Blue Bonnet Studio Time Stitching Needle Arts Retreat seemed it was ages ago! well maybe it was since that was February.

I love, love, love going to this event and I am signed up already for 2016…how about you? I am not teaching next year, but will be back in 2017 as my sistah Meredith Willett becomes a student of Japanese Embroidery while I teach.

This was my class “Studio Time” and it was 4 days of bring your canvas and get some stitches. For some it was a great adventure, since I had planned out some suggested stitches and threads ahead of time…but for others, it was stump the teacher!

Part of studio time and working on different canvases is the looking and learning from each other.

and even the students were teaching. Pat, who is seen seated and stitching is a master craftsman who has studied at The Royal School of Needlework. She was giving us lessons in silk shading of a reindeer on a Tapestry Tent stocking.

Mary Alice (seen standing) is the master mind behind this all, and stopped by to see how we were doing!

Even Meredith Willett stopped by to add some of her Southern Charm to our class. she was showing us an Elizabethian technique stitch!

AlleyCat and I are going to spend the day on the couch as I stitch and she sleeps!

and until next time…keep on stitching