November Retreat

Here are some picutres of the retreat...naturally I have started with the Saturday lunch made by our own Butteheads, Bruce and Dan...they had the room all set up ...and worked very hard preparing the feast...Sylvia is ready... as are Nan, Anne and Barb...

and Debbie, Sharon, Beatrice and Rebecca...

Back at Timber house Inn we all settled in to some serious stitching...or in Wendy's case a bit of knitting....

Nan and Dani...

Marie Paule...

Debbie and Sharon...

Dani and Nurse Sharon...

Clare and Joyce...

Bonnie and Rebecca...

Bernie and Beatrice...

Barb and Sheila...

The End of an Era

We had a little retreat on the weekend ...more about that later...and hopefully on Dani's blog because I did not take any pictures...too excited I guess. Beatrice has some photos!

Anyway, on Saturday my car was acting up ...badly... and I am sure some people wondered why I sort of shrugged it off and calmly took Dan's car instead instead of ranting and raving about vehicles and their unreliability...well the reason for my nonchalance in the face of a car not responding as it should was simple.



It had already been traded in.



So Good bye little Beetle!

I enjoyed this car for 9 years and it served me well up until the last couple of months when we started unsuccessfully chasing an electrical (maybe) gremlin.



Hello New Jetta! May you live and serve as long and as faithfully! We picked it up today.

On to stitching news... Here is my Rosewood Manor "Ye Olde Sampler Bag" When next you see this piece Debbie will have sewn it into a beautiful little clutch purse. Of course I have to find lining material first and go see Debbie...but I am confident I will find some fabulous fabric and I know Debbie will work her sewing magic!

Also we had our favouite houseguest...oops sorry Dani and Christin...our favourite 4-legged houseguest... for a few days..Here are Paddy and Oliver enjoyng a rare curl-up on the couch. They were sent down soon after this picture was snapped.

The Retreat...18 of us converged on The Timber House and stitched our little fingers to the bone this past weekend. It must have been a wonderful success because everyone wants to come back next year...fully booked ! How cool is that?

I worked on Froth and Bubble but neglected to take a picture so that can wait till my next post...which I promise will be soon.

I am counting on Dani publishing some pictures of our industriousness and well yes we did indulge in a bit of eating as well...not to mention all the laughing...my face was sore more than a couple of times!

Thank You to all the participants!!!

Retreat 2007

August 21, 2007

I think this link is the easiest way to show the pictures that I took at the retreat on Saturday

http://www.knowledgeandneedles.com/Retreat%20Pictures.htm

As you will be able to see, we had a great time and there were some fabulous stitching projects on display. I did something different when I was loading the pics from the camera to the computer and could not, for some unknown reason, upload them easily. Putting them on my website seemed like the least burdensome way to go and they had to be posted there anyway.

At any rate, as you will see we had a great turnout and lots of fun. As usual the food was excellent and no one went away hungry. We saw some devious enabling going on and also got to see some amazing works in progress.
The four Tours de Marques come to mind. The seven Celtic Banners can be seen on Christin's blog at...
http://www.christinramblings.blogspot.com/
It was wonderful to visit with some old friends and to meet some new ones as well. Chrisanne, Rebecca, Linda and Sylvia were all very welcome. However I must tell you Rebecca, that Sylvia and Linda went off home without their name tags...How are they going to know who they are the next time they go someplace? (I'll have the tags here for them in November when I see you and your mom again)

I am very tired so I am going to curl up in a comfy chair and do a bit of stitching on my me project...Mary Engelbriet's "It's Good to be Queen" pictures will follow on a later post!