Having been not so gently prompted by Dee to give over my report, here 'tis!
Jayne/Giraffe and I arrived at Jeff's Shed (Melbourne Exhibitiion Centre) for the Needlework, Craft and Quilt Fair (or some such title) at about 12pm. The first place we headed too, after entering to win a new Bernina, was the Quilt Show. Oh heaven's! Those quilts are just downright unbelieveable. How can so many talented people live here and I don't know them!
From the quilt of a stockman in shadow walking out of a blazing orange background with silhouettes of jackaroos, to the simplicity of just simple rectangles of bright colours in diagonal rows, to other quilts that are just beyond description they were so good. People must have thought I was mentally challenged because all I could keep saying was "oh my god".
After a quick coffee and sandwich we then headed to the "buy" part of the show. Everyone who was there last year was there again and I found most of the fabric was pretty similar to last year also. I found 3 FQ's of autumn toned flannel for me, and 4 FQ's of lovely hand dyes for DH's quilt. Jayne went crazy with the orange FQs which were 3.50 each. and after being totally in awe of the Japanese quilts that were on show (not allowed to take photos - Boo Hoo!) we headed home to 2 very relieved daddies who had been babysitting.
A great day was had by both of us and I know I'm looking forward to next year. All of you join in encouraging me to get Jayne to enter one of her (I think) spectacular quilts into the show.