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Wed. in rainy Minnesota

Greetings from soggy Mn. Everyone is anxious to get yard work done and flowers planted but we are getting some much needed rain today. Seems like I run out of time to get everything done - especially when it gets into the spring of the year - but I have actually gotten some sewing done the last few weeks. Last week I went to a retreat about an hour north of here with my mom, Theresa (who is a lurker) eight other hard core quilters and two scrap bookers. The retreat center is a 3 bd prefab type home that originally had a three car garage attached. The guy who owns it now turned the garage into a retreat center. Everyone has their own table, electric cords come out of the ceiling on a pulley, 3 bathrooms, gorgeous view of the lake with a walk down to the dock and enough beds and fold out couches to comfortably sleep 14. This was the second year we have gone and we already have it booked for next year. Monday night six of us sewed until 1:30 in the morning, Tuesday until midnight. Two people were assigned to each meal and did the clean up and the rest of us just sewed until it was our turn. It is a really nice group of people which makes it really fun. This year for Monday, Tuesday and Wed it was less than $50 each. Total. I actually finished the blocks to two different tops and hope to get at least one of them put together today. I am also taking a Dear Jane class that meets once a month. I had not been particularly fond of civil war prints until I started this class. I have 35 blocks done and many, many to go, but it has been fun so far and quite a bit out of my comfort zone. My mom has been here since Easter and is "making" me sew - she thinks I have too many projects going. Can you imagine? So, better get to work - Mom says I have to finished putting together my broken lone star quilt before she goes home on Sunday. Joleen

posted by Joleen in MN @ 8:44 AM