Bloggers meet up

Yesterday we had our bloggers meet up at Patch'nQuilt in Gisborne...much fun and laughter was had, I am sure the other customers in the shop were well entertained by us, even though we were in the back room

here are some of the lovely ladies who were sewing, we had a larger group but some were getting coffee and others shopping. ..there are lots of wonderful tempting things in Mary's shop, our swap challenge for the day was something bird..

this is the wall hanging I made and it went home with Kim,

Jo with her sewing kit

Elyte with her lovely bag

Anne with a beautiful bag made by Lyn

plus a sparkly bird and a pattern

Christine with her beautiful bag made by Elyte

Lyn with her reversible bag made by Marg...how good is that!!

Shez with her fantastic hanging and the most modern in head wear....great bird fabric!!!

Barb with her sewing caddy owl and bag in a bag

Marg with a beautiful pincushion little bird  and fabric..

These swaps are wonderful as everyone has different ideas....the gifts are always something different.

the table of swaps.

just to show there was some stitching done on the day, Annie, Christine and Lyn

Elyte and Anne (aka Robyn)...Shez got a little confused for a while there. .lol..

Oooo...Hello Shez!!!!

Lol !!! 

We had a wonderful day and I am so very lucky to know this amazing group and to be able to have stitching time with them, we are always laughing and chatting and having a great time and I can never look at a packet of Tim Tams the same way again ladies!!!! 

Happy sewing.

Happy day

Yesterday I caught the train into the city and met up with wonderful friends and finally got to meet Fiona in person!! I met Fiona and Shez at Southern Cross, we caught a tram, after some stumbling and coffee spilling ( no names will be mentioned!! Lol!!)and met the other ladies at Flinders Street Station.

we met up with Christine and then Mel

then Marina arrived.

we had a look around Southbank...Christmas is coming!!!Then made our way to PJ O'Briens for lunch

Great food and wonderful company!! And a very obliging waiter who took many photos!!

Cheers!!

Marina sampled the Guinness....

and sported a Guinness mustache for Movember!! 

Christine and I wandered across the bridge heading back to the city...and we suddenly realised we  had lost the others....then they appeared...

slowly, slowly they caught up with us....obviously serious discussions were under way that made walking impossible!!

Shez decided to decorate herself with the toyvoyagers.....so they could get a better view of the city she said!! Lol!!

Our final port of call was Luccello's...who can walk past there and not call in???

Is very  hard to leave this shop without some goodies....

a nice little collection here that jumped in to my bag!!!

this little reindeer decoration just had to come home with me...

and look at these lovely Batik fat quarters and stitched decoration.....a beautiful gift from Shez.

Thank you to all, Shez, Christine, Marina, Mel and last but by no means least, the lovely Fiona.....it was a treat to meet you in person Fiona and enjoy a wonderful day out with everyone. Let's do it again soon!!

Happy sewing.