Tuesday, September 21, 2010

An Autumn update

We have been to The Netherlands and Germany to see family, friends and did some walking  in Teutoburger Wald near Bad Iburg in Germany with my friends for 3 days. On  Friday the rain was torrential and even my friend's dog "Peer" was fed up, we did manage 16 km. On Saturday  we walked 23 km and that was the end of me and Peer!!, so Sunday only a 12 km stroll to Tecklenburg (gorgeous town) and when we arrived home after a wonderful German feed,  Dingle managed to invade Peer's basket :)) but they do love each other!


We stopped for lunch at some lovely places in Teutoburger Wald,  Elly (asleep!!)  & Gerry dipped into some wine, I still don't know how they could walk after that!! The same for the men in Lederhosen LOL. It's all the rage in there, wine, beer & lederhosen !!.

Tineke and myself kept to Coffee & Earl Grey tea, boring but it kept me from falling of the hill.
Actually they had a Litre glass filled with Beer! and then the started to slap their legs and so on..... say no more..

In Holland my sister,niece and myself went to The Haque, we found this lovely Quilt shop "The Stitch Cottage" where we drooled for a couple of hours over all the fabrics and accessories. The owner "Sandra" made us feel so welcome, tea was ready for us!
  
Toile, one of my favorite fabrics. A couple of these fabrics were bought at the Quilt show at the NEC in Birmingham, we did the Saturday, it was wonderful, it's a must for next year! and probably 2 days :))

Autumn colours and the background fabric with the acorns is Japanese.

 

 When I mentioned to my niece I would like some red materials  she gave me these, thank you SB!!
So this winter I will have to do some patchwork & quilting, watch this space....... 
 

BBD Loose Feathers
My BBD finish from last year, I did the hemming last week, another finish for 2010.

A lovely present arrived when we returned from our holiday, gorgeous "Scissoroo"  Scissors in a tin, a lovely surprise from my friend Lyn in Australia.


 Thank you Lyn!!

Thank you all so very much for your lovely comments, they make my day :))

9 comments:

Margaret said...

Glad you had a good time in Germany etc. Lovely stash too! And your BBD pieces -- wow!

Pauline said...

Beautiful stitching and lovely fabric!

Annemarie said...

Ooooh, what a lovely time you must've had in Germany! And what quilt shop in The Hague? If only I'd been a stitcher 25 years ago... I could have spent my days wandering around The Hague while I should have been at school more wisely :o)

Lovely fabrics! These pictures make my hands itch. Not good.

Erna said...

Oh Bertie love the sampler and the Toile, thanks for sharing your Holland/Germany pictures...
Erna xx

Siobhan said...

It looks like you had a fantastic time! Lucky you with the gift from Lyn, and finding the gorgeous fabrics! Love the stitchy pics, too.

Eilene said...

You might be interested in the Mexican Sampler Class: Mexican Sampler: www.thesamplerproject.com

fabriquefantastique said...

what an interesting, varied blog...a lovely sense of time and place

Jeanny said...

Leuk verslag van je reis en mooie stofjes gekregen en gekocht. Lief schaartje !!!

Isadarena said...

Hello Bertie, what a marvellous post and it sounds like you spent a lovely time in Germany .
Have a great day,
Isa