I have been away teaching for the weekend at the Berry Quilt Retreat and I did not take many photos unfortunately. Berry is a lovely little town about 2.5 hours from Sydney and gets a lot of weekend visitors for the weekend getaway. The retreat was organised by Elizabeth Dubbelde from the Berry Patchwork shop ( which is for sale in case you are interested). I stayed with Elizabeth in her lovely house just outside Berry with lovely views of the gorgeous countryside. The photo on the right is some of the lovely views in the early morning.I had a wonderful group of participants- they were all so chatty that i thought they all knew each other, turns out they didn't. One of the participants was 16 year old Olivia- and I have to say it's delightful to have younger people in the room, because young people like Olivia are the future of textiles and textile design. Olivia who had never free motioned machined before took to it like a duck to water and created some exciting work- she immediately leapt outside the boundaries and I could see her eyes light up with the possibilities.
On the Sunday she brought in some of the work she had made previously at school and home- she is one very talented young lady and a pleasure to spend time with , as were all the participants. So thank you everyone for a wonderful and sharing weekend.
Isn't this beautiful spring blossom on the right just gorgeous......
Fortunately my cold abated before leaving for Berry though it was tenacious so I did not have the energy to do very much except make some of these- guess what I am making????
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Thanks for your blog post
Waiting with bated breath for the piece that will include these wonderful little poufs. Very colorful and I love them.
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