Saturday, August 20, 2016

Saturday mini-retreat at Janice's

The high point of Friday (8/19), was meeting Mary Jo at Quilting By The Yard and then heading off to Rein’s for our Rueben sandwiches….YUM!!!  While we were at QBTY, I walked out to the front desk to ask a question and a woman said ‘hello’ to me….now we were only in the store for 20 – 25 minutes, but during that time an old friend from Ellington Country Quilters and Tuesday night sewing just happened to stop in.  I haven’t seen Rochelle since we moved to South Carolina, but she looks exactly the same!  
It was a wonderful serendipitous meeting.  The rest of the day was spent with Janice talking and talking and talking!!!  She fixed an incredible shrimp dinner…with just the perfect amount of heat.  After that Dennis put the extenders on the table and we set up our machines and sewed a bit.

Saturday dawned and Mary Jo, Leila (happy to be getting her baby quilts back....all quilted):










BG and Tara arrived….we sewed ALL DAY!!!  Janice has a terrific set up, with lots of room for all of us and our machines....a cutting station and 2 ironing stations.  
Although there was also plenty of time to nosh on the delicious food that Janice made and that everyone brought.  Karen B stopped by to visit in the afternoon as well.  By the time we finished….BG had completely finished her quilt top…isn’t it gorgeous:  

I finished the top 1/2 of my quilt…

and made good progress on the bottom.  We left Janice’s before 7 PM and came home and collapsed.  Other than talking….we just sat….tomorrow will be another VERY early day…. 

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