Stitchville's Spring Fling 2013 Retreat

Our local needlework shop Stitchville has put together this annual retreat now for the last four years.

This years designer was Linda Lautenschlager of Chessie & Me.

Again it was a GREAT retreat.

 Here is what greeted us in our room.  There is only one caramel in this picture--the other two were very tasty!!!!

 This was our welcome bag.  It had a really cute wooden tag for a zipper pull and inside the bag was a note pad, a very cute luggage tag and a finger nail file. 

 These are the wonderful gifties that we had waiting for us at our tables.  A scissors with a 2013 fob, a wooden box, a wooden pin cushion, a insulated cup and of course a table favor.

 Here is a bit of a close up of all the wood goodies.

 I just love this little wooden tag. 

 We did some pre-stitching and this is the end result of it.  We painted this box and then attached our stitching to a piece of wool and then glued it to the outside of the box.  The strawberry is a gift from Linda.  She made one for each of us.  I think she said she made 53!!  She also painted the first coat of paint on each of the boxes so we would have time to finish them. 

 

 A view of the inside of the box and the fob we stitched and put together.

It is always great to leave retreat with a finished piece.

On Saturday we received this wonderful sampler designed by Linda for our retreat.  

It is called Springtime of Youth Sampler.  This is my progress so far--sorry for the wrinkles.

I had a great time with friends, familiar and new.  

Can't wait until next year.

Designer for next year is Cynthia Zittel of The Drawn Thread.

I didn't have my camera with me but I am sure you can see some pictures of the retreat on 

With Needle and Thread's blog and on Thread in Hand's blog later this week.

Thanks for stopping by.