From Our Retreat

Here are some more items we finished at the retreat last weekend:

Here is our sample mini quilt that proclaimed our theme for the retreat.  It's so cute.  I was working on another WIP so didn't get to make one there, but I have the kit.  Then we made place mats for when we went to the dining room for meals.

This was the general idea for us to work with, but lots did it differently.

Here's mine.  Since my girls gave me all the birds they didn't use, I made a futuristic one  (no wings required) which I call
Air Traffic Control.  

My daughter's.  She had such a lovely back, and decided to make it the front and keep it simple.  She gave me all her birds.

She also made this Itty Bitty Baby Dress for her best friend's baby who is due to be born anytime now.

My DIL, Deanna, made another kit - a feather eyeglass case.

They had such neat projects for us!

I'm linking to some linky fun.  See my tab under the header.  Blessings!

Two More Make Five

On my Design floor this Monday is my completed 5 blocks for the RSC 2017 challenge.  The left and right blocks of the first row are new.  Wonder what the challenge color will be for June?  We should know soon from Angela.

I managed to use 1.66 yards finishing baby coverlet at retreat and three blocks. My destashing total is now 47.98 yds so far this year.  I may yet get to 50 yards (my half way point) in June.

What are you doing this long weekend?  We've said prayers for those who gave their lives for our safety and freedom.  Long may they be remembered.

A Veteran's quilt I made in 2011.

A quilt of valor made by me and two of my neighbors. From 2006

And then there were three

Here's my third green scrappy block for the 2017 RSC

For the quilt I have in mind the blocks have to be 9" finished. In the I Love to Make Quilts version, it is a 12" block. I've finally worked out a method to make reducing the block less complicated for me.
I see what the size of the finished pieces have to be and then add a 1/2" to the measure. For instance for the one above.  The middle of this 9 patch is twice the size of the corners, so my pieces have to be 1/4th the finished size.  So I divided 9 by 4 and got 2 1/4".  I added the 1/2" seam allowance and squares for the corners  should cut at 2 3/4".   The middle rectangle is 2 3/4" twice, but since this is a long rectangle, one subtracts the 1/2" seam allowance as there is no seam in the middle.  And so it goes...

At retreat, we do make and takes.  They give us a kit and we make it.  Most of us are usually learning a new technique when we do this.  Our first make and take was to make a name tag.  Here's mine.

We had three birds to choose from.  Here's my daughter's:

She stuffed hers and braided the feet.  Wish I had taken more pics of my Mom's and DDIL's.

I'm linking to Angela's RSC 2017.