22 years of quilting retreats
By Barb Murdock
Some were wondering how this
retreat got started, who was in charge and where they were held. Caisa Hess seems to be a person with unending
information, so along with her, Lynette Rose and Trish Derrick’s records, we
came up with the following information, just in case you are interested.
In 2002 the Utah Valley Quilt
board had discussed having a retreat, and after much discussion, Ann Lewis
chaired the first retreat in 2002 and it was held at Aspen Grove, up above
Sundance. The retreat was Thursday
morning to Saturday afternoon. They had
lots of classes, but only 20 sleeping rooms and so the numbers were limited in
who could come. The sewing room was also
small, and power was limited. Two people
were assigned to a sewing table and no personal irons. But, the scenery was beautiful! By the time they hit 50 attendees at Aspen
Grove, it was very crowded.
2002: Ann Lewis
Then a group of four planned
the next several years taking turns being the chair, but all on the committee.
2003: Wendy Liddle
2004: Penny Craner and Pat Banner, “Quilters of One
Heart”
2005: Marcine Brown, “Hearth and Home”
Then:
2006: Carol Ford and Lisa Dunn
2007: Jessica Ribble and Kim Dodds
Starting in 2008 the retreat
is now going from Wednesday to Saturday
2008: Laurel Christensen and Cassie Stephens
2009: Mary Jo Roberts and Kim Borup, “Quilter’s
Haven”
2010: Barb Ostler, Becky Lambert and Ann Alexander,
“A Quilter’s Dream”
Because this venue was small,
and for other reasons, it was decided to try another venue and they went to
Park City at the Marriott.
2011: The Mae Sisters, (Margaret
Cooper, Dee DeHart, and Liz Laney) put on the first retreat at the Marriot, in
Park City.
2012: Lynette Rose, “Bound Together with Friends”.
This was the first year with the secret sister event and the year they moved to
the Yarrow in Park City.
Pin cushion exchanges were
from 2012 to 2017
2013: Crystal North, “Let it Snow”, Yarrow, Park
City
2014: retreat was scheduled to be held at the
Yarrow, with Lynette Rose in charge, but near the time for the retreat to
happen, we found out the Yarrow was cancelling our event, said they were going
to remodel. So, Crystal North and Barb
Murdock went out searching for a new place for the retreat to be held. We looked at many places, but in the end, we
moved to the Zermatt in Midway.
The following retreats have
all been held at the Zermatt, Midway
2014: Lynette Rose, “Quilting in the Pines”
2015: Davidene Zimmerman, “Beach Party”. (First
year with over 100 attendees)
2016: Davidene Zimmerman, “Let’s Party”
2017: Davidene Zimmerman, “Timeless”
2018: Barb Murdock, “and Bonnie Crysdale, “Sew Many
More Friends”
2019: Barb Murdock and Bonnie Crysdale “A Christmas
in Stitches”
2020: Barb Murdock, “Sew into Fall”
2021: Hollie Peterson, “Sew fun in 2021”. (Celebrating 20 years)
2022: Hollie Peterson, “My favorite things”
2023 Barb Murdock, “Fall, Friends and Quilting”
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