Yarns From My Sewing Basket: Two Weeks Later

Sunday, 17 August 2014

Two Weeks Later

Here we are 2 weeks on from my last post...hard to believe it's only been that long - so much has happened....
My last update was from 1st August as I was heading to my annual retreat ..
A peek into our goodie bags on the Friday night revealed these.....

Inside we had 5 lovely patterns, fabrics & embroidery cottons to complete at least one of the projects.... I decide to do the canvas work and here is my project ready to go.. and it was FNWF ! (Bit late, I know, but I was actually doing something!).....

Saturday morning and Hobbysew from Belconnen Mall in Canberra were setting up their shop.... we all need retail therapy no matter where we are!

Here are some of the 5o or so ladies that took part...all busy..... and my "work station" with the canvas work in progress.

Some of us took advantage of the sunny days to have lunch on the deck...

And.... my finished canvas work!

Over the past 2 weeks since this retreat both my daughters have headed off overseas again - they had been here since early July when their dad (and my ex-partner) passed away. The elder one flew back to Canada where she has been living and the younger one flew out last week when, just on a whim, she decided to spend a couple of months touring USA. Her travels back to Australia will take her through Hawaii - so I mentioned that I could meet her there..... the "could" became "will" so in about 8 weeks I will be somewhere here.....

This weekend has been a wet and cold one - perfect weather for tidying/sorting the house and delving into some of my (many!) baskets of stitching projects to decide what project to work on.....