……… after three glorious days amongst real quilts and quilters at Festival of Quilts in Adelaide. Stayed with a quilter for two of the three nights I was away, and went to a Quilter’s Guild of South Australia meeting.
I am not real sure which is best ………. quilts or quilters, but I suspect that quilters win! Found a few new friends, caught up with numerous old friends, met a couple of virtual friends, and connected some of the new and old friends with their virtual other! My two worlds colliding, and it was all fun!
Spent a fair portion of time demonstrating hand quilting, stab stitch technique, sometimes with Rachel expertly machine quilting, sometimes with Julie hand quilting, rocking technique, also Coralie doing hexagons and Tara and Julie both doing needle turn applique. A feast of differing techniques, and I learned heaps. At least one stab sticher came out of the closet, and several went away ready to give rocking another try, some left determined to try machine quilting. Around the corner Southern Comforters were rotary cutting and machine piecing.
Don’t tell anyone, but we had a ball, and put our names down to do it all again. Congratulations to the committee, and the Guild members who volunteered and exhibited quilts …………. you’ve all done very well!
I took photos, but the Coppyright Copper reminded me that I was allowed to take photos at exhibitions for personal use only.
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And I met you! That was so good. I have to confess I crawled home on Sunday – with some commissions and some interesting yarn to play with. (It does a cat good to have this sort of play now and then!)
Some of those quilts made me want to start quilting – almost. No, I’ll keep my paws on my knitting needles instead.
Cat,
Glad to know you have something new to play with, a reward for survival! Some of that yarn was rather appealing to a quilter, but I resisted breaking out of my box too.
Judy B
It was great to have met you, Judy, and I have brought home “stuff” to play with as well….Lutradur and magic foil and perle machine embroidery thread for bobbin work….now all I need is some time because there certainly is a heap of inspiration out there!
Robbie,
Great to have met you too ………. now i am talking to a real person! Have fun with your new play stuff. I didn’t get much, but the inspiration will go a long way.
Judy B
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I love the way this blog world works when you can bring it together with real people… one of my readers who was after an overlocker that I had advertised for a friend, ended up buying one at the show – its great when you know that it all comes together!
I really need someone to find me the space and time to be indulgent with all the “inspirations” I have collected over time! Good luck with yours!
Loved the quilt you were working on, BTW.
Robbie,
I vote for more time to indulge! And thank you for even noticing the quilt amongst the wonderful finished ones that were around!
Judy B