ART market

"Cultureel Festival BAARN"

Sunday  3 September 

(12.00  -  17.00)

Still working on some new items for the market
this Sunday !

A brooch, a felted necklace and a bag.
The band for the little bag
hangs to dry in the sun,
that sometimes shines between the showers,
 so I have to be careful that it isn't wet all over again !

I'm also stitching on a "bird" wall hanging
(because the two bigger ones were sold two weeks ago)

but I don't know for sure if this one will be finished in time

. . . . .

If you live anywhere near
and you want a fun afternoon with art and classical music :

COME TO BAARN
on Sunday !

last ART MARKET

Tomorrow will be the very last
ART  MARKET
of this year.

ROTTERDAM  HERE  WE  COME  !

Rododendronplein
(Schiebroek)

10.00  -  16.00

So far I can say, it has been a successful year.

The belt pouch I made for the market in Baarn
was sold early in the morning !

It turned out very well that the long band
made it possible to wear it as a shoulder bag too !

So I needed to make another one !
I stuck to the same colour scheme
but used the sea glass my UK-friend Anne
had sent me !

(the colours are not ss distinctly different as it shows here)

This one also has two possible ways to wear !

We'll see what happens with this one . . .

The weather will not be splendid probably
but I hope without any RAIN !

ART MARKET

We will have a wonderful start for September :

ART MARKET

in Baarn
(about 40 artists)

This time daughter accompanies me to help !
It is a first time over there too
and I hope it will be as much fun as the market in Zeist was.

I'm still busy felting right now :
all but one of the little belt pouches are sold
so I hope to take two new ones with me.

A turquoise one
again with a "stone" for closure.

Not quite finished yet :

the belt is still in the making.

If you live somewhere in the neighbourhood
it would be fun if you visit and we can have a chat !

I hope to see you there !

:-)

number 4

After the "VERWEVEN" Textile Market

in Zierikzee was canceled

a new date was set for September 7

but it turned out

half of the stand holders

couldn't switch to that new date

so next year August 15 will be the new date.

A pity, but the original day was really very wet

and that's just the problem for an outside market :

at least you have to have good (dry) weather.

After some time-out

(reading books)

I finished the belt for the last little pouch !

Four little leaves were repeated for the belt

 The first layers with the inside pocket.

This first layer is shining through

the purple on the outside in the end.

A dark purple on the back and the strip of plastic

to make the slit for the belt

Shrinkage almost done(lighter purple up front and a leaf

on the inside of the flap too.

Drying outside

The hand dyed wool for the flap (daughter)
was so nice that I made a pair of wrist warmers
to go with the bag

*

In the garden the roses have started to bloom again
(the New Dawn looked very "black spotted" bad
but has new leaves and flowers too)

My very last allium of the year Allium tuberosum (garlic chives)
loooves to be in a place with no competitors ...
so between the slabs is a great place !

BUT
this autumn the slabs must be raised
....
So before that I must collect all my special-place-lovers in pots.

*

Last Friday the man in the funny boat
that "cleans" the waterway along the garden
from too many vegetation got "stuck" :
the wind (or someone) threw something
that looked like an old umbrella into the water.

It took him quite some time to clear the propeller !!!

canceled !

Tonight we just got the message of the organisation that the

"VERWEVEN" MARKET

is  CANCELED

due to the bad weather they expect for this Saturday.

Friday is okay, Sunday is okay

and sadly Saturday will be very WET !

Nothing to be done

because they don't have an inside location available.

They might set a new date

but that isn't sure yet either.

Well ...

just keeping on felting

This was number one 

Number two

(with a real stone embedded in the flap)

Number three

(with lovely Wensleydale curls)

All are fanny packs

but the straps are long enough to wear over one shoulder too.

(Number four is on the table)

*

Daughter has a new family member

.....

He is 12 weeks old

squints a bit with his blue eyes

and is sooooooooooooo  s o f t 

fanny pack

In ten days time we will have another market :
Saturday August 17
10.00  -  17.00

"VERWEVEN"

(in Zierikzee)

This is a special textile market

so I will leave my paintings home

and will take only "textile stuff" with me.

Some time ago

I made these small bags :

bum bag

or

fanny pack

(ha, didn't know that name but I like it)

I started making them

when we visited a medieval feast

and loved those tiny pouches, worn on a belt

for special small things.
here

(nothing like the handbags or shopping bags

we have nowadays)

Time to make some new ones like that.

The first pic has funny colours because is was taking at night,

next one (by daylight) the second colour is added

and the slot for the belt is made.

Decorations on the flap

finished front and inside the flap 

Back of the fanny pack

*

My  QUEEN OF THE NIGHT (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)

has been very generous lately

Though there were even more flowers buds,
in the end as much as 8 flowers bloomed
(not all at once of course !)

In the early evening three more started to open up
(the two at the bottom and one high up
are already from days before)

The next morning all were gone .....

(always hoping for seeds to develop
but never had any luck there)

A cold

It's still a rather cold Spring,

and now ... I've got A "cold"

(got it from Man : he waited a week to pass it on ...)

But stitching and knitting goes on as usual,

so I was in R'dam today.

(uhhhhm ... it's late now : so I must say yesterday)

(my petal scarf is still growing

and the second ball of yarn is almost done)

A lot of scissor pouches and jewels

are finished now.

 (it was a bit of a problem to find big enough snaps)

I mounted some of my little quilts on canvas too.

I painted the canvas so it matches the cloth.

I made two more biscornu,

looooove that shape !

*

Earlier this week we had a celebration 

for some special occasion with daughter and the kids.

We went to "Hotel New York" for it in Rotterdam.

That is the old building from where the big 

ocean liners went with passengers to America 

from 1871 for almost a hundred years.

(now only cruise ships)

(the building on the left, with the two green towers, is Hotel New York)

Mmmmmmmmmmm !

That was GOOD  !

spring is in the air !

O yes !

After a (too) mild winter

spring is definitely here.

Though there was a real thunderstorm tonight,

the last few days were sunny and warm

so I could sit outside

(that is : in the doorway)

The garden is a delight !

*

In the meantime I'm busy felting again :

at Pentecost daughter and I

will go to a market

in Ouwerkerk ( in Zeeland) 

Here are, halfway done, some scissor pouches

and

some of the yummy thick silk hand dyed yarn

that I bought from Adrian at the VILTEXPO

(unfortunately for you this is not in her web shop ...)

And much more

is now waiting for my embroidery needle !

(I'll continue with that at the end of this week

.....

because there are other things first !)