Retreat Sewing

Early Thursday morning

I headed north to my first Quilt Retreat

and I have a lot of blocks to show for it!

 (I'll tell you about the retreat and the retreat center tomorrow.)

Before going, I took some time to cut all of the pieces for

a quilt I have been wanting to make for quite some time.

I had collected all kinds of "text" fabrics

and added some Kaffe fabrics to the pile.

At the retreat, I just pieced blocks...

all 36 blocks for this quilt.

 

I found this pattern online about 4 months ago and knew

my collection of text fabrics would work well with the design.

 

It's been a lot of fun collecting the text fabrics and now using them

for this quilt!

I'll continue to play with the placement and then start

sewing the blocks together.

While I was stitching these blocks together,

I used the "Leader/Ender" idea for the first time.

I jumped on the "tumbler" train and used my

Go! cutter to cut the shapes out of the text and Kaffe fabrics

before leaving.

 

A nice pile of tumbler pairs was made while assembling the other blocks.

Now that I am home and have the blocks on the 

Design Wall,

I can begin sewing the top together.

I'd say it was a very successful retreat!

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Happy Quilting!