Hubbard’s Kaleidoscope in Bordertown

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Many of you have asked for an update on the driving… we just hit 104 hours today 🙂 I can see light at the end of the tunnel! DS has had a few official lessons with the local RACV instructor who says that as soon as he finishes his hours, he is ready to sit the driving test, so that is pretty exciting! He did a test “driving test” with him and he passed it fine, so hopefully the real one will go well too!

Even though I haven’t been blogging much, I have been taking pictures of all our travels… and yesterday I took some time out to sit and sort the photos… Over the next few weeks I’ll post them and you can enjoy some of the sights (mostly quilt shops!!) I’ve enjoyed over the past month!

When I was going through my photos I found some that I forgot to post from when I was at the mystery retreat in Bordertown, so I thought I’d start with them 🙂

I think it was on the Saturday that a few of us went to visit a little shop called Hubbard’s Kaleidoscope… I needed some fabric for a baby quilt, and I was quite surprised when the ladies took me to this shop that, from the outside, looked like a gift shop…

.. until I saw the signs with “Patchwork…. Fabrics….Craft Supplies….” 🙂

The front of the shop did have a large assortment of gifts… but the second room was FULL of craft and fabric!!

First up all this lovely yarn…

This is actually where I bought the yarn for the pink and purple shell blanket I am making…

Then came the quilts…

And heaps of fabric….

I was amazed at the variety they had… and would have taken more photos, but they were about to close. They kept it open for a few minutes longer just so we could buy our bits and pieces… 🙂

I bought these odds and ends:

Two quilt “kits” and the pretty fabrics on the left are 5″ strips that I just fell in love with….

I also found some cute monkey fabric for the baby quilt I wanted to make, and I made a start on it that weekend…

I really wanted to make the most of the lovely work space at Judy’s:

I did get the top finished, now I need to quilt it…

I also bought two lovely fat quarter packs from Judy:

They are both the same fabrics, just one came in a box.. I like the box, I am sure it will come in handy for something once I’ve used the fabric:

All these goodies are going in my suitcase… 🙂

I think it is a good thing I don’t live in Bordertown… too many temptations with all of Judy’s retreats, fabric and this shop!!

However, if you are ever driving through there, do make sure you drop in and check out all the goodies at Hubbard’s Kaleidoscope! It was well worth a visit!