First Retreat Day Report

 It was a beautiful drive down to the BAMGG retreat in San Juan Bautista. 

Shopping as a group at Family Threads quilt shop was very fun.

I helped set up and our fabulous organizer, Bonnie handed out detailed very clear lists of steps for each thing we needed to do before everyone arrived. A great innovation that really worked out well!

My first project was trimming the edges of Running Out of Raincloud, and then sewing on the facings. I also made a hanging sleeve, so all done except for the hand sewing.0"”1

More Color Choices

 

Now that the Running Out of Rain Cloud quilt had an allover horizontal pattern of hot pink lines quilted in, I needed more and different colors. I chose a thread that went with the other four colors in the quilt.

I did the first corner triangle matching the diagonal. I think it looks pretty good with the mustard gold thread just in the triangle. And what the heck is that spot? I hope I can get it out before I photograph this quilt!

Gives a really nice texture.

I think that t's a pretty color combination too.

Here's how it looks with all four corner triangles quilted on the diagonals. That was the easy part now for more decisions, like what to do with the corresponding light blue triangles. Also on the diagonal (with the light blue thread or the mustard gold?), or go for vertical lines instead. We shall soon see.