Camp Assiniboia Quilt Retreat

A group of eight friends got together to create our own quilt retreat at Camp Assiniboia for the May long weekend. We had a great time quilting, eating, hiking by the Assiniboine River and laughing!

Camp Assiniboia is awesome.  It is located in a bend in the Assiniboine River and is very scenic.  Early Saturday morning Cynthia and I were up soon enough to catch a glimpse of 9 deer walking about the area.

Looking out our kitchen window at the deer.

Some deer a little closer

Cynthia's first quilt, a New York Beauty, from a class last fall by Marj!

Cynthia's One Block Wonder coming together.

The back of a wildlife quilt Cynthia was working on.

A pillowcase for Marj's grandson.  (My landscape quilt is hanging in the background.)

Faye showing off her Escher-esque quilt.  Cynthia and Yvonne checking out a Celtic Quilt book.

Beth finishes her pizza quilt.

Beth finishes her New York Beauty wall quilt too!

I finish Serenity quilt.

Joyce finishes a Cancer lap quilt for her sister in law who will undergo chemotherapy next month.

Deciding on boarder colours for the lap quilt.

Faye working on the Buggy Barn applique quilt.  She finished!  (Sorry I didn't get a photo of it done!)

We even did a few demonstrations.  Marj demoed  how to make a flange binding and a hotdog pillow case.  Yvonne demonstrated how to make a child's apron from two fat quarters.  I demoed three different applique techniques I had learned in the last year.

Yvonne cutting the armhole for a child's apron.

Child's apron demo close up.