Red Rooster Quilt Retreat

Thanks to Kathy Skomp for scheduling and arranging a wonderful 4 days at Red Rooster in Cullman, AL--and her insisting that I go. Little did I know what a wonderful time I'd have there.
The place which is situated on a lake was beautiful and comfortable, the food was spectacular (aka Southern Living) and the company fun and entertaining. I'll leave out the incriminating photos we took including the one of me licking my plate clean (just for fun).
The house was beautifully decorated with quilts and red roosters every where. The Christmas decorations were still up making it even more enchanting.

This is the front of the big house. There is another smaller one right down the road for smaller groups.
There is a lovely fireplace in the large room where we sewed. This room has french doors that lead outside overlooking the lake. How cozy is that?

There are a few bedrooms downstairs and more rooms upstairs. When anyone finished a project (quilt) they would take it upstairs and hang it over the railing. This is the second one I finished before dinner on the first full day there. It is just incredible how much you can get done there.

This was the first quilt I finished (the grey kitty quilt).

The dinning area was large and very inviting. This is one of the quilts in a section of the dinning room.

Here is our motley crew. Most days many of us worked all day without our hair combed, no makeup and some of us still in our PJs. Nothing to do but relax, quilt, laugh, eat, quilt, laugh, relax, eat, quilt, eat, quilt, eat and sleep. No interruptions. Boy, is that the life?

A view from upstairs with our quilts hanging over the railing,

This is a little sitting area upstairs with a little library, a TV and a nice area to read or applique.

The food was incredible. Three home cooked meals a day with great menus served buffet style. Home made biscuits and hot yeast rolls were routine. The food could not be any better. You could smell what was cooking while you were in the big room sewing.We all tried to guess what was being prepared for our next meal. We never guessed right. They would ring the dinner bell (below) when ever the meal was ready. You would think we were all starving the way we jumped up and headed for the dinning room to check out the menu and meal.

The last days menu. YUM!!!

And as we bid goodbye and waddle away from out last luscious dessert of Cherry Cobbler topped and Vanilla Ice Cream we vow to return again for another grand stay at Red Rooster Retreat, Maybe by then we will have lost the weight we gained there.