I have been soooooooooooooo busy preparing for the Stitches & Craft Show Melbourne. Not long to go now. It's going to be absolutely fabulous - the Living Creatively team are doing an amazing job in making this years Show more fabulous with more of what we want to see!

Louise and I will be there with new patterns and we will be conducting two workshops - one for beginner sewers and the other for kids!!!! I will let you know more about the details of these when they are confirmed.

Remember Ava's quilt? It has now been delivered to the new owner - a gorgeous little baby. Ava's mum was a flower girl at my wedding (a very long time ago)!

Here is a couple of photos of Ava that my son took the other day!!!

And here is Ava with her new quilt.

Ava's Quilt is Finished

Even though it has been soooooooooooooo hot here in Melbourne, I did manage to finish hand quilting the quilt for Ava. I am really happy with how it turned out and it will be another quilt I will find it difficult to part with!

Here are some photos of the completed quilt.

Now I really need to get on with planning the workshops for the upcoming Stitches & Craft Show Melbourne ( March 11th - 15th) - it's going to be absolutely fantastic - 5 days of every type of craft you can think of, and I get to hang out with some fabulous blogging friends!!

And if you are thinking of attending this year's show, pop into your local newsagent for the latest issue of Real Living and you will see, up in the top right corner of the magazine’s cover, a very special ticket deal for The Stitches & Craft Show.

The ticket offers a two-for-one ticket deal, offering free entry to The Stitches & Craft Show if you bring a friend with you to see the Show! Fantastic deal, Audrey & Maude (aka Miss Marzie and Lululollylegs) will be in the Indie Craft section of this year's Show, so make sure you come and say hi to us!

Ava's Quilt

I definitely, most certainly have my sewing 'sewjo' back again. Here is another quilt that I have nearly finished - just got a few more squares to hand quilt.

I just love this quilt - so very feminine. The main fabric that I used was a Liberty of London and I am hand quilting in a perle 8 thread.

A lot of people ask me how do I pick fabrics for a quilt - well, the way that I do it is - I pick one favourite fabric that I absolutely love the colours in and then just keep adding til I have the mix just right. So in this case, it was the gorgeous Liberty of London - I just added pinks, creams, chocolates, and raspberry colours to the mix - and this is what I came up with.

So how do you pick your fabrics when you make a quilt? I would love to know!!!

I just love working at Amitie and seeing all the gorgeous combinations of fabrics that people put together. It is very inspiring - I think that I am very conservative in my choosing of fabrics and colours, - but I am working on that and I will try new things, but I guess you have to use what you feel most comfortable with.

This quilt is for a little baby called Ava. Her mummy was 'flower girl' at my wedding 21 years ago!!! She is very special.