A Day With Scrappy Mountain Majesties!

Fun was had by all in our first round of Scrappy Mountain Majesties workshop!

Everyone came with their squares pre-cut to we could get down to sewing up a storm.

I call these workshops during retreat a Land Cruise - which means we are not going to cram it all into one 6-hour session, we're going to give a couple of hours of instruction before lunch and the afternoon is free for everyone to do what they want to do, whether it's take a nap, a walk, work on something else, or head to town to visit a quilt shop for more fabric.

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Quilting Done!

One of the most wonderful feelings has to be advancing a large quilt to the next section to find that you are close to reaching the bottom borders.
As much as I love hand quilting (And I am missing hand quilting but am concentrating on finishing that eternal hexie quilt before I can't see anymore to do close hand stitching) the realization that it would take me 4 to 5 months of evening hand quilting to quilt a quilt that I can machine quilt in two days....
I know they are two different things - hand quilting and machine quilting. But dang!

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In The Machine

Let the quilting begin!

I'm so excited to get this one quilted - and it was a perfect day for some time in the studio to load it all up.

Housekeeper Susan was next door at the inn, excited about the ew vacuum we replaced the old one with.  It was time.  The beater bar on the old one was worn out and there were no replacement parts available.  New vacuum it is. )Hooray for the small improvements!)

Son Jeff was on hand working in the yard - I turned on some music to energize my morning and got down to the nitty gritty of  loading everything up.

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More About Purple -

I know this is not the kind of piecing for anyone in a hurry.

It took 3 days for me to get this big purple backing made from my many hunks and chunks that have been stored away, neglected in a bin.

I started combing through the scraps on Saturday Morning, building blocks through Saturday and Sunday and finishing them before dinner time on Sunday evening.

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