Craft Show

Craft Alive was on here in Canberra so we popped in to check it out on Sunday afternoon. It was nice to see a variety of stalls. We especially liked the wool/yarn ones. I did come home with one ball of wool!

 Canberra Quilters had a small exhibition upstairs that was well worth the visit.

Some stitching...

Best share the latest stitching progress. Here are the Stitch Therapy blocks.

 I have also finished stitching this lovely piece! Thought I was finished several times and kept finding little flowers and shrubs that had been missed.

 Lynne has done an amazing job of this Helen Stubbings' bag. I lent her my bag, as a help to making it up, just before the school holidays and here is hers finished! She has done such a good job!

 This little cutie popped in for a visit this morning. Always fun to see little Jack.

Geelong

We have enjoyed a lovely break away in Geelong. Our friends were house sitting and we stayed with them. It was fun to explore this lovely city. The area near the water is particularly lovely and I especially enjoyed the bollards.

While the boys golfed, Annemarie and I wandered (it was quite a walk for me) to town and back via Lily Pond Geelong. This is an a amazing shop full of wonderful goodies.

 On the way back home we walked along the beach and found some more bollards and a train.

A highlight of the visit was going to Barwon Heads. This is the little town where Seachange was filmed in the late 90's. I loved that series so really enjoyed seeing it. We also had a delicious lunch at the cafe on the pier.

 We then explored a few other places on our way home.

On another golf day, we went to Torquay. It was so special to visit Amitie Textiles as I follow them on Instagram and so wanted to see the shop. It was amazing and the cafe was great too.

 So special to catch up with Karen as well! We met when I was on retreat in Gisborne last year.

 I loved the colourful hand quilting on this quilt.

It was a lovely time away but it is always nice to be home again. Melbourne is so far away.....when you drive.

A finish and progress....

Finally finished Scandinavian Rose. I did love doing these red stitcheries but there were many of them! So good to have this quilt completely finished. I hand quilted it (not very well but it is holding together) and have added a label.

 I have also been keeping up with Stitch Therapy 365.

 I enjoyed playing with my new ball winder and wound my first skein of wool. So much quicker that rolling the ball by hand.

 On Saturday I headed to the Folk Festival and enjoyed some great music and yummy food. It is always a good day out.

 The Spooky men are always so good!