Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Bee sewing weekend


Here is my little corner of the sewing weekend.
One of our bee members arranges that we rent a conference room at one of the hotels in our area to sew.
Several of us also stay at the hotel. Gives us a lot more sewing time.
Got to love Flamingo's!  Marge knows I do, so she brought these lovely Flamingo's to decorate the wall behind me.
I was going to work on a quilt, but zipper purses sounded a lot more fun.
We all bring things to munch on.  I donated a bottle from our local winery, and to add a bit of Spring, picked up a bouquet of daffodils, and a potted hyacinth plant.
You can never have too much chocolate.

Friday night is pizza night from Lou Malnatti's.
It is the best.

Saturday late afternoon we go to one of local restaurants and have lunch.  We make it later so it serves as lunch and dinner.  Then we can snack latter if we want.  Always good

Linda was working on this quilt.  I think she got 8 blocks done.

Marge finished up this cute kids quilt.  That border is fingerprint fabric, I think from Benartex.  I think it works well, especially  for a child.

I still need to take a picture or two of the purses I worked on.
It is always so good to be with friends.
We feed off each other's creativity and inspiration.
There is always new things to learn.
We teach each other, and share ideas.
We did get to stay until later in the afternoon, as the room was not needed for the next day.
We had so much fun.
I wish we did not have to wait a year, until we can do this again.

Hope you all have a great sewing week.
Mary

5 comments:

Sparky said...

ohh look at that quilt top...now that is colour ....certainly brings warmth on this cool day

Vic in NH said...

Can't wait to see your purses and glad you had such a good time. Thanks for sharing the photos of the retreat.

Susan In Texas said...

I love that fingerprint fabric - very cool. Looks like you had lots of fun. There's nothing like working on quilts and projects with friends to cheer up a cold, dreary day.

Take care,
Susan in Texas

Needled Mom said...

I love the colors in the fingerprint quilt. It sounds like such a fun event.

Gmama Jane said...

Looks like fun! Gave me some ideas for my own group!!
Thanks
Gmama Jane