Veldhoven Part 1

 Well, so far, so splendid.. Last night's Travelodge was hidden down a back lane marked "No Entry" and was fusty, but cheap.. Here I am at the NH Konigshof which is one of the better places I have stayed in my travels.. I have had a small sleep, a swim, and supper, and I'm happy.. My quilts are being hung by tall pretty Dutch ladies, and I have a bookbinding class tomorrow..
The grounds are delightful, wooded and not at all formal.. Blackbird above was exploring next to my car and not offended by the camera.

 Lily Of The Valley springs up and post wears down

















The journey down was marked by the most astounding trees, all misty and multi-coloured with new Spring growth.. Unfortunately, Belgian and Dutch motorways have very few stopping-places in the woods, so no pictures.

 The corridors have already some quilts hanging.. This is
Dochters Van Het Licht by Ellen Siemer

 And this is Rit Mein Blues by the same artist.  The wonderful intensity of the colour is hard to capture, and the hand-stitching is fabulous, see details below

 Finally, a Shadow on the floor in a deserted corridor.. So nice to see the sunlight..

More tomorrow and all through the Show

Duck Too Quick

By the time I had realised that she was nesting, the eggs had hatched and the ducklets were swimming

Cheep, cheep, cheep...

More Roadkill - Bread Bag, and New Work

And my Ruby/Lipari Twelve Trees, in progress (going to Expo Veldhoven)

I get to teach Japanese Bookbinding there on the Thursday before the show - to book see the link above.  There are places left..

Not Suffering Fools...

..not in the mood..
Posted the stuff to Mike without photographing - I plead busyness, soorry...
So, here's a Roadkill

Rusty! Crumpled! Fabuloso...!

Happy Thursday

First Impressions..

Look here - new colours from Oakshott Fabrics - these are Impressions

A common white warp and sixteen colours make for a particularly nice selection.. I thought these would be much less to my taste than the more intense Ruby and Lipari colours, but they are really rather bold in a clean-and-sunshiny way.

Michael from Oakshott has asked me to remake the Tiger on the Table set with some extras to show these off..

Progress so far

Blocks made

Pressed

Trimmed

Trimmings..
and

Top assembled

More tomorrow..
Pattern for free download HERE
Tiger blocks tutorial HERE

Obligatory Cat Post

As you may or may not know, a Cat Post is required every tenth post or so, or the Blogger interface gets grumpy and will not play..
Humbug with Cat Toy, on Mat, in front of the fire, on top of my laptop case.. Everthing a Cat Needs.

Hard life, eh!

And Another Five Photographs of The Rusty Train

Normal Service is resumed.. The computer was drowned in a freak cup-of-tea accident caused by Temporary Teeth and sleeplessness
£949.03

Ouch..

Five More Photographs of The Rusty Train

Five Photographs - Rusty Train

At a Yorkshire Museum.. More tomorrow

Busy and Shivering

 This is one of my current projects, a 12 Trees in Black-and-White Oakshott fabrics.. The sashings were a puzzle that I had to headscratch a little to solve.  Layered and Ready To Quilt but I don't quite know how, yet.. I will make a version of the pattern for this.. It's about 50 inches high, and the grey stripes are the back..

And this is Venus Trees, (or possibly another title), layered and part-quilted today.  A lot of slightly odd and a bit random 6-1/2 inch blocks arranged into big nine-patches, overlaid with trees (actually, more trees, as some of the blocks are already treeish) then assembled and (so far) quilted on the block joins, and about half-way through diagonally on all the blocks.. Then there might be circles.. Or something else.. I'm pleased with this one..

It's for Holland in May.. I just hope I can get thawed out before then.. It's utterly, bitterly, freezing here, and I can't get warm.. I have so many clothes on that I'm unwilling to pee, and my hands are hurting..
Roll On Spring!