Back to Square One: September

I know I already posted my progress a couple of days ago but I didn't give my post a title and now I am having trouble linking it to the blog! So, bear with me if you are tired of seeing this! Love, love, love how this is turning out!

Shutdown. Prayers please.

I am not getting into the politics just asking for prayer for all workers effected by this shutdown. This includes co-workers whose wages are funded by the WIC Program. I'm just not sure if I am one of them.  

Show & Tell Fall 2013 retreat

Fall retreat has come and gone.....

But we all had a blast!  We enjoyed great fellowship, wonderful food (Louise we need recipes), lots of sewing, cutting, some ripping (mostly me I think), and laughing....a lot of laughing.    And awesome door prizes.    Woohoo.   

Thanks ladies for tolerating all my coughing.   Hopefully I will be well for the next one.   ;-)

I admired everyone's quilts but for some reason I only took a few pictures.  Here they are.  

Peggy's progress with our Friendship Star Swap

Penny's beauty

Louise's Lovely Ladies

Wynema's Halloween Stained Glass.  (Sorry this is a little blurry)

Barbara's Crazy Nine Patch and Row Along

This is Peggy's also. I can't remember the name. But it is beautiful.    

If anyone else has photos please post them. 

This is my progress on aiming for accuracy.   Excuse the old flannel design wall. Lol it is pitiful isn't it.  

Thanks again to Louise and Peggy for all you do.  

Retreat Time - Yea!

Tomorrow afternoon Peggy & I will go set up for the retreat.  Almost everything I'm taking is loaded in the pickup.  This will be our largest retreat - 30 planning to attend.  I think that's the maximum number of quilters I can manage! We will play a new game that I hope will be fun and won't interfere with our play/work.  It's called "Spooling Around" and I modified it a bit to fit our needs a little better.  We will do the "Guess the number of Strips" contest on Friday and will award the winner Friday evening. Last year's winner won 277 strips!  That's almost 7 Jelly Rolls!  The real fun will begin Friday when everyone has arrived at the retreat.  I hope my "Friendship Star" blocks are not too gaudy - I was trying to take advantage of the opportunity to use some of my "not tiny" scale fabrics.  I hope this new facility will prove to be an ideal location for our
retreats.
I'm shooting some "prayer arrows" for Angela's quick recovery so she will be well enough to join us Friday.