Show and Tell

Here are some of the projects some of us worked on during retreat last weekend.

This is Joyce's amazing wall hanging for her hubby for Christmas. The big white 'S' stands for State, as in Michigan State University. Let me tell you, this girl had smoke coming out of her fingers! She came in with a pile of fabric and the instructions for this and FINISHED the top in 2 1/2 days! She had her nose to the needle!
Barb made this really beautiful wall hanging. When she finished quilting this she resumed an applique piece that will be stunning. I was not quite as camera busy as I should have been, but we'll get a picture of it finished.
Janet was growling at this piece all weekend. Apparently she cut all of the pieces during one long week on an island in Maine, and saved the sewing for this weekend. It's all on the bias so her growls were accompanied with teeth gnashing. There are many rows of colors that radiate from this rose red center.
Marilyn brought several projects to work on in case she got tired of one thing. On this one she is hand quilting a round robin project from a year ago. Marilyn hand quilts with the stab method. I don't know how she gets anything done, but she does. I tried it once and my piece looked like I gave the needle to Adelaide and told her to work on it. I went gratefully back to the rocking needle approach.
Val has been working on this for a couple of years. Her parents passed away within three days of each other exactly two years ago. She took some of her father's shirts and made three quilts from them for her two sisters and herself. He was a pilot so she chose airplanes. In the middle of the quilt she put a patch of pink tulips made from her mother's shirts. She had five squares left so she's making five pillows, one for each niece.
Sally began with this Christmas mantle piece. She finished it and moved on to appliqueing a baby quilt for her new granddaughter. You can see that quilt on Monday's post "R and R" Sally is standing in the front with the quilt.
But what Sally is known for is her itsy bitsy pieces. You can see from the spools of thread these little pinwheely things are tiny.

I can't show you what I was working on because it's a secret. But I did finish it! At a later date I can reveal.