Wedding anniversary

Twelve and a half years ago

we both said YES

What I've been up to lately

Together with my mum I did a workshop making felt stones: a morning of talking, felting, eating cake, drinking coffee and more talking: it was fun!

And yesterday we had a meeting of our regional Quilt Guild which was a whole day of fun

We had to make a block in the morning by folding fabric and folding it again and then sewing it all together.

In the afternoon we were entertained by a lady of a hat museum. I love hats!

And we all got to wear one in the end.

The quilt shown (also in detail) was a Japanese design full of Drunkard's Path.

And I could not resist the silk book cover with embroidered wreath: awww

This weekend I'm off with former colleagues to Ameland, a Dutch Isle. I walked there once, at low tide of course. But that was at least 30 kilos ago ...

We'll be mostly seeing this I hope

I hope you'll have a great weekend too!

Happiness is ...

Whatever the postman brings in big envelopes or packages, like this big one:

All half metres of Salt Water by Tula Pink, but you knew that.

Haven't got a clue yet what to do with them except enjoying them just as they are. 

I like the wavy quilt Tula has made with these fabrics, you can see it here.

The quick project I told you about last time is nearly ready; I'll show you when it's ready.

Can anyone tell me how to quilt minkee? Will it not lose its fluffiness?

Completely useless

Just a quicky for today and it's got nothing to do with quilting.
It's a website that is good for a laugh, so not completely useless, but a wonderful time waster ...
Click the site (please), click on the big PLEASE.
Every time you click, it opens a new page.
Close that page and go back to the first site to click on PLEAE again for a new site.
And there are A LOT.
Sometimes you have to read the URL to understand (the joke)

http://www.theuselessweb.com

Have fun and till later this week as I'm working on a quicky too!

January

The first month of the year is over and I feel as if I've accomplished something.
Besides a lot of snow and cold thus feeding the birds, I have been sewing!
And enjoying it too.

My Dead Simple Scrappy Trip around the World consists of 9 blocks at the moment and I think I'd like to add some (7? 14?) more. (One block is totally messed up and I'll unpick that)

The birds in the garden had a lot to eat. The latest thing (craze?) here is saltless peanutbutter for them. Especially when it's really cold they eat a jar in 2 to 3 days.

Blackbirds love apples and eat everything around the core.

Ahh my daughter's hamster died; she buried it in our garden.

(She's 23 so no drama's there)

I'm glad my sewing mojo is back!

Now I'm off to look at all the others at Lynn's and I'll be at this Friday Party

Dead Simple around the world

Of course I've been bitten by that Scrappy Trip around the World too.
And now I know how I'm going to make mine: I still have a bunch of fat quarters lying around after inspiration hit me from Lily's Dead Simple Quilt.
I'll keep you posted!

Have a great weekend.

A new year and new Inspiration

You've probably been overloaded with good wishes for 2013 and you can add mine to the bulk!
After a long and dark autumn (for me) it'll better be a GREAT year.
But you have to work on that: happiness doesn't always come floating by (is my experience).

I joined two Dutch quilters to talk about a meeting of Modern Dutch Quilters: a Sew Inn, we called it.
That was in October, if I remember correctly. We set up a meeting with more quilters for January.
We invited some quilters we'd met before and others whom we only knew through the internet.
Some were ill, some didn't respond.

We met in Leiden, 30 km south of Amsterdam, which was a bit of a drive for me: I left my house at 06.45 (on a Sunday morning!). It was worth it, though!

from left to right: Linda,  Muriël,  Ingrid, Mari (you can see her back), Eva-Marie.
Lotje was there too, but not in this picture

Ingrid, Linda, Muriël

Lotje and Mari holding Mari's AMH-voile quilt 

Muriël's Medallion quilt (from Bloomin' Workshop)

We all brought part of our libraries

Muriël's Value (+ Low Volume) quilt

Special thumbs of very creative people
(Mari & Linda)

In the spring we'll have another Sew Inn.
In the meantime, I think Eva-Marie has set up a Double Dutch Flickr page for us.
Now all I have to do is get into Flickr again as I haven't been able to do that for months; my daughter said she'd help me with that: GREAT!