Weekend Getaway (Sort of)

The Renegades' semi-annual weekend in Lancaster County started on Thursday afternoon. Four of us gathered then, to be joined by two more twenty-four hours later.

Still recovering from pneumonia and leaving a sickly husband at home, I wasn't sure how much I would accomplish.  I took with me three projects to finish.

This is my quilt that serves as a memory of our trip to Great Britain.  I started making the blocks six months ago and finished them awhile back. I took them along as my main project because our retreat location has a couple of gihugic design walls. There are 900 squares of various Liberty Tana Lawn prints on Kona Snow. This queen quilt will grace our bed this summer. No borders are planned.

This was a beautiful view from our sewing room last evening.

And here are the lemon tree baskets! This one isn't quite finished. It needs two borders, one of which I must order the fabric for. 

But I'm still in love with it. It might end up being called the Pneumonia Quilt.

On Friday evening I spoke with Himself who  had become sicker to the point that he was thinking of going to the doctor. That was how I knew he was really sick. This morning he followed through and texted me that he had a sinus infection and was on a bunch of meds.

Remembering what a fine nurse he had been during the early days of the pneumonia, after lunch today I packed up and drove home to tend to him. The retreat was scheduled to end Sunday mid-day, so I didn't miss a whole lot, and I was pleased with all I had accomplished. 

The six of us had such a good time together and we've already booked the place for six months down the road. We hope our buddy Kathy will be able to join us then.