Had a great time at the East Side Quilters getaway. We were in a new place – Christ the King Center in Easton – what a facility! Wonderful space, great food and accomodations and wonderful quilting companions. Always amazing to see how much stuff gets done.

I went with the main intention of getting all the handwork done on 36 – ie – finish sewing down all the facings etc. I was pleasantly surprised to see i’d sewn down the top sleeve (probably thinking it would hang better for photography if it was done – or something – I sure can’t remember!) so that left three sides. As an incentive, I brought along the next piecing project, and all those stacks of squares got me around the 3 sides of 36 in pretty respectable time. As soon as I was done, I put it away and set up the sewing machine, got out all the stacks of squares and started winging them through the machine. I came home with 30 some columns sewn together. I did a lot more than I thought I’d get done. Doesn’t look like much yet but it’s kick-started.

Mom and I had nice visits and visited lots of folks from the guild plus a few visiting friends. Everyone had a good time and we even had two vendors who came to keep us from being lonely for new fabric and gadgets.

Thanks all for making it a great weekend.

On the way home, I took a wrong turn and we had a back-roads adventure to get back to Rt 40. Saw some deer and a whole lot of beautiful scenery but I sure don’t like being lost, even with google maps on the iphone to at least show me which way I’m going! We made it home though. I think an outing with Mom just isn’t really complete without us getting to the highest piece of terrain available in the area.

Now to put everything away.