Wonderful Wednesday - Weekend Mini Retreat

Welcome to another edition of Wonderful Wednesday!!  I'm here to share the Mini Retreat that I attended over the weekend a my friend Britt's house.  When the husband's away, the quilters will play!!  UFOs, show prep, and fun projects were on the agenda.

Members of my Monthly Evening Quilt Bee were in attendance on Day One:

We got busy right away...

Maggie brought handwork.  If memory serves, she was finishing the binding on this:

Sue brought a selection of fabrics to make project bags.  This is the first:

Britt started the morning working on the booth layout for our guild's upcoming Quilt Show:

I worked on a layering a UFO in YELLOW with my RSC Quilt friends in mind:

Maggie moved on to her second hanging sleeve:

With the inner border applied, it was time for border selection for Britt's donation quilt made with Tim Holtz fabrics:

Petals are appliqued and minimal quilting is done:

UGH!!  Britt ran out of fabric before running out of border to stitch:

Since I didn't bring binding options, and didn't find anything quite right in Britt's stash, I switched gears and layered up the next  UFO project in YELLOW:

By this time, Sue was stitching on her second project bag:

After dinner, I happily quilted that larger pinned project:

Here we are on Day Two...

Maggie came bearing scraps for me:

These orphan blocks were included:

We tried another potential layout when a fifth block was pulled from the bag:

This is what I finished quilting last night and just remembered that it had been to late for a photo:

With that out of the way, I then moved on to trimming up the UFO tablerunner:

Sue completed her second project bag:

Maggie's project of the day was cutting for a swap she's doing with another quilt group:

While looking for binding options, I noticed this long-neglected UFO on Britt's design wall...

I'm pleased to say that I guilted her into making a bit of progress on it:

Done with cutting for today, Maggie settled in with the binding of another quilt for the Show:

Before time to go home, Sue managed to complete her third project bag...

And here she is with the weekend's body of work:

Since the first finished photo of her Tim Holtz quilt didn't turn out, I took another before leaving:

I also whipped out one more project which took a bit of finagling to get to the desired result...

It's a quilted scarf with directions that defy logic, but work well in practice:

Until next time...

Let's got SEW!!!