July knitting and crochet retreat at Knitting holidays in France

The last retreat of the summer has just finished, in this group we had three of our regular visitors and five new ones - including two lovely ladies who came all the way from Canada. As always after the first half an hour they were all chatting away like old friends.
On the first day we went to St Jean d'Angely to see the Fil en Fete exhibition. This is held every two years and is a lovely mix of old and contemporary patchwork, quilting and embroidery, displayed in all the old public buildings around the town.

After a coffee, it was home to relax in the sun with their projects and cool off in the swimming pool.

On Wednesday some of us braved the rain and thunderstorms for a trip to the yarn shop in Cognac, but it was shut!! (mental note to myself, must remember it is closed on Wednesday afternoons!) We made up for it in Tissus Mercerie buying fabric, buttons and trimmings.
On Thursday afternoon we went back to Cognac and spent lots of money in the yarn shop and listened to some of the music at the Blues Festival. Cognac Blues Passion is on every year in the first week of July.

On the last evening we had a show and tell of the projects, a gorgeous mix of shawls, vintage sweaters and crochet

And now the long awaited sunflowers have finally flowered