Mississippi Meets Virginia!

As I gather and edit photos, plan and type up this post, the Mississippi Quilters are heading out car by car and beginning their journeys back home.

What was supposed to be the rainiest retreat on record turned out to be not so bad – just a few showers here and there, some middle-of-the night thunder bumpers that brought the temperatures back down into the pleasant range –

And nothing disrupted the quilting, chatting, laughing, and of course the eating of wonderful meals prepared by their own hands.

Yesterday’s over-the-porch-rail photo op presented a bit of a rain-delay and a challenge….but eventually things got down to a bare sprinkle and we were able to grab some towels, dry off the rail and cram all of this into 5 minutes max….click click, hurry, click click!

So if it sounds like I’m out of breath and yelling in this video…it’s because I did the whole thing once already, thinking I was videoing but the dang phone was still just on photo. So we had to do it again, while trying to beat the rain that could open up again at any minute.

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And here’s a close up of the slide show photos at the end:

Old Town next to a lovely Moda Blockheads sampler!

I love these two quilts, but I need names!

Isn’t the scarecrow darling? It’s a Lori Holt pattern.

The star quilt is Woven Dreams by Kansas Troubles.

Tumblers Leader & Ender Challenge next to Frank the Flamingo!

And there were quilts and tops and projects on design walls that didn’t make it out to the rail.

Jewel Box Stars was a previous Leader & Ender challenge and is found under the Free Patterns tab. I love the pastels!

This cute sampler is now sporting hearts!

More last minute beauties happening here!

And a Silk Path runner ready to be machine quilted!

I also spy some pretty nine patches in production on the machine – there is no stopping these makers!

Thanks for a wonderful week, ladies!

You brought so much joy and quilty happiness to this old house –

Thank you for making me such a part of things!

See you next year!

Side note and a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy in quilt naming –

I named this quilt Open Window, right?

I brought it over to the QPO yesterday because the ladies wanted to see it.

It was going to be a bit warm, so I left the windows partially down on the van.

It poured!! I forgot about the windows being down!

When I discovered it, the quilt was barely damp in spots. I took a towel, wiped everything down, left the windows still part way down so the quilt would have air circulating and dry out.

About 20 minutes later – the sky REALLY opened up, OPEN WINDOWS on the van now fully soaking everything inside the van again. Will I ever learn?

I ran out there with an umbrella that did little good, hopped in the driver’s seat to turn on the van to roll up the windows….

And this time I brought in the quilt to hang over the longarm rail to dry.

Open Window is now aptly named.

Today? Laundry day, of course. I don’t have a retreat until the 9th of July and it’s half-way through our retreat year, so I’ll be flipping mattresses, washing mattress pads and pillow protector covers over the next week too.

Mattresses will all be flipped and rotated. Ceiling fans will be dusted, and all of those “half-way-through-the-year” things seen to.

And there is a Leader & Ender challenge to finish writing – it’s coming SOON!

What’s up for your Tuesday?

I’m wishing all of our friends in Canada a Happy Canada Day!