Quilt Show

Went to the Ballaarat Quilters Exhibition.



The building is the Ballarat Mining Exchange. It is an amazing space. There are little alcoves off each side where smaller quilts were hung, and the huge centre space was filled with the large ones. It was lovely.

Bees Arrive

Drove 40km with a hive of bees in the car. Can relax now they are safely in the backyard!

Finished Top

Finished this top after work.

Trim

Don't seem to have as much hair as I used to:

Testing 1, 2, 3

Unorthodox slash-and-spread alteration to the muslin shows that the shoulders are too narrow. What's going on? I've never had to add to the shoulder length on Burda patterns before.

Testing 1, 2, ...

Ran up a quick muslin, which confirmed 2 things I suspected about this pattern.

a) it doesn't need a zip - easy to pull on.
b) it just doesn't sit right. Glad I didn't waste good fabric.

After the Aphids

This is the rose which was only a bud covered in aphids on 29th September. The outer petals have a little damage, but nothing too bad. The rest of the buds are looking fine.