Fall Quilt Retreat

 This past weekend I took time to indulge in a fall quilt retreat.  This is the usual time for our Stitchin' Chicks Retreat in the barn.  That couldn't happen this year because, well.....2020, but I was missing it.  Nan set up a Zooming chicks check in and get together for Sunday at 4pm.  I decided that would be the conclusion of my retreat, which my friend Chemyn called a me-treat!  So, Friday morning at 10am, my me-treat began.  

Here are the projects that I worked on over the weekend.

This past spring I started piecing a quilt for Ryan James.  Farming, yard and garden work got in the way of completion.  With those three off the to do list for now, I turned my focus back to this quilt.

Building the pieced blocks

More building.....

I decided it needed to be bigger than I originally planned.  This is what I thought I could do to enlarge.  

But the plain block was overpowering the pieced block.

So I decided to try a nine patch and I liked it a lot better.

Still liking the nine patch and now thinking about what to do about a border.

All through this process, Reynald, aka Color Man was consulting.  In the end, he chose a narrow green border and I will also bind it in the green. Now it's off to the quilter. 

I worked on a couple other projects, off and on throughout the weekend as well.

This snowman themed cross stitch has been going on for awhile.  I'm not really sure why I started it, but I did and now I'm too far along not to finish.  There's one more snowman and one more tree.  The two snowmen that you see, need to be filled in.

And of course there are the never ending wool applique projects.  I have fall and winter finished.  Closing in on this one and then of course there is spring.  

I really missed my fellow chicks in the barn, and it was so good to see some of them on Zoom last night.  Fingers crossed that by this spring we will be able to gather in person.  In the meantime, I had such a fun me-treat I think I will do it again before winter is over, maybe even a couple times!