This is a cross post from my blog entry over
at the Las Vegas Modern Quilt Guild website:
The Las Vegas Modern Quilt Guild hosted a sewing retreat at this amazing house in southern Utah:
11 members came for the weekend. We all met up in Hurricane, UT, and visited a few local shops (Superior Threads, Quilted Works, Ace Hardware (seriously!), Scrap Apple, etc) before heading to the house. Sharon was nice enough to feed us all on the first night there and brought a big pot Turkey Soup which was delicious! There was no recipe because she just made it up (oh how I wish I could do that!).
The house had this insanely large basement so all of us were able to spread out and have a table, ironing areas, cutting areas, Accuquilt Go areas, etc! HUGE SPACE.
We occupied it pretty quick. This was the aftermath after the first sewing night:
Darlene gave a small gift to everyone! She made embroidered luggage tags personalized with all of our names to remember this weekend!
Sharon created 2.5" tiny pieced squares and passed them out for all of us to create something with it. Here's what everyone made:
We had some people cutting up scraps to make their own Sparkle Punch Quilt, some working on Swoon blocks, some Octogonal Orb blocks, and many other quilty projects!
Here's everyone in action:
Andrea's Sparkle Punch:
Vic's version of Swoon:
Swoon in progress and one finished on the top left of the photo:
(Photo Courtesy of Jan)
Jan's Octogonal Orb blocks:
The Accuquilt Go! team cutting up many 3 1/2" squares for their own Sparkle Punch:
Cola's Swoon blocks:
On our way out we grabbed a group shot:
You thought that was the end of pictures?
Jan posted about the retreat over on her blog. She has more photos too!
Sharon worked on this quilt at the retreat and posted about the retreat over here on her blog.
Have a great weekend!
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