Melbourne and back......on a mission!

No sooner had I unpacked my bags from Adelaide when Top Gear announced he wanted to do a quick trip to Melbourne. He was on a mission to pick up some goods he had bought at auction and to visit the medical museum at Melbourne University. This set me thinking......I could have a mission too! It just so happened that he needed to pick up his stuff from Malvern, just a stones throw from two patchwork shops I had always had in my wish list. Patchwork on Central Park and Amitie Textiles here I come!
Both shops lived up to their reputation for offering vibrant, quirky, retro and interesting fabrics. For quite a while now I have been collecting a variety of soft grey fabrics to use as backgrounds in a quilt but was I was never sure just where I was going with it, until now. Retro and quirky in vintage colours are just the right fit so a new collection was started.
From Patchwork on Central Park I got these.......



From Amitie I got these....


The mission continued at Ballarat, with these at Ballarat Patchwork......




And these at Eureka Patchwork, also in Ballarat.........




We were so close I just had to go to Threadbear at Castlemaine but with so many reproductions in my stash already I was very sensible and only succumbed to a gorgeous large scale Chintz style fabric........



Mission complete!
Oh, by the way Top Gear completed his mission too!
Antiques and old books found in places like this........



Museums visited......




Old apothecaries studied........



Mission successfully completed in five days!!!!!
Now I am going to stay put for a week or so. Mr Placid ( youngest son) arrives home from Prague soon and am looking forward to hearing about all his adventures, those suitable for a mother's ears, that is.
Next quick trip is to Canberra with my quilting buddy, Chris, for the Canberra Quilt Show. Looking forward to that.
Happy stitching!

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