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Sunday, 2 March 2014

Sydney Sewing Meetup

On the weekend twenty lovely Sydney sewists met up for a lunch, gossip, fabric swapping and a little bit of fabric shopping. I've been to A LOT of food blogging meet-ups but this was my first foray into meeting "real life sewing Bloggers/Tweeters/Instagramers" and it was a blast.

A small group of us met up early and scooted out to The Remnant Warehouse in Alexandria for a look around. Massive thanks to both Catherine and Maria who really helped me out with fabric hunting for my upcoming attempt at Tilly's new Coco pattern. As I'm basically learning to sew on my own it's been so wonderful to have the help of the online sewing community when I do get stuck...which is fairly often actually.

I walked away from The Remnant Warehouse with this "mystery fabric" that I think will be good for my first test of Coco.


Because I'd organised this meetup, and cannot organise anything that does not involve food, I'd booked a table for lunch at Parma Cuccina in Surry Hills. Pizza and salads all round. We were a pretty big group so special thanks to the restaurant for letting us take over half of their downstairs area...including sequestering a table for our fabric/pattern swap...


I walked away from the fabric swap with a nice piece of cotton that I think I'll make into my third attempt of the April Rhodes Party Peplum Dress (wish me luck). I also picked up some cotton drill which will become a skirt once I work up the guts to go down that road...a road of zippers, waistbands, interfacing, darts...and tears. 


After lunch we mozied on down to Tessuti and then The Fabric Store. I was very restrained and managed to look but not buy...that must be a first for me!


Thanks to everyone who came along...I hope we get to meet at another sewing meet up soon.

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19 comments:

  1. Kristy Chan2 March 2014 at 17:11

    Thanks Mel for organising lunch - I know how hard it can be but it's always great catching up with fellow sewists. Look forward to seeing your Tilly dress (don't pay any attention to my disparaging remarks about the pattern!)

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  2. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)2 March 2014 at 17:45

    It was really nice to meet you - thanks so much for coming! I think you made some really good points about that pattern and it's given me something to think about for future pattern purchases.

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  3. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)2 March 2014 at 17:45

    It was A LOT of fun!

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  4. Scared Stitchless2 March 2014 at 17:56

    Loved this meet up! Thanks for organising it. Here's to many more in the future!

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  5. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)2 March 2014 at 17:59

    Thanks for coming! I really got my sewing mojo back after yesterday...it had kind of gone missing but now I'm back on the wagon.

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  6. Velosewer2 March 2014 at 19:19

    Hey Mel, You did a great job getting yesterday organised. Lunch was wonderful and I know you'll have lots more sewing success from being amongst so many awesome sewers.
    ParmaCucina were lovely lunch hosts.

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  7. Emma2 March 2014 at 22:22

    Great post on all the fun of yesterday. Thanks so much for all the organising you did. Looking forward to seeing the drill skirt down the track.

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  8. Catherine Alekna2 March 2014 at 22:48

    Thanks so much for organising the day! I cant wait for the next one - perhaps future ones will involve some actual sewing! that way we can do some work or help others with some bits they're stuck with.


    The restaurant was great too! You're a good combo - food and sewing blogger!

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  9. Sharon3 March 2014 at 12:00

    Thank you so much for organising the day, it was great to see so many new faces.

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  10. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)3 March 2014 at 18:08

    I'd really like to have an actual "sewing" meet up. We just need to think of somewhere to do that so put your thinking cap on!

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  11. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)3 March 2014 at 18:08

    It was great wasn't it?! All the faces were new to me...so much fun.

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  12. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)3 March 2014 at 18:08

    Wish me luck. I hope I don't mangle your lovely fabric. It was great to meet you - hope to see you at another meet up.

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  13. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)3 March 2014 at 18:10

    Thank you so much! I was a sewing powerhouse after the meet up...so the meet up really helped my SewJo.

    I agree, Parma really looked after us very well!

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  14. Alex3 March 2014 at 20:41

    Thanks again Mel - I felt like I didn't get to talk to everyone so looking forward to the next catchup! Look forward to seeing your creations from your swap fabrics!

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  15. SewJillian4 March 2014 at 16:14

    What a great catch up. I'd love to join in next time and have tried to follow your blog, but it seems linked (your Bloglovin link) to an old now non-existent blog???

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  16. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)4 March 2014 at 16:20

    Hi Jillian - thanks for visiting the blog! I've updated my bloglovin' widget so thanks for pointing that out...hope to see you at the next meetup. We're starting up a FaceBook group for the Sydney meet ups so I'll write a post about that once it's up and running.

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  17. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)4 March 2014 at 16:22

    I hardly spoke to anyone...hopefully I'll be "off duty" for the next catch up.

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  18. Melanie Y (Miss Piggy)9 March 2014 at 17:10

    Hi again Jillian - we've created our FB group now called Sydney Spoolettes, please join us. Hopefully this link will take you there - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1468609043350675/

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  19. SewJillian9 March 2014 at 17:14

    Yay! Just sent a join request.

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