Cute Little Project for Retreat

Here is a cute and easy project for the retreat later this week. It is a cute little gift container with a fun pom-pom on top.

I got all the kits packaged up yesterday so one down and two more to go!

Melinda

Special Projects at Callaway Retreat

One of the features of our retreats is special small projects.  Everyone seems to like them a lot and it is fun to take home at least a couple of finished projects.

The first one we made was a Pumpkin Mug Rug – Mary put the pattern and kits together and many of them were finished.  She also taught this project.

Next I showed them how to make a Halloween hexagon coaster.  I cut 7 hexagons for each person and almost everyone make their coaster.

Last was a project bag with a vinyl front.  I learned to make it in Las Vegas this summer but rewrote the directions to make it a little more easy to follow.  Last night we had everyone quilt the fabric and then we finished making this this morning.  Many people decided to put the binding on at home but several managed to finish the whole bag.

I got a photo of Daryl’s projects.  She put the mug rug and coaster in the project bag.  Here they are.

Fun, fun, fun!

Melinda

Red Top Retreat–Day Three

Another wonderful day at retreat. We had pizza and salad for lunch and they were getting ready for a baked potato bar for dinner.  Sorry I had to miss it but we had a good dinner at home also.

Here are some of the quilts being worked on at retreat.

 

Here is my work station at Red Top.

Here is the quilt I worked on most of the time.  Two more seams and it will be finished.

Here are my Sisters Choice blocks so far.

Here is the quilt I spent most of my time at the retreat on.  Only two more seams to do in the morning and it will be finished.

I managed to finish 20 more of my leader/ender bowties.  I now have 360 done.

Melinda

Day One of Red Top Retreat

We had a lot of fun today and most people worked on their Sisters Choice quilts. Here are a few photos.

Carolyn was putting borders on her Lazy Sunday quilt.

Melinda

Getting Ready for Retreat

The Allatoona retreat starts tomorrow.  I won’t be able to spend the night at the retreat but I hope to be able to go for a while each day.  The theme of our retreat is Quiltville in the Mountains and we are featuring scrappy Bonnie Hunter projects.

The quilt for the retreat is going to be Sisters Choice – one of Bonnie’s free patterns.  I agreed to teach it before Bill got sick so I put together a story board for the blocks.  I am using green star points, various brights for the nine patches and white/black for the background.  Here is my board, ready for the trip to the mountains.

The top is all the pieces cut out for a block.  The one on the bottom left is a partly sewn block and the one on the right is a finished block.

Melinda

Getting Ready for Amicalola Retreat

Once again we are going to do a mystery quilt at the Tiny Stitches retreat in January.  This year the directions call for 8 dark fat quarters and 8 light fat quarters.  I picked mine out over the weekend.

Although I have a drawing of the finished quilt top, I have no idea how it is made.  It is always fun though.

Melinda

Allatoona Quilters’ Guild Meeting

Today was the monthly meeting of the Allatoona Quilters’ Guild.  The program for the day was to show quilts made at our annual Red Top Retreats, past Block of the Months or Quarterly Quilts.  Here are a few of the quilts shown.

Last year at Red Top, the featured quilt was Swoon.

Mine is put together but still needs a couple of borders – on the list for hopefully the near future.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–May 13, 2013

I finally finished my Swoon blocks.  They are so large I had to use two design walls at the shop.  Here is the final arrangement – maybe.

Next I need to add sashing and then the small scrappy border.

I made a few more Kaffe houses.  Up to 16 now.

It certainly is going to be a fun neighborhood.

I spent two entire days last week sending out acceptance letters for the East Cobb Quilt Show.  We had such a great turnout for our call for quilts and I ended up sending 300+ emails.  At least that part of the job is over.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–May 6, 2013

My village is getting larger.  I have 12 done now – on to the next 4 or 8.  Look – one of them has a roof of selvages.  It is made from leftover fabric from the backing of the ECQG raffle quilt that I quilted.  I think it is my favorite one.  Which one do you like?

I finished the eighth Swoon block and have started on the last one.  Here is it, partly put together.

Not much more to this one.  I hope to finish it this week.  The next big decision will be how to set them. I think I will have to take them to the shop to play with since they are too large for my design wall.

Before all that, I need to put the binding on the Saturday Sampler quilt.  I hope to get that done tonight and will be able to post a photo of it tomorrow.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times here.

Melinda

Nancy’s Swoon Quilt

I got a photo of Nancy’s quilt at guild yesterday.

She made it from 30’s fabrics and I love it!  She decided not to use the sashing between the blocks but look at the cute half square triangles in the corners.  My favorite block is the one in the middle but I like them all.

Melinda

Ricky Tims Seminar

I spent the last three days at the Ricky Tims Seminar.  I didn’t take my laptop, just my iPad but it didn’t really matter because the internet was non existent at the hotel.  My last few posts were from my iPhone and short because it is hard to type much on it.  Now that I am home, I thought I would post a few more photos.

This one is what Ricky calls Caveman style – I think I would like to try a small of of these.

Next are a few Convergence quilts.  I know I want one of these.

I also liked this one with all the half square triangles.

I think this was made by Alex Anderson but can’t see the label.

Lots of inspiration and lots of ideas for projects.  It was a fun time.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–January 14, 2013

Here is my design wall today.  This is the mystery quilt designed by Debbie Caffrey that we worked on at retreat.  I do sew during retreat but don’t have a lot of time.  There are only six blocks in the quilt and I have most of the pieces made for each of them but only one completely finished.  I still need to add the white triangles to the sides of the strips before I can finish putting it together.

Several people were able to finish their tops.  Here are a few.

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Here is Debbie’s sample quilt.

I can’t wait to see the finished quilts in the next few months.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times for lots of inspiration.

Melinda