My Craft Fair Goodies!!!!

...........The list of things I want to make just got a whole lot longer......hehe

I could have brought the whole fair home with me, I loved so much stuff!!!....lol....

But this little lot managed to fit in the suitcase and with only 1kg left on the scales at the airport, I was wiping my brow.........!!!!!....

......Sue Daley was demonstrating her English Paper Piecing, so I kind of bought ALL the things a girl needs to get started.......

 Some patterns I fell in love with, along with a lovely piece of felted wool for one of the pattern bags.

 Did I say I could have brought EVERYTHING home....well if I could have brought one stall home to live with me it would be Hatched and Patched......I wanted it all!!!!......I fell in love with some silk fabric...great texture.....what colour???....couldn't decide....bought all 3 bundles!!!!!......and a few patterns........

 These pretty fabrics I went looking for all over the fair.....they will become Leanne Beasley's Butterfly Garden....have a look at Bec's, she's responsible for this little bundle of fabrics!!!!!....her quilt inspired me to make one....and behind the fabric, 2 hand quilting thread spools....hard to get locally...

.....and a personally signed copy of this beautiful Hardanger book........a new challenge for me......have done some Hardanger years ago, and need reminding.....

I absolutely loved my few days at the Fair, and the extra socialising in between. I had been to the Fair in Brisbane before, but this one was so much bigger. I feel all inspired now...this is the best kind of retail therapy in the world for me........

So you will understand if I sign off now.....I have to get busy, busy, busy!!!!!!!    soooooo much to do...lol...

Craft Fair Fun

Whilst I have been absent for a short time from blogging, I have been having the BEST time on a little trip to our capital city of Sydney with my Mum to attend the BIG Quilt Fair there for the very first time....

OH WOW!!!!!

It is huge, and I wasn't disappointed.....such a lot of exhibitors, quilts on display, and workshops and demos to watch........

No time to waste....after our flight in the morning we were here at 1pm.....this is Mum....ready to head in......

.....and within half an hour we'd met up with this bunch of amazing bloggy friends.......

Lea, Mum, myself, Cardygirl, Chookyblue, and Sandy N...............then the shopping onslaught began  ........(piccies of purchases to come, when I finally rest from work this week to explore all the goodies!)

Every opportunity was taken to catch up with the online sewing community........here we are at a blog meet Chookyblue had arranged.....some of these faces  familiar to me and some I had the joy of meeting in person for the first time.....so lovely to put names to blogs, and also have a peek inside their bags and see what they had found to buy at the fair.......

As you know shopping is exhausting and a girl needs a girly night out every so often..........

 Meeting up for dinner........Rileys Ramblings, Heavens to Bettsy, This Old Aunt Quilts, Lyn, On My Verandah, Leah, and Chookyblue......of course they have real names but this will get you to their blogs.......

This is where we ended up....waterfront restaurant.......very special for this farm girl who rarely gets to the BIG smoke....lol......

........Here we all are......

Beautiful Darling Harbour in the background..........

......and the evening wouldn't be complete without it's fair share of laughs and silly behaviour!!!!!!!.......

.....I shall not name these normally well behaved larrikans!!!.......

.....needless to say we had a ball...(well I did anyway!!!).........

My life has definitely been enriched by making the plunge into blogging.......to meet and socialise with like-minded sewing ladies is priceless, and something that's only just begun for me..........

....more photos of the Fair and the must-have(??????) goodies that came home with me soon........