1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Friday, April 15, 2011

Tis the Season at AQC


Look what I came across yesterday at the Australasian Quilt Convention.



I asked the lady behind the table if I could take a photo of it and she pointed to the woman standing right beside me and said "You'll have to ask Natalie".
 
Low and behold, I was standing right next to Natalie Bird. I mentioned our stitch-a-long and ofcourse she said yes. Cool huh?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

How exciting! It is beautiful!!

Chookyblue...... said...

oh how exciting it is to see the quilt in the real........nice you got to meet Natalie too.........

BubzRugz said...

so.......... now you are socialising with the famous on your day outs are you????
What fun to see the original and meet the designer of it...
Hugz

Elisa (AKA scrapcat) said...

That is SO cool!

Miss Hillbilly said...

How cool that must have been for you!

Love Bears All Things said...

It must have just blown you away to see the original in person as well as the artist herself.
Mama Bear

Pepe said...

Cooooool! :))

Joy McD said...

Wow! That is very cool!!!!
lv,
Joy

Vicky said...

Oh wow, it must have been great to see the quilt in person and actually meet Natalie as well!!