Monday, August 9, 2010

Pre Retreat Post....

I have been very busy getting ready for our annual retreat which starts tomorrow at 9 am and goes until Saturday afternoon. With that being said here is what we will be doing tomorrow. These are the squares that I had to stitch for the Ackworth Friendship book. Now tomorrow the six of us will put our books together.

I have been doing a lot of stitching and sewing for retreat. I won't be able to show my works until after tomorrow. But I have also been doing some other stitching which brings me to the following item:

I stitched this LHN ornament for Cathy B for an exchange on the Friends Through Threads Blog. This ornament is from the 2010 JCS magazine Christmas ornament preview. It is called the Gingerbread Tree. I stitched it on 28 count coffee dyed fabric with DMC.

Since about the middle of June I have also been obsessed with quilting. So I made this table topper with a new tool called the lil twister. The fabrics are from the local Quilt Shop hop here in Minnesota. I have some pictures of other quilts I have made in the last 7 weeks, which I will post later.

I received these squares from Jill last year for my birthday and I finally decided how I wanted to finish them. Here is the front of the pillow.
Here is the view of the back of the pillow. I am quite happy with how the pillow turned out. Thanks Jill.

4 comments:

Yvonne..... said...

Have a great time at the retreat and can't wait to see the pictures!

Karen said...

what fun! have fun on your retreat with the girls! i love the little pillow you finished up with Jill's squares, very cute!

Brigitte said...

It will be a lot of fun to put the friendship book together on your retreat. Enjoy your days!
I love the little pillow you made out of Jill's squares. Nice idea. And I'm looking forward to seeing more of your great quilting.

Terri’s workinprogress said...

Your blog is very pretty! I love the colors.