18/10/2026
🐝🧵 MALVERN QUILTING SHOW 2026! 🛍️💛
Sew 🧵, what happened
We went, we saw, we admired… and yes, I definitely brought a few bits home! 😄
I had such a lovely day at the Malvern Quilting Show with my Bestie Bee! 🐝🐝
First and foremost, the quilts were absolutely beautiful.
The talent, creativity, colours, intricate stitching and sheer dedication that go into these wonderful creations never cease to amaze me.
☕🥓 A LITTLE PIT STOP AND SOME SEWING CHAT!
Of course, all that wandering around admiring and exploring the is hungry work!
So we stopped for a lovely cappuccino and a bacon roll, giving us a chance to rest our feet, recharge our batteries and have a good natter before continuing our adventures.
We also enjoyed chatting with other sewists throughout the day. That’s one of the things I love about these shows — meeting people who share the same passion, exchanging ideas, talking about projects and generally getting excited about all things sewing. We met a lovely lady called Denise (Hello Denise 👋).
It’s rather lovely being surrounded by people who completely understand why a piece of fabric can make you ridiculously happy!
And then, of course… there was the shopping! 👀🛍️
Now, I went with good intentions, but let’s be honest,
once you’re surrounded by gorgeous fabrics,
sewing gadgets and all those tempting little things you never knew you needed,
those intentions don’t stand much of a chance!
💛 FIRSTLY… THERE SEAMs TO BE A YELLOW THEME DEVELOPING! 😂.
I’ve always loved bright, cheerful colours, and apparently my sewing accessories are now following suit!
I came home with a yellow seam ripper, yellow thread snips and a lovely yellow thread tin.
Add those to my big yellow scissors, and I think it’s fair to say I’m building quite a collection of sunshine-coloured sewing goodies!
Not that I’m complaining.
A little extra yellow in my sewing room is always welcome! ☀️💛
🧵 NOW, LET’S TALK FABRIC… BECAUSE THERE WAS RATHER A LOT OF IT!
Christmas sewing was definitely on my mind,
although I did manage to sneak in a few non-festive fabrics too!
🎄 THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION!
I picked up TWO advent calendar panels,
because apparently one simply wasn’t enough!
There was also a Christmas quilt kit, which I’m really looking forward to making.
Another project to add to the ever-growing sewing list!
One of my favourite finds was a Christmas campervan hand-stitching kit.
This will be my lovely little evening project,
something I can sit and stitch in front of the television.
It’s nice to have a bit of hand sewing to enjoy away from the machine,
and this one is going to be something rather special and meaningful. ❤️
(In Memory of my Gorgeous Son, this will mark our 13th Christmas without him. 😢
Then came all the gorgeous Christmas fabrics…
🎄 1.5 metres of blue Christmas tree and snowflake fabric.
❄️ 1 metre of green Christmas tree and snowflake fabric.
🎅 1 metre of vintage-style fabric featuring Santa, Christmas trees, snowmen and snowglobes.
🦌 2 metres of another lovely vintage-style festive print featuring Santa, bears, deer, snowmen, Christmas trees and Christmas patterns.
⛄ 1 metre of green snowman and neon Christmas tree fabric.
🐝 1 metre of RED CHRISTMAS BEE fabric! Well, how could I possibly leave that behind? Christmas AND bees… practically made for me!
🏘️ A beautiful blue Christmas village fat quarter.
🎁 A 12 Days of Christmas fabric panel.
I’m clearly preparing for Christmas on an industrial scale this year! 🤣🎄
🐝🍓 BEES, STRAWBERRIES AND A BIT OF WILD PRINT!
Away from the Christmas fabrics, I found 3 metres of gorgeous double-sided Bee and Strawberry quilting fabric.
Bees AND strawberries! How lovely is that?
The fact that it’s double-sided makes it even more interesting, and although I haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to make with it yet, I could already imagine all sorts of possibilities.
Then there was 1 metre of pink striped fabric and 1 metre of zebra print.
A little bit of pink, a little bit of animal print… well, you know me, I do like something a bit different!
And speaking of animal prints, I also bought some lovely leopard-print fabric for my Bestie Bee, which I gave to her.
A little fabric treat for my sewing partner in crime! 🐆💛
🧵 AND A FEW MORE SEWING TREASURES…
I found THREE fabric label panels, which will be brilliant for adding those lovely little finishing touches to my handmade creations.
I also treated myself to a gorgeous PINK quilting iron with its own case! 💗
I’m rather pleased with that little purchase.
Practical, pretty and another useful addition to my sewing equipment.
You’d think after all these years of sewing I’d have everything I could possibly need.
Apparently not! 🤣
🐝 SO, WAS MALVERN WORTH THE TRIP?
ABSO-BEE-LUTELY! 💛
It was a wonderful day spent with my Bestie Bee, surrounded by beautiful quilts, fabulous fabrics, talented people and enough sewing inspiration to keep me busy for months!
And I think that’s what makes these days out so enjoyable.
It’s not simply about what you buy. It’s about appreciating other people’s creativity, discovering new ideas, meeting like-minded sewists and spending time doing something you absolutely love.
Of course, coming home with several bags of sewing goodies is a rather lovely bonus! 🛍️😂
Now comes the interesting part… finding homes for everything in my sewing room and deciding which project gets started first!
Do I have enough fabric already? Probably!
Did I need everything I bought? That’s debatable!
Will I use it all? Absolutely… eventually!
And do I have an even longer sewing-to-do list now?
You BEE-t I do! 🐝🤣
💛 OVER TO YOU, MY FELLOW SEWING BEES…
When you visit a quilting or sewing show, are you one of those wonderfully organised people who goes with a shopping list and actually sticks to it?
Or are you like me,
wandering from stall to stall,
spotting gorgeous fabrics and thinking…
Ooooh, I could make something lovely with that!
Even though you already have enough projects to last until Christmas 2030! 🤣🧵
🐝💛 Bee Creative Bee Bold By Caz 💛🐝
