Stitched last year at camp

This was my project from the 2009 Camp Gottastitch.  It was a wonderful and low key camp, and even though part of our camp fee included several kits of freebie designs with fabric and threads, most people were working on their own projects.  We had several finishes in our group, including my finish of Prairie Schooler's Book 132, Autumn Leaves. 

But then (and this will come as no great shock), I came home, put it in the cupboard and forgot about it.  And last week while I was hunting for some stitching to use for the flange pillow tutorial, I found it again.  (One nice thing about being so forgetful is that sometimes I give myself a pleasant surprise.)

I started to finish this as a bell pull, even adding the fabric to the back, but lately my bell pulls have seemed a little wonky to me, so at the last minute I changed my mind and decided to use a simple pinkeep method.  Very simple.  I figure that if I decide that it's too simple later, I can always add to it.  But right now I'm liking it just like this.

I bought this as a kit a handful of years ago from Theresa at Shakespeare's Peddler.  She had converted the threads to Crescent Colours, and I think you can still buy her conversion here (scroll down the page a bit)

And now this has me thinking about stitching camps.  Fall is THE time for so many camps.  The weather is still decent for traveling, and we're spending more time indoors.  Spring seems very popular, too,  but I guess I'm tuned into Fall camps.  I'm not going to an organized camp this year, but I am going to a stitching getaway, and I'm starting to think about what I'll be packing. 

More later!