Fall Retreat, Friday and Saturday, October 2nd and 3rd, 2026

 Everyone was eagerly looking forward to our annual fall retreat, an open house to welcome visitors who were interested in what we do, a vendor on site from whom we could purchase fabric, notions, or patterns, a Friday evening catered meal that took us away from cooking at home and seeing what our friends had as their retreat project. What more could you ask!

Friday morning started out slowly. There were fewer people set up because some had to work (not as fortunate as those of us who are retired) so we did not have them present till Saturday.  Also, there were some of our members involved with placing our donation quilts in the Sanctuary so they could be viewed by our open house guests. The Empty Bobbin quilt shop from Swan River arrived mid morning and Julie was setting up her wares in the foyer, so it was a “hopping”place!

This has been a rather lengthy roll of photos, but it was the only way I could get a somewhat closer look at the individual quilts. These are the quilts that will be donated to various local organizations who will in turn donate them to families and individuals in need. They will be distributed in the month of November.

Also in the month of November, the guild will be attending two Christmas craft sales selling tickets on two Christmas quilts, the proceeds from which will help us purchase supplies needed to continue making quilts for people in need in our communities of Flin Flon, Creighton, Denare Beach, Cranberry Portage and the lake communities in our area.

This quilt will be at the Women’s Resource Centre sale on November 14th. Tickets will be available at the sale only with the draw being made at the end of the day.

Our second Christmas quilt will be at the Cranberry Portage Christmas sale, where again tickets will be $5.00 and sold only during that sale with the draw being made at the end of the day.

Be sure to come out to these two sales and get your ticket for a chance to win these quilts.

The vendor for our retreat was Julie from the Empty Bobbin Quilt Shop from Swan River . Thank you for making the trip!

These photos show only a few of the items Julie had for sale. I was happy to find a wide back for my latest work in progress!

                                            It was nice to see Linda stop in for a visit with us!

                          Cindy is preparing the ticket stubs for the fall raffle quilt draw at 3:00 PM.

                                                 Julie’s daughter draws the winning ticket.

And the winner is

                            Accepting the quilt on Dave’s behalf is his wife, Phyl! Congratulations!

The draw brought our day to a close. Participants packed up their machines and belongings, Julie and her daughter were breaking down their pop up sale while guild members were picking up the donation quilts in the Sanctuary. I know that in the next months we will be seeing a number of the projects worked on today in our Show and Tell time!

Happy quilting everyone!

Gladys