Spring Quilt retreat

This past weekend the Stitchin' Chicks gathered in the barn for our spring retreat.  A fun time was had by all!

Photos of the weekend follow:

Saturday morning sunrise to greet the Stitchin' Chicks.

It was such a pretty morning!

Brenda made this darling quilt from the Vintage Farmer's Wife book.

A close up of one of the blocks....a chicken of course!

Love these cherries, from the same quilt.

Nina made her first quilt top this weekend!  A darling sampler made from 30's reproduction fabrics.  I regret that I didn't take a photo of the finished product.

As a group, we decided to make some charity quilts to give to various groups. Some of the gals made these quilts ahead of time, and some worked on them at the retreat.

Charity quilts....lap size.

 More charity quilts....

and a cute one with cupcakes!

Claudia made this darling baby size quilt for us to put in the charity box.

JoAnn is on a mission to use up as many scraps as possible by making these quilts for give away.

Cheryl is also using up scraps to make these quilts.  

JoAnn sewed miles and miles of strips of fabric together that she then cut in to blocks for the charity quilts.

JoAnn showing off her stripping!

 And, as always, we eat well!!

This was such a pretty table, with the bright napkins and the happy primrose!

Saturday night was fiesta night!  Lucky that I have so many different colors of dishes!

Each place setting had a fat quarter sized piece of fabric.  I wasn't even paying attention when I sat at this place.  The fabric had little kitties on it.  So touching, since this was the day that our Leo kitty died.  Made me smile and shed a tear all at the same time,

A few more photos of quilts that were hung in the barn over the weekend.

Pictured here is the red and white winter lap quilt and the "woman quilt", made from wool scraps that I have been collecting for several years.  The woman quilt is for Alicia when she moves home to the farm.

This is the quilt that my cousin Margaret and I made at our fall retreat.  It's not finished and I love it!  It's so fun!!  Margaret decided it would be fun to piece strips of  the fabric together to make the back.  So cute!!

Great conversations this weekend.  Some on the couch and some at sewing machines.  All restorative and refreshing.

And look at how new mom Emily, can multi-task!

4 month old Hesstyn Grace, happy on mama's lap!

Next retreat is the end of October.  Can't wait!!