March Petwood Retreat

Jackie, Cathy together with Diane looking at Juliet's quilt top
One of my favourite parts of our Machine Quilting Retreats are the afternoon sessions when nosotros audition threads on the diverse quilt tops that the participants bring. It is inspiring for everyone to encounter the quilts.  It's fun to seek out lots of dissimilar threads together with to collaborate most how to quilt it .

Juliet alongside her Kaffe quilt
As y'all tin encounter from the photos below
everyone learns from everyone else!
Cathy watching Jackie doodle a novel design
Diane considering which thread together with pattern to use
Cathy showing Juliet merely how she arranged the blocks
Joy mastered a novel business design!
Juliet making butterflies
a 'peicing detail' on Juliet's granddaughter's quilt
We all brutal inwards dearest alongside this pieced pattern. I desire to create a version where I add together machine quilted details on the faces together with clothes.

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