The Tolsona Lake Lodge (TLL) quilters celebrated their fifth year together in November, stepping out of their regular lives for five days to hang out and create beauty.
In 2020 Cynthia Curtis, herself a quilter, encouraged her friend, fellow quilter, and TLL owner Michelle Heaton to host a retreat during the lodge’s slow times.
The gang of enthusiastic quilters who showed up this November included Carmen Houser from Missouri, Janai Comer and Phyllis Johnson from Valdez, Doreen Hodges from Anchorage, Marge Badger from Wasilla, Judy Shelton from Gulkana, Susan Smith from McCarthy, Clarissa Smith from Anchorage, and Cynthia from Washington state…