On a Windy Day in July....

Hi Everyone

The wind is whistling down the street here in Sydney.  I think it's great weather to create quilting wonders and to be inspired.  After the excitement of the Glebe Island Show its nice to slow down put the shop back together and open boxes of new fabrics.

MICHELLE YEO WORKSHOPS

We still have a few spaces left for her workshops next weekend.   See our earlier post.

We have a limited number of Michelle's beautiful QuiltMania bags, featuring the cover quilt from her book "Of Thimble, Needle and Thread".

WHAT'S NEW

Cotton & Steel 

The "hot" fabric at the moment.

We have a huge delivery of Kaffe Fasset's prints, spots, shot cottons and stripes.  So if you have been looking for a Kaffe fabric we may well have it.

New Lakehouse, Sausalito Cottage.

Melinda

Glebe Island Show and last days of our SALE

Hi Everyone

OUR SALE ENDS TOMORROW

One happy customer

Early sale hunters

So many wonderful quilter's have dropped by the shop on their way to and from the Glebe Island Quilt Show.  It's lovely to see all our interstate regulars.

Don't forget we are open tomorrow the only Sunday of the year, from 10 until 3 in the afternoon.  The sale continues on-line until midnight on Sunday 13 July.

25 % off all fabric.

THE GLEBE ISLAND QUILT SHOW

LOVED IT. 

Loved the quilts, loved the venue, loved the light, (even the food was OK).

I took a cab to the venue and back, but everyone I met said they had no problem with transport to Glebe Island.  The ferry from Darling Harbor seemed to be the biggest hit.

This is Jessica Wheelahan's quilt "Errant Geese". Quiltsmith and Dr Annette Gero sponsor "The best Quilt Inspired by an Antique Quilt" prize.  This quilt was this year's winner.  Jessica was inspired by the rigid "Flying Geese" Quilts of the 1800's where all the geese flew in straight lines, one after the other.

I really liked the way you can clearly see the basic Flying Geese blocks in the quilt. Jessica has taken the old and reinterpreted it for today.

This is Jessica and myself.  I had no knowledge that the ribbon for this prize matched my sleeve so perfectly.

Well done Jessica.

CONGRATULATIONS JANET

BEST OF SHOW 

for COXCOMB AND CURRANTS

Who says beautiful hand applique and hand quilting are dead.  No way.

Janet Treen is in our Aunty Green Coverlet class with Sure Ross.  I can hardly wait to see that finished.

There are sooooo many other quilts at the show, you must go and see them.

Melinda

Glebe Island Quilt Show & Sale Open Sunday 13 July

Hi Everyone

The week before the Darling Harbour Quilt Show - whoops the Glebe Island Quilt Show, is always a bit manic.  So this is a quick catch up for you.

We now have most of the fabric up off the floor.  The shop feels so much bigger, but I still need to clear more floor stock. So I have continued the sale and renamed it   

GLEBE ISLAND QUILT SHOW SALE

The shop is literally 5 minutes away from the Show by cab.  Grab a group of friends, fill up the cab, and come shopping.

We will be opening on the Show Sunday 13 July between 10 and 3, so everyone can see what's in the shop.  

See you here.

WHAT'S NEW

One of my favorite colour combos - navy and slime yellow.

New Jo Morton

1930's kittens and puppy dogs

ROAD TRIP

MILL ROSE COTTAGE 

 BALLAN  VICTORIA

A gaggle of us had a quilting mini-break in Ballan (near Ballerat) last week.  We went to the Victorian Show and did a bit of quilt shop shopping, as you do.

We stayed at Mill Rose Cottage.  Sue has a set up down there that made my "quilt shop owner heart strings  beat fast".  A beautiful, charming cottage restaurant/cafe, next door to the fabulous Mill Rose Quilt Shop, which is next door to the exquisite completely refurbished B & B.  Which in this case also includes a delicious dinner, all set in beautiful rural Victorian countryside.

There are some things you just can't do in inner-city Sydney and this is one of them.

So if you want a wonderful quilty break visit

www.millrosecottage.com.au

The shop

The Restaurant

B&B

If you are after Liberty Fabric Mill Rose has one of the best selections I have ever seen.

Melinda