Monday, 24 April 2023

The road home - Dubbo quilt show...............


Time to  show some photos from the Dubbo quilt show that we stumbled upon on Sunday afternoon. Like I said, it must have been meant for us to attend, when we ended up finding somewhere to lunch and discovering there was a quilt show in the same street!! The coincidences didn't stop there either. As we entered the show and lined up to pay admission, and buy raffle tickets, we were asked where we were from. When I said South Australia, the lady asked where in SA?? When I told her Bordertown, she asked if I knew.... and named some relatives of hers!! It turned out that I knew her cousin very well, and in fact had been messaging her earlier in the day. It was truly meant to be that we ended up at the quilt show!!! What I would could call a "Godincidence!!"

                                  The smiling face at the door to greet us.....

                 There were some fantastic quilts hanging at the show, and I did take a few photos.......

 Some I have pics of the labels, some I don't.....this quilt was constructed using lots of doileys, and I love this idea, as I have quite a collection of these, somewhere................


This quilt was a great way to use up ties..................






This quilt required a closer look to see how it was constructed..............


....and we discovered it was really a curved log cabin!!


This lady was treadling away on her machine, piecing a quilt, and lots of people stopped to watch and chat to her...............












This was just a small selection of the quilts that were hanging. A lovely quilt show ladies, we are glad to have been in Dubbo at the right time to see your display.

We had a few more hours of driving to our booking at West Wyalong after leaving the show. More unpacking and turning the heater on. I made good use of the motel Wifi to download some photos and post a blog before an early night ready for the next stage.
Be back with the next instalment of newsfromjude soon.

Blessings, From Jude

9 comments:

Chookyblue...... said...

what a great selection......lucky you to time it right......

Chris said...

We were in Dubbo on the Sat but turned off at the airport so did not discover that quit show. Oh well.

Susan said...

what a lovely coincidence!
Love some of those quilts - Quilt Diva is a favourite of mine - and I love the spiky hair on that one - love the church window too.

ButterZ said...

Great that you got to see it and so did Pat. We were a bit later in the day and decided to keep on driving through town until our next stop for the night.

loulee said...

What a great find. As you say, it was meant to be.

Susan Smith said...

Great to see & hear country towns (in some places) still have quilt shows. It looked to be very good from your photos. Take care & hugs.

Raylene Edwards said...

How fortuitous for us, some quite different designs & techniques. Incredible to exchange a few words with a friendly stranger & get a connection with a close contact you both know. It’s one of those ‘hairs on the back of your neck’ occasions. 🌻

kiwikid said...

Great timing to see the show, so many beautiful quilts.

Janice said...

What a lovely bonus. There certainly were some lovely quilts on show.