summer solstice

 Happy Summer Solstice !

Not yet finished.
For that will surely take a lot more time
and a better copy of the Stonehenge ground plan,
one with the fallen stones and the lintels on it.

What a lovely combination with the sunflowers !!!
(that I received yesterday)

One of our house guests for a few days was interested.

Normally they love to sit in my work-chair 

just an idea . . .

An idea popped into my head
when I was thinking about the inside of my sun piece.
I tried threads, a strip of old lace
but I wasn't sure about any of it.
And then I thought : why not
STONEHENGE

After some searching
I found the plan of the stones
that form the imposing monument of Stonehenge
Nothing better to fill in the heart of my solstice piece !

Sadly our (rather new grrrr) printer is not behaving well,
so only the big standing stones
(that were coloured black) were on my copy.
These are the ones I stitched so far
. . . . .
I will have to find a way to transfer
all the fallen stones (gray) on my cloth as well !

(it is really summer here : a heatwave and also
a major thunderstorm yesterday !!!)

wordless Wednesday

 

such sweet memories !!!

Today we had a lovely
"long-time-no-see" friend with her daughter
visiting us !

Sixty eight years ago I first met Karin.
We were both having our summer-camping-holiday in Austria :
we were from The Netherlands (Rotterdam)
and they came from Germany (Nürnberg)
We were both single girls away with our parents
(my much older brother never went with us)
Not speaking the language
is no big problem for children :
we played, we talked with our hands
or asked the grown ups to translate for us.
We had a click were very happy together.

On our way back home we stopped by their place
and that was the start of a loooong friendship
and many many letters
after I started German in the second year
in secondary school.

In August 2020 the Stitch Club workshop by Anne Kelly
was about making a leporello booklet
and I decided to make one about my long friendship with Karin.
I unearthed ephemera that I didn't know I still had
and had such great fun making the booklet !!!

My dearest Karin and daughter Jana
(who, with her brother, made this trip possible)

THANK  YOU  SO  MUCH

for this lovely visit !!!

I hope we can still repeat it in the future !

wordless Wednesday

 

a textile day !

Yesterday daughter and I visited the
"Textiel Festival"
in Amersfoort.



It was the last day of four days stuffed to the brim :
with the presence of all the major textile associations,
workshops, lectures, the results of a competition,
exhibitions through the (lovely old) city,
an Arts & Crafts market and
about 800 "hoops" ("Rondje Textiel")
filled with any textile technique
you can think of !!!

It was a sunny and (too) warm day
so we picked the things we liked most to visit.
I'm sorry to say we just missed "The Red Dress"
because we had to wait too long for a time-slot
but we're happy to have seen the "Colorminds"
and the three "LAK" ladies.
(and of course we came home with some goodies !)

It was a wonderful day !!!
A big THANK  YOU  to the organisation
and all the volunteers who made this possible !

Thank you !

 After a quiet Sunday
a very busy Monday and again a quiet day today
I have time to tell you that we had a lovely Saturday
at the GRIETMARKT !

(ready for the start)

Sunshine, a sweet friend assisting me,
a happy friend in the next stall who had her first try,
lots of nice people to talk to about felting, stitching and painting
and some sales !
We went home satisfied.

A big
THANK  YOU
to the team who organized the market
and my customers !!!