Threads of Color at the Nest Retreat Center
Where flowing watercolor meets gentle spiral slow stitching.
Hello, I’m really happy you’re here.
This is a quiet corner where I explore what it means to live with more heart and less hurry - through stillness, creativity, and connection. I’m someone learning, right alongside you, how to pause long enough to listen for what truly matters. Pull up a chair. There’s space for you here.
The barn door has been opened.
After a season of quiet tending, the Nest Retreat Center is ready to host its first gathering of the year - a half-day retreat called Threads of Color.
This is the first of four half-day retreats I’ll be offering this year. Each one is designed as a spacious pause, a place to slow down, create with your hands, and spend time connecting with others.
Threads of Color is a gathering rooted in texture and tone.
Threads of Color is a collaboration with watercolor artist Christine Vabre of Octopus Connection. Together, we’ve designed a spacious, hands-on gathering for slowing down, creating beauty, and enjoying the quiet companionship of others.
We’ll begin by painting directly onto fabric with watercolor, letting color move freely and without pressure.
Once the fabric is dry, we’ll move into slow-stitching, adding simple marks with needle and thread as a way of settling the body and mind.
Nothing here needs to be perfect.
This is not about skill or outcome.
It’s about presence, flow, and the deep contentment that comes from making something by hand.
If this feels like something you’ve been longing for, a few unhurried hours to create, rest, and be held by the process, you’re warmly invited.
We’ve created a simple invitation PDF that shares the spirit of the retreat in more detail. You’re welcome to take a look if you’d like to linger a little longer.
To keep the experience intimate, this gathering is limited to 12 participants. You can register at the link in the PDF or click the button below.
If someone came to mind as you were reading this, a friend who might enjoy creating slowly and spending an afternoon in good company, you’re welcome to share this with them.
I’d love to welcome you at the table, in the studio, and into this very first retreat - a shared beginning.
If you feel moved, I’d be grateful if you like this post with a ❤️, share a thought in the comments, buy me a coffee, or pass it along to someone who might enjoy a pause. Each small gesture helps this quiet space reach others who may need it.
Kathy I would love to attend this retreat.
Oh I absolutely love this! What a fantastic way to spend a half-day retreat!