Melbourne Quilt Show

I went to the Melbourne Quilt Show yesterday with good friends Tracey (a newish quilter) and Jennifer (5foot1quilts). We had fun.

We all bought something from Needles and Pins in Warrandyte.  Tracey, because she doesn’t *yet* have a substantial stash, bought the whole Fat 1/8 (or was it 1/4) bundle of Charity by Moda.  Jennifer and I, who have so much fabric it’s coming out our ears, bought a small selection from the range.   My purchase is above…The red is crying out for clever fussy cutting, the cheddar was just too good to pass up, the brown stripe (still wrapped) is another good fussy cutting one, and the two browns unwrapped  are actually printed on one fabric, a lovely surprise.

Then I found these gorgeous fabrics…

I am going to make a bag with a mini purse attached…There was a sample made up on the bebejapanese stall which looked really gorgeous.  One of the sewing groups I’m in has a Kris Kringle each Christmas and this year the gift will be a bag (last year pin cushions) so I have the two patterns needed, the outer fabric (the floral), the lining and the two straps.  So I’m a step closer to having that done.

I went to The Quilters Barn to get some Yuwa fabrics,  a blog friend is after some yellow and I want to surprise her with some… oops probably not going to be a surprise now.   Unfortunately there was very little yellow and nothing that I thought would appeal (too small a prints, I don’t think that’s what she had in mind) but I found this which is a little more yellow than it appears in the photo but is still really just a deep buttery cream.  Not exactly what I had in mind when I set out but it’s a gorgeous print,  I’ve had a couple of metres in my stash in a different colourway for about 2 years.

Now I know this (below) is not what she meant by Yellow but I just thought this absolutely wild and had to have it, no idea what I’m going to do with it. I bought two 30cm pieces so if you think this one is wild too, just leave me a comment about what you would do with it.  Leave the comment by midnight Saturday and I’ll choose someone to send it to.  Good Luck.

Snazzy huh, there's a piece up for grabs.

I found two pieces handy for the stash… another good Cheddar and the Pink one is an *oldie* I’ve had before but used all I had in the centre of the Connecticut Quilt so I’m happy to have found more to use further in the quilt.

We had time to say Hi to Corliss and Kurt at Threadbear’s stand.  It looked great (I’ve never seen it look anything but great), the four quilts on show made a perfectly co-ordinated display (The newest by Corliss, Di Ford, Megan Carroll and Irene Blanck) and were a testament to these four talented quilters.

The last thing I bought was this…

Don't ask me why...

Yesterday I knew why I bought this…today I have no idea.   I’ve seen these Log Cabin foundation things a thousand times but *something* about this one and the samples made up  intrigued me.  From memory (that’s from memory from yesterday LOL) you can double up the amount of pieces in the logs.  Anyway in my defence, at the time I thought it was worth further investigation, and Jennifer thought it was cool too.  It’s one for the ‘possibly one day’ pile.

I also spent two hours doing my Quilt Angel Duty which I thoroughly enjoyed, I got to touch the quilts, answer questions, chat to other quilters  and everyone was very well behaved so I could stay a Quilt Angel and not move into ‘Quilt Tactical Response Person’ mode.

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