Tarraleah Stitched….

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as promised I am back today! with something else to show you…

Last weekend I had the lovely pleasure (actually it was two weekends ago, how time flies) of travelling to country Victoria to the town of Warracknabeal to stitch with 110 lovely ladies, hosted by Del and Shirley of Quilters Harvest…

I had so much to show them I hardly had time to draw breath but gee we had fun… I was picked up by Gail at the airport and we also didn't draw breath on the 4 hour drive – we had LOTS to catch up on and lots to plan..

Ladies had come from far and wide – as far away as Perth to enjoy three tutors, myself, Gail and Jennifer Knol, share, learn, stitch, chat and of course eat the most yummy country food…it was great to catch up with old friends and meet many new ones..

My projects for the weekend were also the ones I designed specially for our A Stitching Affair retreat in June at the amazing Tarraleah resort – hence the name..

Two of the projects are now available as a pattern named

Tarraleah Stitched… on the website now and in your local stores very soon.

There is this delightful needle book with the simple stitchery on the front

and on the inside a little pocket, and some wool felt for inserting your needles and pins… and see the little magnet – she holds it all together..

the back is pieced 1/2” hexagons.. Then there is this gorgeous pincushion featuring six stitched designs on the petals around the edge and another 42 or so 1/2” hexies to make the top.

The nifty thing about this pattern is that it uses 6 old or unwanted cd/dvd’s – just don’t think about taking Jennifer's Bruce Springsteen CD though!!!of course there was lots of show and tell, lots of shopping and quite a bit of laughter to be had… all in all a great weekend…     

so for those who missed it – here’s your chance to share the projects… available now here…

and that brings me to the end of my teaching days and workshops for 2013… watch this space for some very important news in the next few days about next year however… places will be limited and you will need to be quick!!!

cheers girls..

Helen

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