.... the Carnival is over.....

The main focus of the carnival is the flowers and gardens, but there are other great activities that happen and last Tuesday was spent with lovely friends visiting some of my favourite ones..

A new one to me is a quilt show that features a guest quilt artist, this year was Val Benson, someone I had not met before this year but she is well known in the area for her work, which is varied and beautifully made...

This exhibition is held at a lovely old homestead Queenslander, now housed at one of the local girls boarding school and kept for events such as this....

I was thrilled to see this pretty hexagon quilt at the entrance....

Val had let me play with it earlier in the year.... I wanted to highlight the pattern so I went around the hexagons... some with feathers, and others in a web kind of look...

... and edged the border with informal feathers....

Another quilt I did for her was this wedding ring quilt pattern...

... great fun to do designs in the plain spaces and loops in the  curved piecing blocks....

The school is on the top of the range and we went over the road to a park to look at the lovely view... as you can see it was a beautiful spring day...

... after all that eye candy we needed our Devonshire teas.....

this favourite tea room annual visit is always decorated with fun aprons and tea towels.... and legs...

.. inside the hall is the teapot extravaganza... so many different tea pots, big and small, classy and crass, silver, porcelain, tin .... all sorts and of course beautiful tea cups and saucers...

... we then went over to the Toowoomba Quilters quilt show... I didn't take many pics here but this is an overall picture of the hall....  of course there are much visited Traders as well and a lovely time of chatting, viewing, shopping and more tea....

So much work for this two weeks of carnival and so much buzz in the city.  I love it.  Great show Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers... see you next year...

Righto, Gotto Go....