Home again, home again, jiggityy-jig. I had to get all the way back home from SF to be able to post about what I did on the final day of the retreat. I hadn't unpacked and taken any pictures of what I sewed in those final hours. I guess I was working too hard at it to stop and take in-process pictures.
Soooo....I worked on making the last possible four-patch blocks for the Old Town mystery quilt that I could assemble with the fabric strips that I had with me. These are assembled in groups of 10 so that it's easier for me to count them up. They're all made in such a way as to be fairly scrappy although there are many that match. 
There are only "some more" left to make, instead of "lots and lots". So it feels like overall, I made great progress on getting nearly all of the units done to start making blocks for this quilt...emphasis on almost. 
Then for the last little bit of time I had left, I worked on the Y.E.S. Coat, cutting various widths of strips of the grey fabrics to then sew into strip sets. These will all be cut up and re-sewn again or used as is, to fill in the coat assembly between all the other Seminole piecing and paper pieced blocks.
Here's a great group picture of almost all of the attendees of the retreat. It sure was a great time, that extra day was almost too much for my stamina but I made it through and feel great about what I got done. Most of all I’m very pleased at the time I got to spend getting to know more of the guild members who were attending. I worked on 6 of the 7 projects that I brought along with me, so I feel like I packed just the right amount of stuff so that I had lots of choices and types of work to do. I did make a list for myself again of things to remember to bring to retreat next time (like a table lamp of some kind) so I'm already looking forward to that next time.
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