Off on Retreat!

It's that time of the year again. The NOTYQ Retreat! Yeah!  Each year we head off to Lake Dewar Lodge, Myrniong (about 10 minutes from Bacchus Marsh) for three days of friendship, sewing and eating!

My projects box all packed! I've got lots of projects prepared and hopefully I'll manage to finish some of them, if not all (if I'm lucky)! This is the first year in many that I'm going to take my machine. I decided this is going to be a "me" weekend of sewing. I'm going to sew for me! So Simone, if you're looking for some Santa Sack projects in there, you can stop looking now! LOL!

So only one more sleep and we're off. I'd better go finish the vaccuming and then pack my clothes. I'd better not forget to put in the munchies too!

NOTY Exhibition

Well, Day 1 is over for the exhibition. I would love to show you all the photos I took but alas, I was looking around and talking too much to take any! So I'll show you our raffle quilt again! I'll definitely take some photos tomorrow.

But I did get to catch up with Elyte of Tea, Fabric and Other Things who I met at the Stitches Show in July. I also met Melody from The House on the Side of the Hill. It turns out Melody only lives about 5 minutes from me so I'm sure we'll be meeting up again!

Quilt Exhibition!

This weekend it the Biennial North of the Yarra Quilt Exhibition. If you've got some spare time, come and visit us. We'd love to see you.

Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October
10.00am - 4.00pm
Eltham Community Centre
801 Main Road
Eltham
Melways Ref: 21 J6
Admission $8, children under 14 free

You will see a beautiful display of quilts, stalls, refreshments and a quilt raffle. There's also a Mystery Pincushion Challenge.
The picture above is the first prize quilt.

To find out more about North of the Yarra Quilters Guild (NOTYQ) go here.

If you visit, please come and introduce yourself to me. I'll be there all weekend. Just ask any of the NOTY ladies and they'll find me for you.

Back from Retreat!

Well, our retreat is over for another year. We headed to Lake Dewar at Myrniong, only an hour or so from home (although it took us a lot longer getting there as we went via Geelong!). We had a lovely time sewing, eating, talking and getting lots of inspiration. I had hoped to have finished my double wedding ring quilt top but didn't quite make it. I'm half way through the second last ring, so I'm nearly there! There were over 80 ladies, all busy sewing. This is the main room.Behind these quilts is the dining area. There is also another area up stairs so we have lots of space. When we stay there, the electricity bill must go up heaps as there were so many sewing machine going!Every year we come home with lots of goodies. A big thank you to Diane, Julie and Margaret (All Things Stitched) who organise everything. They do such a fantastic job. A special thank you to Chris who made over 80 pin cushions! She made them from vintage doilies. They were all beautiful. Thank you also to the girls who made the book covers (apologies I can't remember exactly who made them).Finally, these were my purchases over the weekend. I've been looking at everyone's Tis the Season stitcheries. I bought the book so now I can do them. The fabrics haven't shown up their true colour.
They are much nicer in person.

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend.
Only 364 sleeps to go until next year's retreat!