Wild Guy Quilt
I went on a retreat with my guild this last weekend. Oh what fun! While I was there, I made this quilt! Yay! My Wild Guy Quilt #wildguyquilt A few folks asked what the pattern is. There isn’t exactly a pattern, but…
Posts in this category discuss a retreat or convention.
Retreat Movies (or Retreat Mentality on any day!)
What makes the perfect movie to play at a quilt retreat? Over the last few years, with the help of my guild mates, I have settled on a few favorites: (1) Dirty Dancing is an all-time favorite. Overall a fun tone and the…
Retreat Report: Sewtopia Chicago
Last weekend, I had the supreme pleasure of being Latifah Saafir's teaching assistant at Sewtopia in Chicago. She didn't need much help, of course, being an awesomely talented teacher, but I did manage to keep myself busy filling irons, making…
Retreat Report: Teaching at QuiltCon 2015
I had the best time at Quilt Con. It was great. I love this event for getting to see old friends and make new friends and teach old skills and learn new skills and ogle quilts and laugh and play.…
Retreat Report: Bag Making at Camp Stitchalot
Oh, I so needed a getaway, and one came just in time! The polar vortex was brutal. Ann Arbor had the snowiest winter on record. It has been profoundly cold as well. And I have been sick in a serious flu-like/food-poisoning-ish…
Retreat Report: Teaching Improv at Camp Stitchalot
You guyyyys!!!! I had so much fun at Camp Stitchalot! Why? First of all, I managed to pace myself and not get tired until Sunday. Which was, of course, when we decided to do pictures of the teachers. That's…
Retreat Report: A2MQG Retreat
About a dozen folks from the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt guild and some friends went on a retreat last weekend. It's at the same B&B where Camp Stitchalot is held, so it's like a home-away-from-home for me at this point. In…
Retreat Report: Attending Camp Stitchalot – Spring 2013
Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending Camp Stitchalot at a sweet B&B near Ann Arbor. Most of the activity takes place in the converted barn. The ground floor of the barn has space for so many sewists! That's Stephanie…
Retreat Report: Quilt Con 2013
In the three weeks since last I blogged: (1) I went to QuiltCon (yay!) (2) I returned home from QuiltCon to a very sick boyfriend who had an emergency appendectomy that night. (Yuck!) But he's okay! (Yay!) (3) I had…