Fun at retreat and a finish at last!

I did all the grocery shopping on the Thursday before retreat and then wondered where I was going to put my sewing and clothes for the weekend.  There was certainly no room for Judy's stuff ha ha!  But we managed to squeeze it all in.

This time retreat was at Gisborne and so there were lots of different projects on the go.  

This is Annie's dragonfly.

Judy had cut six panels into triangles and had started to place them into a hexie design on the wall.  It looked interesting...

And turned into this magnificent quilt top!

Barb and I were up to no good on the sofa.  I'm slouched and in my pyjamas but, hey, I was comfortable!

Barb was stitching these hexagons together.  She got quite a few done.

 

This was my view as I stitched the binding down on the back of my camera quilt.  And I also embroidered the label and stitched that on too.

This project is Debbie's Alice's wonderland sampler quilt almost finished.  The walls at retreat are great for displaying quilt projects.

This is one of Rosie's projects.  She spent most of her time embroidering balls on a Christmas quilt.

This is another of Judy's projects which started life as a panel.

Kate was working on these foundation paper pieced circles.  She even started sewing them into the back ground.  It looked very complicated!

Here's one Kate brought with her to take to be quilted at Hummingbird Quilting 

After finishing my camera I worked on my Santa cross stitch.  Debbie read my instructions and told me that the print gets washed away after it's been stitched so that put my mind at rest because I was worried about the printing showing underneath the stitching.  My view was of Gail's Kaffe diamond quilt project.

We had a lovely time and it's a bit sad that we're not going back there until May next year.  Still, a few of us are back to Ballarat next month so that's something to look forward to!

After finishing the camera quilt I had to find some way of removing the sticky residue from the fabric from leaving masking tape on it too long during the heat of summer.  I did a search and all kinds of scary liquids were offered up as a solution but I thought I'd try heat.  I used an appliqué iron  which gave off heat without flattening my quilting and a soft toothbrush.

It worked!

Then I found a hole!  It was a tiny hole that I made bigger while I was investigating it.

I stitched a simple patch on top of it.  All fixed!

And here it is all finished.  The lighting is terrible so it looks a bit dull but it's finished at last woo!