After 9 months of scheming, planning,organising and whispering.......THE QUILTS have finally been given to us. What an amazing trip it has taken to start as an idea in Jan 2010 and reach completion in Oct 2010! The extra blocks were sewn into a lap quilt and then as an extra bonus the left over material can be the beginning of 'my stash.....and I can honestly say that the pic does not do the quilt justice!

 

Fancy! Our bricks are finished on our house after 1 week and only 5 days of work! We were very lucky to have 2 teams working on it and only 1 sprinkle of rain. Must be time for the gyprockers to start to do their thing. The kitchen is being designed....electrical nearly finished...ducted heating n cooling in the roof....DH is having a much needed rest...he is having a sleepover at his brothers.

 

This was taken from our bedroom window of the unit that we are currently living in. I was up, earlier than normal, to catch the flight to Adelaide for the Australian Machine Quilting Festival.
What an amazing time it was....4 days of quilting classes with great teachers from the States and Australia....2 days for me covering 6 classes, often back-to-back with only 30 mins in between. I was finding it difficult to find accommodation close by....both days my classes started at 8.30am...so I needed to be close by. My normal plan of attack is to 'sleep on a problem' and the solution will become clear....but that wasn't happening! Surely I wasn't the only one with this problem! That was the answer....I emailed Sharon, one of the organisers of AMQF, to see if there was anyone else wanting to share...AND...she sent me the details of someone who was offering to billet! HOW AMAZING IS THAT!!!
I just had the best time!!!!