Quilting Focus - a new directory website

I gleefully spent Saturday just been at the Auckland Festival of Quilts.  A carful of us left early early and travelled down for a bit of eye candy and (for the unrestrained of us) some shopping!

While I was there, someone handed me a card of a new website.  It's a New Zealand based patchwork and quilting directory.  Here's their blurb:

Quilting Focus is a new international directory of everything to do with Patchwork and Quilting.  At present the Directory is open only to New Zealand and Australian listings, other countries will be added later.

I thought I'd check it out and it looks like a handy site to bookmark.  And I couldn't resist sending off my blog address to them to add to their listings....and I'm their first blog!!  So get adding people!

Click here for their site.  Or type www.quiltingfocus.com into your browser.

I'm going to add a permanent link on my sidebar so you can all find it again later if you need too.

Cool Site

Hmmm, something else I do on rainy days is stick on a kiddy DVD when it all gets too crazy. It lets them chill out and if I'm lucky (and have already got dinner on the go) I can sneak in a little browsing.

And here is a really cool site I just found:

http://www.instructables.com

I've only spent a little while, but what it seems to be about is members posting instructions for just about ANYTHING you can think of. I was looking for a free fabric grocery bag pattern....well, there's heaps. And it seems there is also a million things you can do and make with plastic grocery bags too!! Who knew !

There is also forums on being green, crafts, events, games, kids....the list goes on. And an interesting section where you can ask other members burning questions you need to have answered. Like this one: "How can I remove the diodes from a modern television flyback transformer?" Must confess to not knowing the answer to this one!!