The Great Black Out of 2011 at Pieceful Haven

The best laid plans can sometimes go wrong and it's nobody's fault.  All 18 showed up for the first day of our retreat and there was no power.  We canceled it and have moved it to June 13 and 14th.

Besides the French Braid pattern, you might like to learn techniques for one or all 3 of these quilts.

Getting Ready for the Retreat on Tuesday, May 24 and Wednesday, May 25

Hello Quilters!

Our quilt group is blessed with some pretty terrific quilters.  One of our most gifted quilters, Mary Ernwine, is choosing to share her talents with us, free of charger, for the retreat on May 24 and 25 at the Pieceful Haven retreat facility in Lagrange, Ky.  Mary has been in the group from the beginning, back in 2000.  Over the years I have seen her make some wonderful quilts.  Her gift of color selection and usage in a quilt are amazing.  She has put together some of the most stunning quilts I have ever seen in my 25 plus years in the quilt world.  She has won many ribbons at the state fair.  You do not want to miss an opportunity to learn from her.  She is a wonderful teacher!

This Tuesday, May 17, Mary Ernwine will be helping everyone organize and cut their fabrics for the French Braid quilt.  She will be teaching the construction of the quilt at the retreat at Pieceful Haven.  

Please bring your fabrics on Tuesday, washed or not, your choice to do so or not.  Mary did not wash hers, nor did I.  Also, bring a cutting wheel and if you have one, an 8 1/2 inch by 24 inch ruler.  If you don't have one, we have rulers in the cabinet that will work with some thoughtful use.  

Marie will also be there with the sign up sheet for the food.  

Working on the French Braid quilt is not a requirement for the retreat.  If you choose to get caught up on your UFO's or if you want to do the Friendship Braid quilt pattern, that is a scrap pattern that I showed a while ago, that would be great!  

I suspect there may be a scrabble game, maybe a card game or we can play anything else you think might be fun.  We all love our quilting, but it's nice to take a break and laugh and share together around a good old fashioned board game or whatever.

It's going to be a lot of fun!

Also, I will be in Oklahoma for a wedding next weekend, so there will be no quilting on Friday, May 20.  

No quilting in the room on Tuesday, May 24, as we will all be on retreat!

Casserole Carriers were taught at our Tuesday and Friday groups

These are pictures from the Friday class that meets in room 202 at Northeast Christian Church. We used to meet in the LL, but, there have been some issues with the room, so we are now meeting right next door to our Tuesday group meeting.  There is a good works group that makes fleece blankets for the hospitals that started meeting in our old room on Fridays, so we move next door for Friday only.

Trip to Whittles

We took a road trip to Whittles Fabric Store in Smith's Grove, Kentucky, by way of the Porky Pig restaurant.  As usual we did the Northeast Quilting Friends scenic route, but, made it to our destinations.  It's always nice to see the back roads and byways of Kentucky.

Even though the store was somewhat understaffed, we were able to come home with an ample amount of material.

More Pictures from Quilters' Day Out

Quilters' Day Out was a BLAST!

Whew!  QDO is over.  It's a one day event that shows off the Guilds in the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society's District 6.  Most all were in attendance and showed some of their class projects and did demonstrations.

Our group showed our retreat class and a table topper class.

Loyce and Sheila won a door prize.

Shirley showed the basket lady how to make a basket-she is a master basket weaver herself.  That was a class we did as well.

We had 3 ladies participate in the Viewer's Choice Quilt Challenge, no one one, but, it inspires us to finish something with a deadline to complete.

Getting Ready for Quilters' Day Out!

I think our log cabin heart shaped block class went well.  I hope you all learned something from our sharing of tips at the beginning of the day.  I know I sure did!

Just a reminder, if you would like to continue working on your log cabin heart quilt, you are welcome to attend the Friday session of Northeast Quilting Friends.  We will meet in the lower level from 10:00 to 1:00.

Also, we've collected our money for the door prize basket to be given away at Quilters' Day Out and will fill it Tuesday.

Next Tuesday, March 8th, we will be having our QDO planning session.  This is where we will decide how we will decorate and  "woman the booth" off and on during the 10:00 to 4:00 day.  

This year you can shop all day, the vendors won't close down for the 3 speakers.  The speakers will be located immediately to to left, in the Julia Belle room, closed off from the main room-it can hold around 500 people.  

Besides the shopping, and looking at all the guild displays and demos, you can learn some new tips and techniques from the speakers and also vote on the quilt challenge-I believe our quilt group will have 3 entries.  In that room, you can see the organ donor quilt club and see the award winning Happy Heart quilts-Aliens from Planet Quilt.  

For your $3.00 and a donation (money or groceries) to Mom's Closet, you will get another jammed packed day of quilting fun!!

Happy Quilting!

Julie