Packing Up

Getting ready for Green Lake. My non-sewing friends always look amused when I talk about these quilt retreats I attend. Retreat? Is that spiritual?

Absolutely. And it requires packing up half the sewing room and sometimes half the kitchen. At Green Lake, the food prep is all done for us by the wonderful Mary, so the kitchen items going with me today are fewer. Snacks, soda, wine. But the sewing items... Totally out of control.

The Green Lake retreat is held at a retreat center right next to a beautiful lake in central Wisconsin. This mid-January time is always such a perfect time to breath a big sigh of relief, the holidays being packed up and OVER. The thought of this retreat ahead of me in mid-January sustains me and helps me get through the most hectic parts of the holidays.

I'm hoping to get one large non-quilt sewing project completed--a papasan cover for my DD, all pieced out of old jeans. What? It's not enough that we wear them. Now we have to sit on them too? I would have to answer yes on that one, but after all, I am the Denim Queen. My daughter seems to be genetically pre-disposed to denim-centeredness too.

I'm also taking all the assorted pieces of my Ephemera quilt, which has been languishing on the design wall and in a pile on my sewing table. There are more blocks to sew, and maybe, just maybe, I'll start assembling some pieces. I would definitely like to get this one completed.

Another box holds fabric for a possible MArQ challenge quilt due FINISHED in early April. I have to confess that I'm beginning to have the teeniest concerns about whether this quilt will happen ON TIME, and more to the point, if it will happen at all. I have a great idea for it. More on that another day, if I actually can get it off the ground.

Finally, the knitting is going to Green Lake also. Have to have those emergency back-up projects.

I'll be back Monday evening.