On the road again

 Yesterday C and I went to the beautiful city of Amersfoort, to visit a quilt exhibition in the local St Joris kerk. 

Just a few of the quilts we saw..

                                                        

                                                         

We were especially in awe about the ( hand) quilting. Such small, regular stitches, amazing!

                                     

The blocks in the first picture were no bigger than a cm2. 

I didn’t take that much pics; C and I just enjoyed and admired the craftsmanship of these quilters.

We walked around in the city too, had a coffee in the morning and a fresh roll in the afternoon.

If you want too see all of the quilts, visit the insta of @juudsquilts, she made several video’s.

Spring!

 Two days with family outings! One to the Waterloopbos, where engineers once tested the famous Dutch waterworks in real life on a small scale and 2 days later a trip to the biggest Dutch castle, castle de Haar with the oldest grandgirls

Loved both days, out in the forest and the castle grounds surrounded by loved ones and enjoying the fresh greens of spring. 

Revival

I had not-one-of-my-best winters. I will spare the details, but now spring is here, garden is starting to bloom and I emerge once more.😜

I paused quilting on the black/white/grey quilt that is appropriately called the “ ups and downs “ quilt, because the excess bearding of the bamboo batting drives me nuts and because my hands started to act up. Time for a break.

While browsing my files, I came across the “ Smitten” quilt pattern and it called my name!

Ofcourse the pattern had templates but it was recommended to get Marti Michelle’s set H and they are just the thing for this quilt.

There are large hexagons and hexagons containing 3 small ones…

Fun, but difficult to do for I find it hard to choose the right fabrics, and already made some blocks that I ditched later one. But that doesn’t matter, I like the process so far

Most, if not all, quilters that made this quilt, sew it using the English paperpiecing technique. Tried that, but I see no point in cutting a gazillion paper hexies, glueing the fabric on and get the paper out again later on. English paperpiecing séwing is a nono for me too. Just hate it. I’ll get there with old fashioned patchwork techniques, that never failed me so far