But hey, I'm so very much closer now to being able to start piecing the blocks and quilt together.
But hey, I'm so very much closer now to being able to start piecing the blocks and quilt together.
At the retreat, I went shopping with everyone at the Family Threads quilt shop. They generously gave our group a retreat discount. I got some blue thread for sewing on the facings of Running Out of Raincloud. A pack of chrome sewing machine needles because I wasn't sure I had some with me. And a pack of John James chenille needles, always good to have for hand stitching. There was a good selection of sale fabrics, those two on the left, the weird green plaid and the orange/yellow/pink text block fabric were a great deal.
I then couldn't resist the good range of Marcia Derse fabrics.
Here's the Marcia Derse fat quarter pack un-packed.
After I laid the fat quarters out, I realized that a couple of them were not Marcia Derse, but Carrie Bloomston instead, that's okay they play well with each other.
I actually sat in the sunny window in our hotel room in SF and stitched on my go-to handwork project, Snake in the Garden. I used the newest color thread that I had at hand, thanks to the shopping I'd just done at Britex Fabrics. The green sashiko thread was used to fill in part of the dark blue leaf between the gold print.
You can see a delivery truck delivering bolts of fabric imported from Italy. I joked with them that I hoped it came in before the insane new tariffs. Who knows how much more fabric will be costing us now???
I bought 3 pieces off of the remnant rack. All in various weights of cotton or cotton blends to dye.And I scored a handy dandy carry bag too.
On the third day of the retreat I pieced together the rest of the backing for the Bohemian Wife quilt. I’m happy with how it looks and that I got to use up so many of the extra blocks and scraps left over from making the quilt top. Thanks to friend Jaye for taking the picture.
I'm continuing to use the new configuration of my to-do list below, as it more closely follows the database categories that I use to keep track of all my work-in-progress. Note: the use of 🥏👽 by a project name indicates that it's nearly classified as a UFO at this point by age so work on it!