Buckeye Sewing Retreat Day 1

I arrived at the Inn at Amish Door in Wilmot, Ohio at about 9:30 a.m. on Friday morning for the start of the Buckeye Sewing Retreat sponsored by the Calico Cupboard in Pataskala, Ohio.  It was beautiful day too travel, I just wish the fall leaves had stuck around a couple days longer.  I grabbed a luggage cart to unload everything from my car!! 

 

I had 8 quilts/wall hangings that needed bindings attached and sewn down.  My sewing machine, acrylic table, display board, 2 quilt kits, Feathered Star paper piecing project, rulers, cutting board, a shoe box of tools including, rotary cutter, extra rotary cutter blades, thread, bobbins, pins, chalk pencil and many other tools of the quilting trade!  I also took my Spinning Sampler for show and tell.

When I got upstairs Sherry directed me to my table so I could unload.  That table became my home away from home for the weekend.  I wish I had the space for a table that measured 4’ by 8’ in my sewing room!!

My table mate wasn’t there yet so I had both tables to myself for a while.  That allowed me to get my bigger quilts done.  I decided to work on the 2 quilts that are gifts first.  I had cut the fabric for the bindings last weekend, but I still needed to sew the strips together and press them, prior to attaching.  I attached the binding with my machine and then folded it to the back and used Clover Binder clips to keep it in place, as I sewed in the ditch from the front.  Since these are not SHOW quilts I figured sewing the bindings on by machine would work ok.

I love using a stripe for bindings, because they end up on the diagonal!!

 

I need to design and print labels for both of these prior to presenting them as gifts.

I managed to catch the backing when attaching the bindings to both of my first 2 quilts, so that required some reverse sewing with my seam ripper!!

Then I moved on to my first From Marti and Me Club quilt, Bali Breeze.  I used the same fabric that was in the border to bind the quilt.

 

Next was my Halloween Wall hanging

 

We broke at 6:00 p.m. and had a wonderful dinner of Salad, Rolls, Fried Chicken, Roast Beef, Mash Potatoes, Green Beans and Pie!!

Then it was back to sewing!!

I only worked until about 9:30 p.m., I have a tendency to make sewing mistakes and rotary cutter mistakes after 9 p.m.!!!

I will have another post later this week for Saturday!!!

Flat Stanley and the Buckeye Quilters

Flat Stanley kept an eye on us at the Buckeye Sewing Retreat at the Inn at Amish Door in Wilmot, Ohio.  Brooklyn’s grandmother brought him with her to join the fun!!  He joined us from the Hamilton Elementary School in Franklin County, Ohio.

Stanley was there to help us cheer on The Ohio State University Buckeyes football team to victory over the Penn State University Nittany Lions. 

 

Stanley made sure that I was in bed early to prevent any sewing mistakes or injuries with sharp scissors or rotary cutters. 

Thanks Stanley for visiting us!!

Buckeye Sewing Retreat

I'm on my way to the Inn at Amish Door in Wilmot, Ohio for the Buckeye Sewing Retreat!!!

Myself and 20 other sewers and quilters will be enjoying Amish food, free time to sew/quilt and everything Buckeyes!!

I have my Scarlet and Gray clothes ready, 5 quilts to attach binding to, a couple quilt kits for my fellow Buckeye Doris to start and my Feathered Star. 

In addition to all the tools I need: Sewing Machine, Acrylic Table, Rotary cutter and mat, paper piecing tools, Binding Tool, Clover Binding clips and a lot more!!  The car will be packed from floor to trunk!!

I figure I can work on removing paper from the Feathered Star while we watch the Buckeyes play Penn State on Saturday evening.  That is if the Inn gets ESPN!!!

I will miss my boys!!  Jim, Garfield and Nermal.

I will take pictures of my progess and post next week!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Haunted Halloween and Rail Fence Border

At the beginning of the month I was a part of the Fall EQ Blog Hop.

One of the other participants was Bea and she recently had a Rail Fence tutorial and asked to see how others had used the Rail Fence in their EQ7 projects.

 

I talked about using PrePrinted Panels and EQ.

 

Haunted Hallow 2

 

Here is the final layout that I did in EQ7.

 

 

It includes a Rail Fence border with 4 triangle blocks.

 

I recently had it quilted by Becky at Ruby Blue Quilts.

 

 

I will be adding the binding when I attend a Buckeye Sewing Retreat at the Amish Door next weekend.