Quilt Retreat

Last weekend we had our annual quilt retreat where we spend two days in lodges in the woods, eating, sewing, taking classes, eating, walking in the woods, eating...  you get the idea. I taught a class - Happy Villages - where you cut up stair step pieces of fabric, arrange them on some batting, and then add roofs, doors and windows. It's like kindergarten and lots of fun. No sewing, no worry about cutting off points, no worry about perfect quarter inch seams.  I had 11 students, and they created 11 very different villages.

Here are some of the

villages at show and tell

on Sunday morning.

 

 

 

  Last summer I tried to teach my Wisconsin Girlfriends this same technique. They were not very well-behaved students as you can see at the right. They actually finally settled down and made some neat villages, but since they don't quilt, I ended up quilting all of them for them. And they had so much fun they're making more! My Uncommon Thread Quilt Guild students were much better behaved!

Our guest teacher was Janet Jones Worley, who was just a delightful person and her Saturday night lecture was hysterical!

Here are most of the people who made challenge blocks.

Race for the Cure

Saturday was the Susan G.Komen Race for the Cure. It's been monsoon season in Memphis, but Saturday morning the rain went away and the sun came out just in time for it to be a beautiful fall day. Over 16,000 people participated! This year when they took the survivors photo, my neighbor and I stood next to some crazy ladies with big pink hair and mardi gras masks - we figured that way we could find ourselves in the photo. It worked! See the lady with the green jacket on the right side of the photo? If you go in about 6 people, I am there, with a pink bandana around my neck.


I'm about in the middle in the photo below, a pink haired lady is on my left, and my neighbor Lynn with a boa is on my right. Julie, who I met on the shuttle bus on the way there is next t Lynn.

Part of the St. Francis Ladies Auxiliary Team  -

Romy, Donna, me, Lori and Karen.