Can you help in the hunt for the lowdown, dirty, stinking theiving person who stole this bag today from Nicole Mallalieu's stand at the Australian Quilt Convention in Melbourne.
Apart from being a show-stopping piece from her new book it has a huge amount of sentimental value as the button used on the bag belonged to Nikki's late Grandmother.
People who create hand made items and run small businesses that service the craft industry work incredibly hard to make their living, and do it from a sense of love for creating, sharing and teaching which Nikki does so well.
To blatantly steal like this is shameful, and I only hope that this gorgeous bag brings whoever did it, nothing but bad karma.
If you see it in the street, stop them, or cry 'thief!' - it's one of a kind - they didn't buy it.
Feel free to repost this - or link to it - or link to
Nikki's post and let's see if we can get this bag back.
**Please not this post is copied directly from
Karen's blog. She said it so well and I didn't think she would mind.
Yesterday I took the girls to a chocolate workshop at the Shangri La. I'm blaming Peta for telling me about this but it was great. It's often hard to find workshops that both the girls can do, usually Lucy is too young.
We all had a great time making chocolate decorations, learning about different techniques, decorating cupcakes, 
rolling truffles
and having a turn at spraying this huge Harbour Bridge cake with chocolate.
I'm not sure we need the Easter bunny to visit now though.
How lucky am I? Look at this gorgeous table runner Helen gave me when she stayed at my place for Sew It Together. When she made it I commented how much I loved it and she kept it for me. The colours are very me and I've currently got it running along the kitchen island and the kids have been sitting there eating breakfast now and hopefully it is keeping the bench tidy.
I used some Melody Miller fabric on the outside and some Kei dots on the inside and I thought that would be heavy enough for what I was after but I should have interfaced it as well as it's a little floppier than I wanted. I also wanted to make the strap adjustable but I didn't have enough fabric.
All these patterns were either in the goodie bag or I won them. I think the Red Thread birdie cushion is going to be my new go-to present item.
This photo is a mix of things I bought, fabric from the goodie bag and items from the swap. The kids snagged lots of swap goodies though so not everything is there, sorry.
