It has been a while between posts so there is a lot to share.....here is the first instalment! This past weekend a small group of us were invited by a very special friend to travel to Victoria to see the inaugural quilt exhibition of the Castlemaine Applique Group and what an incredible exhibition it was! I took over 80 photos just on the first day so have had to reduce them for the blog. As a lover of appliqué this was like viewing the "cream of the cream" with a very strong focus on reproduction fabrics. Many of the quilts have been inspired by antique quilts as you will read on the labels and many hand pieced and hand appliquéd. The labels explain more so I will let the photos do the talking........and not sure if the bike hire was to zoom around the exhibition or not! (and yes to those at home....that would be Kay still hobbling on that broken foot) and this is the pieced back of Di's quilt............. We are now being thoroughly spoilt for a few days in the beautiful city of Ballarat with lots of talking, quilting, eating and sight seeing...... so more news of that in a few days. Hope all is well in your part of the world xx