Visit to Melbourne and the beginning of no.13

In Melbourne today for professional development. It's so nice to see the ocean again. I recently moved to the country in Victoria Australia for a teaching position, so coming to my city is now a luxury. This morning the ocean was so blue I was very reluctant to leave it. 

After a great day I went hunting for some coffee for my long two hour drive home and saw this awesome red brick building by the beach. This is a little gem on the Port Phillip Bay Coast called Dollies. Such a cute place with great coffee. If you cannot tell this is the beginning of my coffee obsession. My order is a cappuccino with full cream milk and occasionally I will have sugar. I love, love, love coffee! I feel especially lucky to live in Victoria, Australia where good coffee is an art form.

Coffee addiction aside, I have started making my thirteenth quilt. I began on the 1st of May with the cutting the patchwork element. I'm making something a little simpler this time. I want to test out my new Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.2 to see what I can do with it. I also need to get used to its features, especially to the buttons as opposed to dials and levers. So far assembling the squares has been very quick. I feel that it has already cut my time in half. Even though it's such a simple pattern, there are several squares to make. From here I made the centre of the quilt and I'm going to work my way out. I am excited to see how it turns out. 

Miss Mae