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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 18:06 #136263

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Awesome Geneva!!
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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 18:00 #136261

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Hey ! Sounds like a virtual party at Rosemary's !!....I'll bring some cheeze and crackers !! :woohoo: :silly:
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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 17:41 #136259

Well, I am done! The quick, easy bedroom do over is finally done. Whew! And guess what I love it! I've finally got all the pieces and parts of the bedroom (except for the exercise bike :angry: ) looking coordinated. I'm so glad to be done.

Here are two views.


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I will go on Amazon right now to find a dust ruffle to finish the look.

This was a lot more work than I expected but I learned a lot.

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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 17:38 #136258

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I'll hitch a ride too! Nothing like a glass of wine or 2 while discussing quilts and fabric!
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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 16:10 #136254

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Fabulous windows and organized stash too Rosemary!
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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 11:22 #136251

Rosemary, your lounge looks so nice. I really love those windows. They are very special. And let me know when Dawn is coming over for a glass of wine. I'll hitch a ride with her! B) Your stash sounds very interesting. I do like how beautiful your bins of folded fabrics look. Love the color!

Heather, can't wait to see your son's graduation quilt. I know it will be a beauty!

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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 09:38 #136250

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No Dawn, it is not all of my stash for quilting, but possibly about half of it. I have only been quilting proper since Izzy was born (it was that or beading, but I though patchwork would be more baby friendly than beading :P ) and the first 6 years or so was very slow on stash accumulation. However there is also my dressmaking fabric stash, old clothes for conversion to quilts stash, and a furnishing fabric samples stash (I used to work for a furnishing fabric company and got lots of discontinued samples approx. 2'sq)

Unfortunately those boxes are all empty :whistle: , but they did have books in them.


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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 09:30 #136249

Love the windows Rosemary, and the whole lounge :)
Geneva the bed runner is great, thanks for the pictures!
I'm not brave enough to enter anything in a quilt show :blink: maybe some day...

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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 09:15 #136248

Loving all the photos, ladies! Rosemary, your lounge is absolutely beautiful! I am contemplating a similar colored yellow for my walls, although my husband is not on board, and seems we'll end up with a cool blue instead. That is also fine, as long as I get a warm color in the dining room. I do love blues, and the room does need a good neutral-ish color.

I've almost got all the blocks finished for my son's graduation quilt/the infinity quilt. I have one row of light blue to finish assembling (so far just turning the squares into blocks, then will let it be on the design wall a bit to see if anything needs rearranged), and then need to cut the pieces for the 7 squares that are made of 4 triangles each instead of HSTs. It's looking very nice so far, son loves it, and of course after this part is the border.....Hopefully today I can get finished the last bits for the top (not the borders, just the middle) and then must do my row for Feb and probably March (sorry guys!)...although, if I do my Feb row today and mail tomorrow then I won't technically be late....hmmm.

As far as entering shows, I entered our county fair last year, and am contemplating making something for the challenge theme for HMQS (non-juried) just to see what feedback it gets. That deadline, though, is fast approaching, and other than an idea, I've not started yet....my "show quilt" that I've had the idea of since I first started quilting will probably be next year.......

anyway, no picture yet, but once I get the rest of the blocks I'll post a pic of the graduation/infinity quilt for you guys :)
Heather, a Texan living in Brasil

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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 08:54 #136247

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Rosemary, surely that is not ALL of your quilting stash? Or, do you only buy fabric for a project when you are about to start that project. I have bin after bin after bin of fabrics. But, I have to admit, some are so darned old (from over 20 years ago) that I really don't need to take up precious space with them. I need to just donate them. I am WAY beyond calico prints, and cheaper cottons!

Anyway, your lounge is shaping up. Wonderful color palette. Is that wine on the floor? I'll come over for a glass or two!

Geneva, your bed runner would go nicely in Rosemary's refreshed lounge! Same color palette. Really looking forward to seeing the completed bedroom. I admire the fact that you take time away from quilts, to decorate. I'm still working on (or NOT working on) my day bed area of my sewing "studio." It may never get completed. I just get too distracted.

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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 07:54 #136246

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Very nice! Love those widows, & the rich burgundy colors!
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Virtual Retreat 2016 28 Feb 2016 06:48 #136244

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Getting there - here is our freshened lounge with the curtains up
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And here is a better picture of the stained glass
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Finally, my 'organised' stash of quilting cottons, nearly all fq's but about 1/2 dozen of 1/2 m and similar of 1m pieces in the two boxes to the left and hand dyes, jelly rolls, charms, and a bundle of new shirting fabrics scraps in the left hand box
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Virtual Retreat 2016 27 Feb 2016 22:14 #136242

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Geneva - love your bed runner looking forward to a picture of your completed bedroom project (really like the runner fabric). How was your moms birthday cake?
Rosemary - fun to hear about your fabric adventures!
Dawn and BJ- always enjoy hear and seeing your projects.
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Virtual Retreat 2016 27 Feb 2016 20:23 #136239

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Hey Sewdreamy! Your quilt is wonderful! I need to do this! I have never even put my quilts in a quilt show, when I was 18 or 19 I put a needlepoint in a local show and won 2nd place, that was pretty cool! I ended up giving that picture to my mom. I just always give my quilts away, this was the 1st year I was going to enter somethings. Fortunately, I finished my quilted jacket, so that will go in to be judge.
Hey Geneva, your bed quilt is beautiful, you'll have to show us some pics when your room is complete.
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