Thread: Quilt Retreat Games

There's musical fat quarters - you have to pass them on (or toss them across the room) until the music stops. whoever has it when the music stops can keep it.
Bingo - make a chart like a bingo card and put a task in each square - like "use seam ripper", "broke a needle" " poked my finger with a pin" "finished a block" "finished a row" "applied binding" "changed the bobbin" "ran out of bobbin thread and didn't notice," etc, etc..
As someone finishes one of the tasks she gets to shout it out loud (the louder the better) and cross it off her chart. Whoever has the chart full first, or has it filled in the most, at the end of the retreat, wins a prize.

I've played the "strip poker" before and it's great fun.

I've also participated in a "Chinese fabric exchange". Each person brings a yard of some gorgeous fabric, wrapped or in a gift bag. We bring our chairs into a big circle and put all the packages in the middle. We all draw numbers, then in number order each person can either choose a package or "steal" a fabric you like from another person. If your fabric is stolen, you get to either choose another package or steal from yet another person, and so on. When everyone has had a turn, the person who had Number 1 gets one last chance to trade her fabric with someone else. We usually allow a fabric to be "stolen" only three times and then it's frozen, or else the game could go on forever. It's a lot of fun and we have a great time trying to hide the fabric so it won't be stolen.

this is not exactly a game but we did this on a couple of retreats. Bring a walmart shopping bag full of scraps you are tired of and put the bags on the floor and each person picks a bag, new scraps.

My small group have started play "Left, Right, Center" it is a dice game, sells for about $5.

we have played it starting with 3 FQ each, winner gets them all. This last time I challanged them to bring 3 $1 items. First they had a blast going through the $ store, and then we had a blast seeing what we each brought. AND $ store items cheaper than a FQ even if you pull it from your stash. (You paid for it at some point)

Our all time favorite retreat game is "dirty Santa bingo." You play regular bingo and the first winner gets to pick a prize from the prize table. The second winner gets to either pick a prize from the table or take the first person's prize. The first time we played we let people open the prizes and we set a limit of three steals. The last time we played we didn't let anybody open the prizes and no limit to the amount of steals. All of the prizes were small items and ranged from just a candy bar to a fat quarter or spool of thread kind of prizes.