{"id":66349,"date":"2025-04-05T06:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66349"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:57:04","slug":"going-on-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/going-on-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Going on Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66292\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250330_222052_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66292\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250330_222052_wm-sm-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"All the Guild Peeps\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250330_222052_wm-sm-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250330_222052_wm-sm-768x705.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250330_222052_wm-sm.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All the Guild Peeps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last weekend was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayareamodernquilting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guild<\/a>&#8216;s quilt retreat. It was great to get away and sew for 10 hours per day. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/bam-retreat-my-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, we went to the St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Batista.<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of all the attendees with some of our projects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66276\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"2025 Retreat setup\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-1536x796.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm-1200x622.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083642_wm-sm.jpg 1548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2025 Retreat setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The room had a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/return-from-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">different setup than last year<\/a>, but we had plenty of space to work. There was a tall table where people sandwiched quilts and laid things out. There was a couple of design walls and two cutting tables.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66275\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66275\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2025 Retreat - my space\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250328_210007_wm-sm.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2025 Retreat &#8211; my space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My space was more than I needed, but I used it all. LOL! I plunked my machine down when I got there and just used it in that space. I had a whole 6 ft. table to myself and could have moved it over to have more space on the left. It worked pretty well. I got plenty done.<\/p>\n<p>Julie sat across from me, so we were able to chat and get opinions pretty easily.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-66349 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250329_083746_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_083746_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Hats on machines\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-66278\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-66278'>\n\t\t\t\tHats on machines\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250329_210642_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_210642_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Fabric on machines\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-66283\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-66283'>\n\t\t\t\tFabric on machines\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>People started putting &#8216;hats&#8217; on their machines at night. I am not sure what sparked that, but I saw it a few times with fabric and bags. Keeping the dust off? The machine with the fabric is SueG&#8217;s machine and I think she just wanted a decoration for her machine.<\/p>\n<p>They fed us very well. Nice healthy meals even for me. I felt good after the retreat from a food point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Julie and I brought some cocktails and drank them before bedtime. Such a good way to sleep well.<\/p>\n<p>I was very cold the first night. I got up in the middle of the night and put on my fleece jacket. The next day I remembered doing that last year as well. I&#8217;ll have to make a note about it for next year.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a good layout, a good weekend and a general good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend was the guild&#8216;s quilt retreat. It was great to get away and sew for 10 hours per day. Like last year, we went to the St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Batista. This is a picture of all the attendees with some of our projects. The room had a different setup than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/going-on-retreat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going on Retreat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[137,127,346],"class_list":["post-66349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-retreat","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66352,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66349\/revisions\/66352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}