Floss Friday – Stitching in the Wild, August Stats and More

Welcome to the last Friday of September, 2025! How can this be?

Before getting to what happened after my return from Italy, I’ll give you my August cross-stitch stats.

Number of stitches = a measly 2,873 on three projects.

American Sampler

I finished my first (August) assignment on time. And I am currently working on the September assignment. This is where I am now.

                                          

Patriotic Heart – I’ll share this as part of my retreat update below.

Parrot

                                        

There hasn’t been any progress on this one since I shared it last.

We returned from Italy late on a Monday evening. I had one day to finish getting ready to attend a cross-stitch retreat in Montgomery, AL. I’ve mentioned previously that Stitching in the Wild is hosted by Gary and Ronny Hovatter who own a brick-and-mortar cross stitch store in Ozark, AL. They also have an online store called Garon-Stitchery. They’ve held three annual retreats so far and I’ve attended all of them.

I had enough time to make sour cream cookies with green butter cream frosting for my friends.  They are always a hit!

Gary and Ronny welcomed everyone early on Thursday morning.

There were 130 attendess, not including hosts and vendors.

There were a lot of table and attendee gifts exchanged. I haven't unpacked and organized those yet. I'll show them in a future post.

Many stitchers brought pieces for the brag tables.

There were so many creative finishes and absolutely stunning stitches!

In early August I had visited Gary and Ronny and left three pieces at their framer. The guys brought my finished framing to me at the retreat.

Witching Hour

English Rose Sampler

Red Bird Sampler

I'm entering this one into the county fair this weekend.

There were several of us from the GaRon zoom group that stitched Witching Hour together. Two of the ladies brought there finished pieces to share with me.

Karen, a zoom friend, wanted to start a chart that we both purchased at last year's retreat. I'll show you more on that in a future post.

I know...I hear ya...another start???? Well, I had a finish while at the retreat.

Patriotic Heart

I can check this one of the old WiP list!! It is small, but don't let that fool you. Those are a lot of stitches!

Friends old and new gathered for lunch

And one last hug until next time!

That is my September cross-stitch update in a nutshell.

My agenda for the weekend is back to binding quilts and enjoying some cooler temps. What are your plans? How is your weather? Tell me all the things.

Until next week...