UK Quilters
Get out of the box. Get out of your comfortzone. We hear it all over the place. It is supposed to be good, and healthy, and challenging. But whatever, we do have our favourite colors, our favourite fabrics, designers, right? And we quilt for fun, right? Well, that is right. And I KNOW what I…
I just LOVE Christmas… The colors, the joy, the cosyness at home, my christmastree with all the beautiful souvenirs from our holidays, I just love it all. It starts itching when I change my kitchen curtains from orange-autumn colours to checkered red and white… I have this very simple lapquilt made from squares; one side…
Everybody in the Netherlands was sighing through these last weeks. Extremely hot temperatures, and very, very dry. I heard from a lot of quilters that they didn’t produce much, since it was just too hot to hold the fabric… And that was right. But. I have this thing to do… Already showed you in earlier…
Since last Friday we are on the road again, DH and I. We flew from Schiphol to Phoenix, got a car and drove into our holidays… This trip will last almost 4 weeks, and it’s our 11th trip to the States. We will visit Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and maybe a little Utah. Texas is…
In my last blog you could read about the start of my Travelers Blanket adventure. I practiced on the scarf, but it kept itching in my head… So, about 8 months ago I started making a Travelers Blanket. In this blog I will tell a little bit about the process of making it -maybe I…
Blankets and fabric Three years ago we had our first contact. Donna was working on a Travelers Blanket and I loved it. I responded and we got Facebook-friends. The Travelers Blanket is an idea and design by Dijanne Cevaal. When people didn’t blog, or even sent postcards, they did travel anyway… On the road they…
My DH and I are members of a great Mercedesclub. There are about 65 members, and most of them own (at least) one beautiful Mercedes. Some of them are oldtimers, some rare, some of them have youngtimers or just plain modern Mercs. But we all are very passionate about our cars. We have this club…
About a year ago I found myself very bored with my job. I felt very guilty about it, since it was a dreamjob… I worked as a coordinator for a project called “Home-Start”, where I train, coach, support and match volunteers to a family. The volunteers stay for about a year in the family and…
