As I said last time I was going to write something about our great day at Lucy's house, as it turns out...we had so much fun that we forgot to take a picture of her house or Lucy and her kids..or the 4 of us. We do have some pictures but not a lott...
Well the day started with meeting her at her LQS were she works and we had a tour of all the quilts and teachingsamples:
They also have a large selection of Dutch fabrics that are still used in the traditional costumes. In some villages in Holland there are still women who wear them everyday. In the village called spakenburg there are still 650 women who do and the youngest is 50 years old. So in time this will probably disappear, but here are some pictures of the quiltshop were they had the fabrics, plus some pictures of the quilts that were in a museum in Spakenburg.
In these quilts the mourning fabrics are used. The used different fabrics to show how close you were to the person who died. If it was parents or husband or children you would wear the darkest purple..this is called mourning in years (4 years) The middle color for sisters and brothers, mourning in months and that would be 4 months. The palest color were uncles, ants, niece and nephews, mourning in weeks (4 weeks)
After we spent some time and some money in her LQS we went to her house and got a miniature class of the beautifully StarQuilt.
She even showed us all her quilts and she has made a lot, so that was so much fun to see...
The rest of the week we kept on shopping and they went home on Saturday, the week after that my DH came with his MIL and we did more touristy things like Amsterdam, Spakenburg and so on.
I wanted to upload some more pictures of that but Blogger doesn't want to upload more now...I have that sometimes...strange huh?
Barbara
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