A good time was had by all, if you don’t count the night visitors rustling in the wall and the mysterious critter bite that had Marilyn jumping out of bed. Of course being the well adjusted people that we are, we made jokes about it. 
We arrived at Canyon Camp Friday afternoon, and started setting up our little sewing areas.
For dinner we drove into Hinton for our usual Friday night mexican dinner. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant, but they have very good food at great prices, and they always smile when they are invaded twice a year by a large group of crazy ladies.
The project for this retreat was String or Strip Quilts. After dinner everyone piled their precut fabric strips on a table and the swapping and sewing began.
Last fall everyone brought fall themed blocks to retreat. For every block you brought, you got your name added to the pot for a drawing. Sharron won the blocks, and was supposed to put them together in a quilt top and bring it back to show at spring retreat. Here is Sharron and the fall blocks.
She had blocks left over, so a name was drawn for the remaining blocks. For this retreat, everyone made snowman themed blocks. I like Sharron’s “Snowman Embryo”, the snowflake block.
There were enough blocks to divide and draw 2 names. The winners were Jan and Sharron.
The camp feeds us 3 meals on Saturday and 2 meals on Sunday. For some reason we always think we’re going to starve or there will be some major catastrophe, like the kitchen burning down while we’re there. We are getting better though, this is about half of what we used to bring.
With all of the eating, laughing and discussions of “Snail Sex”, (don’t ask) some actual sewing took place.
Diane’s Spiderwebs
Jan’s Strip Quilt – I can’t remember the pattern name.
Marilyn’s Strippy Sunflowers
Melissa’s Spiderwebs
Sharron’s Strippy Center Medallion
Virginia’s Pastel Strippy Baby Quilt in progress
I decided that I really needed to work on a project that I have been working on at the last 2 retreats. I did go ahead and trade strips with everyone because eventually I do want to make a string quilt. So I spent the weekend making 18 star blocks for my Tennessee Waltz quilt. I have them pinned on the wall with the snowball blocks between and have decided that I don’t like the bright coral color originally chosen for the snowball corners. It’s too bright and dominates everything. Thinking of going with a paler dusty orange.
Due to illness and work, some of the Skrappies couldn’t attend and were really missed. Hopefully they can go to retreat in the fall. The pattern chosen for fall retreat is “Rancher’s Daughter” on Debbie Caffrey’s site. The theme for the quilt block drawing will be Angels.
Had a lot of fun and it was great spending time with good friends.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comments, felting machine, gardening on April 29, 2007| 1 Comment »
I still haven’t spied any hummingbirds, but I know how the feeder is emptying. Finches! I saw finches at the feeder yesterday.
I’ve been trying to get some gardening done. Thursday, I spent several hours weeding the front flowerbeds and pulling up all the Phlox. Even wearing gloves the Phlox still pricked my hands and left me with a tingly numbness. I must have a sensitivity to it. Still need to transplant 3 Hostas, before they get much bigger. They are already “ginormous”. One of my neighbors even commented on how big they were.
Yesterday I got the new vegetables plants in the ground. We’ve had so much rain lately, that when I was digging the holes for the plants, the bottom would fill with water.
All this exercise I’ve gotten in the past few days has left me with very sore muscles. I’ve come to the conclusion that maybe I should buy stock in Blue Emu and Tylenol.
I’m really itching to play in my studio, but I guess I will wait until after I pick up my new
toyfelting machine on Tuesday. Really need to work on unpacking boxes in the guest room instead.When Kathy called to tell me my machine was in, she said that Carol Ann was in the store when the UPS man delivered it and she ever so kindly offered to take the machine home and break it in for me. Thanks for the offer, Carol. You are so thoughtful.
Xanga has now opened up comments to everyone. You don’t have to have a xanga account to post a comment anymore. So I will be expecting a few comments once in a while.
Did you hear that, dear children of mine?
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