Winter Quilt Retreat 2016.....Part 1

The Harlan Valley Quilters gathered together

for our Annual Winter Quilt Retreat

7 enthusiastic Quilters under 1 roof for a week!

Linda is piecing her Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Loni is assembling her Orange Peel/Pumpkin Seed 

Quilt

Cutting the Circles with a template

Lita is piecing her apple core quilt...

Lita also pieced a few baby quilt tops.

Betty is working on a sawtooth star quilt...

Santa surprised Betty with a new Bernina 350PE 

Kathi is also working on a circle quilt

Kathi brought along her hand piecing project...

Grandmothers Flower Garden

I am working on my Double Wedding Ring Quilt

Linda and I both completed the piecing 

our our DWR quilt tops!

Yes, of course, we celebrated!

We celebrated with Bubbly and Baked Brie

More retreat FUN to come...

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Quilters Holiday Luncheon.....

We gathered together at the Quilt Palace

for our Annual Quilters Holiday Luncheon...

The Quilters arrived at 10:00 

and set up their work tables...

It was really stormy outdoors...

by 10:30 the POWER was out!

We had lunch by candle light...

Our activities were most anything that did not require electricity:

Wrapping clothesline rope....to make fabric bowls

Making hand felted balls...

By 1:30 the power was restored:

Everyone fired up their sewing machines 

and got to work!

Wishing you a Quilty New Year!

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Autumn Retreat at the Quilt Palace

After our summer break...

we gathered together to share our love of

the quilted textile.

We spent 5 days at the Quilt Palace

Here is some Show 'N Tell for you to enjoy:

Donna's Salsa Star Quilt Top

Donna's Feathered Star Squares

Lita's Boho Sling Bags

Lita's Snap Bags

Kathi's Tree Quilt

Linda's Double Wedding Quilt

Kathi's Circles

Donna, Lita and I set up a factory and created

39 snap bags!

I cut and quilted the bags.

Donna and Lita assembled the bags, added the measure tapes.

We each walked away with 13 snap bags......FUN!

Lita made fabric wrapped bowls

Linda's patriotic quilt top

Kathi's Boho Sling Bags

Lots of FREE sling bag patterns.....search online.

Sling Bag of Fish Printed Fabrics

Snap Bag....in progress

Kathi's Snap Bag.....completed

Donna modeling Lita's sling bag

Kath's Snap Bags

Top open on Snap Bag

Lots of FREE Snap Bag Tutorials....online

It was a wonderful and Quilty retreat!

Join us for our Winter Retreat

January 4, 5, 6, 2016

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters

Keeping the Quilt Palace Warm...

The Quilt Palace has a wood furnace...

The Quilters will stay warm and toasty

while they are creating quilts!

Enjoy the Slide Show:

Many Thanks to Delbert and Brad

for filling the basement with wood!

Firewood warms you twice...

1st when you cut it

2nd when you burn it

Everything is Better when it is Quilted,

The Harlan Valley Quilters