Masterclass with Hilde van Schaardenburg

Some time ago I went to a masterclass with Hilde van Schaardenburg at Bordura. It was called: ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet.

We had to " just let the fabric talk to you" and not have a plan the moment we started free motion quilting. This is not an easy thing to do. But very interesting and the results were stunning!! 

Still have to finish the little project and will probably frame it like a painting.

Hope you are inspired too by taking classes or meeting fellow quilters. 

Happy quilting,

Rose-Anne

Mystery part 10

After a busy time because of the quilt show in Deventer, I almost forgot what my sewing machine looked like....
But I made today into a quilt-day and finished the top of the mystery quilt Little Carrousel by Françoise Maarse.

hang in there Little Carrousel, help is on the way

strips for the 2cm wide border

preparing the first border

adding the second 10cm wide border

work station

Now I can show the result to the "Vughtse Stucjes" quilt bee tonight at my house.
Still have to sew the mitered corners, but I will manage before 8pm.....


Happy sewing,
Rose-Anne

Garden time

Today I am enjoying my garden. Still a lot of things to do, but today it will be too hot to pull weeds.

Hope you get some quilting inspiration from these pictures.

vegetables and herb garden

pumpkin flower

malva

pumpkins growing

bees on the buddleia

lathyrus on the fence

rosa bonica and vinca minor

lathyrus flower

Happy summer,
Rose-Anne

Bee and bees

This afternoon we heard a lot of noise. And this was the reason:

 Two bunches of bees in the tree!! I called a beekeeper to come and get them. Hopefully he will be able to come tomorrow morning and take them with him to their new home....

Lots of activities inside the house as well because it was my turn to host the bee.
Maybe there is a relation between the two? We will never know.....

Happy sewing,

Rose-Anne

First Quilt Bee at my new home

Last night our quilt bee got together in my new home for the first time. Finally I have enough light and no more stuff on the dining room table and was ready to receive the ladies. We did some sewing, quilting and had a look at my sewing room. 

For me this group is very important, because I am new in town. It gives me the feeling of being part of something special, sharing the passion for fabric and quilting.

I was so excited that I forgot to take pictures!! Here are some pictures from the day after......


Here some pictures of the show and tell in my sewing room.

my teapots with handkerchiefs waiting to be sewn into a quilt

Shanghai red triptych made for a challenge  

Hawaiian block I made in Shanghai

Here some pictures of the dining room where we had a very productive and entertaining quilt bee.
We even might have found ourselves a name.....

dining room with added light

I was working on my mystery block 6

basket with flannels for doll making was a hot item for 2 ladies

Happy sewing,

Rose-Anne

How desperate can you be....

It's about time for another post. So much has happened since the first posting. I don't know where to start.
The quiltshop www.quilterij.nl in Den Bosch celebrated its' 10th anniversary. Finally I met the lady behind a blog I have been following since a year or so www.fabricwonderland.blogspot.com . She organizes a quiltcafe every month and it was a lot of fun meeting other quilters that afternoon. I didn't bring anything to work on, but that didn't matter. I smelled fabric again and could see other projects that inspired me.

I have my mothers' old sewing machine with me and finally got it working again. It drank half a bottle of sewing machine oil ..... In the Quilterij I bought a ruler and some pins and with that I thought I was ready to start sewing my tree blocks from Edyta Sitar. So on the day that I had to stay home for KPN to install the internet connection I planned to start cutting the squares I had been sewing with the triangle paper. But I was still missing one more tool: a cutting mat !! So I took one of my plastic cutting boards from the kitchen en started cutting. How desperate can you be.....

a new beginning

For almost a year I have been told by my friends I had to start blogging about quilting, traveling, cooking and gardening. But I had to wait for the right moment. That moment has come now and here is my first post.

After living abroad for 12 years, I have returned to my home country, the Netherlands. Closer to my family and friends, but further away from all the friends I made in the past 12 years living all over the world.


Through this blog I want to keep my friends from all over the world posted about my new life here in the south of Holland. Finding new friends through quilting, gardening and maybe starting playing golf again.


No pictures and links for now, I am a novice in bloggers-land.


Rose-Anne