Other things happing on retreat.

 It was a great work with so many things going on. My friend was working on a lovely blue quilt. Look at this lovely block she has put together..

This block will look lovely with a few more to make a great quilt.

Then there was a lady here for her first time. She was making a real scrap quilt. She spent the whole weekend just sewing scraps together. Making them bigger and sewing the blocks together. Until this happened.

One side done

A bit more added.

Then WOW. LOOK AT THIS. IT IS HUGE...

Doesn’t it look great. Now I know I have to get mine out of the box and make some progress on it. It hasn’t seen light for 8 years... Maybe next years retreat I can take it and show her my progress..

Maxine's quilt - Curved quilting

My friend usually quilts her quilts at the LQS but 2 of the staff have been off with broken ankles, legs, hips... Coincidentally they both suffered injuries a week apart so the shop has been understaffed. Therefore the quilt frame was not available due to no assistance. So over to my house to help out. She needed it for Xmas..
Now it is done...

Added a bit of curved quilting...

The quilting is done.
Now all she has to do is the binding.

ON RINGO LAKE TOPS ARE COMPLETED BEFORE THIS YEARS MYSTERY BEGINS.

ON RINGO LAKE TOPS ARE COMPLETED BEFORE THIS YEARS MYSTERY BEGINS.

Her is my 2017 mystery top that I finished a while back.

My mission has been to get my friend, Maxine to finish hers too.

Last year and this at our retreat Maxine has brought her quilt along.

Now, keep in mind, Maxine only started quilting about 3 years ago. She was a bit daunted with all these small pieces and the importance of accurate seam allowance.
We started to look at where she was up to at an all day sewing day at our local group.
We laid out the pieces and worked out what needed to be done.
Sorry about the blurry photo.

Another blurry photo but all the sashings have been done.

And here it is at the end of the retreat.

Yes we noticed the mistake at the top.

We are not trimming it until it is quilted . The lovely colours Maxine chose instead of going scrappy look amazing.

She has done a wonderful job.

She may even give this years FROLIC a go.

Have a look here at BONNIE HUNTERS QUILTVILLE.

https://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/frolic-mystery.html

The end of my weekend

There are just a few more photos to go.

This quilt here was made by my friend. She has been asked to enter it into the Quilt exhibition ShowCase in Melbourne. Maxine is over the moon.
Keep a look out for it if you go next year.

Maxine's quilt

Then to end my day I bought these beautiful roses for my neighbour where I was spending the night.

Well the time has come for the end of the photos and to head off for the 5 hour drive home.

I hope I haven't bored you with a weeks worth of not so clear photos. They are my memories of o wonderful weekend.... I caught up with many of my friends. How wonderful.