Last week I spent a lovely time in the company of sewing friends at our annual retreat at the beach. We all sewed from morning ’til night, and we chatted, laughed, snacked, journaled, and hunted shells as well. I took a huge suitcase of projects and made progress on most of them. But it will take me from now until Christmas to quilt an bind them all!
Each day I worked on both an easy project and another that required more time. For example, I made a quilted casserole cozy from fall fabric and a trivet filled with Insul-brite “batting” from a house block salvaged from an old quilt.
The unicorn quilt, birthday gift for a great granddaughter, was another quickly assembled project. The most difficult part was squaring up the panel prior to adding pink borders all around. In order to meet the birthday deadline, this was the first retreat project I loaded on the longarm upon returning home. (You can purchase a unicorn panel and coordinating pink/purple “Melange” fabric from Sew There! Quilts and More in Angier, NC.)
My bin of 3″ scrap squares tagged along to the retreat and furnished a new Checkerboard “leader/ender” project. Seventeen squares from side to side will make a good-sized lap quilt for a veteran. I’ll keep adding to the eleven rows constructed on the retreat.
I’ll keep you posted as I finish the other projects I worked on at the retreat!