Christmas Party Extraordinaire - 2015

Let the gift exchange begin. (Jatana has her foot right next to the table so she can get a head start.)

Jatana, Sandy, DeAnne, Bea, Kathy and Maxine wait patiently for the fun to begin.

Cherri and Andrea are waiting patiently, too.

Debbie, Mickey, Louise and Kay pose for a photo before the fun begins.

Kathy, Maxine, Crystal, Barbara, Kathy and Sue are still waiting.

And so it begins. Kay, Cherri and Andrea like this gift a whole lot.

Kathy got the beautiful pillow Maxine made for the gift exchange.

Kathy and Maxine admire the beautiful throw quilt Crystal made. Surprisingly, Maxine was able to keep the gift!

Debbie loves the coffee mugs with cocoa!

Sandy admires purple gifts from Bea as DeAnne and Bea look on.

Sandy is holding a wall hanging that Bea made with Maxine's help! DeAnne is looking rather suspicious. We need to keep our eyes on her.

Mickey and Sue are opening Mickey's gift.

Barbara and Kathy admire the cute pin cushion Sandy gave.

Louise (in her electric jacket) and Kay are loving this gift.

See how DeAnne is eyeing Bea's gift. Bea has no idea what is about to happen. You guessed it, the preachers wife broke the 8th commandment, Thou Shalt Not Steal!

What do Kay, Cherri and Andrea find so funny on the floor?

Barbara opens yet another gift as Kathy looks on. Poor Barbara didn't get to keep most of the gifts she picked.

Crystal is thrilled. She got the box of purple things.

The party is about to wrap up, but Barbara and Kathy don't have any gifts yet.

Sad to report, Sandy didn't get to keep that gift.

GOD BLESS US EVERYONE

Pinwheels, Pinwheels and More Pinwheels!! Plus a Quilt for a Special Dog!

Bobbie has her pinwheels looking great!

At the special request of Evelyn's husband, she made his dog a quilt!  All dogs deserve a quilt, don't you think?

Louise has some gorgeous pinwheels started!

Kay has her 'little pinwheels' complete! What pretty colors!

Bea is making the 'large pinwheels'. Love the colors!

June Meeting - 2015

Cathy, DeAnne (our hostess), Evelyn and Darlene are busy eating!! We had some delicious snacks!

Bea finished her paper-piecing quilt. It is beautiful and so colorful.

Billie made this gorgeous 'Cathedral Window' quilt. This took lots and lots of work and turned out looking great!

Cathy and Darlene are admiring Evelyn's Christmas Tree wall hanging. What a beauty it turned out to be!

Kay, DeAnne and Louise are enjoying the good food and great company!

Barbara is admiring Debbie's newest quilt with lots of light pastel colors. The dog, Princess doesn't look too interested in the quilt.

Sue didn't make it to our meeting but she did finish a quilt. Love the gorgeous colors of this one!

Stonewall Retreat - June 2015

Judy is ready to start the retreat quilting! Looks like Kathy has already started!

Evelyn, Kay and Cathy are hard a work.

Kathy, our math whiz, is probably figuring something out!

Kathy's long table runner and place mats are coming right along.

Cathy is sewing with her beautiful Featherweight.

Evelyn is trying to put that 'pesky' Christmas tree together. She is just one of two ladies in the Graceful Quilter's group who attempted to make this tree.

This was Kay's first time on a quilt retreat. Doesn't she look happy! We did freeze her out, though. It is amazing what a little fleece, socks and a heating pad can do.

This is one of two identical quilts Kay spent most of her weekend piecing together. Beautiful! Judy likes it, too!

Even though the top of Debbie's head is cut off, she managed to get the binding attached to her Carpenter's Star quilt. This was one of the Graceful Quilter's recent projects. About time she got it finished!

Don't you just love Cathy's 'feed sack' quilt?

Wow! Judy finished the last five of the ten cross quilts she is making for her grand-kids and great grand-kids.

Kathy's table runner and place mats are finished! Too bad her vegetable fabrics didn't have any green beans. Those are William's, her grandson's favorite.

Don't you just love the colors on Cathy's pillow case (or pillow slip, Sandy)?

Debbie finished her pink/purple pastel quilt top. This time with all of her head!

Cathy and Kathy working on Kathy's ruler bag, another Graceful Quilter's project.

Evelyn working on that 'pesky' tree again. She did that all weekend.

Kay is showing her T-Shirt bag she made which is holding her 400 pound quilt!

Kathy and Evelyn are working hard. Cathy, not so much.

Is Evelyn giving up on her tree?

NO she didn't give up. What a beautiful Christmas Tree. I believe it was worth all of her hard work.

Judy finished her beautiful embroidered quilt.

Kathy finished her ruler bag!!!!

She even finished the inside. She used some of Judy's fabric which was donated when Judy had to downsize.

Kay with one of her finished quilt tops.

Isn't our view spectacular?

Kay is showing us one of her other quilt tops. The star just shimmers! What a gorgeous quilt.

Another of our beautiful views. How we get any quilting done at this gorgeous quilt retreat is a miracle. We could just sit, drink coffee and enjoy the view all weekend.

Kathy, Debbie, Judy, Cathy, Evelyn and Kay on our final day at retreat. We really didn't want to come home. But everyone had a great time.