Design Wall Monday...

 ...and The Retreat Report

These are ready to be put on the design wall! 

Bonnie of Quiltville fame shared pictures of her progress on these blocks.

I became obsessed with them so I figured out how to make the size I wanted and got busy.

My design calls for 36 of these. 

I had 5 finished because I had to be sure they were the right size and then kitted up the remaining 31.

This was my first project at retreat. 

I love having everything ready to pull out of the bag.

Next I made block 24 for my Splendid Sampler.

My new friend Liatris is also doing The Splendid Sampler.

It was fun to see her blocks. 

Then I started on my Dresden Plates.

I had everything for this kitted up also.

The plate fabrics came from my bin of 2 1/2" batiks strips that I've collected from retreat strip swaps.

I made this one at home to see how it would look.

I have 10 plates ready to applique.

Liatris was working on Jamestown Landing--and it is fabulous!!!

She sewed all of her rows together and 

I couldn't stop thinking of mine sitting at home all alone in the bin.

I didn't have a leader/ender project with me-weird!- so on one of my trips home,

I grabbed my bin and some fabric.

I got busy cutting half square triangles and pretty soon I had a nice stack ready to trim.

We continue to have our strip swaps.

Thank goodness we do, 

I've been using many of my  2 1/2" neutrals and need "new blood" in my own selection.

My friends continue to impress me with their neutral selections.

We also traded out 1 1/2" neutrals , 1 1/2 purples,

2 1/2" batiks and purples.

Another fun retreat in the books.

Now to plan for the next one...but that's not until October!

I have to get these project finished so I can show them off. 

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