Melbourne shops

When on a visit to Melbourne I do enjoy going to several shops...if I can manage it.
My favourite quilting one is Amitie as is somewhat obvious on this blog.
I came across a couple of  special ones last year at Easter in the middle of town up  some lots of stairs (altho I think there might be a lift too).
I happened on l'uccello.  Lots of beautiful things.
It was just next to Buttonmania (lots of buttons!)

Address;
The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
2nd Floor
Melbourne 3000

I'm really not sure why these popped into my head tonight.  I spent a fair bit of time today at the destash market at Marrickville Townhall .  Destashing was the name of the game last year but this year I did a bit of restashing (like I need to!!)...and catching up with my world of craft friends. 

It was a lovely market & a good excuse to let the rest of the fam look after themselves for a while.


....no picture but maybe later......
Here we go photo as promised!  Treasure from the destash!

Circle Game!!

Circle Game, originally uploaded by beeware70.

I've been back to the Circle Game over Christmas holidays. We went away for a little while & I took the handstitching (there wasn't a lot of room for anything else what with the kids & Christmas presents & beach paraphernalia!) I find these quilt blocks very therapeutic in amongst lots of trouble.

DUDQS for me

DUDQS for me, originally uploaded by beeware70.

Now that I have sent off a doll quilt I feel I can fully reveL in the amazing quilt I received. It was made by Michelle of embellish 2012 who has a lovely colour sense and is a dab hand at embroidery it would seem!
I will have to post more photos soon....

School holidays

School holidays, originally uploaded by beeware70.

Another one.

gathering rainbows

gathering rainbows, originally uploaded by beeware70.

one photo, ravelried

I like to knit...na..na..na..naa...

Old photo that appeared

Anyway I was going to say it is quite satisfying to have finished knitting  two (yes 2) garments this year, one for me & one for my littlest girl (who is no longer a baby like above!)

This is my 'that time' by Veera Valimaki...which I have dubbed 'now is the time'. It's really hard to get your kids to take a decent photo of their mum.

The second is another patten by Veera called 'gathering stripes' which is in this version 'gathering rainbows'.  All knitting details on ravelry.

Stay tuned for the photos of this one.  For some reason this blog doesn't like my flickr links.

It only likes to do one at a time.

Weekend patchwork!

amish cross, originally uploaded by beeware70.

It was last weekend but we won't worry about that. Amitie has a fun stash club which provides a great taster of their style in fabrics. Another fun task associated with the stash club is the challenge of making a block from the stash mail out. This is my version.

This weekend I'd like to get to a bit of peaceful hand piecing. We'll see. Amazing how quickly a weekend passes!!