And my last stitchy retreat in 2025 is done.

Here’s how I did with my project plan:

Thursday – I arrived just twenty minutes after 3 and my stitchy friends saved me a seat so I got to chat and catch up with them. So much better than the Big Bear retreat.

My project for the day was Gamer:

Friday – ended up visiting the LQS in Old Town Temecula and bought a new ruler and some needles.

Project of the day: MFE 2023

I brought my daily projects with me and as always hoped to spend 15 minutes a day on them.

My knitting:

“Preamble” – didn’t bring to work on

“Spooky Halloween” – didn’t bring to work on

I actually ended up working on some other stitchy WIPs I brought.

Saturday –

Project for the day: Titania

At the last retreat, I was missing 2 colors of floss, 472 and 3823. I found 472 but could not find 3823 so on Thursday I stopped off at the big box craft store ‘M’ and picked a couple of skeins up.

And I pulled out my old needlepoint project: East meets southwest by Margaret Bendig

Sunday: day to go home.

Project of the day: Blossoms

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As always I had a great time reconnecting with old friends. I do not see a lot of these ladies except at these stitchy retreats and it was nice to see everyone again. A lot of enabling was done and I came out of there with 3 new patterns and 1 new start. One of the ladies tracks her stitchy projects in a binder and I got to see what she does and now I have grand plans of making my own.

Keep stitching,

Melanie