Last few weekends away from sewing...

Howdy!

I must apologise for being so slack with my sewing and blogging!

On Australia Day weekend, I planned to sew a full circle skirt for my little sister which would later become my second blog post for 2013 but I ended up inviting myself to Six Inch Heel's Australia Day BBQ!

On Australia Day, I travelled to the other side of the city to Six Inch's leafy green neighbourhood, such a nice change from the dry and burnt out west side of Melbourne!

Six Inch Heel was the first person I met from the internet (Twitter). We share a love of duplings (sic) from Shanghai Street and our first meeting was over a bowl of noodles at Melbourne Central, next to both our offices.

It was a great day, we ate BBQ, drank wine that was made by Six Inch's hubby and I met Vita of Making Up For My Age. Inpromptu blog-meet, woo.

After the BBQ, we all chilled and chatted then Six Inch Heel and I went for a drive to The Cloth Shop (unfortunately closed) then to Darn Cheap where I bought some amazing floral cotton sateen.

26th January 2013 Shh, don't tell hubby...! Picked up Jam, Creme & Chocolat Beignets and Pane Au Chocolat for Six Inch and her beautiful boys  Pickle and D from the best patisserie in the  NW suburbs of Melbourne - Parisian Patisserie Boulangerie

Dessert: Home-made chocolate gateaux and home-made ice  cream!  Ice cream people! Ice cream! Oh, best part, it was made by Six Inch Heel's hubby!  Recipe here.

I have to say, this was one of the best glasses of wine I have had in my life!  Grapes were from a vineyard Mick used to manage.  If I wasn't driving that day I would have definitely had a second, third and fourth glass!

1.5m cotton sateen from Darn Cheap, Heidelberg.

More! 1.5m cotton sateen from Darn Cheap, Heidelberg. I have an obsession with florals!

27th January 2013 As if I didn't indulge enough on Saturday, I met up with work hubby Dale and stuffed my face with Toblerone Cheesecake from Blue Train Cafe, Southbank.

2nd February 2013 Coffee, coffee, coffee.  Visited Market Lane Coffee to try their *mind fcuking* coffee and also had my first 'pour over' coffee. Loved it.

After my second coffee, I wandered around Chapel St feeling like I needed to head to a recovery club. The coffee got me so buzzed!

I am very into fritters and have made it my mission in life to eat fritters at every breakfast establishment. The corn fritters at The Mission Cafe are the best, in my opinion. Brunch buddy had smashed avocado on toast with poached eggs. Nom.

Sunday 3rd Feb 2013 I met the gorgeous Erin of I-Heart-Fabric! Erin and her partner were in Melbourne to see Swedish House Mafia so I suggested we meet up for coffee. We had both joked to people that "Erin" and "Neeno" from the internet  might actually turn out to be a couple of middle-aged men, not sweet little chickas like us! Erin was awesome, we got on like a house on fire! Definitely going to hang out with Erin if I'm ever in Brisbane.