Here are some of the things we worked on at our recent retreat. Some are future donation quilts; some are for friends, family, or even ourselves!
One woman’s husband is manager of the local private airfield, so she is making several airplane quilts for various family members as well as for wall hangings at the airport:
And another spent the entire retreat working on Elizabeth Hartman’s Halloween quilt, which she will donate. Here is just one of the blocks, which took a full day to make.
One friend is recovering from a broken wrist, so she has been able to make slabs for several weeks but unable to do much else. Her wrist is recovering now, so she and another group member made quilt tops from some of her slabs. 
In addition, many scrap quilts were made. Here are just a few:
And of course, a fine time was had by all!
Zippy Quilts 
A fabulous effort
Thanks, Helen!
It’s always interesting to see what quilters work on during a retreat. How great that your friend can make quilts to hang at an airport! I’ve often thought dentist offices should do the same, especially in each exam room. A big faux picture isn’t nearly as interesting as a couple quilts would be. I also like the slabs your wrist-hurt friend made. Sewing like that is perfect for mindless piecing while simultaneously chatting. Those scrappy squares make me think of the very old Mile-a-Minute fabric-making method of using scraps. We made a lot of those square blocks in our quilting group at church! They sew into very nice donation quilts.
Now I have to look up the Mile-A-Minute method, which I never heard of. I was amused when Victoria Findlay Wolfe wrote a whole book on sewing scraps together to make fabric, as if that were something new, so I know it’s been around a while!
Pretty awesome projects! Those planes are awesome and I love Elizabeth Hartman patterns but they are labor intensive!
A true hive of activity. The beautiful and bright works attest to the fun that was had on the retreat