Quilt Retreat in Leavenworth

This was the 12th year that Tink and I have gone to Leavenworth on a quilt retreat with friends from our online guild, WASIQ.    It is such a treat to spend 4 days quilting and having fun.   Leavenworth offers other diversions that take me out of the sewing room......shopping, of course....food....and a fabulous spa just 2 doors down where I enjoyed a 90 minute massage!

One of our favorite restaurants is South...yummy Mexican.  Actually they say its Latin.  We went three times this year!  Twice for dinner and again for happy hour.

Here we are with our server Jessie, who remembered us from last year...including where we sat!  I didn't think we were that rowdy!  LOL!

Something new we did this year was have a "Jelly Roll Race".   This link best describes the race.

Here are the gals with their quilt tops right after they finished...I labeled who came in 1st, 2nd & 3rd.  You can click on the collage to see it bigger.

Here we all are with our tops:

A better shot of mine:

I also made this quilt top at retreat:

Another great retreat over.   Can't wait for next year!

Bottled Rainbows - Block 8

Oh gosh....my picture taking has degenerated!   All those wrinkles!

This is my pink block....number 8 of 12.  Getting there.   :)

I found this fun "rainbow" fabric at Hawthorne Threads for the backing for my Bottled Rainbow quilt.  It's Ann Kelle's line called "Remix".  I love it!  Unfortunately it had bad company in the washing machine and is now dingy looking with some smudge spots.  I considered buying more but then changed my mind.  Fabric is too expensive these days and it is just the back.   

Seeing Blue

I sewed with my co-workers from Pink Chalk on Thursday.   Kathy let us finish up early and we sewed the afternoon away....each working on their own projects using a pattern from the store.  I chose to make a quilt using a Blue Underground Studios pattern called "Green Glass Door".   As you can see below my "doors" were blue!   :)

I had collected quite a few prints in various shades of blue and decided this would be the perfect pattern to showcase them....and be fast!  I got half the top done at our sew-in and the other half at Yaya day on Friday. 

A little close-up:

My camera (and the operator!) doesn't take great pics but you get the idea.   

This was a fun quilt to make and would be perfect for that stash of fabrics you don't want to cut into little pieces.  

Me with my Lampshade hat on

I've had requests to see me in the Lampshade Hat.  Here's the only picture I have...taken by the owner of the tea house.   Not all the Red Hatters were brave enough to wear theirs!      :)

Quilted Lampshade Hat

I am a Red Hatter and for this months luncheon we were to wear a hat made from a lamp shade.   I decided mine had to be quilted!   Of course!    I made a template of the shade and cut it out of batting. Glued down red squares of fabric till the batting was completely covered and then machine quilted it to hold it all together.  Added binding to the bottom  nd top edges.....added some pom-pom trim and a fabric flower....and voila.....a cute hat!   I wore it today for lunch and now it proudly sits a-top a lamp.
Fun project!