Ahoy There Matey!!

As predicted, there was little sewing activity in the Gardner-Stephen house this week. But we did get to the Royal Adelaide Show.

The Crochet….

Do you remember I shared my daughter’s high hopes for her crochet entry at The Show this year? It is a Christmas Stocking that she designed and crocheted herself. She learnt to crochet during our 3 months in Germany last year, thanks to the school she attended there. She was pretty resistant to the idea at first, but there was no Kris Kringle present if you didn’t crochet yourself a bag for it to magically appear in. So with much wailing and gnashing of teeth, she learnt! Now she loves it.

This was the stocking she made specifically to enter into The Show. This pic was taken at home just before I took it into the show to be judged.

And here it is hanging in the show.

With a blue ribbon. Yes, indeedy, Miss 9 came first in her category. She is immensely pleased! And I am extremely proud too. Her crochet skills certainly surpass my own. 🙂 🙂

The Appliqué….

My entry to the show this year is a cushion in the class for “machine-embroidery, not computerised”. I entered an appliqué pirate owl that I designed myself. Ahoy me hearties!! Do you like him?

 

He has a blue ribbon too!! I admit, I am pretty excited. It’s the first blue ribbon I have ever received at the Royal Adelaide Show. Yay!!

Sorry these are not fabulous photos. The handicrafts are displayed in glass cabinets that make photography difficult.

The Fun….

My kids had a great day exploring the farm animals and science experiments. We finished up the day at the bubble bump ride.

I’ll leave you with the quilts I liked best at this year’s show. Sorry, I don’t know the details of most of the quilts. Many of the displays were too distant to be able to check out the tags. And I had a child in tow begging to check out the show bags. But please enjoy the eye-candy!

And the Quilts…..

P.S. Linking up with my favourite linky parties again this week:
Free Motion Mavericks – This week the featured linky post is mine! If you missed this post, it is a tutorial on using baking paper for free motion quilting.

Crazy Mom Quilts
Confessions of a Fabric Addict
TGIFF @ Devoted Quilter
Sew Can Do
Free Motion by the River

P.P.S One of my blogger friends is running a give-away on her blog this week. If you live in the US or Canada and would like to win a OttLite Ultimate Storage and Mag Light head over and see Rachel at Rachel Rossi Designs. 

P.P.PS. The other great give-aways I know of this week are:
– a free-motion quilting blog hop, organised by C&TPublishing. Visit the blogs for chances to win a copy of “Making Connections – A Free-Motion Quilting Workbook” by Dorie Hruska. Finishes 15 September. Find the start of the blog hop here.
– an Artful Improv quilting book by Cindy Grisdela that you can win from C&T Publishing here. Also finishes 15 September.

(These are not affiliate links. I just want you to know what’s out there this week. Pass it on and share the fun with your friends.) And don’t forget to follow my blog (by email in the sidebar or Bloglovin’ before you leave to make sure you find out what quilt fun I discover next week! I’m really going now. Bye! 🙂