Fat Quarterly Retreat recap

It's been over a week since Fat Quarterly Retreat happened and somehow I'm only just getting around to talking about it now!
I could probably do a post every day for the next week about all the fun, but I decided to squeeze it into one post with mainly a photo recap so here goes! It was a lovely weekend with a wonderful chance to meet people I met last year, new people from blogs I follow or on Instagram and some of my fellow Bee Europa girls! It was a fun filled time of sewing, chatting, drinking and eating, and it was lovely to eat out with some of the London Modern Quilt girls on Saturday night!! Hello and hopefully I'll be joining you soon at a meeting!! However I still didn't meet everyone - I'm not great at introducing myself! I'll just have to go back next year :)

My aeroplane bag did me well during the weekend, stayed at the lovely Grange, gorgeous streets around Baden Powell House ~

 My embroidery hoop clocks that I swapped (hopefully they got home in one piece!), Liberty goody bag (thanks to all the sponsors!), Quilt Market haul, and gorgeous swaps received!! Sadly I can't remember the names of two of my swappers, so please say Hi if it is you!! Thanks to Susy for the gorgeous red and aqua cushion!

 Loved the workshops and tabletop sessions, so much inspiration! FQ team starting off the fun, Trudi and her amazing FMQ skills, loved Katy's EPP classes and Lu's hand quilting class. Also snuck into Quilt Dad's blogging session!

So that's the recap from me! It was a fun filled time and can't quite believe that it's over for another year!

Fat Quarterly Retreat hello!

Hopefully I'm not too late to the Fat Quarterly Retreat Linky Party but in 5 days time I'll be heading down to London for the Retreat!! Yay!!
So a few random things to help break the ice....

• Next Friday is not only FQ retreat but also the end of term for me in my day job as a teacher! This last week has been more than manic with a visit from the people that all teachers dread so any last minute sewing totally went out the window :(
• I'm left handed but only for writing, right handed for everything else - weird I know!
• Originally from Jersey before settling in the UK
• Most of my friends don't understand my obsession with spending far too much money on fabric, only to cut it up and sew it back together again!
• I went to the retreat last year and met lovely people but had to travel back and forth so felt I missed out on some things so so excited this year to be staying at the Grange!! 
• Met the lovely Pippa at retreat last year who is my roomie this year and was also my secret name badge partner!!
• Last year I was carrying this bag not sure what I'll have this year just yet - need to get finishing!!

• Not great at photos so here is one of me at the London Sewing Directory meet up (Fiona hope you don't mind me borrowing the photo!!?) I'm next to Fiona in Blue, think I was trying to be the M of YMCA! (It was held at a YMCA just in case you're wondering!)

So a list of totally random facts!
My classes are Spring Carnival, Free Motion, Triangle City and Hand Quilting so see you all there!!

Name badge reveal!

Yay! My secret partner has received her Fat Quarterly Retreat name badge so I can now reveal it fully!!
I had so much fun making it and I'm really pleased that Penny liked the badge. Thanks to Penny for her photo as I completely forgot to take a photo of the front!

Fat Quarterly Retreat name badge on the move!!

So the name badge I made for my secret partner is on it's way and hopefully will find it's new home tomorrow! Hoping my partner likes it too!
But silly old me as I'm looking through my photos on my phone tonight there's one of the back in progress and when complete but the front - well as it was such a secret for my partner my brain obviously told me not to take a photo of it either! Duh! So when my partner posts a pic I'll just have to borrow it!