Silver Threads & Golden Needles!

Last weekend I was lucky enough to spend 

three days in Ballarat attending the 

Silver Threads and Golden Needles Sovereign Hill Retreat 

hosted by Chrissie of Chrissie's Timeless Treasures 

with my sister-in-law Silvia.

 

We received two kits to work on.

  

The first project was a Christmas bag. 

My bag is the one on the right.

 

 The second was a pins and needles case. 

I managed to get the stitching part done.

  

My finished pins and needles case.

 

 In between stitching, we would explore 

different parts of Sovereign Hill.

 My favourite place is the Criterion Store. 

 

There were so many lovely goodies here.

 

 Silvia and I thought it would be fun to 

have an old fashioned photo taken. 

We just had to pose stitching!

Don't think I'd really like to wear 

these dresses everyday!

We also made some little lavendar bags like 

they would have made back in the day.

I celebrated my birthday on Saturday 

and Noel surprised me with a special 

delivery of these beautiful flowers.

 

I was also lucky enough to win this sewing case 

(on my birthday too!), together with a toffee 

apple that are a specialty at Sovereign Hill. 

Mitchell has claimed that! LOL!

Before dinner on Saturday night, we walked 

the whole way around Lake Wendouree.

For my birthday dinner, we decided it 

would be nice to go to 

Craig's Royal Hotel which was built in 1853.

How beautiful is this staircase!

They were booked out for Saturday 

night so we went on Sunday.

Ballarat has beautiful gardens along the 

main road. I really liked these butterflies.

We had a fabulous time.  

There was lots of laughter, chatting, eating, 

exploring and shopping and we even managed 

to get some stitching done too! 

I'm actually surprised with how much we actually 

got done as we kept wondering off.