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What a wonderful day I had yesterday... thanks to Art4Sol, living on the other side of the world, for pointing me in the right direction... I got to do a great workshop with Prudence Mapstone here in Brisbane... Prudence's specialises in Free-Form Crochet & has written several books about it + travels the world teaching - I feel honoured that she was home again to be able to do a workshop with her. Here is her blog of a Scrumble a Week...

We have the first Textile Arts Festival in Queensland this Fri - Sun & Prudence is here to have a stand there & then go on to do other Craft & Quilt shows in Oz. I'm looking forward to going to this the first Textile Arts Festival a festival of Fibre, Yarn & Fabric... do have a looksee at it...

The one thing I wanted to learn for sure was how to do the bullion stitch so was ecstatic when I finally got to do it... not a master at it for sure but, with practice I'll get better...

The top photo shows all our work together & the other photos are of the scrumble I did at the workshop + some close ups... still need to work on keeping it flat but I was thrill with my first effort.

Here is what I made when I got home...

Angel Message... Asking without giving invites dissatisfaction. Giving without asking leads to contentment.

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Well I added to my stash on Sunday at the Craft & Quilt Fair - me t'inks I had better pull my head in big time & for a long while & use my stash before I go even looking at more 'good stuff' ... ha ha, famous last words eh!!! But I have got to admit that I mainly bought non-perishables, so to speak ... still accumulating the necessities of the trade I keep telling myself ...
I also went on my pat-malone on Fri.[think I told you Wed...drrr] & spent all day taking advantage of all the lectures & hands on classes that they were offering... Free workshops ... I did one on all the different types of stiffeners, stabilisers & fusibles & what the different names were for them all ... tad confusing at times when my poor old sewing machine just stitches - none of this 600/800 stitches per something or another ... ha ha but good in other ways as they gave you a sampler pack. Another W/S on free motion stitching of flowers & the like ... another on how to organise you craft room with see-through containers etc & the last in the free ones that I did was on memory quilts that you actually did all through your cp then just stitched on the lines - all so easy & ended up looking like a pieced little quilt ...
Bernina were offering a hands on classes where we made a bowl out of a soft thick cor/rope & bias strips of fabric sewn with a large corded foot ... sorry no pictures as I'm still looking for the snake that belongs in my 'strange' shaped bowl ... ha ha and the last class I did was in the Crafty Classes area where a Lace shop did a hands on class for Fabric PostCards - right up my alley.
Yesterday we had time to look at all the lovely quilts on display - there was also a Fabric PostCard display as well as Art Quilts. In another section they had the Flying Doctor Quilts - that was a great display to honour our outback service that two of my children have used in there time out west. There was also a Japanese display as well ... We tootled off home before closing time rather time & a lot poorer but we had a great day...
Giveaway:- Please pop on over to Crafty Ramblings as Dawn is doing a giveaway for having 20,000 visitors ... great job Dawn ... to be in Dawn's giveaway she would like you to put a photo up of your crafty room/area... a lotta fun...

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Drum roll please ... the winner of my little giveaway - picked by the Random Number Generator was #7 which is Dawn ... Congratulations Dawn & thank you for coming on by - gosh my little quiltie is going all the way to Scotland.
I would like to thank everybody for entering my little giveaway, I was surprised to see this many - I do so enjoy your comments so please pop on by again & say G'day...
I have had a very hectic but wonderful w/e - hasn't been so interesting & busy in a long time ... ha ha
DH [Dear Heart] & I celebrated our 40th [Ruby] Wedding Anniversary on Sat [& to think they were laying bets on it only lasting a year or too...] All our children live a long way away now but our youngest lives on the other side of town about an hour's drive away so she had us over to celebrate with a Seafood BBQ - yummm it was lovely & the Grandies put on a little concert for us as well so all in all we had a wonderful night - thanks Love. Our other children rang us so we had some long conversations on the phone... Telstra did well out of it ...
Sunday my girlfriend Luc & I went off to the Craft & Quilt Fair for the day ... I'm feeling slightly knackered today but we did have such a fun day. I had been on the Wed as well but will tell you about the Craft & Quilt Fair next time ...