Finished Tops

I managed to finish a couple of tops that I did work on at retreat. One is a Blue Pineapple. Bonnie Hunter's pattern (http://www.quiltville.com/) but the borders are mine. It is huge. I think it will be a "what was I thinking" moment. It fits the queen, but I haven't actually tried it yet. This one has been sitting around for awhile. I wanted to do a blue quilt. Now maybe a green one...

 

This pattern is called Roy Rogers, and was from Quilting World mag. April 2009. I am looking for patterns to use up some of my novelty fabrics, and looking for something that is not really easy, but not going to take forever either. This fit that well. I am not too thrilled with the fabric placements, but I ran out of the brown AND the gray that's with the brown. I wanted to use the horseshoe fabric (set in triangles), and the cheddar someplace, Maybe just not there...

One wonders where inspiration comes from...

I was in St. Cloud awhile back, and we got to go see the horses. Always good photo opps. Quilters see patterns and colors everywhere...

Been A While...

It is always busy here, and Bill is here, then I am gone, Bill is gone, I am here...on and on this year so far. So, for an update on the quilts.
Halloween weekend was our quilt retreat. It was fun, as retreats always are! Here are some shots:

This was the sewing area....on the other end of the building is a room almost this big for the dining room, with the kitchen and bathrooms in between. I WANT this building! I could LIVE here. The other end could be made into a bedroom/dining room, and Bill could have a big industrial kitchen! And of course, this would really be MY sewing room! Well, one can DREAM....

We (I didn't) did the "10 Minute Table Runners". Cute and easy, but I don't do table runners at my house. Flat surfaces are always covered in "stuff".

They did a Mini-mystery. I didn't do that either. I have so much to do, I usually don't do the "extras". But, I did make a Mojo Doll. They were fun.

It was supposed to reflect our personalities. They were crazy, and I believe they DID!

Mojo Deb. Dark skin, you ask?? Being day-glow all of my life, I wish my skin was darker. And, I only had some brown fabric. Works for me.

All the girls together....

I don't remember what was in them (vodka?) but they were yummy. and not too strong (thank you Michelle) or I would have been done for the night.



And of course there was show and tell, and great food, and we will do it again next year. Now onto the rest of the holidays...yuck. I bet I would like the holidays if I could wrap them all around a RETREAT! This might be a new tradition for ME.