A Fun Outing

This week I've been busy working on a quilt for Lisa. It is coming along fairly well, considering I've only had about a two weeks to work on it. (My sewing machine was damaged in the move here and between getting the parts ordered and getting all the other problems worked out it has been a long, patience promoting ordeal trying to get it up and running again. Dennis did most of the technical work on it and solved several of the major problems and we had to take it into a sewing machine shop here for them to fix another little problem.)The bonus of the whole deal was that I was able to find and buy and old Bernina machine that works perfectly and so now I have backup machine here.



On Wednesday, I took a break from the quilting business. Well maybe that's not quite true. My friend, Armanda Bos, and I went up north to Leewarden to a big quilt show. We had this little trip planned for about a month - long before the exhibit ever opened and were really excited, well at least I was. She enjoys quilting also and her mother is an extremely talented quilter so she knows quite a bit about quilting.


We arrived in Leewarden and got parked about 15 minutes before the museum opened. We had noticed an amazing hat shop across the street from the museum so we went to look at it and ended up talking to the owner for quite a while. She has a great business making hats for the Ascott horse races in England and she also makes all kinds of nice hats for cancer patients. She also teaches or hosts a knitting group. It was very interesting.



The quilt show was mostly quilts from all over Europe with a lot from Holland, and a few from the states. There were some really amazing ones and some really strange ones. Unfortunately, they didn't allow photography. I did get a couple of shots in before I realized that.

We also stopped on our way home at Staphorst. It is a beautiful little village, kind of like the Amish settlements in the states. The women still wear the skirts and vests and little hats and many of them still wear clompens. They do have cars and electricity and such but tourists are not allowed in on Sundays and on Sundays they aren't allowed to drive cars. Armanda told me that picture taking was not allowed but I got a quick picture of a house as we left town. We were able to spend some serious money there so that was fun. Hopefully, we will be able to spend a little more time there when some of our family come to visit.