I Have A Notion: Lake House Retreat 2012 Chapter One

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Lake House Retreat Feb. 2012

LAKE HOUSE RETREAT FEB 2012 in Short Chapters

Chapter One

MJ and I arrive at the Lake House and get our things unloaded....it was only a short time later that each one of these beautiful faces began arriving.....

Leona and Donna checking out the free fabric piles....I took 3 boxes of free fabric and I was determined not to bring one piece back home (determination smer--mination....I brought back a box of leftovers...can you believe that?)

Philly aka Phyllis and Ruby with Bonnie her daughter

MJ succumb to participating in a Pennsylvania Block swap....lets just say MJ's favorite quilting is applique blocks....not pieced blocks. She was pleasantly surprised how pretty this quilt turned out. I wish I had participated....I love those quilts. No matter how weird the fabric (there is a Halloween spider web...black on orange) the quilt turns out beautiful when the smaller squares are neutral fabrics. Believe it or not....the neutrals are not even the same fabric....impressive isn't it?

Couldn't pass up taking a pix of this fun mug caddy. Kay made one for each of us for Christmas....they are just perfect for travel.

MJ gave a tutorial a few months back. She taught the gals to do hand pieced Cathedral Windows and Donna brought hers to work on. Someone you might know also learned to make Cathedral Windows and you just might see an example in a future post.

Joyce makes fleece hats for the children in the cancer ward at a PA hospital. They keep the children's heads warm while they are going through their treatments.

In three days, the gals made a total of 58 hats (not all shown) .....there will be some warm heads in PA :)

Ruby sleeps right next to Philly's body...yep...under the shirt!

Sometimes a gal just needs a wee bit of a nap....then someone goes and picks on her....who would do that? Some un-named character just so happened to mention she had not seen a woman Philly's age so pregnant....