Phew!......

The garage sale is done! just a trip to the op-shop required tomorrow to get rid of the last of it.

The Geelong Fibre Forum was fantastic and inspirational and I soooo want to go next year!!

The football is over (shhhh!! Geelong lost)

....and it's almost time to start a new week.

So about the forum....

I met up with Jeana and her daughter from Unbecoming Lily at the forum and had a great couple of hours chatting and admiring and drinking everything in. I also introduced Jeana to my 3 favourite places to shop for textile stuff:

1. Artisan Books - is it bad that the guy who owns the bookshop knows me by name?...
2. The Thread Studio - a Perth based mail order (web-order) business that "specialises in unusual and interesting embroidery threads and textile art requirements" run by Dale who blogs at Downunderdale ; and
3. Beautiful Silks - a supplier of fabulous silk fabrics of all types who encouraged us to "feel and touch" (probably knowing that we would be unable to resist if we did - she was sooo right!)

We had coffee by the Great wall of hats - a display of hats from the Blue Hat Project

We walked through the Big Knit - a giant knitting installation by Caroline Love.

I checked out the exhibition "After India" and saw the Mongolian Yurt and the inflatable sculptures by Evelyn Roth about the grounds.

And I browsed the works made by the lucky people who attended the forum for the week.

An overview of the room where samples of each groups work was on display.

Felting by Kitty Chung O'Kane's class - I've taken a class with Kitty and it was a lot of fun

Tthe Wire Jewellery class (I can't find the name of the teacher for this class)

Encrusted surfaces with Pauline Verrinder

(there are more pictures on my Flickr pages)

I know that I missed a few things but I enjoyed what I saw and again vow that I will find a way to be there next year (promises, promises...).