Catching up

What a fabulous weekend!  I just got back from a retreat, with some of the fabulous ladies at the local quilt store.  We had so much fun, ate fabulous meals, and got so much done!  I took my paper piecing block of the month with me, but it was purely a fallback option if a miracle happened and everything else got done. I did not want to spend another retreat weekend paper piecing :)

So instead, I:

Finished step 1 of a guild mystery.  160 flying geese, all completed and joined into groups of 4.

Caught up on the first 3 months of "Reflections of the North" block of the month (Winter version).  Oh my, more flying geese.

Completed the next block (#39) in the block of the week from the quilt shop. And another 4 flying geese.  10 more to go, and I can assemble it!

Finished the cutest little snowman block.  The is block one of a block-of-the-month that will be starting in January.  The fact that I actually finished the embroidery on this block in 2 weeks is pretty amazing in itself :)

I am DONE with flying geese for a while.  Phew!

And I FINALLY started a quilt that I've been carrying back and forth to retreats for a year now.  This is from Kaffe Fassett's "Shots and Stripes", made with shot cottons that I had collected while making 2 other Kaffe quilts. And not a single flying goose block in sight.  I have 10 of 32 blocks complete.