The "Vughtse Stuckjes" bee

Yesterday we figured out how to put together our group project from all the strips. We all got a shoebox filled with 3cm strips sorted by color.

In the end we decided it should look like this:

We decided to make 8 more blocks, so we will have 4 Chinese lanterns in 6 different colors. (Green is joining us soon!!)
Don't think it will be ready for the Algemene Tentoonstelling this year, but it will be in 2015!!!

It is fun to work on a group project, maybe we have to start another one.
Still lots of scraps left……..

I am working with the purple strips…. no surprise there…..

Happy Quilting!!

Rose-Anne

Yes I did it!!

I decided it was about time I send in my application for the Algemene Tentoonstelling.
Due date is May 1st.

So today I took my memory stick to the photo shop and had them print out the pictures of my quilt. Put them in an envelope and filled out the form. Yeah!!! There was no way back after I dropped the envelope in the mailbox....

And now I will have to wait (together with 300 other ladies and a few men) to find out if my quilt will be accepted.
I hope they have enough space, because it measures 250 cm x 250 cm ........

Keep your fingers crossed.

Happy Quilting,

Rose-Anne

Busy, busy, busy

Just before the opening of the show in Deventer of the Dutch Quiltersgilde a lot of things have to be done. Many volunteers are busy organizing, collecting, hanging the quilts and getting the shops ready for the famous "winkelroute". Around 30 to 40 shops in the city center have a quilt on display in their window. So walking through Deventer is a quilt show on its own. But you still need to come to the Big Church to see the 300 quilts that have been chosen by the selection committee. This years theme is : Connection.  

the big church is where the show will be held

Deventer is a beautiful city. And to make it even more special: you can park your car at the other side of the river IJssel and take the little ferry. It runs until 11 pm so there is still time to have diner after the show in one of the restaurants in town.

poster quilt of the Algemene Tentoonstelling

Hopefully it will be very busy with visitors and the Quiltersgilde will get lots of new members.

So for me as a new prospective board member these are busy times. Not much time to quilt lately, but I will take a little handwork with me to Deventer....

Happy sewing,
Rose-Anne