I've mentioned a few times that I've not had the urge to stitch for a while, in fact I haven't picked up any stitching at all since last November when I went to the Kingfisher reteat in Someset. While I was away that November weekend I started North Pole by Kathy Barrick.
As you can see I got a fair bit of stitching done on that Somerset retreat but since then It's been sat in a bag.
This weekend I attended another two day stitching retreat, closer to home this time and of course North Pole came with me and as you can see I got the rest of the left hand motifs stitched and most of the right hand side, along with Santa's face and eyes, (I'll leave the rest of the facial stitching until the end incase the long stitches get pulled).
The retreat was held at a local to me hotel and I could easily have traveled it but Mark was going to a retirement 'do' at Newbury races and staying over so he treated me to an overnight stay at the retreat hotel.
I had a fabulous time, great company and food and lots of laughter, just what I needed and I found my stitching mojo :-)
I really enjoyed stitching again and I'm going to try and fit in at least one evening of stitching a week, you never know there may be a new Santa finish for Christmas, ha ha.
BTW, in case anyone is interested I'm stitching on 20 count cream evenweave using the DMC conversion.
-X-
1 comment:
Always good to get your stitching mojo back and I'm sure there's time to get him stitched for Christmas. Your stitching retreat sound great fun. I'm going on a crochet retreat with my daughter in November which will be fun.
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