Textile Art Festival Brisbane

This weekend the Textile Art Festival was on in Brisbane.  We drove down yesterday to have a look.  I was very surprised at how small it was, roughly half the size of previous quilt and crafting shows that I have seen. Although it was small, there was still lots to see, and as always, I came away with a few goodies.


The most amazing thing that I discovered, is that there is a fabulous yarn shop not far from me on the coast. Now when I say not far, it's not exactly around the corner, more like a 30 min drive, but that is not far compared to most things around here. Jenny King Designs has beautiful wool and is run by a woman who loves crochet, woo hoo. I can't believe I had not heard of this place before. I had to buy some balls of deliciousness as penance for my ignorance.

Yummy luscious colours of Noro yarn, to make some scarves to ward off the cold down south.


I also forked out big bucks for a Jelly Monster.

It's purpose is to help with cutting out hexagons, triangles  and circles on jelly rolls.  I thought it was a fabulous idea when I bought it but after reading the instructions, hmmm. I forgot that if you have circles and hexagons, you have to sew them onto something or together, and I don't like the sound of that, especially as I can't even sew snowball blocks. At least I can still cut out triangles and squares with it, and I will use them.  I will let you know how it goes......eventually.

Look what I bought too, I have been searching for one of these little beauties for a while now , as I really don't want to shorten my fingers accidentally.  (For the non quilters, it is a handle that attaches by vacuum seal to rulers, so that you don't accidentally cut your fingers off when you are using a rotary blade to cut fabric.)

It goes very nicely with my ball of wool!!!

Below are a few photos I took of one of the displays. They are from Dairing, an amazing company with brilliant ideas for textiles and some fabulous products that I had never seen before.

There were also some of Loani Prior's teapots  on display and a beautiful wall hanging by Prudence Mapstone, which were fabulous to look at and it would have been nice if I had remembered to take photos.