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...

Rosie's Mug Bag...

A finish I couldn't show until it had made its way to its recipient...

Rosie's Mug Bag...

...a present for GF Rosie (no blog)...finally yesterday I caught up with Rosie and could give it to her....please excuse the craptaculous photo which was snapped with my phone when I finished the making simply to text to someone, clearing away the sewing table debris wasn't part of the programme at that point...then I forgot to get a proper photo before I gave the giftee to Rose and then remembered after she went home that I was going to have it pose for a portrait...so the crappy phone pic it has to be...

Another finish for OPAM this month...best I slow down, that's three!

Happy Stitching...

FNSI...Bing Bong...

Can you say fail...fail...fail....fail...I failed miserably to stitch a stitch for Friday Night Sew-In...Bing Bong!...I managed a poor to average attempt at framing my Sewing Corner stitchery...

...down the street late afternoon I found a frame (a bargain at $5.95) that I liked but the mat was for a photo slightly smaller than the stitched area...into the newsagents for some heavy card paper stuff and the result...it kinda works...and for a total of less than $7.00 (didn't use all the $2.00 worth of card even with making a total mess of the first attempt)...it will do well enough anyway...now to decide if it is too big to go on the sewing room door, the frame has one of those stand thingys and a hanging thingy so there are options...so as a Friday Night Sew-In it was a bust but I did get an actual totally finished finish...

Hope your FNSI was way more productive than mine *sigh*...

Happy Stitching...

Sewing Corner...

Finished last night this sweet stitchery "Sewing Corner" designed by Robyn Allen Waters...

The pattern pack (or rather Designer Button Pack) included the gorgeous hand made and hand painted ceramic buttons.  A pack that had been waiting patiently in the pattern box for its turn to come out and play, very happy with it now that it is done.  Next step is to get down the street and find it a frame as I have always planned to put it in a frame and for it to go on the door to the sewing room.

It's Friday Night Sew-In tonight and the weather here is just perfect for staying in and stitching...rain rain rain and for something different a bit more rain...better put chocolate on the list for when I go down the street too!...work stuff to do for the rest of the day and then FNSI yay!, hope to see you there!...if you haven't signed up yet pop over to Heidi and get your name on the list...

Happy Stitching...

SKoW...the Story So Far...

So not a lot has been happening in my stitchy world this week but I did manage to get the applique part of the SKoW Stitch-a-Long blocks for December, January and February ticked off...

 The chapters are incomplete...there is still a fair bit of story to be written for each block...it seems my modus operandi for this quilt is one technique at a time, who knows why it is just how it is speaking to me, so applique is happening first, stitchery will be next once all the appliques are ticked off so it will be a little while before I have actual blocks to go on the sidebar. But as I'm now up to the applique for the March blocks while March has some weeks left in it I'm counting that as on track(ish)...it's my version of the track, I have so much trouble travelling in a straight line *LOL*...

Oh and I know the appliques are backwards and yes that is the back cover of the book..but when you don't realise you've done that until way after it is too late, it is time to move on and just live with it...so I am...

Happy Stitching...

A Week's Work...

Yep, a whole week to stitch a stamp - and the photo is about 300% bigger than the real thing so a seriously slack week when it came to stitching...but it does represent a finish (and in March too so a tick for OPAM this month!)...I can't show the rest because it is a secret and I know the person it will go to is watching *LOL*...a fabric postcard...something I hadn't made before and a fun project to play around with...

Hope your week was more stitchy than mine...

Happy Stitching...