A Grand Day Out :)

I am just back from the National Quilt Championships, held at Sandown Race Course, this is my local quilt show, it is about a 1/2 hr drive and is actual the only one I go to! I find the large shows totally overwhelming, Sandown still feels lovely and intimate. We started by looking at all the fabulous quilts, I took lots of photos, but don't have permission to share; I can show you my Heron quilt hanging as part of 'The River' exhibition, by our group Thameside Quilters. It was nice to see it hanging there with all the others, as I don't enter shows or competitions.

After lunch it was time for some retail therapy! Want to see what I bought?
This beautiful book by Petra Prins published by Quiltmania

And of course some fabrics, I have decided on a colour scheme of duck egg green/blue with a splash of red for 'Love Entwined' I saw this new range 'La Belle Fleur' by French General online and thought it might work with what I have already - it is even more stunning in real life. I bought 2.5m of this one.

and long quarters of these from the same range

These are French fabrics from my local shop Creative Quilting (the owner is French) from the  Mas d'Ousvan  'Boutis' range by Bruno Lamy for Couleur Nature, lovely silky cotton.

and these two FQ's are linen, to make a bag/pouch for my new iPad

There were a lot of beautiful books and fabrics on offer, it is so easy to get carried away :) I was really focused and stuck to my plan of looking for suitable fabrics for LE. The book was an added bonus!