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 1999 Quilters Retreat November 10 through 14 in Bird-in-Hand, PA Quilt capital of the world! The first ladies to arrive were greeted by a beautiful sunny day, and promises of a spectacular weekend ahead. |
On Thursday we enjoyed a quilter's dream shopping trip to four very popular fabric shops in the area. Here are some of the ladies enjoying Zooks!
Below, after lunch, we visited the Dutchland Quilt Patch.
Does anyone remember the get acquainted game we played on Thursday night?
It was a word search game, and the words were all names. One name kind of had an unfortunate addition made on some of the papers?
Later Thursday evening we finally got down to some sewing....well, some of us did.
Some of us enjoyed the first (and most likely last) Froggie Fat Quarter Races.
Round two was for distance.
And you thought Ofla rulers were just for fabric. They played an important part in our Froggie Races.
Those ladies who missed the Thursday shopping trip headed out early Friday morning to see if we'd missed anything.
| Friday afternoon I taught a Scrappy Mystery Class. And, since I was teaching, there are no photos. However, I do have one of Maureen and Maria working on their projects after class,  and here is a mini view of my finished quilt. I can report that the ladies were all very pleased with the class, and we all had a great time doing it. |
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When class was over, some people got down to some sewing. Others, were still shopping, or shopping again!
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This year we had a Retreat Challenge. I sent those who wanted to participate a fat quarter of the challenge fabric, which is pictured here. Challenge rules were very simple, they were to make a quilted project from the fat quarter. The project had to be quilted, and finished. They could add as many and as much other fabric to it as they wanted, and the projects were judged by all the retreaters! |
There were 13 different projects for us to vote on, and choosing was very hard.
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The winner of the $50 cash prize was FAS/CO, with her beautiful hand quilted hot air balloon quilt.  |
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After that fun, we moved on to Show and Tell.
Saturday morning after breakfast, the Inn was empty except for a few of us. Quite a few of the ladies took a tour of the Amish farmlands which was provided by the Inn.
Those who didn't take the tour went shopping, again! AND when the tour ladies came back, they went shopping too! (I'm surprised there is any fabric left in Lancaster County!)
By one o'clock, people started trickling back in, to see the demos we had lined up.
One was a new applique technique, and another was a stain glass demo.
.As people started to return, all sorts of funny things happened.
I really think it was one of those "you had to have been there" situations.
Later in the evening we had Quilto, and more Show & Tell.
What a better way to relax after a tiring game of Quilto, than a dip in the pool, or a soak on the hot tub? How about both.
While some of them soaked, some ladies actually sewed.
Some sewed late into the night.
Sunday was the day we didn't want to see arrive, but it did!
People tired to leave, but some how seemed to get stuck at the door.
Good-byes were hard to say.
