By Patrice Krant
Although your Homer hosts for Retreat ‘22 have just begun holding our weekly sew-ins again, we have still been preparing for next year’s retreat, assuming that you will be comfortable to meet in large groups again by then.
We are moving along with our usual preparations, including welcome gifts, lottery block patterns, mini-workshops, and another fun mystery quilt. Bearly Threaded Too will be our on-site quilting store during retreat, and we are also planning to have chair massages available again on Saturday and Sunday. Our talented scissors sharpener will be back for retreat again, too, so bring those large and small scissors for a tuneup.
Food is by far the biggest retreat expense; it represented more than 80% of your registration fee in 2020. We can probably expect food prices to increase again for 2021, if food supply chain disruption predictions are correct, so we are sharpening our pencils for the menu negotiation.
The hotel room block at Land’s End is open already, so if you are planning to go to retreat, you may reserve your room now. (If we have to have a lottery for retreat seats, and you don’t get one, then you can cancel the room reservation.) Call Land’s End at 907-235-0400 or 1-800-478-0400 to make a reservation, and be sure to mention you will be attending the KPQG Retreat on February 18-20, 2022.
Remember, you must be a current, paid member of the Kenai Peninsula Quilting Guild to register for our annual retreat, so be sure to renew your membership in September.
As we do each year, the registration form for the retreat will be included in the September member newsletter and also posted on the members-only section of the KPQG.org website. At our October meeting, if fewer than 60 registrations and payments have been received, then everyone who registered will be accepted for the retreat. If more than 60 registrations are received, then we will have a lottery for the 60 seats and put everyone else a waiting list. Fear not, though, if you find yourself on the waiting list, because there is almost always enough attrition in the four months between the October meeting and the retreat that even number 12 on the waiting list will get a seat. Life is like that; priorities and circumstances change.
25th Anniversary Retreat Tee Shirt Design Contest
One thing we are not doing this time as the host group is designing a tee shirt to celebrate our 25th retreat anniversary — because it is open to everyone in the Guild to submit a design! Don’t forget that there is a $100 prize for the designer of the tee shirt chosen. If you are entering the contest, be sure to get your design to Patrice Krant no later than July 1, 2021.
That’s your retreat news from Homer for this quarter. Let’s all keep hoping that our world will have recovered enough (and no new viruses) for us to have our retreat February 18-20, 2022!
Patrice