The Retreat At Barcaldine

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Iv just had the best weekend out at Barcaldine, at a sewing retreat with Sandy from the Silver Thimble.

There was 29 ladies busy sewing for weekend, some of the girls had travelled some very long distances to join us. Sandy was a wonderful host and we all had a great time over the whole weekend.

The accomdoation we had was one great big dormitory, with bunk beds everywhere. All of these bed were covered in beautiful quilts, each different styles and patterns.
It was an inspiration to just walk into the bedroom.

 

Sandy was running four different classes over the course of the weekend. There was "Hidden Wells", "Distorted Nine Patch", "The Beginners'Class" and then the ladies that were working on their UFO's. I was working on the Distorted Nine Patch, for my niece. 

This is the quilt I was working on. It's going to be the background, a tattoo that my niece Terri has designed herself is going to be appliqued onto it. I guess the creative gene is hereditary.

 

There was that much food, all of us could have eated for a week and still had leftovers. Everything was sooo yummy! Very bad for the diet, I've probably just put all the weight I've lost back on now. 

This was the room that the Nine Patchers were working in. Organised chaos.

Saturday night was Show 'N'Tell Night. This is just a few of the ladies veiwing all the lovely things they bought with them, plus what everyone had been working on throughout the day.

 

 

 

 These are the pavers that cover the sidewalk on the main street of Barcaldine. I think that it would be a great deisgn for a quilt. Even just the colours are magic too.

Our last lunch together. Again such lovely food!

It was very sad to have to pack up and say goodbye and have to head off home back to the real world.

Though I must say,

Thank You Sandy, for such a great weekend and I look forward to the next one!