April 16, 2007
What a fantastic weekend!
The exhibition went wonderfully well, and was a huge success as far as we were concerned.
It all started on Friday morning, with the job of setting up. Emily was sent off to take pictures.
All these piles (and more) needed to be arranged into effective and pleasing displays of our work. (All can be clicked for bigger)
Apparently we knit a lot.
This is Ailsa, Becky and I doing some last minute cataloging in the midst of it all.
Here's me, doing what I do best, sitting on my butt drinking coffee.
Charmaine, Ailsa, Sharon and Ailsa's mum deep in discussion.
Ailsa's mum was a wonder. She isn't a knitter, doesn't understand all the knitting, and only came to pick up Blair, Ailsa's daughter. We roped her into helping arrange things, and she did a great job!
Ailsa's husband refuses to believe she does any cleaning. To prove him wrong, here's a picture of Ailsa vacuuming. Sorry it's blurry, I think I may have been laughing.
In much the same vein, here's Emily mopping. Ailsa asked for someone to mop, and Em jumped up and said "I love to mop!" I'd like to point out that if it had been me asking it would never have happened, and prior to this, she'd never mopped in her life!
And here's Sharon, (not having a baby on opening day this year!) an hour before opening, running around playing with her new toy, the electronic labeller.
Here are the shawls.
Nursery corner.
The ladies' dressing table.
Tea Party.
Sharon's girls, and Zena's tiny sweaters.
And the scarf wall.
Didn't it all look great?
I didn't make it back to the exhibition itself until Sunday afternoon, where I sadly just missed out on meeting Corrie. I did get to meet she of the red shoes, though!
We had a great afternoon sitting in the sun.
Ailsa and Donni spun.
Tianne and I knit, and Em and Blair ate.
It's possibly the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon, with a glass of wine, great company and knitting in the sun! The rain came, but only in the last hour or so, and then it was all over far too quickly.
Setting up the exhibition took all day Friday, pulling it down took around an hour yesterday afternoon.
Much kudos to Ailsa, who worked tirelessly to get it off the ground (and got her picture in the paper for her efforts!) Sad goodbyes to blogless (for now) SnB'er Charmaine, who is leaving us for the United Arab Emirates for three years.
Plans for next year's exhibition are already underway, planned for the last weekend of April, I think.
I've been really slack about Saturday skies of late, but here is the Sunday sky Em and I saw on our way home yesterday.
Great end to a great weekend. Now it's back down to earth, and the housework!!
Posted by Donna at April 16, 2007 06:52 PMComments
Wow! It looks like it was fantastic. I wish I could have seen it in person.
Posted by: Barb at April 16, 2007 11:11 PMOh everything looked fantastic!! I'm so sorry I couldn't make it, hopefully next year!
Posted by: claudine at April 16, 2007 11:50 PMgreat photos! it was a fantastic exhibition and I will definitely be back down to wollongong again....for the knitters! but I must say we had a gorgeous lunch over the road at bombora (sp?)
Corrie:)
Posted by: corrie at April 17, 2007 12:30 AMEverything is displayed so nicely. How many people worked to knit all of those items? Zena's sweaters look extremely tiny. Congratulations on a successful exhibit!
Posted by: wool winder at April 17, 2007 12:35 AMThat looked like a lot of fun! Wish I could have made it, but I don't currently have a passport... ;)
Also, nice to know I'm not the only coffee fiend around.
Posted by: Cathy at April 17, 2007 01:08 AMGreat exhibition! Hope you got lots of visitors.
Posted by: ck at April 17, 2007 01:19 AMIt looks great. Was it someone's house or a business? Love those shawls.
Posted by: Chris at April 17, 2007 01:28 AMI've missed an essential piece of understanding. What was the purpose of the exhibition?
Posted by: Norma at April 17, 2007 01:33 AMWow, a lot of wonderful stuff! Sounds like a fabulous weekend.
Posted by: Meadow at April 17, 2007 01:42 AMIt all looked absolutely fantastic, I am glad it all went well:)
Posted by: Nic at April 17, 2007 02:07 AMWow! I can't believe those piles turned into such a great display! I loved all the different areas, they show everything off to its best advantage.
Posted by: Janet at April 17, 2007 03:24 AMYou all did such a great job arranging everything! Certainly looked like it was a lot of fun.
Posted by: Evelyn at April 17, 2007 04:31 AMlooks like a great weekend!
and that sky is absolutely gorgeous :O
Posted by: Jess at April 17, 2007 05:09 AMWhat an impressive display, and those shawls, absolutely beautiful I will have to get around to knitting myself a lovely lace shawl very soon.
Posted by: Susan Hird at April 17, 2007 09:24 AMLove the "behind the scenes" pics! It was great to meet you and I look forward to catching up again soon I hope! (which reminds me, do you want a Lonely Planet book for New York? Happy to send you mine if you don't have one already!)
Posted by: Rose Red at April 17, 2007 09:42 AMWell. Done .ladies .The photos show a great day and beautiful knitting .
Wish I could have attended !
Your photos all look fabulous, and I love the knitted goodies that you exhibited. Wish I lived a bit closer so I could have paid a visit there too. Sounds as though you and Emily had a great weekend.
Posted by: Sue at April 17, 2007 11:03 AMWow. The exhibition looks great! Thats alot of shawls on display. The tea party looks really cute too. I agree, it does seem like the perfect way to spend a sunny sunday.
Posted by: Kessa at April 17, 2007 11:20 PMI'm so jealous! Nothing like that ever happens near here. What a great job you all did.
Posted by: Marina at April 18, 2007 12:01 AMIt all looks great and I'm glad to hear it was a success. It looks to me like Em did a great job mopping, perhaps better than you could do *wink wink*. Beautiful sky pictures, too.
Posted by: Restless Knitter at April 18, 2007 12:38 AMYour exhibition looked wonderful! What a lot of talented ladies you have in the group. I wish I could have seen it in person.
Posted by: Debby at April 18, 2007 08:12 AMLooks and sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing it all. Congrats on a job well done. I've organized a few quilt shows in my past life, so I know the work that is involved in these things. Did I spy your Jo Sharp Lacy Cardi in there too?
Posted by: Terri at April 18, 2007 12:39 PMwow!! that's a lot of knitting!! seems like you all had a lot of fun too!!! ^_^
Posted by: Michelle at April 18, 2007 01:10 PMI am loving looking at all the piccies on everyones blogs who were at the exhibition! Everything looks so gorgeous!
Its well presented and full of lovely knits (and do I note a lovely lack of novelty yarn!?)...
Katt
Posted by: Katt at April 21, 2007 01:20 PM
D, Your photos are great - and now you know Em can mop that's EVEN MORE KNITTING TIME! lol I was very sad to miss sunday and Corrie too! :-) Shaz
Posted by: thestripeytiger at April 16, 2007 08:39 PM