Quilter's Retreat

Momma and I went to a quilting retreat last weekend.  It was a lot of fun.  We stayed in a lovely house with everything a quilter could dream of having there.  We brought our own food for lunch and had dinner out with our friends Mrs. Cherry and Mrs. Katherine.  We quilted our hearts out, but we did take a few shopping breaks.  I'm glad we did, because we bought fabric for a group project at All Brands.  We all made a fun Halloween table runner.  Mrs. Cherry figured out the pattern.  The beauty of being a hand quilter is that by the time I was finishing mine the others had already worked out the kinks in the pattern.  Here's mom and me posing with our table runners.

No Stitching Today

Bobtail and I did not get any stitching done today.  We've been tackling our craft room instead.  So instead of cross stitching, I began organizing my cross stitch patterns.  First I made a list of themes that I stitch a lot of (ex. Dragons, Wild Animals, Christmas, etc.).  Then I created binder spines using teacher software for each theme.  I bought cheap 1 inch binders from Target and labeled the binders with the pretty spines.

 

Then I began going through my boxes and boxes of patterns (okay I've only actually gone through one box so far, but you get the point).  I kept the patterns I wanted from my cross stitch magazines and leaflets and placed them into page protectors.  I put the pages in the correct binder and voila--organized!

 

However, that doesn't mean I haven't been stitching lately.  I finished part 5 of my Fairy SAL and I'm almost finished with part 6.  Here's part 5 completed:

 



Part 4 for comparison

Part 5 updated progress