I'm now back home from the most wonderful retreat house....the one called Tangi House....with a group of quilters who call themselves "The Pelican Partiers ." We gather as a group, making our path over and down from Texas.... Monroe....Lafayette, Louisiana. We call it meeting in the middle, twice a year for 4 glorious nights and days just sewing and laughing. We mix it up with a little bit of a chocolate martini, mango margarita (or peach) or whatever the provider provides! We always have a bottle or two of wine...and of course, have to finish the bottle since the cork never fits right back into the bottle after opening. Some prefer tea - and that's my true story.
We each have our personalized wine glass which also serves as the margarita glass and the martini glass. Now, how is that for packing as a minimalist should pack.
We sew too! Here's the proof. One among us wanted to learn how to make the "No Guts Boxie Pouch", a free pattern given to us on Craftsy. So when one does, so does the masses.
Ginger and Lilly worked on their Laura Heine....Abilene. Here's Ginger's WIP:
I came home and put the final border on my quilt top....a pattern I found in Simply Modern #4 by Sharon Holland. Sharon calls her blue and green quilt Bloomescent. I really, really like the Malka Dubrawsky hand crafted fabric in each flower petal.
and the back....also using Malka's fabric and a little bit of ZenChic for the right-size-to-finish.
Here's another of my starts. I did the 9 blocks made in the Denyse Schmidt minimal style and hope to finish this one out in the next few days.
So, it's home again, home again, jiggety-jig ~
Love retreats. They just refresh you. And you get so much done! Glad you had fun and shared the products with us!
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