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Project QUILTING Retreat Weekend Report

January 22, 2015 by persimondreams 4 Comments

We had an incredible time this past weekend at Woodland Ridge Retreat for the first ever Project QUILTING Retreat weekend!  It was full of inspiration, talent, quilting, fun, and camaraderie.  The challenge was given to the retreat attendees at 1:00pm on Friday, January 16th and they had until 11:00 am on Sunday, January 18th to have a completed quilt!  Just 46 hours!!! One of the coolest things about a real life retreat was that the challenge could be more specific.  Specific fabrics were given to the participants that they were required to use and we taught a special technique that they also had to incorporate into the challenge.  Both of these are difficult to do on online challenges..

The challenge – APE

A – Applique Incorporate the new painted appliqué technique that Trish and Kim demonstrated for you as part of your final piece. IMG_6982 The inspiration for the ‘Applique’ portion of the challenge came from Linda M. Poole’s newest book ‘Painted Applique A New Approach.’ P – Piecing pq duffel bag Incorporate some of the fun fabric you found in your new Project QUILTING duffel bag into pieced blocks for your final piece. IMG_7018Using some of the fabric designed by Annie Young Arts is a must.  (Each person received a half a yard of the daisy print and the dragonfly print along with a fat quarter of one random art print from Annie).    E – Embellish Have fun and embellish! A lot or a little. Beads, fiber, glitter, and fun! Add whatever you’d like to add some pizzazz to your final piece.

The Weekend

The weekend started with a demonstration on the ‘painted applique’ technique.  Once everyone saw what we meant by that – they were off to work! IMG_6914 Well … except Trish.  She had a hard time focusing on the challenge at hand right away. IMG_6926Diane knew what she wanted to do right away.  And when she got stuck – she kept right on going!IMG_6927Karen had some fun with metallic thread!  IMG_6962But in the end it was all worth it!IMG_6931 Trish finally got her inspiration and went right to work! IMG_6934 This is what her piece looked like before I went to bed … IMG_6935 She stayed up until 4am to get it to this stage.  I waited until normal morning hours to take the picture. IMG_6995Six quilters, 46 hours, six finished quits. IMG_7001 Here is the lovely group of quilters that did such an amazing job at the very first Project QUILTING Retreat weekend! IMG_7006 Hi my name is Trish and I love Project Quilting because "It forces you to try new things.”  Trish’s quilt is named, “The Muse, in blue”.  Trish won the door prize of three spools of Aurifil thread donated by the Fat Quarter Shop.  IMG_7002 Hi my name is Chris and I love #projectquilting because " I like to see how everyone interprets the challenges."  Chris’s quilt is named “Time in Eden, part 1Time in Eden, part 1”.  Chris was the lucky winner of Annie Young’s beautiful painting shown hanging on the wall!  IMG_7003 My name is Diane and I love Project QUILTING because " the participants do amazing things!"  Diane’s quit is called, “Folly of the Fae.”  Diane won a gift certificate to Nancy’s Notions.  IMG_7004Hi my name is Kelly and I like #projectquilting because "it gets my creativity flowing."  Kelly’s quilt is named ‘Dandelion and Daisies.’  Kelly won a gift certificate to Nancy’s Notions.  IMG_7005 My name is Karen and I love Project Quilting because " it allows me to bring out my inner fiery rose."  Karen’s quilt is named “Cocky Rose”.  Karen won a gift certificate to Nancy’s Notions.  IMG_7007 My name is Kim and I love Project Quilting because, "it has brought a whole new depth and dimension to my quilting and my relationship with others in the quilting world.”  My quilt is called ‘Stackaderm” and I’ll be blogging more about it on Friday. Wow!  What a weekend!!!! See more pictures of all the fun we had by checking out #PQ4Me on instagram!

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  1. rosepetal says

    January 23, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    It sounds like you ladies had a fun and exhausting weekend! All the quilts are beautiful but my favorite is Time in Eden part 1.

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  2. Shauna says

    January 23, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    sounds like a fun time, love all the quilts

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  3. Lia*s Handmades says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    I love the one Trish made! It looks like she used colour pencils? Is that some sort of fabric paint you have over there? I would love to know because this is super interesting. We only have the sharpie like fabric markers here and you can't do a lot with those. Would totally splurge out on these if I knew what they are lol

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    • Trish Frankland says

      February 22, 2015 at 10:03 pm

      Hi Lia – I just now saw your post. We used Inktense pencils – they're like colored pencils, but it's dry ink that's activated when you get it wet. On paper, you can do that with water, but on fabric we used a fabric/textile medium – the same medium you'd use to make acrylic paint stick to fabric. You can buy the medium where ever you find artist's paint supplies, and the pencils are available in art stores too. Just look for Derwent Inktense pencils. This is absolutely my favorite new technique!

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