Mare gave us a demo on making pizza dough and we got to work!
The sweatshop was in full swing until it was time to break for pizza - delicious!!! It was hard to break out of the carbo coma and get back to work - but we persevered. Saturday morning, the sewing frenzy continued....until it was time to go to the Iron Horse. Yay....bunny hops! These came with chick peeps on swords...which led to only one sword fight, the goat cheese ball discussion and the usual raucous laughter. The pitstop to pick up chicken potpies was almost the highlight of the ride back, until Dolores jumped out of Lori's still-moving van to go to Zook's! She landed gratefully and made some bunny hop-fueled purchases - someone should have accompanied her!!!! Back to the grind.....stopping only for a splendid appetizer buffet around 6:30 - we had delicious chicken nachos prepared by Consuelo, a family recipe from the old country. We also had some of the wonderful things we bought at the Farmer's Market - and decided somewhere in that food haze that next year's Friday night dinner would be all appetizers - the brie on crackers with cranberry honey mustard was 'moan-worthy'! We followed some NCAA basketball games, watched a video from a crazy dance party at the Bono house and had a lot of laughs while cranking out loads of stuff!! Sunday morning came quickly (especially for LA and Lori who stayed up till 2:30)....and here's the show & tell.....
This is an awesome wallhanging Mare made for her brother - it's hard to see, but Lori thread painted the bear and the moose - it looked terrific!
This is an Easter stack-n-whack that Mare made in a class a few years ago at Steve's - beautiful colors!
This is the Consuelo-approved back....
Consuelo machine quilted these two quilts - and got the binding on.....wtf?
An Irish wallhanging - designed and made by LA - love those wonky borders!
A cute baby quilt made by LA - love the baseball diamond....
This is just adorable - another LA original - the cutest panel, cut into squares and made into this quilt.
Lori made these two soldier tunics for the Sacred Heart eighth grade stations of the cross - they are complete with sashes - very cool!!
Another LA original - cute color blocks, with chenille blocks around the center - adding those shapes really makes the whole thing pop.
Lori made these cure little quilts to hang on her rack - one of the spring ones is for her Mom....hope she doesn't read the blog!
She's not sure if she's keeping the pink or purple one for herself!
LA made this cute coins quilt as a raffle item for the benefit for Claire....the colors are fabulous!
I made this 'easy bricks' quilt using a Lucy's crab shack layer cake.
This is a jelly roll called gypsy girl - and the pattern is a suggestion from Dolores....and I still have lots of jelly rolls left - maybe for a piano key border...we'll see....
This pattern is called 'tickets' - and I used a layer cake - still deciding how to quilt it.
A cool string quilt from Dolores - the polka dot fabric is a flannel - naturally. It looks great!
Dolores had gotten this beautiful floral on sale at the Country store on a previous shopping day - the reds really shine...
Should we call Dolores the lady in red? Another stunning string quilt.....
These were blocks that D found while she was packing for the trip - the floral fabric was with them - so she put on the borders and voila - another beauty!
This was something that Mare started a few years ago at Brigantine.....finished just in time for Easter...
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Great recap Jean! Thanks for the GREAT weekend girls!
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