After the past several months' stressful issues, I decided to actually follow through on my commitment to attend a retreat at the
Sky-Vue Lodge in Winslow Arkansas.
It's a quaint B&B-type lodge with cute little cabins that sleep from 3-6. All have been restored and updated, and painted a beautiful pale blue to match the sky.
16 friends and I sewed, quilted, ate, napped, joked, enjoyed the sunrises, and had a thoroughly wonderful time. The winding road through the Boston Mountains just about did me in, but once I settled into taking several naps a day, I felt refreshed and relaxed.
My room had a lovely electric 'log' fireplace which came in really handy when the temperature dropped to 40* - when we left Texas, it was 80! I woke up during the night and took this with my iPhone. It was
so toasty!
Here's a group photo taken by Glenn, the owner, on the porch of the giant "Upper Room" where we sewed.
My friend and designated driver, Peggy, is 3rd from the right, and I'm 5th from the right. I'm so glad Peggy doesn't mind driving 9 hours each way from Houston -> Winslow!
And this is what we woke up to every morning - the sun rising over the Ozarks!
The trip was exhausting, and I came home really,
really tired, and it put me back a few days in my quilting (sorry, Daniel), but I'm glad I went.
Now I just need to get it in gear and get the rest of these customer quilts done!
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A selection of items that we received. There's more, but I couldn't get them all together for the picture. Some, like the Slap Chop, have already been put to use!
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My friend and designated driver, Peggy, is 3rd from the right, and I'm 5th from the right. I'm so glad Peggy doesn't mind driving 9 hours each way from Houston -> Winslow!
This weekend is the annual Wild West Shop Hop for ten Houston area quilt shops. I hit three of them today before I ran out of steam. Each had little goodies to hand out, patterns for the shop hop quilt, kits, and tons of new stuff. My vote for Most Surprising Shop is KV Quilters on Main Street in Tomball, TX
They've given their shop a little makeover, and have tons more fabric than they used to, and lots more gadgets!
They've got batiks and orientals and lots of blenders. I was thoroughly impressed!
Ida Anderson did a beautiful job quilting the shop hop quilt. I love that border fabric!
They had such an influx of hoppers that they had to cut more red, white, and blue fat quarters to give away. In the meantime, they handed out temporary tattoos that say "Born to Quilt" - really cute, and the staff were sporting them, too! They also gave away little brass stencils for well, stenciling...duh... or embossing paper. My daughter Gillian hopped with me today just like we did when she was little, so she got her own freebies. I also picked up some pink fqs for my pink and brown basket quilt, and a couple of reds. I'm finally making peace with that color after 50+ years. OMG that's half a century! Get over it already!!
where we picked up some more red, white, and blue fq freebies, and pink fqs for that basket quilt. Gillian also picked up some funky yarn and a pattern book. She wants (me) to knit the poncho out of the turquoise and lime, and a little skull cap from the multi. Oh - and The Hen House wins the cutest bag prize. That's it on the left.
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