Week at Sydney

 Megan & I had a week in Sydney with family. It was great to catch up with every one, my mum came up from Baan Baa to join us. We had the first few days with my cousin Dice & her family.
One day we had a trip to the mountains. It was cool, wet, & foggy. Even though it was so cold we still had a lovely day out. Not much sight seeing but lots of wonderful shops to check out.

 Found this lovely warm coffee shop to stop at for smoko. We all ordered Flower Pot scones. They were scrumptious.

 This is the curtion to the change room in a little boutiqu we found. It was made from lots of old fadrics, dollies, lace & fringing.

  The last few days of our holiday we went in to my Aunt Pam's. She lives in the city so it was very close to Dariling Hardour.
 Did I say that the Quilt Show was on while we were there? Of course I had to have a day there.
Not allowed to take photos so I can't show you anything. I had a very fast look around all the shops & stalls. First stop was Material Obsession to pick up Kathy's new book "Making Quilts...the promise of joy"  also had to stock up on a few copys for friends. The rest of the time I was looking at the quilts. So many fantastic quilts. I realy liked the Judy Hooworth display. Loved all the colour. It was too hard to pick a favourite, but they were all realy nice.


Pam took us to King Street shopping . It was full of second hand, antique, retro, & trendry shops. We had a great time (pity we were flying home, a ute would of been handy) Found a wonderful button shop with lots of ideas for the use of buttons besides putting them on your clothes.

A lot of the older shops had these lovely tiles at the entrance to the shops.

 Mum, Pam & I heading in to the city. It was cool & wet in Sydney for the whole of our holiday, the sun come out the day we had to fly home. We still had a great time.



Back home for a few days & then it was of to Springsure for my last class.  This class was a Quilt- as-you-go Table Runner
I had 5 do the class & the rest finished off what they had started in previous classes.
It is sad that it has all come to a end, I realy enjoyed teaching & catching up with the ladys at Springsure. They were a lot of fun & I got a lot of inspiration from the classes as well. 

                 Most of the lady's were doing the table runner

  Dale was working on a big quilt. She had 3 or 4 ways to put it together, this is the one she is going to go with. We all liked it best. It is a great way to use up a lot of your scraps.

 I have been busy doing some patching for myself, just put the boarders on Terri's quilt. It is ready to pin out & quilt. (To go in the pile with the other 4 I have to quilt) Also work on the Mystery I started with Laurene, only one more step to go. Will be exciting to see the end result.
I had better sign off  & go do a bit more sewing bye.

21st Quilt on the way

 I Have finely made my way back to Terri's quilt. It's been a while, last week I started the applique. Still a little more to do and then I can start the stitching. Lot of work ahead. Kay (Terri's mum) saw it up on the design wall and she gave it the thumbs up.

I had the week end at Dalby teaching my "Circle Play"class. I had a wonderful week end even though it was cold & wet. Met lots of lovely lady's.
The class was held up stairs at Anthony's fabric shop. If you are ever in Dalby, make sure you pop in to say hello to Lorna and Tina.

                                          Our first day, all every busy

  Second day the quilts are all starting to come together.

  It's not snakes & ladders ----- It's rings & snakes

                                            Flying circles

These are a few of the quilts started in the workshop. All the lady's done great work, I can't wait to see them all finished.

 Well I'm of to pack my bags again. This time I'm going to Sydney for the week. Yes, I will be going to the Darling Harbour Quilt Show. Can't wait to see all the quilts on display & check out all the lovely shops.