If only I could have captured the chaos, the laughter, and the fun....
I tired! 
Sew days are not easy...first we have to schlep all of our "stuff" to someone's house....sewing machines, ironing boards, gobs of fabric and all the other necessary little items that help us sew "easier"...we all looked like we'd been to several garage sales when we arrived - trunks full of stuff! We unloaded everything, set up our machines and then set about trading fabrics for our project...and that's when the 10 experts-who-care-about-value-and color-and-design separated themselves from the 1 non-expert....that would be me, who's motto is "if it's close enough, it's good enough." Feel free to quote me. They sorted through their fabrics, matching them, tossing the ones they didn't like and adding in new ones, trimming threads, coordinating the pieces, and even ironing! I set about sewing. Until it was time to eat - and I s
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Our menu: Spice cake with caramel frosting and jam filling; turkey roll-ups; oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies; cheese cake cups with key lime topping; pannini's with proscuitto, fontina and fig jam; chicken salad; Italian chicken lettuce wraps; pasta salad; macaroni and cheese; hamburger-cabbage casserole; goat cheese with caramel and almonds on crackers....serioulsy good food...and a coffee cake that got us all going!
After lunch Barbara gave us a little tutorial on how to make perfect circle blocks - from the book Pieced Curves by Dale Fleming. We are going to make circles using this "new" method when we make blocks later this year for the Play For Pink Cancer quilt ...at least we're going to try! It started out looking so simple - glueing fabric to a piece of cardstock with a hole in it....and that's where she lost me but with a little help I think I'll be able to do it. The advantage of doing circle blocks this way is the edge is so precise - unlike the circle blocks with the raw edges pictured above.
After hours of sewing, eating and laughing, we loaded up our stuff and crammed it back into our cars - suffice to say it was a 4 Advil night. Some of us actually did get quite a few socks done...but the experts, who are known for their beautiful and precise quilts, didn't even plug in their machines!
This is what the finished quilt will look like - the pattern is from the book Sun Flower Patch by Teri Christopherson and it's called Lost Socks.
