UK Quilters
Does a quilters block exist? Yes. Just like a writers block, a quilters block is real. Staring at your fabric, at your sewing machine, paging through pattern books or just trying to give it a go. And stop again. You want to make something, but it just does not happen. Are you familiar with that?…
“As could be expected everything is going different” You better (re)think! Its a year already… So much has changed. There nothing left to say: everybody has her own experiences with Covid… Last year we thought, well, OK, not this year, but next year, we will. Just continue, right? Everything will turn out right. Right? October…
The first time I laid eyes on coats made by Marijke van Welzen I was blown away. It was my first quilt show ever since I just started quilting. Those coats were PRESENT. When I developed myself as a quilter I noticed I was drawn to art quilting, so I followed art quilt classes. I…
Dye-ing for more! I don’t even remember when I first started dyeing clothes in the washingmachine… Jeans, pants made from old bedlinen, dresses.. Sometimes I used rubber bands to create extra effect. Since I started artquilting I experienced a little bit more. I bought my first package of Procion paintpowder last year, and tryed snowpainting.…
Why I went? (To the FoQ, off course 🙂 ) Because I wanted to see my “Traveling with Kaffe”, hanging in the wrong section. I should have entered it into “art quilts”. But hey, what do I know? First time… And so I did see it. I went to see new friends: I met Sue…
I wrote earlier on this page about my long journey with my quilt “Travelling with Kaffe and Dijanne”. The first blog was about what got me started with it: my dear friend Donna. Read that blog here: https://ukqu.co.uk/blankets-and-fabric/ Before I knew it, I tore up an old bedcover and dyed it in the washingmachine. You…
Do you know that feeling? That a quilt is “ready to be born”, you bought the fabric, you have the pattern at the ready or the drawings done, and you really really are longing to make it? But. There is always so much to do. Work. Housework. Garden. Children. Family, friends, everything seems to cry…
I love cats. I think a lot of quilters do. I used to have one: my Tiger, who had to go to another hooman because of my severe allergy. No need to say I cried my eyes out while coughing because of the pneumonia… After dear Tiger moved away, I noticed there where benefits. The…
I dare to bet you know the experience. Somebody you love dearly is getting married, having a baby, a birthday, retirement, and you are working on THE gift: a double weddingring for on their kingsize bed. Or a babyquilt in just the cutest colors. You looked for the pattern with joy in your heart, chose…
We don’t get it much anymore in the Netherlands, snow. So if we do, all the art quilters go crazy. When the weather people tell us code yellow is coming up because of… OH NO! 5 centimetres of snow, we are already busy gathering soda ash and fabric… Last year I had to much other…
Sometimes things just WHOOP out of control. I did make them before; my notebooks. I love notebooks: I have a lot, and I use them all the time. These first notebooks I made were made out of one of those projects for-the-road: I took this on trains, plains and automobiles! It was easy patchwork by…
When I was about 14 or 15, I embellished clothes. It started with camouflaging little holes, making them into flowers… No idea about Boro, back then… I never really stopped embellishing, but when I started quilting hell broke loose. I went to a class from Marijke van Welzen, and started embellishing for real.. Then came…
