This October I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a retreat for the first time! It is sponsored by my local quilt guild and really quite affordable. The last two years I haven't been able to attend because it actually fell on the weekend we got married and then our one-year anniversary and since I figured my then-fiance/now-husband wouldn't appreciate me missing both of those events to go quilting..... well, you get the idea. But this year it was the weekend after, and damn it all, I was going!
I think I brought every WIP I have to retreat to work on and even some soon-to-be-WIPs but did manage to get a lot accomplished. I started with several mini quilts that I needed to baste/quilt/bind and a block for a sampler raffle quilt for a local charity.
When I was done with the mini's I moved on to binding a large quilt that I'd been putting off for ages. Jane introduced me to glue basting the binding before I machine quilt it and I am officially now a convert. I stopped at Keepsake on the way home to get some basting glue for myself. It made finishing this large quilt off so much easier. It's a gift that I hope to give at Thanksgiving this year so watch for pictures soon shortly after!
