Day: 28 June 2009

craft, miscellaneous, sewing

Morning tea with crafty bloggers

You’ve probably already read about the morning tea that Nikki hosted on Friday morning.  Nevertheless, now it’s my turn to rave about what a lovely time I had.

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Masses of crafty bloggers and some of their offspring descended upon Nikki’s studio, all bearing loaded plates of delicious offerings.

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Even though I’d met many of these wonderful women before, it was a good thing that we all had name tags with our blog names on them as well as our real names!

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Nikki had set up a huge craft table for the kids which kept Stella occupied when she wasn’t busy throwing meringues away in favour of brightly iced cup cakes.

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Many of the women attending have businesses where they sell the results of their crafty endeavours.  Craft takes on a whole different context when money is involved, not surprisingly.  As most of you know, I sew and craft purely for my own satisfaction – I don’t sell anything.  So my input into discussions of markets, business, what sells etc was entirely from the consumer’s perspective!  It was all very interesting.

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Have I already mentioned that Nikki is definitely the hostess with the mostess?

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Thanks to everyone for a wonderful morning!  Attendees included (list unashamedly stolen from Nikki’s blog):

Cath – Mobble Gobble
Cathy – Tinniegirl
Tania – Myrtle&Eunice
Fi – Dear Fii
Melanie – Sugarlemon
Anna – Polly Pratt
Margaret – Konstant Kaos
Gina – Clutterpunk
Cathy – Miss Marzie
Louise – Lululollylegs
Liz – Lino Forest
Jodie – Ric Rac
Teegan – Ink&Spindle
Sandra – Pepperberry & Co
 
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fabric stash, Sunday Stash

Sunday stash #31

Without Sunday Stash, vintage crochet Friday and the ability to share my shopping stash-building exploits, this blog would be pretty sparse!  Not many finished objects appearing at the moment, but lots of planning and mental crafting is taking place.

These fabrics from Joel Dewberry’s Deer Valley line will be combining with the Heather Bailey Freshcut fabrics I bought in April make a quilt for my bed.

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I suspect that the fabric buying for this quilt isn’t quite complete yet – there are a few more colours I’d like to add.  These all came from Quilt Home.  I also bought a large enough piece to make myself a skirt.

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Thanks to Tamara for hosting Sunday Stash!