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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Craft And Quilt Fair.

Just a quick post to tell Melbourne/Victorian readers to visit the Craft show if they can - this year's show is a good one! There were five of us ladies from the Embroiderers Guild manning our information stand today, so we took turns to have time out for coffee and shopping. We'd all brought our current stitching project, but none of us got a lot done, as there was a steady stream of people coming up to chat or ask questions about the Guild. (Only one person I knew (see below) came up to say hello - sniff..) There were a lot of Guilds at the Show this year - more than I remember seeing at previous shows, but I might be wrong. We were all lined up at one end of the exhibition area - facing the cafe/coffee area and not far from the loos ;-) So we had a lot of people wandering by who had stopped for coffee or whatever, and came over to have a look at the Guilds, which they might not have if they'd been somewhere less conspicuous.

When my turn came for a break, I headed for the Quilts show, and it was well worth looking at. I said to somebody else that some years, the quilts didn't appeal to me all, but other times I could happily photograph the whole lot, and look at the photos for weeks after. Unfortunately I didn't take my camera today, as I wasn't sure if I'd have time to look at the quilts. I wish I had. Fellow blogger and Guild member Linda Steele and her friends at Waverley Patchworkers had their own display and that alone was excellent. Linda won a prize (or was it more than one prize?) for her fabulous Crazy patchwork Christmas quilt. If you visit her blog at the link here, she may have by now posted details of her win and photos of the other quilts there. Congratulations Linda!

Some of you will be wondering how much I spent. I can tell you exactly - $44. $4 for a coffee and $40 for parking - YIKES! Isn't that disgraceful? When I saw the read-out on the parking ticket machine I yelped, and the lady standing next to me nodded sympathetically. She said "I said to the machine I hope you choke on that" which made me smile. Just as well I didn't spend my cash on anything else at the show!

5 comments:

Sharon said...

Glad you had a good time today....Linda Steele came into the shop last week and I intoduced myself to her and said I read her blog reguarly...She does some amazing work... Take care now...

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Melody said...

Glad you had a good time. $40 for parking is terrible -what a horrid shock.

Linda Steele said...

It was lovely to catch up with you at the show.
I have learnt from previous experience if you get to the car park before 9 and leave after 3 it only costs $13.
Linda

Mary said...

Gina, I was there that day and even came over to the guild table. But I didn't see you there, it must have been when you were looking at the quilts. I agree, they were really interesting this year and I enjoyed all the different challenges that had been shown. I went by train, MUCH cheaper. At least you didn't have to pay the entry fee, that would have mace it even more expensive! I did well with spending until I got to the book stall - no self control there.