as long as we're together

[alby_mangroves]

Last weekend was Labour Day here, and as well as getting the Monday off, I took Friday too and drove up to craft camp - an annual meetup with some bloggers-cum-RL friends.

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[kitty_fic]

That sounds like an amazing time! I'd love to go to something like that!
The quilts are really lovely.
yay productivity!

[alby_mangroves]

The first one I went to was lifechanging. It's just such a wonderful idea. I wish everyone could do it for sanity. It's just amazing to get away from your life like that and work on things close to the heart, with no stress and no thinking. I look forward to the next one from the moment I drive away for home.

Thanks Kitty!

[halotolerant]

It sounds positively idyllic - how lovely! And yay to Getting Stuff Done *g*

[alby_mangroves]

It's just. Heaven. GSD place is my kind of place \o/

[osprey_archer]

That sounds amazing! An artist's retreat, what fun.

[alby_mangroves]

I love that place so much, and the people are all like-minded creators, it's brilliant to be surrounded by all that energy ♥

[malu_3]

This sounds AMAZING, and I love that you got - nay claimed - so much uninterrupted time to draw! I hadn't realised until very recently - via something you posted on tumblr, I think? - that you were into quilting! (I don't quilt, but am lucky enough to have a friend who is; she keeps me in awesome textiles and, between her being generous with the knowledge and some former work projects involving researching & caring for old quilts, I've become enamoured of it both as a community/family activity and an art form). I love your jaunty 'slap bits of colour' style. :-) It reminds me of the quilts my mum and grandmother used to make the scraps left over after clothes-making.

Here's wishing you all the good things. I'm ooking forward to seeing the results of all that productivity awesome!

[alby_mangroves]

I love that place so much! I go every year and it's just fantastic how much you can make and do when you're surrounded by all that creative energy and everyone's there to work too. It's the fucking best tbh.

I'm not a fan of symmetry at the best of times so I didn't think that quilting would appeal to me at all, but then I met this lady at the craft camp years ago (http://www.lesliekeating.com/) and she makes these absolutely beautiful artistic freeform quilts, and she basically said to me, make what you want and who cares if they're not symmetrical country quilts :D

I like fabric. i can't make garments, I don't have the patience. But these things are fun :D

[_profiterole_]

They look so cool! I love the bird drawings.

[alby_mangroves]

Right? It's such a great fabric!! Thank you ♥