2024 BEGINS WITH A RETREAT

The Kwilty Girls!

Kim Hensley, Tami Pfeil, Lucinda Miller, Patty Estadt in pic.

 Kathy Guether/

me  (not pictured)

We have now been retreating for a couple years.

We meet each January, each August and have been trying

new retreat venues as we do.

This January we drove to Cincinnati, OH to

The Retreat House, Loveland, OH (suburb)

Of course the first thing we spotted was this 

wonderful welcome basket.

The white wine was in the fridge.

THAT RED Napa Valley QUILT WINE...is $40

We parked in the no parking zone to unload the easiest route into the house.

There was a garage for 2 cars and 3 could fit on the drive.

Also some street parking along the front of the house.

 

A wonderful retreat house that felt industrial warmed with wood.

Although there were 2 design walls...

I brought my own flannel wall and pinned it to a hanging quilt.

We moved the cutting tools to the dining room table.

Tami likes to STAND while sewing!

My feet hurt just watching her stand and sew!

That's my quilt with the hearts!

A couple ironing stations...this one had the full wool pressing mat!

Checkered tile design walls for pinning.

Kim is working on her heart quilt.

While Lucinda finished her first top on the other design wall.

Then Patty used the same OHIO Star design wall for this flannel STAR  beauty!

Then Kim reclaimed the surface for these fun Garden blocks.

Lucinda shared a quilted project she is piece-milling.

Patty utilizing the nice wool mat on the ironing board.

Kathy was sewing blocks for this amazing Xylophones quilt. 

It’s a pattern magazine but I dint remember what mag!

 

And I found my Featherweight was enjoying her space.

I did begin sewing a summer PICNIC quilt, pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew,

finishing them after I returned home.

 

One of the quilt shops gave us a HUGE bag of scraps!

What a hoot!

We conquered and divided.

Lucinda needed some help sorting her Plaidish quilt scraps

into appropriate color piles.

Success!

And these are the remaining colors for Lucinda's stash.

And lucky Lucinda won the FQ Bingo!

in less than 5 minutes.  Apparently, we need to

revisit the actual rules!

We took a stroll around the cute area near the house.

Loveland, OH

Lots of restaurants we will investigate next trip!

We ate here at The Works, a couple times.

 Great sandwiches and Wood fired pizzas. 

The huge train car...is also restaurant seating!

 

We had such a fun time...we've already booked it again for

SUMMER 2025!

Where's you favorite place to retreat!