I just returned from a embroidery reteat. I started retreating in o3 or o4. If you want to get a lot done then you set up all the project or you UFO you want to finish. I like the retreat where somone else is doing the food. I do enough food when I home. My guild host 2 retreat a year. One we go to is a church camp. The other is a place built for quilting or scrapbooking retreat. We have much better frood at the secong one. But we don't have to do the cooking.We alway have the ladies that like to sew late and alone. They go to bed when the others are getting up at 6 or 7 am.
The cost get's to be the a problem. They are still going around $200 fro a Thursday at 12 untill a Sunday at 3pm or and Sunday 5pm to Thur.10 am.
Everyone needs to try and do just one.
Sometime just going to a freind house that has a large house can be as much fun as going to a center.
Its the time you spend together and sewing and not have to stop to do for DH or Kids or even our pets. Happy quilting.