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Project Linus Mini Retreat, Part II

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Here is the second part of my two post series on the mini quilt retreat I attended on Saturday with my community quilting group to group make  Project Linus quilts. Please see Part I of the story on this post – Project Linus Mini Quilt Retreat, Part I.

As mentioned in the Part I post, one of the quilt group members hosted the day retreat at her house in her basement that she had turned into an AMAZING quilt studio. In this post I thought I’d give you a little tour of her studio. 

Here is a video I took at uploaded to YouTube (I was so proud of myself that I finally learned how to add music to replace the random snippets of conversation that were originally peppered throughout the video):

Here are some photos of the main section of the basement studio:

She is amazing quilter (making many of those complicated Judy Niemeyer patterns) and an amazing long arm machine quilter. Here is an example on a floral panel of some of her spectacular long arm quilting:

She did a little trunk show of some of her Judy Niemeyer pattern elaborate bed sized quilts she had quilted and I didn’t even think to take photos, darn it! (I was just too busy gasping!)

Since the studio is in a basement, it had window wells. Creatively she lined in cool landscape scenes her window wells!

I showed John and I’d like to do something like that someday in our window wells!

Oh and here is room attached to her studio which is set up little a quilting classroom/workshop area, in which I worked on my assigned Project Linus quilt during the retreat. I didn’t do the best job photographing the space as I was distracted visiting my new quilting buddies, but there are tables with power strips set up all around the room.

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27 thoughts on “Project Linus Mini Retreat, Part II”

  1. Hello T, I am glad you were able to get photos to share while still present and enjoying the event – it sound slike you have the right balance with that. And sometimes when I attend an art show (or some event) and I only get so many photos and later realize I coul dhave gotten more – I just remember that the few photos are a treasure and not getting more means I let myself get immersed, ya know)

    That really is spectacular long -rm quilting and it is foreign to me – but sure is a burst of beauty…

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  6. Wow! What an amazing set up….and so clean and organised. Project Linus sounds like a fabulous thing to be involved with. Well done to all of you for making the quilts ~ like sending hugs out into the world.

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  7. That quilting studio has just about everything. Hand sewing space, machine space and is that a fridge? I have sewing room envy. Also, those window wells are some of the most realistic back drops I have ever seen. I thought I was looking at a garden.

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