England textile tour.(1)

I was in England with the textile tour of Deb Roberts together with my friend Rhoxane
We spend 17 days on all kind of textiles, mostley quilts.
We started In Manchester than Wales, Bath, London, Durham, York and again Manchester.
I saw beautiful quilts but I cannot put them on the blog ( copyright things)

But I can give you some impressions, of our tour.

This is an shop in Manchester but I saw it also in London,
They have hunders of sewing machines in their shop window.




In london we had dinner with 2 nice ladies I met last year at the retreat of Gwen Marston May Elizabeth Kinch and Biz Storms,
The Autors of "Small Blocks Stunning Quilts,

Pour L'Amour du Fil -Nantes- 22-25 Aprile 2010! ...
Here are some impressions of the show in Nantes.

( I had a question about the baskets The patern is from Block Base
( Electric Quilt)

The ladies from QUILTMANIA







And the Dutch ladies of BOBBIN.

quilt for yael

we made this quilt for Yael's birthday

 

quilts 1700-2010

Yesterday I went with my quiltingfriends Ellen and Isabeau to London, to see the Quilts in the V&A( Victoria and AlbertMuseum)
It was great, what a beautiful quilts.

When you go, I think you must take the Ipod with the info of the quilts.
You can buy the APP in the Itunes store and you can download it on your Iphone.
So when You cannot go and have an Iphone, you can see some quilts.



I had troubles to make pictures of the book and place them on this blog they turn wrong??
but here are some of them.

max

My famely had a said week,
the dog from my mother passed away last week,
he became 9 years old,
here you see him with my aunt Lize,she was 88 at this picture,
a few years ago she died at 93.
she was also a quilter you see her with the hexagons on the floor

quilt from isabeau

Isabeau saw this quilt in a magazine
she loves it so , here is the top.

an other quilt project

Long time ago I started this japanese project,
Now I try to finish it Ellen also started with hers.
Together we are working on our quilts.
We are no machine piecers so it is not easy for us.
but the end is not so far away anymore.

my quilt from japanese fabrics.


this me on stairs to pin my blocks


Saartje is helping us selecting the fabrics.



here you see Ellen working on her quilt,


this is a part of her quilt