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Last weekend I attended the Cobblestone Quilt Guild's annual retreat - the "Glitzy Garden Getaway" - in Portsmouth NH. Not only did I have a great time, but I came home with more stash then I set out with! Above is a photo of a bunch of goodies including fat quarters and notions, a garden-themed table centerpiece and a gift certificate I won, little "treats" that were left at our sewing stations throughout the weekend, and a cute flower wrist pincushion, table runner and butterfly kits that were given out to everyone at registration... it was like opening a Christmas stocking for three days straight! 
This is a close up of the "candy" we were given at the retreat - the first is very low calorie, the second was attached to a bag of M&M's, but the chocolates barely made it in my front door before my daughters gobbled them up! Cute ideas. 
At checkout we were all given a bag filled with more goodies, including the smaller pieces of fabric shown here and a few books I forgot to photograph. We also had a silent auction over the weekend and I bought the 14 yard bolt of pink and white diamond fabric above at $2.50 a yard! I know exactly what it's going to be used for, too - hopefully a kids' room project I can finish next month to coordinate with the new bedding I'm finally finishing up. 
I had donated this stack of 15 half yard cuts of Joel Dewberry's Bungalow fabrics and the coordinating Turning Cartwheels pattern from Quilt magazine (Oct/Nov 2013) to the auction... and then my mom won the bid for them and gave them back to me as a thank you for taking her along for the weekend! Yippee! I love this line! 
But this was my piece de resistance at the auction - I won this beautiful recently quilted throw made from vintage blocks for just $20!! Can you believe that? I've been crushing hard on red and white quilts for a while now, so I'm excited to add this to my collection and it's happily brightening up my living room at the moment : )
How about you? Do you have a recent stash steal of a deal? Any great leads on retreats and getaways that you've loved? Linking up with Molli Sparkles' Sunday Stash.
Cindy Dahlgren
4/13/2014 05:05:09
Congratulations on all your lovely wins, you deserve them! Glad you had fun. Is there some way I can subscribe to your blog by email? I don't like Bloglovin very well. Thanks! Thanks, Cindy! And that's a great question. I should get some type of email subscription thing going, but I don't have one yet - if you're on Facebook, I do link my blog posts there with very few other posts here and there, so that's another way to see them when they go up but not be inundated with a gazillion feed updates form me : )
Jess @ Quilty Habit
4/13/2014 09:23:29
Wow, look at you, lucky girl!! The Marden's gift certificate = :O It really was fun, Mara - and I was surprised at all the neat door/table prizes they worked in and demos with kits - the women who ran it really worked hard! And my mom is good like that, but now I think the fabrics work out to like $15 a yard after purchasing them TWICE! lol Comments are closed.
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Welcome! I'm Sarah. As a milmompreneur maker, wherever I go, I quilt, teach & sew! {Bio} 
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