When you have an event such as the Queensland Quilt Show linked into the Craft & Quilt Fair, of course there is a lot to see & do. But, this is my last post from the event for this year!
The Mt Isa Quilters group challenge 'Reflections' was on display at the quilt show. Congratulations to Debbie Alford the winner with her quilt 'Reflections'. Karryn Pogorelc was awarded Best Use of Colour for 'Galactic Orb' & my quilt 'Connect' at the bottom, was awarded Most Creative Interpretation. 
Gail Chalker of Gatton had part of the Great Hexagon Challenge quilt on display at the quilt show. She is calling for hexagon rosettes to make the Guinness Book of Records with the world's biggest hexagon quilt.Join in to be a part of history.
Late post today as we had a power outage & then no internet connection for hours. I felt very lost! Barbara loves watermelon themed things & wears shoes & vests she's made with watermelon colours & shapes. It was a delight to see her exuberant quilt at the quilt show. Detail of 'Minutemen 1 vs Watermelon' which depicts the watermelon exploding after the Massachusetts Colonial re-enactors h
ave tested their gunpowder on a watermelon.
Workshop registration for AQC begins today at 9am Melbourne time or 8am Queensland time [ we don't have daylight saving]. I hope you can join me for a workshop. I'm teaching Monoprinting Magic, Oil Stick Intensive & Garden Trellis.
'Aurora Australis' by Ailsa Koloi certainly caught my eye for the stunning effect of transparency & shifting light. Congratulations on second in the Professional Pieced category Ailsa.
Thank you dear blog readers for dropping by & saying 'hello' at the quilt show yesterday. I'll be back there on Saturday & Sunday at the 2QAQ postcard making tables.
Thank you to sponsors The Thread Studio, Blue Willow Cottage & PK Fabrics for generously supporting the Queensland Quilt Show. 
The Queensland Quilt Show opens today as part of the Craft & Quilt Fair in Brisbane. Thanks to Barbara & Faye the 2QAQ demonstration area is looking good.
& postcard 
The latest issue of Down Under Quilts No. 137 has a 5 page spread on the Australian entries in the World Quilt contest 2009. Linda Steele from Victoria was the winner of Best of Australia from these entries.
The talented members of the Paddo Purple Patchers have put together a wonderfully intriguing exhibition named 'Shadows' with many interpretations in cloth & mixed media. All the artwork is mounted on pre-stretched canvas. Chris Jones is happy to share her 2 pieces on my blog. The one below is from the Wholly Holes workshop.
My fabric storage is in stackable colourful crates which once housed toys when the kids were little & in open mesh basket units from Ikea. These live behind the shutter doors of a built-in wardrobe.
My design wall on this side of the room has now been extended & gives me a good 2metres plus of width. It is floor to ceiling in height & covered in white felt. The final view is of what is behind my sewing table- another bookcase & my workshop boxes, making it easy to prepare for any workshop as samples, supplies & notes are in the one location. I hope you've enjoyed the 'sticky beak' [a look around] of my sewing studio.
This is the corner with the bookcase we were looking at yesterday. I have re purposed an old computer table on castors to hold things for sorting on the top shelf & projects to do in the yellow box at the bottom.
My almost floor to ceiling window looks out to the street & the poinciana tree, not yet in red bloom.
The extra design walls that I have been waiting for were put up over the weekend & I'm happy to show you the improved version of my studio. Also it will probably never look quite as uncluttered as now!
This is a nifty kitchen hanging rail for tea towels from Ikea, re purposed to hold my most used, daily items- quilting gloves, scissors, notebook, pens, tape measure- now they won't be lost under quilts on the table.
This beautiful publication arrived in my mail box the other day. Galleria of Machine Artistry and Quilting, published by Jenny Haskins, features the work of Bernina friends who were asked to create a piece of work in their style for the launch of the Bernina 8 series machines. Kim Bradley was the winner but all the Australian entries are featured in the book with a pattern for the quilt on the cover.
A power outage this morning left us sitting in the dark at the kitchen table chewing on our muesli without our usual hot cups of tea for him & Milo for me.
Along the coastal areas the Pandanus is a common sight. From a small plant it grows into an interesting branching & twisted shape of long spiky edged fronds. The fruit is fibrous & woody but a great shape & texture.
Still "lost in the rainforest" & contemplating the variety leaf shapes with soft & delicate to hard & spiky.
