Sydney Quilt Show

I travelled down to Sydney on a bus full of crafty ladies last Sunday for the final day of the quilt show.  I was a bit dubious about attending on the Sunday, but everything was still in full swing, although some of the more popular lines of fabric had sold out.  It was certainly still worth going down.

After the bleak, wet, cold day on Saturday it was a pleasant change to be nice and warm in Sydney.

My two good friends that I was with hadn’t been before and they both loved it and want to return next year, maybe for an overnighter, as our time was rather limited on the bus trip.

I had a lovely time checking out the wonderful quilts. The precision stitching is  astounding.  There is no way I’d ever achieve anything like this, so I just enjoy the eye candy.

I was trying to think which was my favourite.  I always find myself drawn to medallion style quilts and anything William Morris inspired.  However, I really liked this whole cloth.  I suppose, because I find it rather unattainable.

It is titled “Golden Ivory” and was created by Rachelle Denneny.  It has some gold metallic thread through it which is unusual.

A fun quilt was “Hooterville” by Wendy Williams.  The pattern for this one is in the current Quilters Companion, so it was nice to see it “in the flesh”, so to speak.

It is such a colourful quilt with lots of detail and closely worked quilting.

After lunch I attended a Monica Poole workshop on Quilt as You Go (and I learned a couple of new tricks). As I walked in, who should I see but Maree.  It was so nice to catch up with at least one other blogger, as I thought everyone would have gone home by then.  Here we are checking out the great quilts.

Of course there was a little retail therapy.  I went down with a huge shopping list – a 2 inch apple core template.  My friends that I was with kept looking for them on all the stalls, but I knew that I had to find the Busy Fingers stand, but had no luck.  Fortunately, Maree pointed me in the right direction and the template was found.  We had inadvertently missed that one aisle.

While we were looking for the template, I did find one or two other things that jumped into my bag.

We have to support our local suppliers don’t we.

Now I just have to use these before next year’s show.  We’ll see how I go.