Winding Ways on Cape Cod

This weekend, my winding ways quilt went from this:
to this:
I drove to Cape Cod Friday after work and even though I had planned to update my blog every day with fun action filled shots, I got way too caught up sewing and talking with the ladies that these are practically the only photos I took. A quick recap: My roommate was Avis, a very nice quilter that I hadn't met before. We got along really well. About 15 women from the Silver City Guild came to the retreat, and there was another guild having a retreat at the same hotel, but in the 2nd floor meeting room (we were down in the basement, but it was still a really nice room). The hotel wasn't dead like I thought it would be, but instead full of noisy children running around in their bathing suits with their bathing suit clad parents shouting after them to stop running. I suppose this is the typical New England winter vacation. Anyway, I went with 3 projects to work on, but started with the WW. I had 3/4 of the blocks done so I set out to finish the blocks first, but didn't get too far the first night. I got them all taken care of by noon on Saturday and then a couple of us headed out to Tumbleweed Quilts for a little shopping break. I was good and didn't buy any fabric, just $60 of Japanese quilt mags, templates, and batting. When we got back I really buckled down and worked to finish the top. It was done just after midnight. I got up this morning, had breakfast, sat through the presentation they had planned (nothing to get too excited about, just scrappy picture frames) and after most of the quilters left, I pulled 3 tables together and spread things out to baste:

It took me over 4 hours to baste the whole thing, and now my fingers are sore, my neck and shoulders are sore, and my knees hurt from where I knelt on the round heads of my straight pins over and over. But I'm so glad it's done.
I want to quilt it. I want to quilt it really bad, but not til my fingers get a little rest.
I came home to find a huge leak in our bathroom ceiling so I'll stay home from work tomorrow to wait for the plumber and take care of things. Costas and I aren't letting ourselves get worked up about it yet because it isn't really clear what is causing the problem. Anyway, I've got an extra unexpected day to spend how I please, so maybe I'll quilt it tomorrow...