CQI 7th Annual Retreat - PART TWO

Hi friends! Let’s start the day off right with the announcement of the winner from our first retreat blog post.  The prize, you will remember, is a set of crazy quilting templates from Sharon Boggon of Pintangle and a CQI moderator. 

The Random Number Generator picked #24

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.... and that is Ann Pierce, who commented, "This sounds like so much fun! I hope to join y'all some day. I'm new to CQ but my bee friends are the best. So inspiring!"

Ann, you will LOVE these templates, and we are confident they will help you on your way to creating more beautiful seams! We will contact you privately to get your address.  

Information on today’s giveaway is at the end of this blog post.

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Retreat, Part Two

We’re back to bring you Part Two in the continuing saga (LOL) of the Crazy Quilting International Retreat in Kansas City.   Warning: this is a very picture-heavy post, so sit down and grab another cuppa.  When we left off, it was Thursday morning. . . .

After the Stash Dash (see Part One), the first class was Making Fabric Books.  Since no one person in the group was an expert, dear Beth Pile offered to lead a discussion and show a book she had done. In addition, others brought fabric books to show and even a book ABOUT fabric books.  

L-R Cathy K, Betty L, Beth, Sandy L, Wilma, Joyce (in black), Carol (barely visible), Liz (standing), Freda, Karen G, Colleen (standing), Gayle, Lori H (seated in foreground) Connie E (in pink), Sharyn (facing away), Lisa B and Tahlia H. 

The book examples were passed around. Here Connie E enjoys Gerry H`s book.

L-R Beth, Wilma, Carol, Freda, Gayle

A lovely fabric book about Angels made by Freda Butler. 

The afternoon class was Using Button Creatively. The original teacher, Barb W, could not attend due to illness, so Tahlia Holt (in red top) volunteered to fill in. She stayed up late the night before (we caught her stitching into the wee hours) to provide examples for the class. She did a great job, and the attendees were so happy!  

L-R, Lori K, Darlene D, Beth, Wilma (barely visible), Diane M (in pink), Tahlia, Joyce R and Betty Lenz

SHOW AND TELL

One of the great highlights of any retreat is getting to see others’ work.  That makes Show and Tell both enjoyable and inspiring.  And the room we were in had bulletin board walls, so we were able to hang most of the medium and smaller pieces up for viewing over the next couple days. The actual quilts were hung over chairs and laid on tables for closer viewing and photo opportunities.   Sit back and grab a cuppa. There is a lot of great eye candy ahead in this picture-heavy post!

(PS - As I was busy pinning items up for display during Show & Tell, I missed much of the actual presentation. Therefore, many of the items below are without proper credits. No disrespect is intended. If the owners or other retreat attendees can contact me with the information, I will update the pictures.  Thanks, Cathy)

A wonderful block from the Pets Round Robin by Darlene Doersch

(block credits needed)

Peacock in progress, Tahlia Holt

African RR blocks; Tahlia Holt

This lovely stocking by (credits needed) will stop Santa in his tracks!

Carol Kramer at her stitching table

Carol Kramer, family block

Wilma from the Netherlands attended and showed us her beautiful
jewel-toned crazy quilt with fans and peacocks.

Detail of Wilma’s incredible peacock CQ. The stitched peacocks are vintage
Dutch cigarette silks from the  1930’s.

A corner of a quilt by Sandy Larson

Another glorious corner of Sandy Larson’s quilt.

Gerry H chatting with stitching friends

Gerry’s Victorian Ladies Round Robin Wall Hanging

Lisa Boni could usually be found stitching
(when not teaching or taking photos!)

Some of Lisa Boni’s incredible pincushions for CQ Journal Project 2014

Detail of Lisa Boni’s cream on cream crazy quilt

A lovely bird vignette from Lisa Boni

Still more lovely stitching from Lisa Boni’s cream on cream quilt.

Cathy Kizerian shows one of her blocks 

Cathy Kizerian's work on Paris-themed block for Darlene Doersch

Halloween quilt top by Darlene Doersch 

We easily filled all the walls of the room; and then the tables,
and eventually we had to draper quilts over chairs!

Freda Butler stitched this gorgeous triptych

Detail of Freda’s stitching

Lovely CQ by (credits needed)

Top left: Connie Kalina’s Lace & Pearls RR blocks
Bottom Left: First piece by Joyce Robertson
Left:  3 silk ribbon flowers by Donna Dickison

This lovely purse front was stitched by Elizabeth Rudder.

Another block from the Pet RR. What cute fabric! Block by Gerry Hookstra

A great complementary color scheme on this yummy block by Carol Kramer

Check out the details on this beauty! Block by (credit needed)

Karen Guthrie and her marvelous Fan quilt!!!

Fan detail of Karen’s quilt

Karen’s quilt also contained incredible embroidery 

More eye candy from Karen Guthrie’s quilt

Betty and Freda show off a vintage crazy quilt brought by Betty Lenz

Stitching detail of vintage crazy quilt

Lauri B’s Under the Sea quilt shown by Gerry H and Sharyn N 

Beautiful blue and white quilt by Karen Guthrie

Detail of blue and white quilt.

Elizabeth Rudder shows her contest-winning stuffed bunny

This was Connie Eyeberg’s calendar block (November)
for Pam Kellogg’s CQ Quarterly Magazine 2015 Calendar

Quilt by Connie Eyeburg

Detail of Connie Eyeberg quilt

This quilt was INCREDIBLE!
Another masteripiece by Karen Guthrie

Detail

Flower basket

So much eye candy!

Kristie W and Tahlia hang eye candy while in the background,
Elizabeth and Freda chat

This block was stitched by Carol Kramer

Diane Matheson, stitching away

One of Diane Matheson’s family CQ blocks. She does one
 for each of her grandchildren.

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NEW  WEDNESDAY GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT

As promised, we have another drawing today for our readers.  Today’s giveaway will be for a  $25 Spending Spree at Cathy`s Crazy by Design, owner Cathy Kizerian. You will get $25 worth of your choice of lace or fabrics, and the postage is on us!     
To enter, just leave a comment below. Make sure that your comment is linked to an email address (or leave it in the body of your message) so we can contact you if you win. Winner will be drawn on Thursday evening (Mountain time) and announced on Friday’s Part Three blog post.