Retreat - Sharon's Productivity

Eight lovely ladies attended the retreat this year at Nelsonville's Needles N Pines retreat center. We have all been together for previous retreats, so we just picked up right where we left off, stitching and catching up with each other. 

All of us are seasoned enough at this retreat business to know a few tricks to having a successful week of sewing. One is to show up with a project ready to sew. It is the very best way to progress quickly on a quilt. Sharon absolutely epitomized this theory with THREE - 3 finishes.

First, this Around the World quilt was a WIP (work in progress) and almost finished upon arrival. She'd started it last fall. Once she began sewing, she made quick work of it by adding a few more borders to get to this final quilt top. 

You may recall that I was planning to make one, too. Well, I finally dove into it at retreat; stay tuned for an upcoming post in which I reveal it. Now, let's move on to Sharon's other finishes.

She'd picked up a layer cake of juvenile fabric, and decided that her great nephew was sufficiently old enough to have outgrown his baby quilts. This is that same easy pattern so many of us have been making with our layer cakes. I will link to this post in which I outline the directions. It is also a pattern that can be accessed from Fat Quarter Shop.

And last, she found a treasure in the depths of her sewing stash. She had a fat quarter pack of French General fabric - possibly one of the oldest of all their collections. She also found the pattern for Turning Twenty. The result is stunning!

All these quilts went together so fast because she came with all the cutting done. Being able to just sit right down and begin sewing really does get ones momentum churning. And there's nothing too fussy going on either, so that is a bonus. A couple of the quilters had quite a great amount of fussiness, and I will be sharing those, in coming posts.

It sure feels good to boast 3 finished projects after 3.5 days of retreat sewing. Gets one excited to go straight to work on the next one! 

Happy Quilting, Friends!

Jayne