Wrapping up the weekend's goodies

I was feeling a bit better toward the evening, so I did a bit of sewing. I am making a birthday present for Wanda so I will show it once she receives it. Meanwhile ... here is the final chapter of the retreat weekend. I was gifted this punch and stick-on pieces as a table gift. The lady had given us an instruction sheet too.

When you get Week's Dye Works floss, the tags look like this.

It is hard to put them on a binder ring with having only the hole the floss is threaded on. Here is floss on a binder ring. Classic Color comes with a tag with two holes.

With the punch, you put a hole in the opposite side from the name of the color

Move the thread to the new hole

then stick on one of the plastic holder loops.

Now it can be hung on a binder ring

Some people hand out floss cards or business card with holes and without holes.

That punch can put holes in the cards so they can be hung from a binder ring.

I was gifted this little box with a tomato pincushion and a cross stitched tomato covering the bottom. So cute!

I didn't buy too much. Of course I bought those bolts of fabric and I did buy two corner gauges - one for me and one for my sister. The shop hasn't had these in quite a while.

I bought this chart and a few skeins of floss. The chart was a new release. They had a model of it stitched and it was so pretty I just had to have it.

Speaking of that fabric, the three bolts were Windam and the piece was makower uk.

I still had leftover scissor pouches even after going around the room several times handing more out and giving them to people who bought thread beds. They did like it if I could find a pouch that matched the thread bed.

I did get a little stitching done. I finished this little sampler

and I got everything above the skein of floss stitched on this Animal Cracker by Stacy Nash.

This is what it will look like when it is done

My table is a disaster again! LOL!! I need to put away all the stuff from the retreat so I can get back to work.

This morning's sunrise