Sometime earlier this year Lynne convinced me to join her in booking in to the Berry Quilting Retreat. Not that I didn't want to go but it was 1 week after my overseas trip so I was a little apprehensive about the timing not to mention I was also very scared that we hadn't done anything like this before and we have only been doing this for a short time we are real novices !!!
It was a real rush to get together our material with several attempts to get time to go over to The Craft Depot to buy fabric and it was also very difficult to choose fabric for something we didn't have a pattern for just a materials list which in itself was very complicated. Anyway we managed to get some fabric and other items we needed.
On Friday night we set off to Berry, Lynne was navigator and I was driving of course we missed the turn.... not to worry we will take the alternative route...... through Kangaroo Valley in the rain on a dark night.... this I don't recommend. We eventually arrived at our motel which was very basic but OK. Then we set out to find some dinner and eventually landed in the Pub where we had a most wonderful meal. Off to bed very nervous about the following day.... what would it be like....will we do OK???
Next hurdle was the fact the nothing was open in Berry before 8:00 and registration was 8:30 - 9:00 but all was OK we arrived at the School of Arts at 8:45 plenty of time for morning tea and to get the information we needed to go off the our alloted hall for our 2 days workshop. We had chosen Michelle Marvig, Fractured Daisy bed Runner mainly because we understood we could finish it over the 2 days..... we were wrong on that point!!
As soon as we walked into the hall we knew it would all be OK Michelle is really friendly and we felt welcome straight away. We met some lovely ladies and found out we are pretty good...for Novices... even though we didn't finish our bed runner we learnt lots and have made a deal to finish this one before we move on to finishing anything else.
We met Kerryn from SA who told us about a Retreat in her state and it sounds very very interesting so we will look out for this one next year :-)
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| Lynne's block 1 and Border |
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| Pam's 2 Blocks and Border |
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| Pam Block 1 and Border |
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