Sunday, July 14, 2019

The Guild had their annual summer retreat (this was our second year but I know we’re going back again) on Friday and Saturday.

I made good progress on a couple of things – a Guild class project (9-Patch) now has new life as a Disappearing 9-Patch. It wasn’t magic, it took a lot of work and I’ll continue with it until I have a finished top. It isn’t one of my UFO Challenges, but no one but me really knows what my challenges are so I may sneak it in.

When I was in Saskatoon I purchased a set of patterns to make seven miniature quilts. I finished one of them at the Retreat. I used scraps but I’m determined that even when I’m using scraps I’m going to give them a more organized look. I used a single line of fabric and doing that certainly helps. I hope to get it quilted on my next trip to Texada and I’ll be more than ready for our first meeting in September.

We took our own lunch to the retreat on Friday and ordered pizza for supper on Friday night. Kathleen made her fabulous lemon cheese cake so we were well looked after. Saturday lunch was a pot luck – I took a Spinach Salad. There were two kinds of broccoli salad, two kinds of potato salad, a pea salad and ham. And we had fresh-baked blueberry pies thanks to one of our quilters. We teased Donna that because she brought blueberry pie to the bee a couple of weeks ago and now blueberry pies to the retreat, we’d expect it to be a regular “thing”. Saturday supper was left-overs and they were good!

Since we all knew yesterday was the last day for the retreat we were constantly reminding ourselves that it was Saturday, not Sunday. From the moment I got up this morning I had it in my mind that it was Saturday – after all, it was the start of two days at home (sounds like a weekend, right?). I sat and did some hand stitching this afternoon so I think I’m back on track again with my days.

Pat gave the weeds the vinegar treatment this afternoon so I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow.