From The Quilting Quarters!
Our high hopes for over the porch rail photos turned into high winds and higher wind chill.
We opted for group photos in the Quilting Quarters instead.
“But I only have a block, not a quilt!” said some –
It doesn’t matter. This is a come as you are, show what you made progress on kind of thing.
It doesn’t matter if you finished a quilt, made a few blocks, or simply cut pieces.
Maybe you needed a break and just wanted to sit and read in the Hen Den by the warmth of the gas stove – You are part of this!
All of this!
And even this!
And maybe, just perhaps – the best part of quilt retreat isn’t how much we accomplish on any given project, but that we spend time together.
Laughing, eating, listening, caring, building relationships and strengthening friendships.
The quilts will always be there –
But we will always remember how the people we shared this time with made us feel.
That’s the thing we hold on to.
The feelings.
And it may have been beyond frigid outside, but the warmth of friendship in this room comes from more than the gas fireplace logs.
Thanks for coming and braving the winter weather, ladies!
We’ll see you next year!
Meanwhile on the front porch –
USPS had delivered another box….what could it be??
Check those words toward the top. MORE MISC STUFF?!?!?
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!!
This box holds strings and small scraps sorted by color family. Whooowhooo! What colors should we work with next?
Oh. My. Word.
DYING LAUGHING!
(And boy did I need it. What a week.)
The start of a hexie quilt all in Y2K MIllennium fabrics. And even more – some of these prints are in the aqua/turquoise family. Hahahahaha!
At this point I will NEVER run out of Y2K fabrics to try to hide in scrap quilts. And I’m here for it.
Not sure where the hexie blocks may land, but they just may find themselves appliqued on to an orphan block quilt some day.
