Virtual Retreat 2017

[wendy w.]

Rosemary- congratulations again on your winning mini's and Izzy's fabulous ruffled outfit!!

Barb

[Catherine S.]

Rosemary, ditto what everyone else said. Amazing!!!

[Geneva C.]

Hello everyone! Hope this finds you well and happy. I am back from the east coast. We were taking care of our 8 and 6 year old granddaughters while their parents went on a tenth anniversary trip. It was such fun. I brought them an embroidery project and we had fun working on them. Aren't they sweet?! :kiss:




Thanks to Sharon and her husband Jerry I have a picture of my quilts at Pacific International Quilt Fest! Color and Passion 1 won "Best Use Of Color." yay! It's so nice to have a picture of the quilt with the ribbon. Thank you Sharon!! And Sharon won a ribbon also! I'll let her share it with you.




My prayers go out to those in Northern California. What a horrible thing to happen. Being from that area I can't believe all the devastation. This has certainly been a difficult year for many, many Americans. So much sorrow and loss. My heart hurts for them all.

Take care everyone....
geneva

[Nancy R.]

Congratulations on the well-deserved ribbon, Geneva! Looks like you had a lot of fun with the grandkids. Lovely projects!

[Sharon E.]

Hi everyone. Well, we are back from PIQF. What a fabulous quilt show! Fantastic variety of quilts and exhibits and, of course, the venders. HOwever, the lunch was even more expensive and tasted terrible. So pleased that Sherry won BOS. The quilt just glows and pictures don't do it justice.

ok, I entered 2 quilts and received. judges choice for Flourish but no ribbon for the other. THe judges ribbon is such an honor. Before we left on Saturday we went back to show to check out some venders. I was in the quilt area and Mary Mastuda (her twin is Roberta Horton) came right up to me and wanted to see my quilt. OMG! I met a quilt star!!

Jerry and I enjoyed finding and shooting Geneva and Dawn's quilts. They were wonderful. We also enjoyed very much the international exhibit.

Unfortunately, the smoke haze from the fires north was very bad. It changed our touring plans. On the plane home we met a family evacuated from Santa Rosa and were going to Florida to family. They didn't know the status of their home. Also, the plane was very late arriving in San Jose and we didn't get to our door until 2:30 am; dang we are getting too old for that, hehe.

All in all, it was a wonderful trip and good to get away and really good to be home. When I get my act together I'll post photos.

Sharon, in not as warm as California, Colorado

[Sharon E.]

Congratulations to the winners.
Do they have a miniatures class I could enter next year?

Good news I have found the lawn I dyed at the same time as the cotton for Caught Red Handed, so I can get going with my tidgy version. :cheer:

[Sharon E.]

Rosemary, they didn't have minis.

[Geneva C.]

Rosemary, here is the link to the Mancusco shows. They have several shows all year long all over the country. You could check and see if they have a miniature competition in one of the other shows.
http://www.mancusoshows.com/

Good luck! geneva

[Geneva C.]

Rosemary, here is the link to the Mancusco shows. They have several shows all year long all over the country. You could check and see if they have a miniature competition in one of the other shows.
http://www.mancusoshows.com/

Good luck! geneva

Just checked, and the only have one competition open at rhe moment, Rather confused by the title of ‘World Quilt Florida’ but is only for people living in Florida :S does that mean that the rest of the world doesn’t exist to Floridians? :huh:

Ah well better luck next time.

[Geneva C.]

That is odd that the World Quilt show in Florida is only open to Floridians. Hmm....

Rosemary, You could try the AQS shows. They also have several throughout the year. Though most shows are ending for the year, but they will start back up in January.

http://www.quiltweek.com/

Happy hump day! geneva

[Geneva C.]

Insanity calling!


I’ve started starching my hand dyed lawns ready for ‘Caught Red-Handed’ the 1/12th scale sequel.....
Having a bit of trouble working out if I have 5 or 6 different shades inch: :huh: and trying to remember what and where I placed them in the original :blink: I’ve also drawn up a partial life size drawing and am beginning to wonder whether I might have bitten off more than I can chew..... :dry:

On the up side Empress Mills were having a wadding sale on so I have bought a 3metre length with plans of using some of it for my bog coat quilt.

[Geneva C.]

Rosemary,
You can do this! (I wouldn’t even attempt making a 1/4th scale, and here you are working on a 1/12th one, I don’t think your insane,, just a glutton for punishment! (I hope that statement means the same thing to you as it does to me) I will be waiting anxiously to see what you do. And of course, I’ll be rooting for you to get a BIG ribbon, nothing 1/12th scale.
Keep us posted.
Luann

[Geneva C.]

Rosemary, a challenge is good for us. Now, take deep breath and jump in the deep end.
You got this and we will be here for you!
Can't wait to see how this quilt evolves.
Take care, geneva

[E.M. T.]

Don't know how close my monitor is but I'm thinkin', when cut small, there will be many more shades !!
Will be fun to see how you develop it ! ! I don't think I have the patience anymore ! inch:

[wendy w.]

Hmm crazy woman. So on the original you had normal blocks around the outside and 1" ish in the middle so does this mean you are doing 1/12 scale of the whole quilt so we'll need a magnifying glass to see the centre blocks? :blink: :blink: :blink: