After moving to the Asheville area and being invited to join PTA - Professional Textile Artists, I became the official planner of our annual retreats.
Exactly one year ago we completed our 12th retreat, the next day the Covid pandemic became official and we began lockdown. We couldn't imagine then that we wouldn't see each other without social distancing & masks for one solid year. (During that time we only had two small outdoor, fully masked, and social distanced short gatherings.) We are all mostly huggers and buddy, buddy and found that type of meeting terribly difficult.
Most of us are older and are now fully vaccinated. Hurray!! So, those that could attend, met at Georgia Bonesteel's on a beautiful summer like warm sunny day. Honestly, the FREEDOM of being with our pals again was so darn welcome.
Here's our first show and tell of 2021:
6 comments:
How wonderful you can gather again! And Spring is so close now. Refreshing. I think we all remember "one year ago"! A quilt friend and I had just completed a presentation on vintage quilts for the Gainesville library. That was our last big outing and celebration of quilts. Our guilds are still meeting on Zoom, but hopeful it won't be long before in-person meetings can resume. Seeing quilts in person is a lot different- better.
How wonderful that you are all safe to gather and hug again! Looks like you had a fun day.
So much fun to see all the wonderful projects...I missed being with you guys...had a bad case of FOMO....hoping everyone will bring these projects to April meeting for those of us who missed seeing them!
Wow! We still haven't been able to meet...but then our library( or libraries) won't allow meeting, which is where we would go each month (or outside). Weather here isn't ready for us 'old' folks to meet yet! HA So glad you got together again! As always, love the show and tell!!!!
How wonderful that you could meet in person.
Georgia never slows down, does she! Have fond memories of watching her quilting show and still have several of her early books. Congrats on being able to meet again.
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