Great! Maybe I'll drool from here and then go wild while I am there! :-)

Meant to tell you that in the yellow pages the quilting places are under "patchwork and quilting" or "patchwork and quilters..."

Oh thanks, I never would have thought to loo.k there

Grandmother's garden is another beautiful shop I believe...close to Hamilton... maybe Gordonton... a friend is going to take me, soon I hope. There is another at Hamilton... she needs to look in the Hamilton yellow pages phone book... Hamilton is about an hour and a half south of Auckland...

Luckie you Nursie have fun :thumbup:

Here is another quilt shop... the crafty needle ltd., Manukau..... probably be able to google it to get address and phone number... it is new and worth going to.

Will do!

Thanks again!

Nursie... I am sooo jealous.. my roommate has been to NZ a couple of times and we have a friend there he's visited. She came here a year or two ago and for a "bread and butter gift" ( do people even call it that any more?) she brought me some half yard cuts of fabric.. I have been cherishing them, and get them out and stroke them now and then.. haven't come up with an idea to use them yet. Yes, the patterns are different, but I love them all... have a wonderful trip and don't forget to move around to help prevent dvt's on that long flight.

Thanks Tippy for the advice. I plan on moving about as much as possible, may help me to forget I am flying....nah, I guess not!lol

I understand having special fabric and stroking it, i thought I was the only one that did that :D

for nursie 76 - how did you get on in New Zealand... did you manage to do a big shop (fabrics)