The retreat and my quilt

The retreat is over, of course it was two weeks ago and only for two days. All of the quilt guest had a great time and got some nice gifts (from the retreat committe and from some of the other guest). On sat. morning when the guest arrived the had the desk caddy sitting on their tables where they set up their machines. In the caddies were a small legal pad, graph paper, lint roller, pen, pencil, tube of oil, small paint brush, spool of thread and a name tag for them. Saturday afternoon they all got a Tee shirt with this years block on them (thanks Sue) and a key chain. On sunday morning they came back to a bag with two FQ"s and a panel of quilters quotes a the challenge for next year.

Some of the guest got gifts for us too. Sue and Jane tried their hand at glass etching and made us a coffee cup and filled it with six coffee fq"s and a quilt pin. Carolyn and Jeanette got us a tote bag fabric and lint roller and spray bottle and binding clips and a personal fav. chocolate. Aunt Mary had Uncle Henry make us a wooden presser stick and Jane got us each a finger pincushion. Thank you everone. I came home with more than I went with. Everyones quilt was turning out very nice. To see all of them laid out follow the link to the Milan Quilt Builders blog in the right top corner of mine. Kare has pictures of the ones that got laid out on the floor. I did not get all of my blocks done there but I did finish them up the next weekend. I also got my top put together. I still haven't decided if this is for me or for Gabby. It is too big for her toddler bed and I don't have a clue when she will get a twin bed for here. I like it even if it is all PINK. When you look at it can you see the star in the center? This was a fun, easy quilt to do. I might have to do this block again. The block is the split 9 patch . We had 18 guest all doing the same block with our own fabric and all 18 quilts where very different. Very pretty too! Night Karen