Three days before the Festival of Quilts we ran a summerschool here in Bromsgrove. We dyed with procion and indigo, printed with de-contstructed screens and our own design thermofax screens, then had a go at discharging black fabric and overprinting it and even tried paperlaminating. As you can imagine – a very busy three days [...]
new book
August 4th, 2009 by ineke
My new book is finally here – I’m very excited as you can imagine.
I’m having a booklaunch here at home next week Thursday 13th August from 11 am – 9 pm, so if you’re in the area please call in for a coffee, tea, cake or drink etc. Hopefully the weather is nice and [...]
Vendee
July 19th, 2009 by ineke
We’re still in France, weather has been glorious, but last three days a bit off. That means a bit of time to catch up with internet matters and plenty of time to do some stitching, painting and preparing for things at home.
Also been catching up with my journal quilts and July here is inspired by [...]
France
July 5th, 2009 by ineke
We’re in france – another month, another country. Lots of butterflies and bees and dragonflies. As you can see life is hard, having to sit by the pool and on the beach. I did do some teaching last week, with just one very happy student – we did some dyeing, printing and lots of [...]
Sea fever finished
June 24th, 2009 by ineke
This week I finally got round to finishing a few projects. One of them is a quilt for an exhibition in Ledbury at the Weavers Gallery next week. All quilts have the theme ‘Sea Fever’, a poem by John Masefield. I put some pleats in giving the quilt some movement. I also made a quick [...]
Denim Bag Workshop
June 18th, 2009 by ineke
last week I ran the printed denim bag workshop at Bromsgrove Rugby Club, the results were fabulous as you can see.
Jeans were put back together again, printed with a choice of numerous thermofax screens and coloured inks
Then whilst it was all drying, handles, pockets and lining were constructed and by the end of a [...]
Apeldoorn
June 3rd, 2009 by ineke
Whilst teaching at the group Tegendraads in Leiden, one of the ladies had made this jacket, cutting up a navy sweatshirt and stitching raw edged shapes onto it, as shown right.
One of the nicest ones I’ve seen.
I’ve been back a week but only just found time to catch upand have a look at my [...]
Friesland
May 18th, 2009 by ineke
I’m in Holland now, teaching tomorrow in Friesland, but today I took my mum for a drive round this beautiful place to see where her family came from. I came across this perfect picture – an old windmill going full flow and surrounded by the new wind mills.Its a country of contrasts, beautiful old places [...]
Back home
May 13th, 2009 by ineke
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 [...]
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 [...]