Quilt Camp {Retreat Round Up}

In the days leading up to leaving for quilt retreat last Saturday, my husband started telling me that I was going off to "quilt camp". After I told him that the place had on-site massages and pedicures, he asked if I planned to come home!

My mom and her quilt friends have been going to a few different retreat locations throughout Michigan for the last ten years or so. She has been wanting me to take the time off to go with her, and this year was the first time I have been able to make that happen.

We stayed at (and essentially never left!) Creative Passions in Chesaning, Michigan. CP opened in 2005 with one building that accommodated 16 people, and soon will be able to accommodate 101 people in 4 buildings! The owner and her team have done an amazing job remodeling two churches as well as a former mill into amenity filled retreat spaces -- which I was too busy sewing to take pictures of! We stayed in CP2 -- one of the church buildings -- and took advantage of the local restaurant that brings catering right into the kitchen for you.

I would totally, absolutely, positively go back to retreat here. The price is fabulous and there is almost no reason to leave the retreat center between being able to cook in the kitchen and order food in! I just wish it wasn't so far for me to go!

Now onto the sewing! I took my two cut Blue in Bloom projects as my main retreat projects and was able to finish one top completely and complete about two-thirds of the second!

I worked on my green version first -- and little did I realize how much longer it would take than I had originally thought! With the main green print being directional and me being much too much of a perfectionist, I spent a lot of time making sure that all of the green print pieces went in the same direction throughout the entire quilt!

The second one went together much quicker than the first but I still wasn't able to complete the quilt top before I left for the airport on Wednesday. I was able to finish the first pieced border and all of the units for the second and third pieced borders are sewn but not pressed nor trimmed yet.

I am hoping to have the second quilt done soon so that I can quilt both quilts at my leisure between now and the beginning of December! I will need to get a backing for my blue version, but that will be no problem at all!

Have a happy Friday and wonderful weekend! Sharing at Finished or not Friday!