Grand Illusion - Part 1 - finally finished!

I was busy at retreat!

Took last weekend off and went on a quilt retreat!   It was wonderful.  And I worked hard!  First above is my done done done easy street!  Quilted and bound!

And the rest of the weekend I worked on little gifts for my girls weekend at the beach coming up.  Screen Pouches for us (the drink ones) and 3 pink ones for the daughters left at home!

And then fabric wallets.

And last - beach bags!  I still have 4 more beach bags to make.  But at least I got 2 done.

And this is the back of them.

Its the Sunny Side of the Street for Easy Street!

Its a sunny side of the street for me with Easy Street!  I finished the top and backing yesterday for Easy Street!  It is off to the quilter Thursday!  I'm so happy with how it turned out!  Enjoy!

A bit of progress on Easy Street

I"m making progress on Bonnie's Mystery "Easy Street"!  All the blocks are made and I have the first corner put together!

Easy Street - Part 3 progress

Here is my progress and some "play with the parts" layouts.

Easy Street!

My progress so far on Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street Mystery!  It is so much fun!  And I always love how her quilts turn out!

Quilts and Pizza!

What more could a girl want, quilting and pizza! Emily made the yummy pizza above for dinner tonight. All from scratch I might add! It was sooo good.

I spent the afternoon putting binding on our guilds raffle quilt. It is Bonnie Hunter's pattern Cathedral Stars. Didn't it turn out great! It is huge! Took me all afternoon to trim the batting, make the binding and get it on the quilt. Now to get the sleeve and binding sewn down before the Rosemont Spring Quilt Festival. Our guild gets to display it and sell tickets on Friday, so the clock is ticking!

Bonnie came to visit!

Oh my GOSH! Bonnie came to our guild meeting tonight. I don't know when I"ve enjoyed a program more. Her talk is so "real life" and her quilts are SO BEAUTIFUL in real life. (Well they are beautiful on the web - but even better in real life!) Above is a special message for our friend Lucy!

Oh it was a great evening!