Boxkleed

De top van het Hollandse boxkleed is af. Het patroontje van het kussende paartje is een paper piecing patroon van Maaike Bakker. Het was heel eenvoudig te maken, want het had niet veel onderdelen. Ik heb het aangevuld met blokken uit mijn collectie blauwe Hollandse stoffen. G. Het meet nu ongeveer 93 bij 93 cm. G.

Kan het niet laten

En natuurlijk ben ik ook aangestoken door de meiden om met de hexagontas te beginnen. Hopelijk mag ik de tweede les nog aanschuiven bij hun juf, maar voorlopig ben ik nog wel even bezig met de kartonnen malletjes. Geheel tegen mijn principes is dit volledig handwerk, maar wel erg leuk om te doen. Nu nog even leren van M. hoe ik de vierkantjes netjes vastkrijg, want deze twee hebben enorme proppen stof aan de achterkant, dat kan niet de bedoeling zijn. Er zijn 30 hexagons nodig voor de tas en ik gebruik er 10 verschillende hollandse stoffen voor. Voor de vierkantjes heb ik 15 verschillende witte stofjes met een rood werkje erin. Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe dit gaat worden. G.

Starting off the Kaleidoscope...

I bought this book by Eleanor Burns and the ruler years ago, when we were still in the sampler cross-stitch club in de Rijp. Today I finally started the Kaleidoscope quilt of Dutch fabrics I want to make for my dad.
Last week I coloured the quilt plan to have an idea of how many blocks I will have to make.
Yesterday I set up this cutting station. I works wonderfully well. I will have to change the bedsheets for my little niece when she has to sleep in her bed. I'm afraid the bed is filled with fabric threads.
I used M.'s great 6x24 inch ruler to cut 5"strips. I know now what I want for my birthday!
Strips, strips and more strips.... The 5" ones are for the triangles, the 4"ones are for the corner blocks.
By using the kaleidoscope triangle ruler I cut each strip into 8 triangles.
There are three stacks of triangles to be cut: dark, medium and light blues. I've finished the light ones
And this is what the floor looks like after a few hours of cutting... G.

Handwerkbeurs

M. and I went to the Handwerkbeurs in Rotterdam. These are our finds... On the right, the Civil War Diary Quilt fabrics. We needed some colour in our stash. On the left, Dutch fabrics, for my kaleidoscope quilt. Now that I have these, there are no more excuses not to start this quilt. G.

Ragtime Piles

Three weeks ago M., I. and I did a workshop "Ragtime Quilt" at the Quilter's Palet in Den Haag. We had a great day, and Evy, our instructor, showed us her Ragtime Quilts. This really is my kind of quilt... M. can perhaps translate it... It's a quilt of "lange halen, snel thuis".

The seam allowances are all cut to small strips and then the quilt is washed and put in the dryer for a ragged-effect.

Another of Evy's quilts...

The back of the quilt.

So here is the beginning of my ragtime quilt. Piles and piles of Dutch fabric. I've decided to make mine 2 meters by 2 meters, so that means 50 large blocks and 200 small ones! I've collected so many dutch fabrics that all my large blocks are made of different fabric.

Sorting the small blocks to make pairs...

Then sorting the pairs again...

And then you have 50 blocks... Now all I have to wait for is a rainy Sunday to make a nice arrangement of blocks. G.

Scissor Case

Last night we had a great time at I.'s house. She made us a delicious carrot cake and we even managed to finish this scissor case made from selvedges. The package was a gift of quiltshop The Sampler. The button is made from a cent (of course a Queen Juliana one) and I used the selvedges from my own Dutch fabric stash, including the one we bought in Enschede at a quilt exhibition some time ago. You can see Twentse Welle, the name of the museum in one of them. Last night I was very happy with it, but I'm not so happy with the finishing.... Too bad. G.

G's Double Sided Log Cabin

Here are my four finished blocks. They were so great to make, that I decided to find more fabric and turn it into a lapquilt. Of course I used my favourite Dutch fabric again. When I received the black, white and pink (!!) fabric in my Dutch fabric club package, I thought them horrible. So I just used them to get rid of them, thinking I wouldn't make a quilt from this workshop yet. How wrong could I be. I just love my black, white and pink back, and I can't wait to get started on an entire quilt! G.

Dutch Fabrics part 2

And the new additons for my Dutch fabric stash arrived yesterday! G.

Halfway There and Having Doubts: Sister´s Choice Quilt

Well, here it is, the preview of my Sister´s Choice quilt. I have at least 13 more blocks to go, but this will be the setting and I will put a red border around it (picked out by Baby Sister). At first I wanted to make blocks with small sashings between, but it was way too much, Baby Sister would go to sleep dizzy every night, I suppose. Then there are still some choices to be made. Below are two blocks as they should be; the pattern is very clear in these:

Now I´m having doubts about the following blocks... The fabrics are very cute, but the pattern is hardly visible. What do you think, Baby Sister?

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And then the last one: Just horrible, I´m sorry.

Love to hear some comments, please! G.

Dutch Treat Fabric Club

I´ve joined the club! 6 great dutch fabrics every four months. And Minewood Quilting adds a newsletter with the pattern for a lovely block. Can´t wait for the next shipment! G.

Try Out

With my "baby" off to school, I had the afternoon to myself to try out this quiltpattern. It´s a Sister´s Choice block, to be part of a quilt for my sister. I discovered I have to be a bit more precise to make these blocks fit. I love the block, it´s flowery, starry and fun. I ran out of red fabric, so the block will return to the basket until I can visit the quiltshop. G.