Hummingbird Hill Studio
Dynamic Design
with the five classical canons of rhetoric
Linda Digby McFarland, M.A.
Dynamic Design with the five classical canons of rhetoric Linda Digby McFarland, M.A.
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Quilters-on-Retreat! Living Leisurely...Stitching Steadily These merchants have contributed door prizes* for 2004 QUILTERS-ON-RETREAT! Blossom Quiltworks....Art to Heart....Piecemakers Michael Miller Fabrics....Mountain Mist Batting...Moda AQS....Martingale & Company....Coats & Clark Threads....P&B Fabrics Chitra Publications...Churn Dash Quilts...Martha Pullen *EVERYONE receives a door prize! ~~~Pretty Paneful Piecing~~~ Quilters-on-Retreat! ~~~Living Leisurely...Stitching Steadily~~~ Friday-Saturday, August 22-23, 2003 Friday evening 6:15-Saturday afternoon 3:00 The retreat workshop project...... attic windows star This pattern is available through this website and also from Blossom Quiltworks!
~~~ Workshop sample top "PartyTime!" (above) stitched by Margaret Hoskins~~~ Mitering is mighty easy! Quilters-on-Retreat! 2003 PhotoGallery.............. Us (Cindy, Margaret, Sue, Linda, Sandra, Dottie)! Do we look like a flock of hummingbirds?
Cindy was accused of being "teacher's pet" when she was actually the fastest stitcher in all categories; of course, she was also the baby of our group... This was a very staid group; they always stood in the same order! Cindy has jungle animal windows, Margaret has bunny windows, Sue has deer and cabin windows, Sandra has pink flamingo windows, and Dottie has butterfly windows. They are ALL naturally wonderful!
Seriously at work, here are Dottie/Cindy, Sandra, Cindy/Sandra, Dottie/Margaret/Sandra.....
Sue makes her sill-y templates, Cindy lines up her eight attic windows blocks, and Sandra converses with Dottie...
Margaret gets out her straight pins, Sue puts sills on her windows, Dottie stitches star points, Sandra grins...
Sandra presses, Dottie's butterfly blocks layout, Sue's fabs unpacked and stacked.....
From the grapevine.....
Linda,
The retreat was great. I so enjoyed getting to
know the other girls better. I loved the pattern and we all had so much fun
putting it together. You had some really fun "stuff" to do also. All in all,
I think it was great!!! S.B.
Thanks for all of the hard work on the retreat, it was a lot of fun. I appreciate all of the work that you put into it. C.C.
These merchants contributed door prizes* for 2003 QUILTERS-ON-RETREAT! Viking......e.e. schenck....AQS......Blossom Quiltworks Clothworks....Art to Heart....South Sea Imports.....YLI P&B Textiles......Piecemakers (4 door prizes!) Quilters Resource....Hobbs....Moda Petals...Feathered Star Productions Primedia (Quilters Newsletter, Quiltmaker, McCall's Quilting) Chitra Publications (5 door prizes!).....Concord Fabrics The Stitchin' Post.....Coats & Clark *EVERYONE received a door prize! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BAG LADY OF THE YEAR: Margaret Snow, whose bag was unadorned but whose mouth (once again!) served her well, as she described the contents of her very plain bag! Teacher's Honorable Mention goes to Sue O'Steen who made a HAPPY HOUR BAG!!! You have got to SEE it to BELIEVE it!!! I hope to photo it on Sept. 2, and will put the photo HERE that night or the next day! Perfectly Pieceful Quilters-on-Retreat! ~~~Live leisurely.........Stitch steadily~~~ Friday-Saturday, August 23-24, 2002 Fantastic Fronts for Beautiful Backs!
~~~Some of the retreaters' Jack-in-the-Box quilts and quilt tops~~~
Cindy Cole Joan Arciero Debbie Hedden
Darlene McDonald Jean Ann Reed
Sandra Boaz (stitched for new granddaughter) These merchants contributed door prizes* for 2002 QUILTERS-ON-RETREAT! PaperPieces.........Piecemakers......The Stitchin' Post......Schmetz Needles......Mountain Mist Batting Martha Pullen.......Viking Sewing Machines......heavenlygrounds.com......Pat Campbell of Dallas Chitra Publications....Fabri-Quilt......Kaufman Fabs......Hobbs Batting......Possibilities........"The Quilter Magazine" Quilters Resource.......Moda Fabs......Lifeway Christian Stores.......Staples......Martingale (That Patchwork Place) *EVERYONE received a door prize! Here is the photo gallery from the very first Quilters-on-Retreat! Some of the best :>) photographs were snapped by Margaret H. Click on each little picture for a larger version; you'll love them!
Here is what I've read in your emails and heard "through the grapevine"......These quotes are copied/pasted from your emails!
"Thank you for a
most delightful retreat this week-end........I had so much
Again, thanks for you efforts and creativity
in a wonderful, fullfilling "I think the retreat was a thorough success." "I enjoyed the retreat sooooooooooo much.I can't wait for the next one!!!!!!" "It was just a great weekend! Next time I won't be so jetlagged, but it was great anyway. Thanks for all your hard work. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we all did."
"Thank you for a delightful Retreat.. The activities were beautifully programmed
, and the prizes and favors were great. I'm so glad I attended.
"One of your students was in
yesterday.She RAVED about the retreat and said you HAD to do it again next
year. She said everyone would bug you until you agreed. It must have been
really good."
[This is from an email from Sybil, and I know exactly who
she is referring to, and so I am including this instead of similar words
from this retreater's personal email!]
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