed the CD/DVD holder I made out of the new pattern by Gudrun using her new Super fabric line.

I was so productive in the sewing department that night. I finished sewing all the Blush 60* blocks and finished sewing all the blocks for my Mocha Merigue Wonder Blocks quilt. That's been an old UFO that I know I will like, but just didn't care for piecing the blocks. Once I got started though, they were easy to finish. I also pulled the fabric to make Jacque's block for the swap. I was able to use my stash and have 14 different fabrics in it without cutting into my jewel toned batik fat quarters I had been buying, so I think I may just have to make another quilt with those since I love them so much. I got in about 5 hours of sewing which felt so good!