I’m home. I have slept. I have recovered.
The Australasian Quilt Convention was fantastic! All you quilty types need to go!! The only bad thing about it was the lame photos I took -you’ll just have to trust me that everything about it was great, because all the proof I have is blurry. I had the BEST classes! Friendly, happy, competent students make tutoring a breeze and such fun. And the exhibition alone was worth the trip, but once again you’ll have to take my word for it. I don’t know quite what I did wrong but my photos are baaaaaad.
Even the pics I took of some of the fabric I bought are baaaaad…
The best part of the trip was meeting bloggers. I met this one and this one and these ones. They were all lovely and no one was an axe murderer (I’m secretly a teensy bit disappointed about that).
Pixie drove across town in a taxi just to have a drink with me before she headed off on a hot date! Thank you, Pixie; it was above and beyond to put in such an effort for such a brief visit.
Leanne and her mate Melinda and I sat together at the Gala Dinner and scoffed large quantities of scrumptious food while being entertained by equally scrumptious half-naked boy acrobats. Stomper and Crafty took me to a Japanese restaurant on Brunswick Street and we talked about EVERYTHING until we were very nearly kicked out at closing time. I’m not sure the sweet girls working there had heard some of the words we used. After we had worked our way through sex and religion and politics and childbirth, I was just about hoarse. We took photos and Stomper’s seems to be the best – of mine, one was blurry and the other has Crafty blinking and me looking like a startled panda (it was the end of four days teaching; I was knackered). Stomper, of course, looks gorgeous (Crafty, you look gorgeous, too, just asleep). I wish I could have dinner with Pixie every Friday, Leanne and Melinda every Saturday and with Stomper and Crafty every Sunday!
Melbourne is just as beautiful as it has always been. I would love to go there more often.
And Brunswick Street. What can I say? I’d move in today, given half a chance.
Here’s a snippet of what’s coming up next…
Tomorrow is Twelve by Twelve Day. Watch this space.
fun stuff!
i’m liking what i’m seeing in that bottom photo!
By: kirsten on March 1, 2008
at 12:18 am
Wow! That sounds so fun. Ah, and Melbourne. I could spend another few weeks there.
By: laeroport on March 1, 2008
at 3:20 am
I’m totally gutted that I missed out, I could scream at myself for not getting organised earlier. Argggg!
So when are you next in Melbourne for a tutorial?
I really would have loved to be in your class, the photo of the cushions looked so inspiring and wonderful with all the different flowers and fantastic colours. I go to the craft show every year with my Mum who is a wonderful quilter. We get there at opening time and leave at closing. This year it just didn’t work out that we could both go on the same day and in the end I couldn’t get there at all.
Next time I’ll be there.
By: Maddy on March 1, 2008
at 8:34 am
I think your photos look good. I really love the fabrics in the photo top left.
Sounds like you had a wonderful time.
Brunswick Street is fantastic, isn’t it?
By: Anonymous on March 1, 2008
at 9:00 am
That convention sounds like so much fun! And what a treat to meet some fellow bloggers, who turned out not to be axe murderers….and you hoping for a little excitement…..
By: molly on March 1, 2008
at 10:23 am
Drooling over the pink and red fabric at the bottom in the first pic.
LOVE your colour combos in the sneak peek.
So tell me, did you buy any shoes on Brunswick St??
By: crafty on March 1, 2008
at 2:39 pm
I will send you my photos. Mwah. You can blame the waitress for any bad photos of us, although I’m not sure that extends to bad quilting convention photos …
I think we did very well to have enjoyed talking sex, religion and politics in one evening
By: Stomper Girl on March 1, 2008
at 3:21 pm
Oh! So jealous of the other Melinda! I would have loved to have been the Melinda at your get-together! I knew you people were boringly nice. Not a criminal/freak/weirdo among you. I think. Okay, maybe Soozadoo. Love the fabric. So much inspiration in that picture.
By: Melinda on March 3, 2008
at 9:53 am
Oooh – I love leaves. The last pic is intriguing.
As for Melbourne. Of course it’s gorgeous. I live there.
It’s only sullied by drrty-mouthed grrls such as at least two of them you met.
I really hope you weren’t talking about MY bits. I’m a bit over people discussing my bits quite frankly
By: h&b on March 3, 2008
at 11:43 am
H&B is just jealous. We would have asked her but for that just having had a baby thing.
(I don’t think we were discussing your bits, H&B!)
By: Stomper Girl on March 3, 2008
at 7:10 pm
Huh? I thought we WERE talking about H & B’s bits?!
And I’m jealous. She’s got a new baby and I haven’t.
By: twolimeleaves on March 3, 2008
at 10:05 pm
Welcome home! I wish I could be one of your students, even though I’d be the incompetent one whose sewing machine gnashed its teeth at her.
By: Isabelle on March 4, 2008
at 7:42 am
So youve finally inspired me to start my own blog. Who knows what it will end up being about but I do the start!
By: piggyinthemiddle on March 4, 2008
at 8:20 am
[...] how I managed to be a month early for my Twelve by Twelve challenge? I’m still amazed by that, but… TA DAH!! Here it is. [...]
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at 7:55 am