Welcome to our Blog!!! Rise and Shout Quilters was created about five years ago as part of the quilt retreat hosted by the BYU Alumni, Houston chapter. The key word here is hosted!!! Everyone is welcome to our retreat and to follow our blog.
My sister and I belonged to our local quilt guild and had attended a few of their retreats in the past. After coming home from one several years ago, we were all sitting around talking about how fun it was, when my husband came up with the amazing idea of hosting our own retreat as part of our responsibilities with the Houston chapter of BYU Alumni. He is a smart one!!! I loved the idea and put together our first retreat. I will ever be grateful for those 27 women who trusted what we were trying to do and willingly shared ideas to create our awesome retreat. The retreat has grown and we now have to limit the number of attendees. FYI...I keep a waiting list for those who want to attend. It is a great four days of quilting, laughing, laughing, and did I mention laughing.
I have grown to love these women and look forward to spending time with them every year. Many are from the original group, who now bring their friends and family. As it always is with quilting and friendships, I realized that once a year is just NOT enough. I have been trying to figure out how we could have more contact with each other and how we can expand our retreat to reach others. Because we started as part of BYU Alumni, we have shared ideas on our retreat at our training conferences and assisted other chapters in starting their own. I thought this blog would allow all of us to come together and share the love of quilting.
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