MAQ Report Part Three
MAQ is put on by a board that serves for two years. This year's event was the second for the current board, and it was time for a new group of organizers to assume their roles.
Saturday night's important business was election of the new board who will organize and present MAQ 33 and MAQ 34. The entertainment was show-and-tell from the various first-and-second days' classes.
The variety and talent were mind boggling. The antics of the exhausted and nearly slap-happy board members had us giggling. Door prizes, a multitude of them, were given out and I was pleased to win one. It was a generously filled bag with books, patterns, FQs, and an abundance of thread! Not everything was something I would use, so I was glad to share the thread with Judy, and to set aside a couple of things for another group to use for prizes. The grand prize was a tuition-room-board fully paid trip to MAQ 2020, plus early registration! Everyone was very, very tired, but one had to be present to win a prize, so we all hung in there.
No matter. We had had the most wonderful time! We turned out to be very compatible travel companions and roommates, and there is nothing we would change about the venue, the teachers, the classes, the evening programs, the meals, the ambiance, the wonderful new friends we met.
Comments
Several years ago I discovered the winter retreat I now attend, and it had been going for about a decade. I attended the first year with a woman I had been matched up with by the sponsoring shop owner (who knew us both). We hit it off so well, we have attended together ever since. But it is only 3 days out of the year, and I am thinking I could do with something to break up the rest of the year a bit. Wish I could find something like this retreat a little closer to my home.
I, too, wish something like this was available locally but actually I'm out of the quilting loop in my area, so perhaps there is a similar retreat near here. I'll have to check into that.
Hugs!