Summer Retreat
The Renegades spent most of this week on retreat. We went to our usual place, Linda's, and sewed and sewed and drank some wine and sewed and laughed a whole lot and sewed and one of us had a milkshake. This retreat was a precious one for me because I'd had to miss both the Renegades' Spring Retreat and the Guild Retreat. Come to think of it, we were invited to join MaryEllen's Retreat and I had to miss that one, too. So I needed this getaway. I'd picked up Boardwalk from the machinist on Monday morning before heading out and I was mighty pleased with how she'd turned out. So that was my first project. For reasons I no longer recall, I wanted to round the corners, which meant I had to make bias binding. I did that, and I got the binding machined on, easing it around those curved corners. Boardwalk is huge . I imagine I'll get her pressed tomorrow and begin the hand-stitching soon after, In a little over a year, Caroline will be going off to college and of cou...
