FNWF and Retreat Day 1

FNWF

Happily joining Cheryll and cyber friends, as well as physical friends for a Friday Night Sewing.  As you can see - I am on a retreat!!!
Four days of sewing, fun, friendship, good food, maybe a drop or two of wine . . .

For FNWF, which started about 3:00PM I worked on some red black & white string blocks.   I made 11 - which, with the ones I made previously - should be enough for a 6 x 7 block quilt for charity.

Retreat

This retreat started as part of my Loose Threads group - so we still call it the Loose Threads retreat.  "Back in the day", the numbers could be flexible, so we had Loose Threads people and a couple of extras....Over the years, things have changed and we now must pay for 12 people - so we have a number of extras....We did call ourselves MARS - Mount Alford Retreat Sisters in 2021 when we couldn't go (due to COVID), but it didn't stick!

Mostly, we arrived at about 10.30, unpacked and organised ourselves.
Then off to the infamous Mount Alford Hotel for lunch.

Back to the sewing room:

My plans for the retreat are:
1. 2 blocks of My Kinda Town

2. As many black, red and white string blocks as I can make..I think 11 is enough!
3. Meg's Baby Quilt 

4. Any number of crumb blocks (depending on available fabrics)

5. 2023 Challenge Project

As you can see from above, I started on the string blocks.
These are very quick and I got through 11.

And ONE crumb block - they take forever . . .especially if you make one at a time.

We have a To Do Board.
Each year I hand out a small Post It type of pad to everyone.  They write the name of each project they plan to work on on a separate piece of paper and we put them on the left-hand side of the board.  As each person finishes one project - they do a Show & tell and move the piece of paper to the right.
(The board is now magnetic, so I bought little magnets to use - so much easier than sticky tape!)

By late night Friday, we had this: