Sunday, May 8, 2011

I'm Ba-a-ack!

And whew do I have a lot to tell you! :-) I think it is going to take a few posts. :-)


Let's start with the retreat I went to in mid-April. What fun!  I worked on bags, wallets, my April Le Petite and much more. Of course, I didn't accomplish half of what I took along, but that is ok~ my kits will wait for me. :-)

Top two bags are Sherrod Studio patterns, bottom two are Lazy Girl Designs.  The wallet is an Indygo Junction pattern
We are lucky enough to have a quilt shop come and set up for the weekend. And the best part is that the owner or one of her staff go back to her shop every day, so if we are looking for a certain fabric, she brings what she has! Isn't that nice?!  I was looking for Thimbleberries to make this quilt~
from the Thimbleberries booklet 'My Best'

...and I found these. :-)  And she gave us a retreat discount too! Pretty cool!

But the coolest by far is the raffle. Every year they giveaway a couple quilts and a 'free retreat' voucher for the next year~~ squeal!!! Guess who won the voucher????!!!!  ME! :-))) Oh my gosh, I was just giddy! lol You could not have wiped the smile off of my face! I think I fell asleep smiling that night! :-)

I came home, unpacked the car, did a quick few loads of laundry and the next day hubby and I took off at 5 AM to go visit our families... more on that in the next post. ;-)

Hope y'all had a Happy Mother's Day! I just heard from the last of my chicks~ DD had been in Canada all weekend and just got back to school.

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

5 comments:

Darlene said...

Well, there you are! I've missed you.

Congrats on winning the voucher - woohoo!!!

Kim said...

Congrats on winning the voucher! I made a quilt using the Winter Lily pattern a few years ago. I love it. You finished alot of projects. They are beautiful.

Needled Mom said...

Whew...sounds like it was a busy time. Glad you are back.

Brenda said...

Love that you won the voucher!!! Proof that you can't keep a good woman down!!
Or, they rigged it so you would win 'cause they saw all the kits youi had brought and had not got to and knew you need to be back!! ;-)

Nah... you won fair and square!!! Just beause you deserve to have good things come your way!!!

Glad your back!!

AnnieO said...

Congrats on all your lovely stitching and a free retreat next year. That is awesome indeed.

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