Gearing up for Sew South!

Sew South Retreat starts tomorrow and I have a lot of work to do to get ready! Yesterday I spent hours layering fabric to make two silk scarves, one for me, one for my secret sister:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

Then I pulled fat quarters for the fat quarter swap and simple spiral blocks for my stuff swap:

free motion quilting | Leah Day

I think I’ll exchange these for all RED fat quarters. I seem to be needing to expand my selection in that color. You can never have too much red.

So today I still need to pull and cut fabrics for the various classes on paper piecing, bag making, and yoga pants. I turns out it’s a lot of work to be ready for a retreat, and a bit messy too!

free motion quilting | Leah Day

The thing about getting ready like this is you have to keep it all in perspective. I’m a bit stressed, a bit frazzled, and slightly frustrated with myself. I should have / could have done this a lot sooner, but it didn’t happen and is now all last minute, exactly what I didn’t want to do, but that’s life!

As I’ve learned from the Happiness Project, what makes you happy doesn’t always make you FEEL happy at the time. I know I’m going to have a great time this weekend and that’s what counts. Here’s to pushing beyond your comfort zone!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

9 Responses

  1. June D says:

    Sounds like a wonderfully exciting weekend Leah! Know it will be fun. Enrollment was closed by the time I found out about this!

  2. Teresa says:

    I'm leaving for a Quilt Retreat in Bear Lake (Utah/Idaho) on Monday, and I haven't started getting ready yet! It's going to be a very busy weekend, for sure! Hope you have a fabulously fun time at your retreat.

  3. Have fun! You're so lucky you have such a large awesome quilting community near you! You will have so much fun you'll forget that you even waited till last minute to pack!

  4. Linda says:

    Have a great time, Leah!

  5. Malini says:

    Have a great trip!

  6. Anonymous says:

    have a wonderful weekend

  7. B says:

    Have a wonderful time and good luck with the preparations.

  8. Have a great time!

  9. Jenny Squawk says:

    Have fun. Take lots of pictures.

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