Quilt Retreat

For many years, a group of women and I would meet two times a year at a cabin in the woods for a 3 day quilt retreat.  We picked days in the Spring and in the Fall that would work for all of the participants.  We visited, watched movies, ate good food and QUILTED.  I have since moved away from the community, and although I attended a few more times after moving, it became too cumbersome to get away to travel and attend the retreat.  The lucky thing was, during one of our block exchanges, I asked each of the members of the group to make a house block that represented them.  I wanted to look at the block and know who made it.  I put the blocks together to make a retreat quilt.  

This is the cabin, with it's three big windows that gave us a view of the icy water below.  I put this block in the middle and surrounded it with flying geese, blueberries and evergreen trees.

I can look at these blocks and think about Jeri and her dragonflies, Connie, me, Judy, DJ, Jan.  DJ gave me a little piece of fabric with a airplane like the one my husband flies when she gave me her block.  I incorporated it into my block in the quilt.

 Kathy with a y, Val, Karen, Krissy, Shirley, and Edith Ann.

I will never forget these ladies, or the fun times we had in that little cabin in the woods.

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