Where Did July Go?

Here's the July get together before I leave for August.

 

 The previous three pictures are Dianne's interpretation of the Simply Modern cover quilt.
 

  A jelly roll finish, but I forgot who did this one?

Gwen's snowmen

 Judy's shawl

 

 Another finish in Dianne's baby quilt series.

 And Jan's crocheted basket.  Picture doesn't do this one justice.  It's really rather neat looking.

 

Have to finish getting ready for Amish land - Later!

It's June

The Diva's gathered around Syd's kitchen table to do a bit of sewing, knitting, and catching-up.  A new "tea" recipe was sampled - very yummy.

Syd's Shawl

 The Wildwood raffle quilt blocks are assembled and ready for the borders.

Dianne was finishing the binding on another baby quilt.  It's been a banner year for babies in her social circle.  I didn't catch a picture of the quilt.

Fran & M.A.

Lynn

Jan & Syd

We were missing Judy, Kathy, Laura, Ruth, and always Lori.  But Amishland will be here soon!

Later!

May Hiatus & April Catch-Up

With graduations, kids coming home from college, vacations, appointments, and all the stuff around the house, the Divas went on hiatus for the month of May.

Here are the few April pictures that I was remiss on posting.  If memory serves me correctly we did a lot of catching up around the kitchen table.

Diane's Gypsy Wife

Judy's Easter Eggs

Dianne's Diamond Quilt

See you in June!

March at Fran's

National Quilting Day was spent at Fran's lovely home.  A smaller than usual crowd since Diva's were vacationing, attending a quilting class or otherwise occupied.

Lynn's project with the lost directions - we figured it out

Buttons for M.A.'s Christmas mini

Dianne's got the first of many baby shower quilts, quilted & the binding almost complete

Jan - M.A. got hers done & brought it to show you.

And M.A.'s early with her Sew Special donation

Gwen's nice smile 😊

And the cute gift set for a special little girl

Retreating

 

Before the Divas went off on their own Amish-land adventure there was Mary's retreat.  Almost all the Divas participated at Mary's one time or another and never to pass up an opportunity to get away, here's the Divas back at it.

This is another picture heavy post.  Some of the pictures are furry, or maybe that was me after the jumbo "tea".

Judy was machine quilting her Halloween quilt

And making baby presents

M.A. was working on her friendship blocks 

Progress on the five-year project

And borders on the Maddie Bea

My favorite - Lori enhancing Dianne's picture!

Dianne's other baby quilt

Fran's homespun quilt

Lori

 

Jan's mini "Swoon" quilt - I thought I got a closer picture of this one?

Our secret group project

And it's new owner

 

 

Pillowcases - I think?

A mini from some blocks from way back when

Syd's

Kathy's

And it wouldn't be a retreat without some of Kathy's paper piecing minis

Gwen came out on Saturday to visit, we celebrated a birthday - that's on another blog.  And everyone was very happy to catch up with Lori - we miss her!

Catching Up!

We had a small but enthusiastic crowd for the February gathering.  Some plotting and planning for the upcoming trip to Amish land and some show-n-tell.

Hanging Out

Corky's quilt getting bound

Judy binding the double-sided table runner using some Friendship blocks

Kathy's beautiful shawl

And I got last year's Friendship blocks assembled into a top.

 

Keeping this post short since the next one will be retreat pictures.