Well I'm back from my most wonderful quilty retreat at Rae Ann's cabin in beautiful Star Valley....one of my favorite places. I can only begin to tell you about it now because my laptop has been under the weather with a little virus....poor thing. After a visit to the doctor laptop is feeling much better. You can see in the picture above where my workspace has been for the last 10 days or so... The projects for this trip were all about using up my stash and getting time to do a few quilts that I have been really wanting to get to. I went a few days early with Rae Ann to help her set up for all the girls, so I got a good head start on my projects......the first thing I got out were my pre-cut strips to start on a new quilt pattern that will be out for publication very shortly... You can see here part of it here...... we each had our own design wall to work on and this one is mine. This is the first quilt that I finished but I won't show it all to you just yet....I'll wait until the pattern is ready.....just a little sneaky peek for you. Then I moved on to a different quilt that I have been wanting to do using these 2 "snippets" turnovers. Here are some of the blocks on my design wall....they are 15" blocks and I made 20 total and completed the quilt. Next I moved on to stitching together a queen size quilt out of 400 charm squares that I have recieved over the last 2 years through "charm square swaps" at my Clothesline Club at Quilts Etc. All I did was cut 800 2 1/2" squares and stitched them onto opposite corners of each charm square....a very easy scrappy happy quilt. Here it is complete.....no borders for this one...just a quilting and a binding is just what I want. I can't decide if the blocks are x's or o's......(hugs & kisses)....it just depends what your eye decides! I also started a another quilt pattern with "flower sugar" fabric....more to come on that later....this is also just a sneak peek. The pattern will be out soon and I'll be sure that y'all are the first to know! Here we all are just working away.... we had so much quilty fun together even though this picture looks very serious. We are all missing Judi who had to leave a few days early (we were all so sad)....and as you can see...my flower sugar wheels kinda rolled over to her design wall. Starting on the left is Nedra.....Jackie..... Suzann.....and Rae Ann. Tomorrow I will show you more....but for now I am just waiting for Jodi (Pleasant Home) to pull into my driveway!...I know exiting isn't it? I'm so excited to meet her....she is one talented gal. Jodi and her husband are on a roadtrip and are in Utah right now so we have made arrangments to meet up and have a fun day at the quilt shops together. Joining us will be Rae Ann, Nanette, Judi and Kim. We are so gonna have some quilty fun don't ya think? And so is Mr. Honey. He is taking Jodi's husband fly fishing for the day on the beautiful Provo River.... Oh...I have to go...I think I hear them now!