Originally Posted by Plain Jane
Here is what I'm thinking. We have a home that is located on the side of a mountain, no other homes in view. A spring provides all our water, The view is of three ridges. We have auctions in town, a historic Inn and restaurant down the road, three little quilt shops, one owned by the fabric designer. I have three extra queen size beds and one king. Maybe I could hostess a weekend? I am new to quilting and have so much to learn. I feel like I could learn more in one weekend than in a year trying to figure it out myself. AND I'd surely come away with new friends. But maybe those are self serving reasons to try to put one together.
Do you think it would be safe to gather a group of women who have never met before? It seems like most of the small ones have grown out of already established friendships.
The OR/WA quilters from our Quilters board get together. Last year we had seven from the board and had such a good time! We are getting together again in June and already have 11. One of our dear Board members finds us a house at the beach and we split up the cost. It looks like we will all just bring what we want to eat and sew again this year. It worked last year-and I'm sure it will work this year as well. There were only a few of us that new each other from our previous get together but we got to know new ones as well. It sure was a lot of fun.
We made new friends, ate alot, laughed alot, and sewed alot, came back very happy!