Evandale Craft Day!

Wow, 3 posts in 1 morning!

I have been unwell with the Winter lurgy and not feeling like doing much. I'm still not 100% as those poor ladies that I sat with yesterday,will tell you. Unfortunately I coughed and splutted a bit when I went to the annual Stitching in July day at Evandale that Christine Dearden organises for us. Hopefully I havent been too sharing and passed on my bugs, but I couldn't possibly miss out now could I!!!

Here are the tutors explaining their samples and the projects that they had for us to work on. Chris Dearden, Kerry Gillespie, Brenda Ryan and Viv Robinson. There are lots of things in my kit that I hope to make one day, but for yesterday I chose to work on Viv's Sampler Bag. Here is the bag being modelled by the gorgeous Alex.

Here is the being of my stitchery for the bag, plus the Civil War fabric I have chosen to make my bag in. I love the effect of Viv's sample, but I have chosen to make mine a little brighter but still staying with the heritage feel!

Finally here are some photos of some special ladies. This group is a few of the ladies I stitch with on Thursday nights. Sue, Giselle, Alex, Meredith and Myself. Alex was yacking and laughing as usual!! Doesnt she look happy!

And this is a group of fellow bloggers! It was terrific to finally meet Sarah and Christine. I owe much of what I know about Blogland to Christine so it was lovely to spend the day stitching with her!!

On a bit of a sad note, there was one lady we missed seeing today, Christine Book!! I hope you are feeling better Christine and we all missed you!! The day was definetly a bit different with out you!!