Isabeau in Quiltmania

Isabeau, Wil and I where in Saint-Marie -Aux - Mines.
There we visit the quiltmania booth.
In the new magazine NR 73 is an article about my friend Isabeau.
Here are some pictures.

Guy,the photographer of quiltmania, Isabeau and Carol the editor in chief of Quiltmania


This quilt Isabeau made years ago.


Work in progress.
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my little lion

I have two cats,sisters.
They both are britisch shorthair tabby cats, one grey and one brown.

Saartje is the grey one

Pluisje is the brown tabby,
she is a breed variation, has long hair ,
she hates the comb, and therefore. she gets a lot of knots.
so I take her to the vet each year to be shaved,
unfortunately she has to be under anaesthetic.

This is how she normaly is



And this how she is now, the vet keeps a plume at the end of her tail, otherwise she doesn't regornises her own tail.





She looks like a cartooncat now,she is so tiny .
But I think she is happy without all that hair.

quilt

the quilt you see in the header of my blog.

I want to share some information about it.
I bought it in Paducah, in the town during the quiltshow in April.
The dealer was from Houston.
I fell in love immediate.
What I like so much is the bright cheddar triangles,
And that it is not so perfect.
It is from ca 1880.
Good condition.

next time I will show you the little Lion in my house
Whait and you will see, she doen't want to be on a picture.

Lake district England

I was on a short holiday in England Cumbria ( the Lake District) With a friend , We are friends for more than 40 years.
We stayed in a Bed and Breakfast near Windermere.
It is a beautiful part of the UK

This is our b& b.

This is Henry the cat at our Bed and Breakfast.

Near Kendal is LEVENS HAll House and Gardens
the Elizabethan mansion is built aroud 13th century
the gardens are famous they are from ca 1694.
This is an example of the cutting

this is levenshall house

We saw the earliest english patchwork in the house
www.levenshall.co.uk


we went to the Quaker Tapestry Exhibition in Kendal( Cumbria)
the picture of the Amsterdam part of the tapestry is on their leaflet.

my quilt space

When I am quilting I always need a lot of space ,
never it is good organised,
it is always immediately a mess
I wonder how other quilters,
can have everything clean and tidy .
when I clear out my room I cannot find things.
but it is time to do it.

quilt

It is time to put something on the blog.

I made this quilt years ago a workshop with marianne fons
making a quilt in a weekend ( it took some more time)
I made it on machine.

Quilts block swap

Years ago I did a catblockswap
we had to make a lot of catblocks
Jeannette finished the quilt,
mine is still in the Ufo box



This is the block I had made,
( ca about 30) ,
with my cat Pimmetje in mind
( he is in heaven for many years now).