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Quilt Retreat June 20, 2014

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The Syracuse Quilt Guild had a great day at My Sister's Quilt Shoppe in Logan, Utah for an all day Retreat.  The quilters met up in the parking lot at the Riverdale JoAnn's to make the trek to Logan at nine in the morning and the fun began.  After a beautiful drive up Sardine Canyon we arrived at the Quilt Shoppe ready to start our engines, I mean machines.  Throw in some great shopping, an outstanding lunch catered by Kneaders and some fun tutorials by the ladies at the Quilt Shoppe and you had a recipe for a great day. The morning started out with everyone working on projects they brought with them and then after lunch we had a Jelly Roll Race where we all made a quilt by stitching 42 strips of fabric together, end to end (about 1600 inches total) and then stitching one end to another, again and again until you had a quilt. Nancy did a great job of planning this event for the guild and ordered an outstanding lunch for us.  It was a day we'll all remember for a long ti