what do you do at quilt guild retreat

Just wondering about quilt retreats and how they are done in different guilds.

The guild I belong to has a retreat twice a year with between 40&60 attendees. They start on a Thursday and end on Sunday. We have door prizes and there is an organized shop hop on the way up and back for retreat attendees only.

We have had massage therapists available for those that would like a massage and have a person that runs a yoga session. We also sometimes have a free Jazzercise class or country line dancing class to get people up from sewing.

We do swaps at every retreat and a once a year challenge with prizes. No formal classes just an open sew.

What does your guild do?

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Kathy
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Ours is fairly informal. Sometimes there is a massage therapist (for an extra charge). Often people take road trips to local and not-so local shops--they give us a discount. Sometimes there is an optional project at retreat, sometimes not. Always there is a lot of open sew time with a show and tell on or about Saturday night. We go Thursday-Sunday, people come and go as they need to. Usually "Grease" is viewed oin Saturday night, other movies on whim and by request. I can't wait for the next one!

Mary

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Mary in Rock Island IL

"Kathy" Just wondering about quilt retreats and how they are done in different

I've never been to a quilt retreat, but I used to go to a sewing machine club where I purchased my SM years ago, and the best part I always enjoyed was a short class on learning something new about the machine-----learning how to use some of the feet, a new way of making (quilting) a purse, a class on how to use a serger to construct clothing or a quilt. This was just people in the club, like me, who knew how to do something different and was willing to show others how to do it. Barbara in SC

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Bobbie Sews More

On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:40:47 -0500, Kathy wrote (in article ):

The big local guild I belong to doesn't do retreats, although I think some ladies go on a retreat sponsered by the LQS. The smaller, not so local guild that I belongs to has 2 retreats each year. We've crammed in about 25. 20 is the usual number. We only had about 18 this spring.

We go on Thursday afternoon and leave Sunday afternoon. Nothing really fancy or organized. Just open sew at a nice place with good beds and good food.

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

And I'm signed up for that one, but it will be my first retreat with that guild so I'll have to report back. I am super excited to go see the Utah show and the side trip to Superior threads :-)

My guild has done retreats two ways. We used to do a really big retreat over three days with two classes offered each day plus the option to do "open studio" which was just free sewing on your own projects. They had goodies on the tables at lunch and dinner at every place - fat quarters, pin cushions, patterns etc. Plus one night was door prize night and everyone got something. There was a game room open all hours if you wanted a break to do a jigsaw puzzle or something. There was also always some sort of ongoing trivia game - one year we all brought baby pictures and had to try and identify everyone. Show and tell from the classes and games each night as well. It was busy and fun and lots of work.

The last couple of years we've gone to "no frills" retreats. Same three days but only open sewing offered and they've reduced a lot of the gifts, prizes and table decorations. Honestly, word is that no one really misses all that stuff. It's exciting to get "free" but then most of it ended up on the guild treasure table or being donated to the guild in some other way. Still a few activities in the evening but much simpler and more focused on the sewing.

Either way there is always a lot of junk food hanging around. What is it with quilters and goodies ;-)

marcella

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