Cabin Fever! (part two)

{Cabin Fever, part one here}

The next day, I woke up early and laid out my quilt blocks. It didn't take too much coordination, since I'd laid everything out the day before. It was turning out SOOOO cute!
** picture forthcoming -- it would just give too much away!**
As I laid out the blocks, I was sitting on the floor, and -- to my utmost surprise -- all of a sudden, my bum was TOTALLY warm! They had radiant flooring in the floors -- which melted my Utah Truffle bar, to my sadness. Luckily, there was so much yummy food that I didn't "need" it at all. :)

Friday morning we had a fancy breakfast - overnight french toast made from Kneaders cinnamon bread, and the most heavenly bacon, and fresh fruit, and orange juice and milk and who knows what else! Shannon, one of Emily's friends who works at the Corn Wagon Quilt Company, and her husband, Stuart, did a lot of the work on food, and they had SUCH good ideas! Everything was seriously amazing -- it was as though they knew exactly all the foods my body wanted. Maybe they're psychic?!?

After breakfast, our Friday friends, Diane and Teresa (I think?), came to play and sew -- and Emily moved so they could be together, so they were at our table! They were really fun, and made our table nice and full. Ironically, no one was too cramped until I started quilting my tiny quilt -- and then it sort of took over sometimes and stole everyone's scissors! But that was later... By the time we got to lunch, we'd been working like mad. I finished the whole top -- it was so exciting! Things were really coming together!

I also explored a little. I'd seen the downstairs -- what did the upstairs hold? Well, a lot of fun quilters, that's what!

Yes, that is an actual TWISTY SLIDE upstairs!!

Lunch was the BEST EVER Chicken Caesar Salad! It had tiny farfales, and a spicy fajita chicken breast cut into bite-size pieces, a combination of regular salad lettuce and spinach, and the yummiest caesar dressing! We had breadsticks with it, and that was probably my FAVORITE meal!

Natalia Bonner, of Piece N Quilt, came for the trunk show Friday. She had so many fun quilts, too! I feel like we're a little bit connected, because of her name... :)

Our make-and-take was a cute little pincushion ring.

I'm thinking of gifting mine to my mom - she's been on such a pincushion kick lately, and I think it's just her style!!

All afternoon, I was a busy little bee, sewing and sewing and sewing away. I pieced together a sweet back (out of my FAVORITE fabrics!), sandwiched everything together (top, binding, back) with the help of my Jersey friend Maggie's painter's tape, and I had just started quilting when it was time for more food.

Supper brought roast beef with yams and potatoes and cobbler and ice cream. So yummy! Remember how my quilt was stealing everyones' scissors? Well, I guess when the other ladies got back from dinner they had a little laugh because it looked like the table had been in a tornado -- and there was my quilt, lying innocently at the eye of the storm! But just a little while after dinner, I finished all the quilting, and bound the front. At the last minute, I decided to hand-bind the back, which was kind of a mistake because it really took longer than it should have... but it's so beautiful!

{Cabin Fever, part three here}