I made binding pincushions for my gift for everyone, along with two binding clips that color coordinated, and a little pair of scissors. I had a lot of fun making them!
See you next week ❤️
I made binding pincushions for my gift for everyone, along with two binding clips that color coordinated, and a little pair of scissors. I had a lot of fun making them!
See you next week ❤️
I talked about my fun quilt retreat a couple of weeks ago, to Payson, Arizona. There's a fantastically wonderful quilt shop there called Copper Needle. Gina Perkes is the owner, and she's also a pattern designer and long armer extraordinaire ❤️
Once a month, on a Saturday morning, she has a demo day where she demonstrates how to make a quilt that she just designed. Our retreat happened to be during that weekend, so we all made our reservations to go. Gina is so nice and so funny and so pretty, she actually designed two versions of her "Frolic" quilt pattern. She has the demo in a movie theater room, just two doors down from her shop which is in a strip mall. Gina always has 3 or 4 color versions of her quilt that she is demonstrating. You can also follow Copper Needle on Facebook and see her demo there. The cool thing about attending in person, is that she gives everyone the quilt pattern. After that, it can be purchased at her shop. She has a whole wall full of quilt patterns that she's designed. I've been to 3 of her demos now and have loved every single one.
I went to another quilt retreat and had the time of my life! I hadn't met two of the ladies before, they were so nice 💗
Our quilt retreat was in Payson, Arizona, a two hour drive from my home. It was in the mountains, and the drive was beautiful! I saw lots of saguaro cactuses on the way and the sun always shines in Arizona.
Here we are in the sewing room at the beginning of the retreat before anyone had a finish!
Here's my finished "peek a boo pumpkin" quilt top. Made out of 5" squares, it went together pretty quick! I used the design board to make sure that none of the same prints touched. I want to hang this quilt on my front porch for next year during the month of October. I think I'll call him Jack 🎃
Brenda was actually the first to finish a quilt top. Isn't this hot wheels truck so fun!!! It's for one of her grandsons at Christmas. Brenda also make the truck quilt top with the beautiful black and white blocks. The railings on the truck are made of cork and you can put things in them! Hearts for Valentines, pumpkins for fall, presents for Christmas, and so on...Terri made this cute quilt top and she has since machine quilted it on her longarm! Way to go Terri 👏🏻 Sadly, Terri could only stay for half of the retreat.
Nedra made this cute quilt made out of strips from her stash. It was a little tricky because she had to figure out how to make the quilt larger with borders. When you've been sewing all day and it's late at night, that ain't no easy feat!!! 😂
Nedra also made this gorgeous quilt. She already had the pumpkins and stars sewn so she sewed the checkerboard and added some sashing. I love this one!!!
Charlene made this really cute quilt and she made two table runners!
Shirley made this pretty quilt, it's a 3 yard quilt. You make a quilt out of 3 one yard pieces. Pretty sharp!
Debbie made this quilt top. We oooed and awwweeed at every single block she made! The colors and prints were so Halloween. The pattern is by Cluck Cluck Sew. We also loved that the points don't touch the edge of the blocks.
We took turns cooking breakfasts and dinners. Lunch was always leftovers, we had a huge counter full of snacks!!! I ate so much... One night we ate dinner at a Thai restaurant and it was nice to get out. We also ate leftovers the next day. What a great time we had! We reserved the Quilter's Nest for next October and hope that everyone can make it back :) A fun time was had by all.
I went to another quilt retreat, only 3 days after my last one! Lesson learned, I need at least a week between the two to recuperate! I would never deny a retreat though :) Meredith ( back row, middle) organized this retreat, it was at the Quilter's Nest in Payson, Arizona. She designed these cute "Farm Girls" pumpkin tee shirts to go with our fall theme.
Meredith gave us all a little kit to make this cute pumpkin pillow.
A good time was had by all! Oh, the stories we could tell :)
What happens at the Quilter's Nest stays at the Quilter's Nest!
I went to a quilt retreat last week with some of my favorite people 💗
We bought the pink shirts for another retreat but decided to wear them to this one too! One friend is a rebel and had to get blue, lol! The retreat was only around an hour from our houses and was in a nice hotel for an excellent price! There were 41 of us sewing in one of the conference rooms at the hotel. We each had an eight foot table, so much space! It was so much fun choosing a restaurant for our late lunch/early dinner each day.
Here we are at our sewing tables, my friend in the blue shirt left a day early, before we took these photos.
Guess what? I'm going to another retreat this week, and am working on a different quilt top that I have all cut out. I sure hope I finish it, that is always a great accomplishment. It's for my husband for Christmas :)
I went to a quilt retreat last week, Monday through Thursday. It was only a 50 minute drive from my house but I still stayed at the hotel. I shared a room with my good friend Nedra and we had lots of fun together. We sewed and sewed and went to a nice restaurant every day. There were 41 woman at the retreat and it was great visiting and getting to know some of the ladies. This is me at my machine. Everyone had a large Costco table to themselves which was really nice!
This was my view, sitting across from Nedra.
There was a sea of sewing machines in the. ballroom, quite a few of the women brought their embroidery machines along with their sewing machines.