A Much Needed Retreat

This weekend has been much anticipated for months and months and in spite of all that is going on in the world right now, we made it happen.  I got to spend the weekend with nine of the most wonderful people in the most wonderful place. 

Usually at retreats, I am a woman on a mission, trying to piece as much as possible.  I've been known to get 5 or 6 tops completed in a weekend.  Not this time.  It was a slower pace but I did manage to get two finished.

This is one of my new patterns, All Souls.  If you like it, you can find it on my etsy site here.  

This is a little squirrel quilt that's on the cover of the latest Simply Moderne magazine and I had to make it.

I enjoyed the first morning frost of the year with this view and a cup of coffee.

On Saturday, a few of us took a break and hiked along a dirt road.  The beautiful New River, a few wildflowers blooming, lovely old abandoned buildings, wooly worms and deer too fast to photograph (the deer were...the woolies not so much).

 

This was such a wonderful, laid back group.  We sewed, talked, laughed until the wee hours...appropriately socially distanced of course.  

Here we all are showing off our quilts on the veranda of Quiltville Inn.  

We ate wonderful food, drank coffee on the porch and had smores around the fire pit.  Shelley introduced me to grappa and I'm a fan.  Cyndi, the Halloween Fairy left us gifts every night for us to find on our sewing machines the next morning.

We all agreed that the best part was being able to be together...carefully with buckets of sanitizer but together.  We have all missed that (the together, not the sanitizer...).  My dear friend, Bonnie has created a safe haven and we are all already counting the days until we return to Quiltville Inn.