I tend to spend most of my time either in my Sewing Studio at home, or sitting on my "Soffice" - Sofa/Office - hand sewing:
When I am not at home, these are a few of my favourite Quilty Hang-outs:
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Honeysuckle Stained Class & Patchwork - Bendigo  |
My local quilt
shop is Honeysuckle Stained
Glass and Patchwork - which
is owned by Nicky & Peter. They have a large range of traditional and
modern fabrics, buttons, ribbons, trims, DMC threads, Cottage Garden Threads,
and other sewing notions. Nicky is a modern quilter so she has a good
selection of the latest fabric lines & is very knowledgeable. If you
lose me in the shop you will often find me in the Kaffe Fassett corner drooling over all the pretties!!
Honeysuckle are a Quiltworx certified shop and they regularly run classes on the premises.
Honeysuckle Stained Glass and Patchwork
2 Havilah Road,
Long Gully (Bendigo)
Victoria, 3550, Australia
Phone: (03) 5441 3289
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Saturday 9am – 12noon
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| Spotlight Bendigo |
I often refer to the local Spotlight store
as my second home - as I live less than 5-minutes away, I often pop in to get
my supplies. Spotlight is Australiasias largest supplier of fabric, craft, party and home interiors, with Superstores in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
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| Further afield - Ballarat is just down the road a bit from Bendigo :-) |
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My home away from home is Cotton Factory in Ballarat and
I tend to go down there a few times a year. Ballarat is "just down
the road a bit" from Bendigo (it is 123kms south west of Bendigo - and it
takes about 90-minutes to drive there). Cotton Factory is owned by Alison
von Bibra (known affectionately as "#theAlison"). Cotton Factory is a small business in Ballarat with an aim to make craft available to everyone. They work with many independent Australian pattern & fabric designers to bring you some great goodies. Here is a link to a previous article that I wrote about Cotton Factory.
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| THE Alison - Alison von Bibra - Cotton Factory Ballarat |
Cotton Factory
128 Clyde Street,
(Cnr of Brougham Street)
Ballarat, Victoria, 3350, Australia
Opening Hours:
Thursday, Friday 7 Saturday
10am to 3pm
The online shop is ALWAYS open.
Cotton Factory Community Block Swap
#cfcblockswap
A common theme
when crafters talk about swaps, is how hard they are to organise, how varied
the fabrics are (some chain store, some high quality fabric store, some
Vintage) and how hard it is to manage when people don’t follow through. Cotton
Factory is hosting a community block swap where you are guaranteed to receive
your swap blocks. The swap is open to Australian Quilters and Overseas
Quilters and will work
as follows:
· Make
four blocks
All fabrics have
been chosen by Cotton Factory. They include Carolyn Friedlander, Art Gallery,
Jen Kingwell, Free Spirit and a range of well known, best quality, quilting
cottons. For enquiring minds, the
colour scheme is: mustard, teal, muted oranges and hints of citrus. Cotton
Factory has partnered with Eye Candy Quilts to provide the pattern in your
Block Swap Packs, at cost.
Recapping key
dates.
Sadly my Block
Pack did not arrive in time for my 52 Quilters take over week however, Alison
did give me permission to share some of her photos:
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| photo courtesy of @Cotton_Factory |
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| photo courtesy of @katharine_von_bibra |
For more information about the #cfcblockswap, please go to:
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