{"id":2062,"date":"2014-11-26T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=18725"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:09:43","slug":"a-fun-melbourne-weekend-for-the-australian-quilt-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/a-fun-melbourne-weekend-for-the-australian-quilt-market\/","title":{"rendered":"A fun Melbourne weekend for the Australian Quilt Market!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I set up the <a title=\"Australian Sewing Patterns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiansewingpatterns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">AustralianSewingPattern.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, a collective of Australian designers so we could band together and get to the the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Australian Quilt Market - Melbourne\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australianquiltmarket.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Australian Quilt Market in Melbourne<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. This year I was joined by Michelle Long of <a title=\"Lemon Jellie Stitches - Michelle Long\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonjellie.com.au\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lemon Jellie Stitches<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18730\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Pauline-McArthur,-Michelle-Long---Australian-Sewing-Patterns\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pauline-McArthur-Michelle-Long-Australian-Sewing-Patterns.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur, Michelle Long - Australian Sewing Patterns\" width=\"520\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/h1>\n<p>A.Q.M is a cool place to catch up with other designers like <strong>Nicole Mallalieu<\/strong> (<a title=\"Nicole Mallalieu - You sew girl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolemdesign.com.au\/shop\/2477-you-sew-girl-your-ultimate-guide-to-sewing-with-confidence-and-style-spiral-bound-paperback-book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>You Sew Girl)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <strong>Tammy<\/strong> <strong>Green<\/strong> (<a title=\"Buddies Corner and Studio T Green\" href=\"https:\/\/www.studiotgreen.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Buddies Corner and Studio T Green!<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) <strong>Jodie<\/strong> <strong>Carleton<\/strong> (<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a title=\"Ric Rac blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagericrac.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vintage Ric Rac<\/span><\/a><\/span>) <\/strong>and\u00a0 <a title=\"Emma Jean Jansen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emmajeanjansen.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Emma Jean Jansen<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">here we are<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">posing for a &#8216;selfie&#8217;<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">LOL!<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18731 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Designers-conference\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Designers-conference.jpg\" alt=\"designers conference\" width=\"265\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I got to meet one of Australia&#8217;s most respected softie designers, and someone I have been in awe of for many years, <strong>Melanie McNiece<\/strong> of <a title=\"Melly &amp; Me website\" href=\"https:\/\/mellyandme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Melly &amp; Me<\/strong><\/span><\/a>!\u00a0 Her softies are sooooooooooooooo cute and<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>she is just THE nicest person too!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18732\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Melanie-McNiece-Melly-&amp;-Me-and-Pauline-McArthur-Funky-Friends-Factory\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Melanie-McNiece-Melly-Me-and-Pauline-McArthur-Funky-Friends-Factory.jpg\" alt=\"Melanie McNiece Melly &amp; Me and Pauline McArthur Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"341\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After 4 fun-filled days in Melbourne it was time to go home&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I was &#8221;EXHAUSTIPATED&#8221;!!!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"exhaustipated\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/exhaustipated.jpg\" alt=\"exhaustipated\" width=\"414\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t forget &#8211; if you&#8217;re an <strong>Indie Australian designer <\/strong>keen to join the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a title=\"Australian Sewing Pattern Co.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiansewingpatterns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">AustralianSewingPattern.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> collective &#8211; please get in touch! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h1>Hope to see you all next year!<\/h1>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"224\" height=\"218\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Till next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Sewing, <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong> Pauline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>xxx<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I was joined by Michelle Long of Lemon Jellie Stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-fff-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pauline-McArthur-Michelle-Long-Australian-Sewing-Patterns.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}