and plans changed...

Well the weekend retreat didn't come together as planned. But all is okay. Instead on Saturday I went out to friends for the afternoon, and we had a sensational time. Lots of good times and laughter.

I went shopping online yesterday too, and spent WAY too much money at www.equilter.com. My purchases included:

• Quilters Companion issue 27
• Sewline trio mechanical pencil
• Sewline pencil refills
• TJs quilk quilter (for hand quilting), and
• 1.5 yards of fabric

Can't wait to receive the goodies. It will take about 2 to 3 weeks to arrive.

I also joined a scrappy siggie block swap. This came about from my membership on the Quilting Board forum. So far they have about 120 participants, covering most of the States, and international participation from; Australia , Brazil , Canada, Japan, Netherlands , Norway, UK. Exciting huh?

Registering interest to participate in the swap doesn't close off until 15 May 2010. The blocks looks relatively easy to make, and they don't have to be received by the swap co-ordinator until 15 June 2010. Block instructions can be found here.