A visit to the Hamilton Craft and Quilt Show

The Hamilton Craft and Quilt Show is an annual event here in Hamilton and one I look forward to all year. The show runs over four days and combines vendors, exhibitions and workshops. While there weren’t nearly as many vendors this year as there have been in previous years, there was a new vendor from Australia that more than made up for the drop in numbers. Valerie and Lindsey from My Patch Fabrics had so many inspiring things for sale…beautiful soft leather, Liberty fabrics, Cotton and Steel, dress patterns… I went a little crazy. Want to see?

Purchases from day one…

 The “My Patch Fabrics” stand…

Lindsey and Valerie…

Another newcomer to the show this year was the “Road to Colour” exhibition, organised by Cheryl from Auckland patchwork shop, All Things Patchwork. As you can guess, the emphasis for the exhibition was ‘colour’ and it certainly didn’t disappoint! Unfortunately I didn’t take nearly as many photos of the exhibition as I should have, but if you’d like to see some of the quilts that were on display, check out Megan’s post at Jaffa Quilts. I do have two photos to share with you though…

Mum had two quilts in the exhibition, this Sun Burst quilt and her Farmer’s Wife quilt.

Jo Dixey is one of my favourite New Zealand quilters/stitch artists, this was her entry in the AQC Challenge “True Blue”. Her quilter’s statement read “When a person is depressed or feeling Blue, they send ripples of that depression out to the world around them. These ripples in turn create more depression within the person”.

All in all, it was a very inspiring show, hopefully vendor numbers will be back up again next year.

Meanwhile, I’ve been busy working on a little giveaway item that I’ll be sharing with you soon (if you’re on Instagram you may have already caught a peek).