Out and About and ANOTHER new pattern!!

Oh it’s been a lovely week for catching up with friends!!! On Tuesday our quilt group took a bus trip to the Gold Coast for our annual Queensland Quilters Picnic. The bus trip was super fun, Nikki and Karen (no blog) did a marvellous job of keeping us all entertained with lots of laughs and gawjus goodie bags and prizes!!

 I managed to catch up with a couple of my lovely dear bloggy friends – Teresa and Cheryl – it was so great to see you both!

 Fun, laughter and friendship was the order of the day … and the weather was simply glorious to match :o)!!!

Yesterday I ventured out to Brisbane’s inaugural “Mad Quilters’ Gathering” at the RNA showgrounds. What a great show!! Much smaller than the shows held at Southbank, and I think that made it better in some ways as it was more relaxed and friendly … I wasn’t rushing to get around to see everything before I ran out of time LOL. In fact I went around a few times to spend more time on the stands that might have been crowded on my first visit. Of course, I did spend some time at this stand with the gawjus girls from my local quilt store!!!

That’s Selena on the left, Maria in the middle and Margaret on the right in amongst some of their fabulous fare. If you go to the show please pop in and tell them I said hi :o)!!!! You’ll also find my new pattern on their stand!!! It’s called “In The Bag” …..

So handy for keeping your blocks (up to 14"!!!!) and sewing goodies in! The little needlecase can come out when you’re using it and the larger scissors are tied in with a pretty ribbon to stop them falling out. You’ve also got a pocket for your tiny scissors and two more pockets for your bits and bobs.

I just love the pretty ruffles on the front … and the covered button of course ;o).

 I’ll be releasing this pattern after the show … that’s next week!!! Hope you like it :o)!!

Well that's it from me for now. I can hear the housework calling me - oh I can think of a thousand things I'd rather do lol!!! 

A new design – so that means a GIVEAWAY :o)!!!!!

I’m having a terrific May so far!!

I spent Mother's day with some of my very favourite people :o) ... my beautiful Mum on the far left with Jill, her friend visiting from UK, my DH and of course my wonderful kids. Tahlia (DD1) and her partner Luke are in London but I had a gawjus card and giftie in the mail from them too :o).
I taught a quilt-as-you-go class up in beautiful Caloundra at Kimz Patchwork recently,these ladies made some gawjus tablerunners using a couple of my favourite quilt-as-you-go methods.

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I also had a wonderful day with Maree – you can read all about it here one her blog as she has lots of piccies, but I was a bit slack with the camera that day and this is the only shot I got lol … but you can tell by the smiles on our faces that we had a lovely day together – thanks Maree we must do it again soon :o)!!!
I went to the Qld Quilters annual picnic. Cath was there with her fabulous threads and patterns (spoilt myself a bit there he he), and I also met up with a couple of dear friends- Pammi (no blog – yet!!) and Jeanette there too – Jeanette was even lucky enough to win one of the raffles!!! I should have got a piccy of us all together - next time ;o).
I’ve also been busy stitching and have finally finished my new design “Bucket of Buckets”. These are so cute, and they all fit inside each other!!! With 3 different sizes there’s sure to be one to suit whatever stitchy project or other fiddly bits you want to keep in them. The buckets are nice and easy to make so I’m going to do another set in some ‘kid friendly’ fabrics as I think they’d be super handy to keep puzzles, lego and various other kiddly bits in too :o). The pattern is all written up so if you’d like to win one it’s the usual deal – just leave a comment on this post and I’ll pick 3 random winners  next weekend :o).
To make it fun – how about you tell me what you’d keep in your buckets :o)!!!