Saturday, July 21, 2007

Attended a quilt retreat at Always Quilting, a LQS in San Mateo last weekend (07/13.14.15) and actually finishedthese two quilts! The retreat was great fun. Kit and Julie (the owners) and their staff really knew how to take care of us. They prepared our meals, provided snacks (as well as a constant supply of chocolate!), cold bottled water and were there to help and advise. And all for just $95 for the weekend. We started out at 0900 on Friday and while the day was supposed to end at 2100 some were still there until midnight. Saturday I was there until 2359 and others didn't leave until around 0200. Back we were at 0900 on Sunday. On Saturday we had a Harry Potter Trivia Contest. Good thing we were in teams and my team mates had read the books or I would have been sunk. My team won fat quarters for all by having the most correct answers.

The two quilts I made were variations of the pattern Between Friends Jr from the Happy Hour book by Terry Atkinson. She's also the designer of Yellow Brick Road. I made the black/white/red one on Friday and the other on Saturday.

2 comments:

Janna said...

How pretty!

artful yankee said...

really beautiful, especially the top one!!

hi i'm janna's friend from maui. i am a crafty one :D

anyway, i have made a few quilts in my day... my fav is one that i duplicated the pattern in one of the fabrics for the quilt pattern. The fabric had rectangles free floating on a creamy background with little orange squares on it... kind of reminiscent of the fabric you saw on old boxer shorts. Sorry i don't have a pix, my daughter has the quilt.