August Projects

One would think that after two retreats - I would have a pile of Finished Projects . . well...not really - I did make a lot of progress . . .but limited finishes.

So, a bit of record keeping:

I made these two Snappy Pouches.  These are the "cheat" kind where you use metal tape measure for the closure...very effective and certainly cheaper than the gadgets you can buy.

I haven't made many crochet blocks either  (no travel to and from work),  I do have 6 finished.

My #5 Project for Sunday Stitchers UFO Challenge was to finish off these placemats.  The two separate sides had been made pre-retreat, so it was not too much work to join them with the brown bias strip and quilt them.   I hummed and haa'd about binding them as per the pattern but decided against it.  So did the pillowcase finish at the first retreat (and that took longer than it should have as I forgot to reverse them when cutting the backing . . drr)  and then finished them off with a quilting stitch 1/4" from the edge at home.
I am certainly happy that I went without the binding.

This is a Judy Niemeyer (Quiltworx) pattern - Tea Time Placemats - Foundation pieced.
I started them in a class in July 2018 - a relatively new project!!!

And before Retreat #1, I made 45 flowers on my embroidery machine - to use on the Challenge Project.

can I count that as 45 finished Kris???

Retreat 2020 - a new experience (Wednesday)

This retreat was always going to be different.  We normally go from Friday and the "normal" part goes through to Sunday lunch - but several of us stay on - some until Tuesday and self cater for that period.

BUT this year - another group wanted to book for the week that we are usually there - lingering - so we agreed to start on Wednesday (if we wanted the longer stay) and finish up Sunday lunchtime or so.
We knew about that change last year.

BUT - Covid came along . . - so although we are all very grateful that we live in Qld and we have been relatively free of too much community spread - and we are all extremely grateful that we can still go on retreat - Covid has changed things.
The venue is the same - but we don't get the usual morning & afternoon teas that were so delicious.  We are self-catering meals until Friday dinner and self-catering all morning & afternoon teas.
True - we could probably live without - BUT we are women and we like to have good things to eat....and retreat time does lend itself to some treats.

So, I will say it once - at the moment I am very grateful that I live in Qld - you won't often hear that from me.  I miss my home state.

And for the record - this is our 14th visit.

Moving on . . .here is the "To Do" board - but it’s looking very sparse as there are only 6 of us so far.  

But already two finishes.   I can’t show one of them, but here is Inca’s Leaders and Enders Quilt top.

Here is my To Do list

My first project is my Tea Time placemats.  It seems I brought them here to retreat in 2018, so about time to finish them off.  I made good progress ...so a finish tomorrow.....I hope!