I Had the Best Day Sewing With Friends

I had the best day today sewing little dresses with my Bee friends, what a wonderful group of women.  They have rallied around my project of sewing little dresses for Dress a Girl Around the World and everyone made a dresss or two today.

We met at Cynthia's lovely home and she had everything set up for us in her family room.  Tables, two ironing boards, irons, cutting stations, and dress kits using some of her stash, all cut with the back seam serged.  To top it off, she had already made the pockets.  What a time saver.

  

There we were, six ladies busy sewing on six Featherweights, what an awesome sight.  My Featherweight, aka Charlotte, decided to act up and was not sewing right,   Many thanks to Adrienne for getting her threaded correctly and making her perfect little stitches again.  What do they always say,  "if your Featherweight has a problem first rethread your machine."

Cynthia had told us, "if anyone wants to stay after noon, I'll have a few snacks."  Well, a few snacks was lunch in her dining room with little ham and egg sandwiches, delicious macaroni salad, fresh fruit and cheese from the morning snacks.  Of course we had to have another piece of her Butter Pound cake.  Wish I had taken a picture of her dining room and the group along with her new Spode dishes.

We took a quick break and we went out to the garage where Cynthia's husband is building a sail boat. We were all impressed to say the least and Greg was very patient as we asked our many novice sailing questions.  Happy sailing, Greg.

More pictures of our fun day.

Hugs and stitches

Hosting Bee at My House

Yesterday was my turn to host my quilt Bee and what a lively time is was. With only five members of the seven in town we all managed to squeeze around my kitchen table.  Missing was new grandmother in Nebraska helping mother and new grandson Will and Peg who is enjoying those last weeks at their cabin in Nebraska.  We missed them both but both will be back soon.

Rosemary had magnificent Show and Tell as usual and shared several of her projects that she made a a recent retreat with well known instructors.  Cynthia brought her Featherweight and did some paper piecing, Martha was cutting strips for an organization to use in their project, Rosemary was weaving ribbons to make a tree trunk to be sewn on her miniature, Carolyn was hand stitching binding on yet another beautiful quilt, and I was holding Rusty most of the time as he wanted to be with the ladies.

Here are a few pictures.

A Glimpse into Bee at Miss Carolyn's

This morning for three hours our quilt bee, proudly named The Cut-Ups, met at Carolyn's beautiful home.  Going into Carolyn's home is a treat unto it self as her art work and creativity is everywhere. Couple that with very creative quilters in our Bee it's like a quilt show every time we meet.  Our group is small in number but big on talent and going to Bee is like going to a mini quilt show.

Like they would say at the movies at the end of a cartoon "That's all folks."