Stitching in the Hills

We had a wonderful weekend of stitching at Stitching in the Hills at Warrambui in Murrumbateman. We were blessed with lovely weather and it was great to catch up with dear friends and chat and share such good times. As we drove out the countryside was so lovely and green.

 Here are the bags all ready before the ladies.

 Celia and Diane made these gorgeous little handbags with chocolates in them to also decorate the tables.

 Here are our projects for the weekend. It was so lovely working with the gorgeous Tilda ranges of fabric.

 The ladies were all very busy stitching, chatting and just enjoying a lovely time away from normal life. We also enjoyed the plentiful food!

On Saturday evening we had a pastel theme and that was fun. 

 Fiona finished her little scissor keeper before anyone else!

 These are the goodies that were in the kits.

 Thank you so much to the ladies for my very special gift. That was so kind. I will enjoy drinking my tea from this beautiful cup.

More Stitching in the Hills

As we were using such lovely coloured felts in our projects, we decided to have a rainbow theme for our dinner on Saturday night. It was great fun and the ladies did such a great job of dressing up.

 We also had show and tell and it was so inspiring to see what everyone has made over the last year of so. Gorgeous embroidery!

 Lovely to see this My Town finished. I should get my blocks out and finish mine! Lesley has done a wonderful job.

 Jenny has taken the projects we did last year and added lots more blocks to make this amazing quilt.

 This piece of hardanger/cutwork was amazing.

 Anne made the Singalong bunting from earlier in the year into a quilt.

 Jo had finished this lovely little Anni Downs bag.

 I just loved this great elephant quilt made by Clare for a special little person. Looks like a fun project.

These were just a few of the lovely items on show. Thank you to all the ladies who attended our fourth Stitching on the lake weekend. Fiona and I enjoy planning and preparing for these weekends and it is always special catching up with everyone and sharing a weekend together.

Stitching in the Hills

It was lovely to get together with so many happy ladies at our retreat, Stitching in the Hills, at Warrambui near Canberra last weekend. We had 60 ladies attending the retreat this year and we had a really relaxing weekend of stitching, laughter and friendship. On Friday we set up the room with our cheerful kits all ready for the ladies. Fiona has more pictures on her blog. After a yummy roast dinner we opened the doors so the ladies could see what they were going to make over the weekend.

 These were our projects this time. It was lovely to work with such lovely colours of wool felt.

 Here are some of the ladies busy stitching.

 Terrie and Najelle came out on Saturday and set up a lovely Hobbysew stall. Everyone enjoyed a bit of shopping.

 Here we are ready for the day.

Stitching and our retreat

So lovely to see some wonderful stitching over the last week. Heidi has finished this beautiful hanging from a pattern by Anni Downs.

Anni's patterns are being made by quite a few people at the moment. Roni has just finished her gorgeous woven wool felt bauble.

 Jayne is going away next week and made herself a little zippered pouch and a lovely bag to take with her. These are from another Anni Downs pattern that were in the Homespun a while ago.

 I have done a little stitching. Nice to finish another little stitchery from Rosalie Dekker's United Stitches patterns and to finish the LAST block of Scandinavian Rose!

Other than that I have been busy preparing for our retreat, Stitching in the Hills, that is on this weekend. Looking forward to a lovely weekend of fun, laughter, friendship and some stitching with lots of lovely ladies. The kits are ready and I know Fiona is on her way so we are almost ready.

Here is a picture of the Saturday night frivolities from last year when we all dressed up in orange.