Weekend here I come

I've been so tired all week. This is greatly due to the retreat last week, when I delighted in shorting myself on restful sleep so I could sew more. I did get to bed around 11:30 at night, but then chose to read a murder mystery till way too late in the morning. Such a treat, only because I could do this without the guilt of keeping DH awake. Then there was no rest for the weary, since once I was home, DD has needed some support all week in the evening with writing, math, or physics. Often until 11:30. And then up again by 6:30. Yikes, this boils down to no chance of me sewing now for FIVE whole days. This is serious withdrawal after that intensive retreat.

So DD has a cross country meet out of town tomorrow. She is out by 6:30 am. I will see her out the door, and then nap. Yipee!! Maybe I'll have a four hour stretch after said nap where I can make it to the machine and put together the backing for one or two of the Tom's t's quilts. Maybe even get one spray basted.

I put together a rather long UFO list for myself as part of our guild challenge. I would need to quilt a quilt every 6-8 weeks for the next year to do half of what I want to do. I'm going to make a serious effort to see if this is possible.

How wonderful it was to retreat!

My guild, the Illini Country Stitchers, held a retreat at the Threads of Time Danville IL retreat center over the 3 day weekend. About fifteen people came, some for all the time, some for just a day. I spent three nights and 2 full days there and got so much done. I thought I packed too ambitiously, with way too many tasks to do, but ended up getting all done to the point I wanted. Today I'm tired, but happy.

Here is the second Tom R. t-shirt quilt, made a bit smaller than twin bed sized. The first one is posted in January 2010. The piecework was done on retreat, but all the t's were precut, stabilized, and had a designated spot mapped out in advance.

 Now my next task is to applique a couple of items to fill dead space in two spots (navy gap on top right and in the blue space below in the bottom angled piece). Then I'm ready to layer and quilt these two puppies. Can they get done by next spring? Depends on how much homework help my high school daughter needs.

Then I owe myself the posting of this little wall hanging, Kitty Corner. I just love the golds it it. The top was finished at the May guild retreat. I'll have to look up the pattern designer later.

That's it for now. I'll get the other September retreat projects out for photos and post them soon.