What's Hot from the Cloth Shop September 15

We had an excellent four days at the Hamilton Quilt and Craft Fair last week and tomorrow we are going to Quilt and Craft Fair in Christchurch to do it all over again! We will be at the CBS Canterbury Arena and the show opens on Friday and runs through until Sunday

Now where did we put that quilt...............

The worst moment............... we have unpacked the van and now it's time to start setting up our corner which will be our home for the next four days. It was very tempting to go and have dinner and then come back and start but we decided to spend a couple of hours setting up and then eat. We eventually left the Arena at 10.00 pm and then came back in the morning at 7.30 to finish off.

More photos from the Hamilton Show

9.30 Thursday - the show is just going to open - and we are ready to go!. The first day of the show is always very busy - it's really good to see all our old friends and to meet new ones. This is one corner of our little home away from home - our new quilt Cattitude is hanging on the wall and also Night and Dayzee designed by Adrienne Walker

Tall Poppies pattern and kit - prize winner!!

Last year we produced a Tall Poppies Pattern called Sheryl's Floral Mosaic - Patterns are $25.00. We also sold a limited number of kits - what a thrill to see one of them won first prize at the Quilt show at the Quilt and Craft Fair. This quilt was made by Susan Bentley and won first prize for First time entrant.Congratulations Susan - your quilt looked beautiful!

Another prize winner from the Show.

The Cloth Shop sponsored the prize for Best Hand Quilting. This year the prize was won by Ann Gregory from Rotorua. Congratulations Ann - superb quilting!

New Doll designed by Jill Maas

This is "Snowdrop"! Isn't she lovely. Jill will teaching classes how to make her at The Cloth Shop on 27and 28 November (this class is full) 29 and 30 Novemebr and we have just added another class 11 and 12 December.

Class Fee is $100 for the two days. We have managed to get some white doll velour for the class and we have it available then.

New Quilting Arts magazine

Class with Griet Lombard

Features Machine embroidered squares, machine made cords, hand made beads, fringing and big chunky quilting. It is made with hessian.

Time to finish the packing!

We would love to see you at the Craft Fair in Christchurch! Katherine and Amiee will be there and Liz will be here at The Cloth Shop.

P.S. We will have this bag at the show.

Made from Okato Ribbon from Japan. One of our Easy Peasey patterns. Look fabulous! We will the ribbon (about 12 different earthy colours) the bag and the pattern with us.