Here is the gorgeous little bag we were taught by Rosalie.  We all came home and are working hard to finish them and take them down to Palmerston North to show Katherine on Saturday.  It is our sampler Saturday..Yay another fun day....

Christmas in July retreat

Here is another picture.  We all were given these lovely bags.  You can just see them on the tables.  Jill and Katherine had spent hours and hours making them. We will be able to keep them forever and always be reminded when we take them to other retreats. This is a photo of all of us. Lynley and Jillian on the left, and Leanne, Di and Anne around the back. Sorry Lynley you have your eyes closed..

Christmas in July retreat

This was what we woke up to..

And this was our last few minutes....

Top photo is Roselie signing my bag.  Middle photo Leanne signing my quilt and bottom one is of my friend Lynley getting her quilt signed.  Lynley is in the red..

Mid Winter Retreat

WOW... Five of us ladies from Napier headed off to Oreti Village Turangi for our winter retreat run by Katherine (Clothshop Palmerston North) and Jill (Cottageflair Rotorua). There were 68 ladies from all over attending.  Rosalie Quinlan and Leanne Beasley were the guest designers from Australia that we were all anxious to meet. Lucky lucky us... What lovely ladies they are and were so welcoming and friendly to us all.Leanne ran a designing lesson and Rosalie taught needle turn and stitchery classes.
We had such fun and met a lovely lady from Palmerston North who joined us at our table. Katherine and Jill dressed up for the Saturday night dinner- photos tell all.... The weather was fantastic and we all came away with great memories and expectations.
There were spot prizes all weekend and that was an extra bonus.  Leanne and Rosalie were so generous with their time and the even autographed our finished quilts which we had taken for show-n-tell...

Thank you Katherine, Jill, Roselie and Leanne.  We all had a fantastic time. Who says quilters don't have fun....

Back again...

Hello I am back again after a few months break.  Had our daughter and  Grandies over for 41/2 months so not much sewing, quilting or anything else got done...We had a great time tho and we got to know our little ones quite well.  They live in Germany and of course that is their first language.  By the time they left their English was really good and they were even talking with kiwi slang..Our daughter said they are keeping up with their English back home and even little Taine who turned two over here is still talking English. He now can't understand his German grandparents.  Here is a photo of my bag I made on the embroidery machine.  Ishla took one home with her all finished as well.  We did do quite a bit of machine embroidery.  I will post photos of the grandies next time. 

Breakfast in the sun

Our nephew Brent's partner Emma and her girlfriend from Sweden have breakfast on the front balcony.  Noel is enjoying the morning sun also..Emma and Johanna are both from Sweden and Emma is taking some time out to show Johanna the sights.  They have gone cycling around the city and wineries for the day. Emma is on the left. The girls  have been up the mountain skiing the last few days. Lets hope the weather stays nice for them before they head back up North.