The
past five weeks have been full on for Russellee BnB Craft Retreats. Our first quilting retreat for the year was
our 4th Australian Quilting and Embroidery Cruise. This left Sydney on the 22nd February
for 11 nights around the north island of New Zealand. Teachers were Helen Godden, Jan Pilgrim,
Chris Dowell and myself. We had 34
wonderful ladies attend. Several of
these ladies were making their second and even third cruise with us.
The
week after returning home I had 11 scrapbookers for my first Scrappin’ Retreat
for the year. We had a new comer this
time in that we had a male scapper come.
His work was superb.
I
was invited to the South Coast Quilters 25th Anniversary Luncheon
last Monday as the quest speaker. I was
very impressed with the standard of this event and can not praise the
organisers highly enough for there presentation on the day.
Last
weekend saw the return on Sandy’s Quilters from Canberra. This group started coming about 7 years ago
and are now doing two retreats at Russellee a year. Thank you Sandy for your group’s wonderful
patronage.
Planning
is well on the way for our Bali/Lombok Quilting Retreat Fabric and Cultural Tour. This is filling fast. We take a maximum of 10 on this trip and do
the trip once a year. I have posted our itinerary. This trip is great value at $1749 per person
land content. This includes twin share
accommodation, all breakfasts, all lunches, for dinners and entry into places
on the itinerary as well as the use of a sewing machine.
Our
5th Australian Quilting Cruise is well into planning also. The cruise will leave Sydney on the 14th
February 2016. I hope to have all the class information up very soon.
Don’t
forget Russellee can organise private craft retreats for up to 10 ladies most
times of the year. Just contact me for
details at russeldr@bigpond.com
Dorothy
