October, you kept me busy!

I love this group!  Hoosier Stitchers Fall Retreat...More pictures at the end.
The start of Oct...

Had the tree stump removed.

Flowers were looking good mid October, then the leaves started falling.

Painted the hallway and kitchen. 

Less then 24 hours, painted the hallway the same color as the kitchen.

The first color was too pink.

This is where the kitchen will be.  On to the dinning room-ceiling removed.

New Patterns

Endless Autumn Necklace.

This is my new favorite, I've worn it a couple of times, with great reviews.

Hot Air Balloon #9, the last in this year's ornament series.  I also had to remake Hot Air Balloon #5, because it broke, when I was taking it out to the pine tree to take pictures.  The second one is made in a deep blue.

Getting close to the end of October, I received this wonderful, beautiful quilt in the mail!!!

I had no idea this was going on.  The quilt is from a yahoo group called ILCS (I Love Cross Stitching).  Debra H stitched one of the blocks and made the quilt.  Below are pictures of all the stitched blocks in the quilt.  BIG, BIG, BIG thank you for the quilt.

These four pieces are in the corners of the quilt, it had to see in the quilt pictured above.

When the quilt came I was packing to go to the Hoosier Stitchers Fall Retreat, so I took the quilt with me to show off. :)

Of course we stitched.

Cindy and Annette

Shirley and Liz

Liz finished the piece you see in front of her into an ornament. 

Wish, I would have taken a picture of it when it was finished.

Ate and group therapy.

Shirley and Coleen

Shirley giving her speech to the press. LOL!

Group Picture Time

Silly Group Picture

Dyed material, Coleen and Cindy.

And LAUGHED,

LAUGHED!

Goodies I found on the free table.

Progress pictures of my cross stitching.

Left side is what it looked like arriving the retreat and the right side is what it looked like leaving the retreat.

Autumn Aprons by The Cricket Collection.

Crocheted two vine scarves at the retreat.

Some of us went to House Of Stitches.

I bought frames for these pieces, I had finished for a while.  Frames are just setting on the material, I still need to do the actual framing.  I also picked up Fish City, only because they had a finished piece, framed for one of their customers.  And of course the Halloween magazine. 

Retreat, sure are a lot of fun and giggles, but they sure do wear a girl out.

Cindy

That's my October, hope yours was a good one.

Cross Stitch Retreat

Hoosier Stitchers Fall Retreat 2011

Thursday night Coleen gave Jodi her "Jodi Bag" for caring her scroll frames in. At the Spring retreat this year. Coleen bought the materials. Coleen I really want one too!!!
Jodi gave me all these pretty, pretty dyed floss and little tote, as a thank you for organizing the retreat.

Thursday night stitching, chatting and laughing.

Thursday night I showed the girls how to make no sew, no knit, no crochet scarves. It was a lot of fun. Everyone brought yarn, that wanted to play and we all shared.

Shirley showing off her scarf.

Picture of the scarves I made.

Friday some went to the House of Stitches and some went out shopping. I gave two classes on Friday one during the day then one at night on how to make tile coasters. Tutorial for coasters.

Janet & Shirley

Picture of a few of the coasters that were made.
Friday I went of a walk at Camp Barbee, here are a few pictures I took.

This was the view from the dining room.

Friday night we had two visitors, Leona and Rhonda. It was good to see you both again. Friday night stitching.

Jodi, met up with her daughter at House of Stitches and they were able to spend some time together. Jodi brought back button bracelets that her daughter is selling to go on a mission trip. Picture of Shirley's blue bracelet and my green bracelet.

Leona, gave me this pretty bracelet. Way-Way back when we were at Rockome Gardens for a Cross Stitch show, Leona won this bracelet as a door prise. I had said how much I liked it and she remember that and gave it to me.

At the retreat the girls gave me this beautiful bag, it has lots of room and pockets in it for my cross stitching. They also gave me a card stuffed with money! Was not expecting that, at all.

Friday night some of the girls tea dyed material. But Coleen was not happy with the results using well water. Saturday they did it again, using bottle water. Picture of Friday's material.

Friday night we played "Dirty Santa" game. Picture of Marcia showing the first bag she had picked. Annette, kept stealing her gift bags.

Coleen or Betty???

This is the bag I won, from Janet. Love the candle "Hometown Candle", I haven't lit it yet, just took the top off and it is in my studio, makes the whole room smell good.

More stitching and laughing.

Katie

Shirley and Michelle

Shirley, just too much excitement for one day.

Saturday night I had Natalie come in and she gave us all massages. I tried to stay up to stitch after that, but I just couldn't and went to bed early that night, it was so relaxing.

Show and Tell table, most of them were finished at the retreat.

This is a picture of Marcia's material she dyed Saturday night on the left, on the right is a picture of Al Capone "computer laying" on top of the material. What do you think?

Sunday stitching, just trying to get one more stitch in before we have to go.

We stayed in the Retreat House at Camp Barbee, it was built in 1922 for Al Capone by a man from a Chicago newspaper. Al Capone was known to hang out in the Barbee Hotel, in Leesburg IN. And a story is told of a young boy that delivered food to the house from the local grocery store, that he was to knock on the door, get the money, do not ask questions, do not go in the house.

I had a wonderful time and looking forward to the Spring Retreat. Thanks everyone for getting your deposit in on time, for doing your share of the cooking and the clean up grew was GREAT!