SEW MUCH FUN....................

 I LOVE QUILTING!!!

Went to a quilt retreat with my dear friend Joan Orton,

my niece Sandy Spencer, and Sandy's friend Shannon

Morgan.  It was at the Zermatt Hotel in Midway.

Sponsored by Amy McClellan at American Quilting

IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!

I made this mini quilted heart at one of the classes I took.

Learned so much in this class taught by Nena Caldwell!

about what to do with my scraps, string piecing helps, 

and laying out your quilt.

This quilt is from Amy's (on the left) Mystery Quilt class.

For this class, about 35 fellow quilters bought assigned yardage 

and cut it up and gave it back to Amy.  She then divided it up

and gave us back a kit to make the quilt pictured above.

It will be very hard but so very much fun to make!!! 

Amy is amazing!!! Such a great designer!!

 Shannon and Sandy made this adorable quilt!!!

They are adorable! and we had a good time together.

I am sooooo proud of Sandy and all the good she does

and the wonderful person she has made of herself!

 This is Alisa.  Don't even know her last name.

But I met her at the last retreat I went to and had the fun

of seeing her again at this one.  She is a wonderful

quilter and designer and I just love her!

She was very helpful to me on my quilt I was making.

This lady is Pam Taylor.  She is a fellow quilter

and was Cortnie's third grade teacher.  I have

seen her around the quilt world but never have had a 

chance to talk to her and tell her thanks for all she did for

Cortnie.  But at the retreat we had a chance to chat.

She was the teacher that discovered that Cortnie had

some short term memory and learning difficulties.

We had no idea until then because Cort was so amazing

and had learned to adapt and fool us! 

Thank goodness for good teachers!

 This was my breakfast one morning.....Yup.... I ate

really healthy while there....This was YUMMY..... filled

with cream cheese...Great bakery there! Lots of great food!

I think I ate half my body weight in junk food.... mostly M&Ms!

 This is Sandy, Shannon, me and Joanie!

At our work station.... Great four days spent here

making some fabulous projects.

 This is my major project for the week.  I got it laid out

FINALLY just before dinner on Friday night.

Then after dinner I stayed and put the rows together.

It has been a big project.  Each of those half circles 

were sewn to backing, ironed in place, and then machine 

appliqued down.  Then I had to cut the fabric out from behind them.

But I have a feeling that was the easy part.  Putting it together

may be the worst challenge.  More photos to come!!