We’re back home again. Kids fine, dog fine, chucks fine – house in need of a good clean, football on the tele and its cold outside.
Going through my pictures I find some that I still like to share with you. After seeing the stone piles on the westcoast of New Zealand, together with some of [...]
Back home
May 13th, 2009 by ineke
Whitsundays
May 11th, 2009 by ineke
I’ve been too busy to update my blog. And not always within reach of a wi fi hotspot. We’ve done Sydney in a day – such iconic buildings – we stayed in a hotel just by the bridge. The opera house at night was quite a sight – almost better than the day. We spent [...]
Kaikoura
April 27th, 2009 by ineke
Got to the last stop on our NZ tour and are in Kaikoura.
We were hoping to go whalewatching but the whales were too far out and the sea too rough. We could go tomorrow 7.15 but that means 3 hours on a boat, 3 hours in the car and then 3 more in the plane [...]
West Coast
April 24th, 2009 by ineke
Just had time to upload this one picture I took yesterday on the road. Good thing I was driving – and turned.
I give John things to look for now, a load of sheep, a row of nice orange trees – we’ve done the postboxes now, just some deer I think and the odd loo! Driving [...]
Milford Sound
April 24th, 2009 by ineke
Weather still beautiful. John’s relaxing as you can see. Bought him a Tshirt today saying ‘No work, no worries, no traffic, new zealand’ which just about says it all! Had a good day at Milford Sound – tourists are few and far (mainly from Japan) and the drive was no trouble at all – quite [...]
Wednesday Te Anau
April 22nd, 2009 by ineke
We left Queenstown quite early this morning – after all the peaceful places we stopped Queenstown seemed very busy. We drove to Te Anau and found a motel as recommended in the Lonely Planet, fab again overlooking the Lake and its got a kitchen too. Awesome scenes are becoming quite common. This afternoon we took [...]
Queenstown
April 21st, 2009 by ineke
Together at last! We met up at Christchurch airport and after a night at our friends house we set off, first to Oakarua – a pretty french fishing village and then onto Lake Tepako – the views are amazing. As its autumn here, the bright orange and yellow colours of the trees set against the [...]
Easter at Wellington
April 12th, 2009 by ineke
Happy Easter from NZ – a busy one. Weather is absolutely beautiful. On Friday there was snow on the mountains in the distance, but its all gone now. I spend Friday walking around the quay side and visiting the Te Papa museum – lots of New Zealand culture – even found Charlotte Badger for [...]
Wellington
April 9th, 2009 by ineke
Hi from windy Wellington, full of people running, cycling, skateboarding and of course quilts and quilters. Having a wonderful time, with hardly any jet-lag at all. I’ meeting up with lots of well known quilters around from all over the world and still trying to find out what they do.
First visited the quilts at the [...]
Recycling Denim
March 30th, 2009 by ineke
I’ve been playing with an old pair of jeans again and printed it this time – have a look at the result. This bag takes just one pair of jeans – I unpicked the two back pockets and the bottom seams and the thick inner leg seam. Then pieced it together quite roughly before printing [...]
March
March 9th, 2009 by ineke
For some time I’ve had the urge to do some proper patchwork and had been looking at the big Nancy Crow book for a while – so on Saturday – having dropped my mum off at the airport and resisted the temptation of lunch and watching Bromsgrove play rugby at (cold) Burton on Trent with [...]
Red Kites
February 2nd, 2009 by ineke
As promised in my last blog, I finally got going using the red kites as my inspiration. Here are a few pages from my sketchbooks.
My initial response always is to do some rough sketches in my sketchbook and ripping shapes out of magazines. I coloured the pages of my sketchbook first with some watercolour or [...]
Happy New Year
January 5th, 2009 by ineke
Happy New Year to all. In between Christmas and New Year after the heavy frost I took this picture of a weather vane in my garden and just loved the way the frost had settled on the spiders web.
This morning there was snow on the ground under heavy skies – very January and inspirational for [...]
December
December 20th, 2008 by ineke
News on the radio today mentioned Samantha Davies trying to get to one of the skippers who broke his leg in the Vendee Globe single handed round the world sailing race. This event has inspired me for the last few years. In November we saw the boats getting ready at Sable d’Olonne in France and [...]
New Blog!
December 12th, 2008 by ineke
Welcome to my first ever blog entry. Having had, what seems the busiest year ever, I finally have found time to start a blog.
I’ve seen Mai-Britt’s and Jane Dunnewold – so I will start posting some pictures that inspire my textiles and hopefully share some ideas and progressions with you.