Art & Craft, Dapto

Today’s adventure for our little band of Red Hatters (RH) was a jaunt to some craft stalls at St Luke’s Church.  The band of RH consisted of Cheryle, Delia, Marianne and I armed with empty bags to ensure that we could load up with the bargains.

The first stop was the cake stall – we had to get in before all the lovely goodies disappeared and then we browsed around the other stalls.  The favourite stall, after the cake stall of course, was the Op Shop Stall.  Here we picked up a few things and had a good old bleather with our fellow browsers.

There was an excellent display of quilts made by the local church ladies.  There were all designed and sewn by then and you could tell each quilt was made with heaps of love and care.  The designs varied from the traditional to the modern.  The ladies had also made heaps of little knick-knacks that just screamed, “Buy me!!”  Needless to say we obliged.

After the initial shopping rush we stopped for a cuppa and some wedges.  The wedges were just to die for; crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside……yummmmm!!

After our lunch we sauntered over to the handmade card stall and each of us (with the exception of Delia) made a card in their workshop.  But we got more from the workshop that just making some cards.  Marianne discovered that she could join the quilters and is coming back during the week to join that club and to make a lovely Noah’s Ark quilt.  I shall be joining the fortnightly card making class that is run by Allison.  And we discovered that Allison’s parents run a Scottish Country Dance group in Wollongong.  So once we have more details this might be something that some of us will take up.

All in all it was an exceptional day in which we shared our love for laughter and fun with each other and those we had met during our day.  The more we go out and network the more we find to do and meet others with a similar drive to live their lives to the full.