Our Latest Retreat

We had another great retreat at L'Ermitage Sainte Croix this past weekend. Ten quilters, including Mary's two sisters worked hard all weekend and many projects were finished. Even though the weather was good we mostly stayed indoors chained to our machines. The roaring of machines filled the room until people got tired of that work and then sat, chatted and hand quilted. Some stayed up late Friday night hoping to see the aurora borealis but all they saw was a beautiful dark sky.

Linda made two quilt tops for her grandsons with jellyrolls. She sewed all the strips together in an hour, not counting ironing.

Roz joined us for the first time and she came with everything including her chair but not the kitchen sink. She worked on lots of projects and finished this baby quilt top.

Mary worked on a preemie quilt. She brought her new sewing machine and machine quilted with a walking foot for the first time. She is finishing the binding by hand and still prefers hand quilting.

Allison spent lots of time documenting all her embroidery stitches. She now has sheets with all the stitches with different lengths ready to embellish many new projects. 

Charlotte worked on a preemie quilt and here she is putting on the binding and as always smiling.

France was working on a set of place mats with lots of pieces and great colours. 

While others sandwiched and sewed the quilt tops Rita had made, she was busy cutting and sewing two new quilts for  friends and neighbours.

Mary's sister Jeannie finished a little quilted cross stitch baby announcement and knitted a tiny sock.

Mary's other sister Betsy had a few projects on the go and here she is quilting on a Greek Village. She couldn't sew on a quilt for her daughter because she forgot the thread.

Here is Charlotte's quilt with the binding almost completely finished!

Jeannie got to work on some preemie quilts while Betsy and Mary just watched!

After Linda finished the two quilt tops she still had some strips left over, so she made another preemie quilt.  This one didn't even take her an hour, including the ironing.

Time went by very quickly even with starting work at 8:30 AM. After Sunday lunch we packed up to get back to the real world. We missed Anna and Sandra this time and hope they make our next retreat.