Midwest Cross Stitch Retreat!

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Last Thursday Chelsea and I left for Minnesota .. It was a 6 hour drive .. and our first stop was Michelle ( farmgirl stitcher) farm! Michelle runs the Midwest Cross Stitch Retreats ..Cash loved the goats and the dogs ! It was amazing to meet Michelle in person!Thank you Michelle for inviting us! This has been in the works since June 28 last year... and the project has been sitting in my house finished since January( it was hard not to be able to show you all) I loved the enamel piece for the jar and was so glad we were able to use it!

Second stop Stitchville USA .. it was huge and we loved it!

Next stop the Oak ridge Retreat Center where the retreat is held .. The grounds are beautiful! 

Friday morning we got up and had to get a new brake light installed .. and of course stopped at a couple Homegoods! The retreat started at noon .. so we stitched until about 5 when we got to show them how they would be finishing their pieces the next day and tell them there would be a series!

Fat Quarter shop was amazing and sent us  Stitchers journals for all 75 attendees!

I stitched on linen for the first time and actually liked it! Ladonna from Sampling of memories made us the most awesome thread and scissor keeps .. and necklaces 

The retreat piece and the extra small that they were given on Friday night ..These designs will be the last in the 7 designs in the Chalkfull series! Thanks so much to Cathy at Hands on Design for charting these for the retreat!

Saturday we taught 2 classes .. one at 9 and one at 2 ... each one took about 3 hours to get all the pieces completed!

Glue guns were used.. and no 911 calls had to be made! Everyone's projects were awesome ... it was such a great experience .. we can't wait to do it again!

Cash was wonderfully behaved the whole time .. driving and retreating! We were very lucky!

The Housewives shirt wearers! Loved seeing them all!

all the projects completed! Is that not just the best photo!?! I cannot even tell you how proud I was of all of them !
We loved meeting everyone and had the best time! Thank you so much to all the stitchers who came and welcomed us with open arms! There were some tears shed over all their nice words to us! We appreciate you all so much!

I cannot say Thank you enough for how great this weekend was!!

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