Back From our Lake Shetek Retreat

I got home around noon yesterday from our Lake Shetek Stitching Retreat.

I had a great time visiting with everyone there. It has been about 3 or 4 years since I have attended the retreat and the girls were all glad to see me back.

Here are a few pictures that I took. None of the women that attended are bloggers, so for my memory sake I will put there first names under there picture.


Cindy



Grace, Donna, Ann, Char & Judy



not sure what the first 2 ladies names
were but the 3rd one with the
white shirt is Sharon



Sunrise on Thursday moring



Betty and her daughters and
granddaughter



Mona & Barb quilting



Judy, Sally, & ?



Scrapbookers in the Library



more scrapbooking
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Grace taking a nap



Fall Colors

I did get one thing finished and several things worked on, so here is my Stitching update!



Harvest Hand Towel
Elizabeth Spurlock - Cross Stitch & Needlework
14 ct banded huck towel
called for DMC floss
Started Jan 15, 2012  (CJC)
finished Oct 10, 2012

Next I worked on Blooming with Inspriation for a short while

This is where I left off around July 8, 2012

filled in the one box and did the outline for the next one on
Oct 11, 2012

The 40ct material was getting to me so I decide to work on BoaF for awhile and this is my progress.

As of July 8, 2012

as of Oct 14, 2012

I kinda feel like I should have gotten more stitching done but I also  got a lot of reading done, took a nap every afternoon so I could stay up late at night with the big girls (actually the younger ones) and there was a lot of talking, laughing, checking out what everyone else is working on. And ofcourse we can't forget lots of snacking. It was a great weekend and now back at home to get caught back up on the laundry & cleaning that didn't get done while I was gone.

Have a great week everyone
Happy Stitching
Denise
 



I Just Love Fall !!!!!!

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers!

And Welcome to my  New Followers!

 

Oh this is my favorite time of year! Cool in the mornings and 60's in the afternoon. Love it!

 

Not a lot going on around here this week, just still working on getting my car in good running condition. Its a 10 year old car (buick park ave) and I hate to get rid of it but, its starting to cost us money! I love the smooth ride and the roomyness (is that a real word?) I guess I will keep it a little longer and see what happens.

 

5 days until I live for our weekend stitching retreat in Lake Shetek in MN. It is always so much fun visiting with the ladies. This year will be different for me because I have always taken either my daughters or my niece or both with me to retreat. This year it will be just me driving up there to visit with the 39 other attendees. Can't wait! I have been trying to decide what I want to take with me to work on. I may end up taking a couple of my CJC 2012 projects with me and working on them.

Since my last update on Sunday I have gotten quite a bit of stitching done.
I worked on Abigails baby Sampler and here is my progress.

Sorry about the picture being so light I tried all different way to it it show up better but they all turn out this way kinda washed out look. The pink and purple are quite bright in person. And some of the light blue that I have done doesn't even show up.
I have put about 1120 stitches into it since Chrissy gave it to me to work on for her.

Like most of you I can't seem to work on one thing at a time. The other day I was looking at my Crazy January Challenge 2012 list and realized that I have not got that many completed yet. Out of 15 new starts in January I have only completed 4, and 1 that is 3/4 done. So I decided that I need towork on some of them for a while so I pick out one for the season. Its called Harvest Hand Towel.

This is what it will look like when finished!

106 Stitches completed on 1/15/2012

This was as of yesterday afternoon and I have added
more stitches to it last evening.
Total of 1002 stitches in the last 3 days.

Well that is about it for me today.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Happy Stitching
Denise