Did you all have a good weekend? We got lots of sorely needed rain — yipee! Our rain came from the leftovers of Hurricane Ike and it was gray and perfect for a day inside sewing with the blogless quilty peeps.
Jewels was our hostess and she went all out. She had her house all decorated for fall and I had to take a picture of her adorable china closet. How cute are these dishes? They look like they just walked off of the Martha Stewart set!
Jewels greeted us each with a fantastic Halloween gifty bag. She had them all tied so pretty with a little Halloween ornament — I hated to open mine up. But I had to, ’cause just look at all the wonderful goodies. (I LOVE candy corn season!) Look at the Halloween fabrics — I love them!!!
We had enough food for the four of us AND all of you, and I’m not kidding. By my count (and I’m sure I’ve forgotten something) we had two appetizers (fresh veggie dip and pumpkin cracker dip), two soups (Pumpkin and Maritatta — YUMMY for both!), 5 (yes FIVE) salads (Bruschetta, Broccoli, Apple Taffy, Seven Layer, and Hot Chicken), and umpteen desserts (Martha’s S’More’s Cupcakes (YUM and they looked just like Martha’s!), Apple Cake, Iced Sugar Cookies, Karen’s Awesome White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies, and HolyCrapTheseAreAmazing Cookies (Holy Crap, the other stuff was more amazing!)) Oh, and a wonderful variety of drinks which included hot apple cider — perfect for our stormy weather. Ok, so we got carried away. But it was all fantastic, and I don’t know about the other girls but TheManoftheHouse and I had leftovers all weekend.
In between all the eating, we sewed. Jewels worked on her fantastic Grandmother’s Flower Garden.
Gurney worked on these super-cute embroidered squares for a baby quilt for her granddaughter.
Junie made these adorable pillowcases for her daughter. I wanted to take them home!
And I worked on my little blue wren project which STILL isn’t done. I was hoping to get it done this weekend, but I’m getting slow in my old age.
There were no Princess and the Pea beds or alcholic beverages harmed in the making of our day (like at SOME wild parties), but we did have a lot of fun and I can’t wait to do it again SOON! Thanks for all your hard work and for hosting us Jewels — and Big, Big Smoochies to the best quilty peeps ever!!!
XOXO,
Anna
i want to take those pillow cases home too!!!
too bad you guys didn’t have enough food.
that quilt is gorgeous and those embroidered blocks are darling.
:applauds the quilty peeps fervently
i forgot to say that i had halloween-bag envy. if any of my friends IRL are reading this, start working on my halloween gifts. you know it’s all about the presents for me!!!
It looks like you had such a wonderful time. Great Halloween fabrics too!
S.W.A.K.
Sounds like a great time! What cute stuff you guys were working on. How about recipes for those soups ;)
Great food, great friends and great crafts—your get together has it all!
Looks like you did it right, a day with quilting friends is the best of days.
What a great day being with friends! Her dishes are adorable and I love the little bushel baskets full of goodies she made up for you all!!!
Mmmmmm . . . candy corn used to be one of my favorite candies. (When I used to eat candy . . . )
And I <3 those pillowcases! I’ve got to make some for my girls. I think it’s time to pump up their rooms a little bit. Things are way too faded-pastel.
Thanks for the gorgeous eye-canndy!
Ooooh, candy corn, I’d forgotten candy corn. And s’mores cupcakes? Right, I’m booking my flight today!!
I think I ate enough candy corn during our 5 years in the US to sink a small boat. Yum!
I’m jealous…sounds so great. What great little gifties you received from Jewels. I also think I gained weight just seeing all the fantastic food and cupcakes. All the projects look fantastic! Grandmother’s Flower Garden is a fav of mine…just never had the guts to make it. The embroidered blocks are so very cute…do you know who the designer is and where I could buy the pattern? Pillowcases are the best. When any of my friends that just pop off at the mouth and ask me to make them a quilt…well they get a pillowcase so that I can see how much appreciate my time and if they really hoot and holler, then I might consider it.
Thanks for sharing your great day!
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I love the dishes. They are so sweet. Sounds like every one had lots of fun and food. Always a winning combination.
Oh what a fun, fun day…yummy food! Great friends…I knew I should have booked my flight! LOL!
Anna, the only bad thing about the day was that it WENT TO FAST!!!! I guess the saying is true that when you are having fun, time flies and it sure did! Thanks for blogging about it so that I can feel as if I’m still there! xoxo Junie
It sounds like you had soooo much fun and maybe gained a pound or two?! Thanks so much for the recipes. I will definitely have to try them. They all look so yummy! I think it is great when a bunch of girlfriends get together to have a great time an do some stitching. By the way, all the projects are beautiful!
Jewels is an awesome hostess! I’m going to have to steal some of her ideas!
It sounds fabulous!!! I wish I could have been there too – but then there would have been fewer leftovers for you to take home!!!
Lucy x
Apple taffy salad sounds interesting. Off to google. LOL
can I be one of the girls? it sounds like tons of fun!!!
That looks like a fabulous time was had by all. Jewel sounds like the hostess with the mostest!
hi it’s me, the first commenter.
so…. for your little blue wren project (with the bird on the right all messed up) are you making the little bag that the pattern showed? or are you doing something else with it.
your stitching looks so tiny and precise. quite impressive there anna (ignoring the one covered up by a nickel, of course)
i can’t wait to see your project when you’re all done!!! you can use it for a christmas present if you hurry up! oops, sorry, C-word.
b.
Now that is time well spent! What could be better? Good friends, good food, treats, and sewing. I can’t imagine heaven would be anything better.
Isn’t it fun to get togther with friends!! You all had such a fun time , and all of those goodies!!! What wonderful projects you all worked on. Thanks for sharing, and inspiring me to do something special with my own friends.
What a great weekend! If I was at your get- together (I wish!), I would have to learn to sew myself some new pants at the party. I’m pretty sure my old ones would be too tight when all was said and done. Sounds like a lot of fun, Anna.
Anna, I had a great time. Love the pictures. Thanks for the nice comments. Quilting peeps are the BESTEST>>>>>>>> I’m with June, the day went to fast. Next time we need to start earlier and end later. Smooch, jewels:)
Not one drop? That was an awful lot of fun to be having Without. One. Drop.
Very cool stuff you ladies whipped up – food and sewing projects. What a fun time!!!
Oh, that looks like such a good time. Wow, and the food. . .you girls go all out.
Geez I’m jealous!! What a fun day you had with wonderful company and food. OMG it all sounds fantastic. I so loved the Halloween dishes and the beautiful quilts.
Look at that beautiful Australian fabric!!!!!!! And haven’t they been made up so beautifully!
Sorry I haven’t been around … too much kid stuff! We also love RD!
Oh what a fun day! And what a great goody basket. My quilty peeps are blogless too lol! But that does give them more time for quilting…
*jealous* I need to find a fun sewing group.
I do love the Fiesta Halloween. I have the orange dishes, I suppose I should hunt down some of the kitties.
What an inspiring group of friends you all are, Anna. I love all the beautiful quilt magic and the autumn inspiration. You and your friends are all talented ladies.
I love the cookie writer thing. I’ve never seen one of those, but I think I need one!
It’s been fall-like over here in Georgia for the past 2 days–love the little gift bags your friend made.
Okay, wow, can I be included in your next girls day? I mean, those goodie bags alone…to say nothing of the food…
Thanks for sharing your wonderful time with us!
What yummy looking goodies and that Grandmothers Flower Garden is wonderful. Glad to see you kept your party under control unlike some others we all know….hehehe!!
wow, you all love Halloween over there! A cupboard full of plates for the season! Unheard of but it does look great! Oooh yum the food, and those packages! You girls have such lovely fun with your beautiful work and get togethers. I was only thinking the other day about making some pillowcases from vintage fabric for my ‘Edwardian’ home. Wish I lived near you x
Sounds like the perfect way to spend a stormy weekend…good friends, good food, good projects!
And about the good food…that list of goodies (and the pictures!) made me hungry. And I just ate dinner!
XO
Sounds like a lovely time! I love fall! Oh… and all the decorating that goes along with it! Sweet disehes! Thanks for sharing!
Hey where was MY invite to that party?? You know I could have made it. Boo’s been asking for me to visit. Looks like a good time even without me. Love that china cabinet. Those dishes are adorable. and great gifties too. Now let’s talk about all that food! I think you girls out did us on the food. yes I’ll give you the prize on that one. Maybe we all need to get together and combine my Sistas with your Peeps.