Lucky you! Where do you go for your quilting retreat? Is it a guild activity, or a stand alone operation?

It's the SewFreeQuilt Retreat at Tocca GA. I've wanted to go for years. I am so looking forward to it!

Hope you have a great time - remember to take pics for us.

Lesley...of course you knew I would ask!! :wink: Thank you sooo much for showing the pics. I'm really going to think about this...it might be the solution for me too this go round.....(didya' catch that??? "this go round"...as if I'm going to do this again :roll: :lol: :lol: )

Lucy....yes!!! go have fun on your retreat, then come on back all excited and join the fun going on here!! :D

lucylockett, we'd love to have you join us! Do plan on it when you are finished with your retreat. In the mean time, please browse around on the older threads and if you have any suggestions or comments, we'd love to hear them.
Happy Quilting!!

What an awesome job you have done on the blocks Lace!! Great idea!!

For those of you who don't feel up to hand quilting, don't forget that you can all machine quilt each little block, but use the same construction method, so that at the end of the day, you only have straight lines to quilt through the whole thing, around the blocks.

BTW, is it time for week 15 to be posted yet, if so, I'll do it, just to spur you on.

Can't find the one that was posted, so you are on Lacelady! Bring it on for us to drool over!

Thanks for all the welcoming comments. I really would like to do this. I'm thinking that maybe ya'll just make it look too easy. I really liked LacyLady's quilting pictures and ideas. Last year, I used a similar technique with SBS, but I quilted the top,batting,backing blocks and then joined the blocks together. Actually, I machine stitched the backs together and ended up hand stitching just one side of the seam between the blocks. It was given to a hospital or I would post a picture. I do like the idea of having it DONE when it's done. I think having the backing all in one piece would take less fabric. What do you think?