Thursday, 1 April 2010

2 quilt projects

I did a lot of quilting the last few months

I made a mini quilt with baskets the size of the quilt is 27x27 cm( 10x10 inch)
In Leiden we had the Textiel Festival last week,
The dutch quilters guild ( Quilters Gilde) had the yearly mini quiltshow,
my quilt was there.



And I finished my yoko saito bag,here you see me with my friend Ellen ,
We did the class together by Marleen Wijn.

Monday, 22 March 2010

medaillon quilt from Isabeau

A lot of Quilters asked Isabeau for a picture of her quilt, it was in the magazine of Quiltmania number 73 of 2009.
here it is.
If You use this patern, please send a picture to: quiltcat@tiscalimail.nl



Wednesday, 17 February 2010

more from tokyo quiltshow

I want to show you some pictures I made at the Tokyo quiltshow,
In the next days I show you more but my computer is a bit sick,
it is impossible so add more pictures now, so keep watching.

All in information was in Japanees (?) so I cannot tell you who made the Quilts














Yoko Saito

Monday, 8 February 2010

TOKYO QUILT FESTIVAL 2010

I went with 11 quilting friends from the Netherlands with an english group
to Japan (www.japanjourneys.co.uk)

Here are some pictures made at the show in Tokyo


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The Indigo Quilts were wonderfull












Saturday, 16 January 2010

IJBURG

The Dutch are well known for making new land in water
In Amsterdam they made IJBURG.
Two quilting friends of my are living there,
here are some pictures.

And I think there are more Quilters on IJburg?


and there are bridges and bikes


We had a lot of snow so here are the winter picture.




Sunday, 20 December 2009

Yoko Saito

I am making a Bag from the book of Yoko Saito
I have it in French From Quilt Mania
I have a lot of books from Yoko Saito
She is a big inspiration for me.
I like the japanese fabrics from Daiwabo and Le Chien.

The book



Yoko's bag


My first half of the bag.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Quilt for Pepijn

I made this quilt for Pepijn, the grand son of one of my friends.
Here you see him on the quilt.