Oh my, I’ve had a very busy week at work! And before that a busy quilt retreat last weekend! I waited and took my Thursday photo an hour while at the retreat. Hope you enjoy.
8:30 a.m. My friend and room mate at the hotel, Dahn. A few seconds before she was lying on the floor with a beer bottle in hand. Here she is bobbing for beer. All in fun of course.
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9:30 a.m. We scurried over to the convention centre to get our favourite tables. Only about 10 people here so far.
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10:30 a.m. We do a “Chinese gift exchange”. It has other names but basically when your turn comes up you can choose a gift to open or steal a gift that someone has already opened. I had to go out to the car to wrap my gift.
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11:30 a.m. Delaina is contemplating a layout.
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12:30 p.m. My first finish – a block for the Adventure Block swap.
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1:30 p.m. A spot of lunch and my second finish – two blocks for the 6 inch block swap…
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2:30 p.m. The first gift is being opened…. it was a cat puzzle, a cat and quilts book and a gorgeous bag kit with lots of embellishments. I stole it once but just couldn’t hang on to it.
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3:30 p.m. The room is pretty full now. There were about thirty women sewing away.
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4:30 p.m. My friend and table mate, Dahn, is sewing a table runner.
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5:30 p.m. I spent five minutes or more looking for my yellow thread…. guess where it was….
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6:30 p.m. Dinners were catered. Ribs, chicken, braised cabbage, potatoes, yams (not on the table yet) and salad and a yummy bbq sauce. Delicious!
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7:30 p.m. These five ladies are from Haines Alaska. They haven’t travelled the furthest (that would be me) but they come from Another Country!
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8:30 p.m. Finish number three – this apron is for my new three year old step granddaughter who I’ll be going to meet in a few weeks.
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10:30 p.m. Missed an hour somewhere. We lay our finished items out on the auditorium floor. It’s starting to fill up.
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And it was off to bed for me. I’ll be back tomorrow to show you some more finishes and mail from the last week.
Janet