I think I will post my CATS report in at least two parts as I still have stuff to catch up on before work tomorrow. I drove down to my sister's in NH on Wednesday evening and then drove to pick up Nancy in MA on Thursday morning. We left her house around 9:15am or so and headed south to PA. After a stop at Cracker Barrel for lunch and a bit of shopping, we got to Hershey about 5:30. Joanie called and we headed down to the hotel cafe to meet her and have a cup of coffee. By that time the shopping mart had opened up to the public so the three of us headed over there. It was packed. You couldn't get near the Picture This Plus booth because it was swamped. I think they sold about 2/3rds of their fabric that evening! We browsed around and each bought something. I was very restrained - I will show you my stash tomorrow. I think we stitched a bit after a late dinner and then went to bed, agreeing to meet for breakfast in the hotel at 10:00am.
On Friday, we met Carol and Mike for breakfast and then they headed off to adventure around Hershey and we headed to the shopping mart area to browse some more and stitch. Cathy arrived around noon and we slowly met Jenna and Leslie and Sue. It was so wonderful to meet so many bloggers - it's just like you're meeting old friends. No awkwardness or anything and it is such fun to see what everyone is working on. It's so awe inspiring to see the incredible stitched pieces. Jo and Pete arrived later that evening and we all met up in the stitcher's lounge to get some serious chatting and stitching done.
Here are some photos taken on Friday.
This is Cathy and Leslie (on the left), Jenna and Jo stitching in the Stitcher's Lounge on Friday evening. And that's Joanie on the left and Nancy on the right. Disregard the date because the time stamp was wrong on my camera.
More tomorrow!
8 comments:
Sounds like you had a great time at CATS!!!!!
Ou took some great pictures Patti - everyone is smiling! I had a wonderful time with you over the weekend and I hope Lola made it home without too many complaints. I'm looking forward to the next installment!
Patti, I'm going to start Autumn Leaves this week...okay, today. Let me know when you're going to start. Sorry, I just can't wait!
Oh, it sounds like you had a wonderful time at CATS! Stitching retreats are such fun! Thanks for posting the pictures, to give us a taste of what it was like.
Ha! I went up to Maine and you came down to my neck of the woods! But it sounds like we both had a blast!
What fun!! I'd love to have tagged along!!
It's so great to hear how much fun all of you had!! Love seeing the pictures of everyone. :D
Sounds like you had a fantastic time. Thanks for sharing the pictures!
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