A Quilt Show...and a Quilt Shop...

YesterdaySaturday I went on strike...told the boss (that would be me) to naff off and ran away for the day...with GF Rosie (no blog) and had a wonderful time...setting off early (poor Rosie had to leave home in the dark to get to my place for exit time) for our first destination - the Monbulk Community Quilt Show organised by Karen of Mrs Martin's Quilt Shop...there in plenty of time for kick off we joined the already considerable queue waiting for the doors to open...it was a lovely morning standing outside in the fresh air and gave us time to have a little squiz at the plants on offer by the Monbulk footy club...inside and being in the first 100 through the door we scored a showbag each...full of lovely goodies...thank you Karen and the sponsors who generously donated...the hall was filled with lots of lovely quilty goodness...being a community show rather than by a group anyone could enter a quilt and there was a wonderful variety...including one by an 8 year old who was so inspired when she visited the show last time it was held she went home and started stitching away on her own first quilt to put in this time...isn't that wonderful...I've made a little slideshow of some of my favourites...it was very very hard to choose just one for the viewer's choice vote! (I've taken so long to finish this post the winner can now be seen here. Beautiful.)  Definitely a quilt show to put on the calendar for return visits.


For our $5.00 donation (all proceeds to Monbulk CFA) we got a good couple of hours entertainment...going around the quilts a couple of times, buying and enjoying Devonshire Tea, more quilt admiring, a good squiz at the wares on offer by the various stall holders in the community centre - a needle case pattern and a metre of white on white fabric (at $5.00 for the metre! cheap or what!!) followed me - then outside for plant purchases from the footy club (I picked up a lovely crepe myrtle for $4.00, Rosie came home with a crepe myrtle and two pots of herbs for the grand sum of $6.00!) and a bunch of tulips each from the CFA ($4.00 a bunch,what a bargain!) before setting out to Karen's shop, which is now at her house in Emerald, for a quick look see (after all she couldn't take everything to the hall for her stall)...where I picked up a felt pincushion pattern...before making our way to our lunch destintation - Warburton and The Patchwork Teahouse...to while away the afternoon...yummy lunch, a little browsing, I did some stitching (yes apparently I do sew!), some more browsing, afternoon tea, reading magazines, stitching, browsing, a little spending...ah, lovely!...

Thanks Rosie for a fun relaxing play day...

Happy Stitching...