Round Robin, Helena

Hi,

Just wanted to post my update on Helena's Round Robin. I think it is finished now, but might add something if I feel that it needs something more. On Friday Cathi is coming and since she is the one I sent my RoundRobin's too next, she will be taking it with her...



This is a detail of some of the lace I put on and added beads over it:




I also finished a rose that I am going to put on my crazyquilt:


Back to sewing now!

Barbara

Meeting and bought a witch

Hi!

This morning I went to a get-together from our local quilt-guilds here in the area. We were about 40 people.















You could choose out of 3 projects to make for Christmas, and later that day they were going to have a big meeting, to talk about quilting in our region and so on.











Weronica made a star and got it almost finished when we left at lunch-time.









We saw this really nice bag that Karin made:



We left early to go to the opening of our friend Lena's exhibition. She does a lot of different things, but now mostly dolls, paintings and things with wool. Here are some of her things:

I can fly:


A Christmas girl doll, very Swedish


A witch,



This serie of 3 "paintings" made of wool:



My favorite was this witch, she looks very nice and old on her broom...and hangs from a string...


and when she turns around:



and now she is mine! I bought her, I will be able to really hang her somewhere when the exhibition is over. I think I am going to hang her in the window...so she can look sweet and nice to us...and moon the neighbor's who are nosy and always try to look in.....*lol*

bye for now!

The first block

Hi,

Just want to share a picture of the first block:



It is a bit of a rainy day here and very dark, so the colors aren't quite right..

Barbara

Okay...normal blogs again

Hi!

Now that I wrote what there was to write about the trip I thought I would be time for a normal blogmessage again.

I was working on my red and white-quilt and have made 2 blocks so far:


I have started a on-line class on Joggles about CrazyQuilting and I am doing a lot for that at the moment. It is a six week class and is given by SharonB

Last weekend I made a foldercover for all the readingmaterial that we get:



And after reading all the material for the first class I found out that my fabrics were a bit to busy, so I went into town yesterday and bought some more fabric that didn't have a motif on it. Needless to say that I found some other goodies too??


I am working on our RoundRobin CrazyQuilt for Helena, and this is what I have done so far:

And bought some goodies for that too:





On a sad note: our LQS is closing down. It is really sad and we will miss the shop. On the positive side...a big sale is going on. This is my best purchase yet. It is from Clover. It is a folder, on the outside you can pin and iron, inside there is a sandbord for tracing on fabric, an applique mat (used for working with a Hera Marker) and a cuttingbord. It is wonderful and I got such a great deal on it. I almost bought it in Holland for 50 euro and paid 20 euros here! It is great for classes and bee's.




Today I am going to work on some more CrazyQuilting for the class, might up-load the blog soon again!

Bye!
Barbara

What a great trip part 4

Hi,

Here again..trying to upload some more pictures is Blogger will let me...

At Irma's Sampler..Lucy's LQS:




Some pictures of Lucy's stacks of quilts:





Here are some pictures of other places but typical Dutch:





On a Sunday I taught one of my best-friends Sasha how to quilt together with her MIL, it was a lot of fun. We had ordered the fabric together from the FQshop on-line and the fabrics had arrived on time!


She called me a couple of days ago and told me she had finished tracing all the templates and cutting them out with the 1/4 inch seam allowance. I am so proud of her..doesn't it look great? So now the piecing starts for her...


Okay...I think that might have seen enough of my trip to see it was busy and very productive, so I think this will be the last hollidaypost and get back to posting about normal things for a while;-)))

Barbara

What a great trip part 3.

Hi!

As I said last time I was going to write something about our great day at Lucy's house, as it turns out...we had so much fun that we forgot to take a picture of her house or Lucy and her kids..or the 4 of us. We do have some pictures but not a lott...

Well the day started with meeting her at her LQS were she works and we had a tour of all the quilts and teachingsamples:



They also have a large selection of Dutch fabrics that are still used in the traditional costumes. In some villages in Holland there are still women who wear them everyday. In the village called spakenburg there are still 650 women who do and the youngest is 50 years old. So in time this will probably disappear, but here are some pictures of the quiltshop were they had the fabrics, plus some pictures of the quilts that were in a museum in Spakenburg.

In these quilts the mourning fabrics are used. The used different fabrics to show how close you were to the person who died. If it was parents or husband or children you would wear the darkest purple..this is called mourning in years (4 years) The middle color for sisters and brothers, mourning in months and that would be 4 months. The palest color were uncles, ants, niece and nephews, mourning in weeks (4 weeks)




After we spent some time and some money in her LQS we went to her house and got a miniature class of the beautifully StarQuilt.
She even showed us all her quilts and she has made a lot, so that was so much fun to see...

The rest of the week we kept on shopping and they went home on Saturday, the week after that my DH came with his MIL and we did more touristy things like Amsterdam, Spakenburg and so on.
I wanted to upload some more pictures of that but Blogger doesn't want to upload more now...I have that sometimes...strange huh?

Barbara

What a great trip part 2

Hi!

Okay so here is part 2 of our trip. After showing you all I bought and the projects I will be working on, I thought it would be time to show you some of the things we did.

On Sunday:
We spent half the day sightseeing. In the morning we went to the "hei" Don't know what that is called in English. They still have a large number of sheep here going around everyday with a dog and a herder. When we came the "hei" it was no longer in bloom. Normally the whole fields are pink and purple.


After that we went to a small village called Hardewijk which is quite old. Here are some old houses.

In the evening I had some friends who came over and we celebrated my birthday.


On Monday:

On Monday we went to Kampen. It is a small city were I was born. It used to be Hanzestad, which were an allicance of towns in Holland, but also in other countries in Holland were the harbors where. In the town I lived they used to arrive with the big ships from India and other countries in 1700 and 1800. So this town has the classical Dutch structure of an old city with canals and a large wall around the city with gates against invaders.
Here is one of the gates:




















When we were here, we visited my cousin, who started quilting 2 years ago. When my mom died, we cleaned out her house together and on our short breaks I would quilt a bit to get my mind on other things...so she saw it...we went to the quiltingshop which was my moms neighbour and a new quilter was born. Here is a picture of her and some of her quilts:


I really like her quilts and the colors she picks out. She does everything by hand and doesn't even own a rotarycutter to my surprise.
We also went to see my uncle. He is a carpenter and he builds old boats. He sometimes makes boats that are still drawn in old historical documents, but since they were all made of wood, have rotten away a long time ago. So most of them you can find in museums now. We saw him on the boat and we able to have a look around. It was much fun...but I forgot to take a picture. So here are a picture of the boats he makes, but the picture was made in the town Spakenburg (I will tell you all about that one later!)


On wednesday:
We visited Petra Prins Patchwork, and had a class in Japanese Applique and used this tool and a finger presser that I can't find a picture of on the clover website, but it is from clover. We spent the whole day there and they spent a lott of hours cutting all of our fabrics...*s* since we bought so much...we really had a great day

So as some of you may have seen I skipped the Thursday, but that is because I have some special thing to write about it tomorrow!

I started on a block for my red and white quilt. It is looking great and the 6" blocks are quite fast to do. I am going to prepare some more pieces today, and work on Helena's CrazyQuilt!

Bye for now!

Barbara

What a great trip!!

Hi Everybody!

Well, I am back from my 2 week vacation. I had so much fun! I have seen so much and done so much in these 2 weeks! The first week in Holland I was with my friends Weronica and Helena from Sweden. My father moved in with his girlfriend for 2 weeks so I could use his house..it was perfect! To thank him we made him 2 pillows for on his red sofa:


Since we are all quilters it was mostly a quilting trip. I bought a lott of fabric for new projects..and this is what a bought..plus some books and magazines:


I think I wrote about a spoolquilt I am making and I was looking for the perfect sashing and found it at Petra Prins. There are a little more then 260 spools and they are made out of my reproduction scraps, I think the grey,blue will look good:


I also saw a small picture once in a magazine of a quilt that I loved. It was made in red and white and I redrew the pattern and bought the fabric at Petra Prins. I will be making the quilt by hand:


I had seen this pattern in the Quiltmania and loved it. I saw these fabrics at Petra Prins made by Yoko Sato and knew that his was going to be another project:



The internet shop joggles has some great online classes and I registered for a crazy quilting class and I started to collect some fabrics. I made a colourcard before I left and took it with me to get the same look as I have imagined instead of just buying fabric. I want the quilt to be blue/ turquoise and brown and are bought mostly at Petra Prins again!. Here are the fabrics, beads and lace I bought:


On Tuesday we went to see Lucy and had a great day. We went to the shop were she works and met there. It was a great shop and had great quilts hanging everywhere. I fell in love with this quilt:

I bought the book, but don't know when I will start this one...looks a bit tricky huh?..well I am sure that as soon as I start it will work out great...*s*
When we came to her house she learned us how to make her starquilt:


So I have bought some fabrics to make my own. It is going to be a blue and brown one..a bit reproduction inspired and again bought at Petra Prins. On the top you can see my testability..And the big piece of fabric on the bottom of the pile will be my background:


We had a great time at Lucas and meeting her lovely family and her not only handsome husband but great cook too!

Enough retail therapy for now! I will write soon again and show you some more pictures of what we did and saw...Because we did just a bit more then just shopping...Even if it doesn't look like it now...*s*

bye for now...Going to start my red quilt!