Yes, haven't done it for a while, but.....I had a very enjoyable day in Blackall on Sunday. Lots of keen ladies ready and willing to take on "the tool"! That's Half Square Triangles and Quarter Square Triangles for the uninitiated. They take so much of the fiddly math out of patchwork and make your pieces so much more accurate, consequently less reverse sewing! Even Julie D. likes triangles now!!
It was a pretty full day and I didn't take ONE photo, sorry about that. Anyone else get any that they can share?
Saturday afternoon was "fitting" day for Percy Patchabull. His outfit now, is down to just a few large pieces, instead of a stack of blocks and scraps. Many, many thanks to the crew that turned out on Sat. to help with this crazy project!
A little more stitching through the week and by this coming Sat. he should be ready to go public! He may even make an appearance on TV, as the Channel Seven film crew are coming into town on the Jazz Train!!
And the first vision they will see, will be the quilts adorning the railway platform railings, so let's make it a wonderful display. Gather up what you have at home and bring it into the shop during the week or let me know that you can just bring it down on Sunday morning. I think we will need to assemble at approx 7.00am to put up the display, in readiness for a 10 o'clock opening.
If you could drop off your cushions through the week, that would be great so that I can get them labelled and wrapped.
The "Sewabulls" are on display in the shop. Just wonderful textile art by Allison...
You really must click on the picture to enlarge it. Each one of those bulls has so much character! They look like they should be in some cool rock band! This work is stitched on linen and is stretched over an art canvas about 1m wide by 50cm high. Sewabull will be auctioned on Sunday afternoon at the Radio Theatre with all funds going towards Angelflight. The Outback Trailblazer participating teams & cars will be departing from Beech St. outside the Theatre at approx. 3.30pm.
I promised you some more new fabric "eye candy" last week. Lemon Tree is a Benartex range and is in the very popular black, white and zingy lime/yellow.
A striking large print and heaps of co-ordinates. New plain fabrics arrived during the week also, some Kona cottons, repeats and new shades, plus some Northcott plains as well. Kona were becoming difficult to obtain and these new Northcotts are even more beautiful. The feel of the fabric is divine! So...the solids shelves are full once more, just how I like it!
A busy time coming up..this weekend - quilt display, cushions etc. then it will only be a short time until Tree of Knowledge celebrations, then the Show. Not long after that, will be the June Retreat, so more on that later.
Talk soon, Sandy.

