January 29 and All's Well

Last weekend I went on a quilting retreat with my quilting friends whom I get together with on Thursday nights. We had a wonderful weekend! It was in a new place; we were her first retreat. It was in an old house, with a huge room set up for sewing and another room next to that for pressing and cutting. Upstairs were bedrooms with beds. Soon she will provide bedding, but we brought our own for now. I want to get some of my QuiltChick friends to come up for a retreat soon. There was a nice kitchen with two tables together where we could eat, and we were able to cook what we wanted, and ordered great pizza from a local place for one supper. They are such good friends. I feel lucky to know them. I surprised everyone by going to bed early both nights, but I am just so darn tired these days, and couldn't get into staying up to sew. I stitched binding on both baby quilts (I had finished quilting the second one last week one evening), and started hand stitching that on one. I also made a set of postcards with the theme "Blue Moon." I called mine "Blue Moons" and on a snazzy background put two overlays that just possibly could be seen as butts... Hey, it fit the theme! heh heh

I never catch up at school, but I keep plugging away at it. I should be correcting papers right now instead of being on the computer! I'll do some later.

Friday after school my best buddy and I drove to LaX for our last meeting on the Archaeology Project. The actual meeting was a waste of time, but I finished stitching the bindings on both baby quilts during the drives and at the motel Friday night. Actually I finished the last bit of the second one at home last night (It had gotten too dark to sew in the car). But they are FINISHED!!! Three down, one to go. That's my next project, to quilt and bind the fourth one. I plan to put some labels on the two quilts this afternoon, and then I will pack them up with a note and mail them on Monday after school! That will feel soooo good, to have those gone. I realized that they were like a dark cloud hanging over my head, and I needed to just DO them and get them where they needed to go. In the case of these two, I can't call them baby quilts any longer... but they will be nice for cuddling in to watch TV, or to make a tent, etc. They are rather large for baby quilts. I guess you could call them crib sized, though. As I have noticed before, binding a quilt really makes a big difference in what it looks like. When I put the red binding on these quilts it really made them look so much nicer. I quilted them with a varigeted primary color quilting thread from YLI. Love the way it looks, and I am getting better at it. My photo isn't the best (a bit crooked), but it shows the color, etc.

I had best get at the things on my list. Ana and Eric will be here in a couple of hours and I won't get anything done then. Hugs!