Retreat!!!

My guild held their annual retreat last Friday and Saturday at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop and Retreat Center in Brunswick.  I love going there for retreat.  The retreat center is so nice.  We had a big room with plenty of outlets, ironing and cutting stations, and design walls to use.  There is also a wonderful kitchen, and the shop is right next door in case you "need" something.  The rooms are wonderful, nice cushy beds with quilts on them of course.  I worked on several projects.  The braids for the braided borders of my Bricks in the Barnyard quilt grew (I think 2 are long enough), I got several 4-patch blocks made for the guild exchange next month, and worked on some Civil War 9-patches for future exchanges.  I also finished my bug jar quilt.

Here are the blocks on the design wall.  I found some yellow dimple fabric to set them together with.  I don't have a picture of the completed top and my mom has the top now.  When I visited her this week, she loved it and asked to hand quilt it.  Since I never turn down hand quilting and I had a scrappy backing ready for it, I left it with her.  

I also worked on sewing together the blocks of the lattice quilt which is my UFO project.  I didn't find the right red for my inner border in the shop, so brought it home without borders.  I did some searching through my stash and found the trimmings from the backing of another quilt.  Even though I wasn't crazy about the print, the red was a good match.  As I was sewing the strips on, I realized I liked the wrong side of the strips better, so I ripped out what I had sewn and resewed using the wrong side of the fabric.  I then added the wide borders.  It's all ready to go to the quilter, I just need to trim the batting and backing.

We also got to see our guild's opportunity quilt finished.  Everyone made blocks, and it was really scrappy.  I love it.  Pam (pictured) did the quilting and it is fabulous.  I think we're calling it "Wholly Scrap".  Even the back is pieced with 10-inch squares.

Retreat was definitely a success!  We've already put dates for 2 retreats on the calendar for next year!