Thank you Gay Bomers and Brenda Papadakis for organizing these retreats.
After 8 hours on the road, we arrived at Gretchen's farm where she invited us to stay overnight. I showed her my completed Dear Jane top and several works in progress that I had brought along, naively thinking I would get a lot of work done on each one. Then Gretchen proceeded to show us her completed quilts. Oh my goodness! She was ready and had about 20 (I forgot to count) full sized quilts that she had made over the years and the stories that go along with each one. Of course, my camera was packed away in the trunk of my car with dead batteries. I have been emailing with Gretchen since spring when we connected through our blogs and realized that our husbands have known each other for many years. We both raise Guernsey cows.
Now one the rules of quilt retreats include "what goes on at retreat stays at retreat", but I can share what I did. I started the Sarah Morrell quilt. Yup! I did.
I got 10 of 12 foundation pieced strips for one of the blocks and prepped an applique block so I had something to hand stitch on. I did not have all the paper strips with me so could not finish it. Silly me. I thought I could get all 10 blocks foundation pieced.
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| Morrell Block #39 |
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| BTCT Block # 16 |
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| Lancaster Diamond Sampler |
I made one block.
When I got home I started a new blog. It was easy. Too easy. The name? Quilting Morrell at the Farm.
Here I will journal my way through the making of my Morrell quilt. If I can ever figure out how to set up a linky party, I will. That way others can come on board and share their progress also.
Blessings,
Chris
