Hi, my name is Francis and I live in the
Netherlands. I’m married to Jan, 30 years in October!
We have 2 daughters, both
27 years old.
The oldest one lives in the UK, she stayed there after she
graduated
from the University of Reading in 2012.
She found a job there, not her dream job, but still a paying job :-)
She is passionate about nature and in particular birds (of prey) and hopes to get the opportunity to do a PhD somewhere in the world.
from the University of Reading in 2012.
She found a job there, not her dream job, but still a paying job :-)
She is passionate about nature and in particular birds (of prey) and hopes to get the opportunity to do a PhD somewhere in the world.
Our youngest daughter is a jewellery artist and an Art teacher.
She moved in with us last year after she got divorced.
She moved in with us last year after she got divorced.
That was difficult for the three of us, she
moved out when she was 17 to become an Art teacher, so a lot of adjustments for
us all when she moved back.
Beside her work as a jewellery artist
and her daytime job, she went back to
school last year to get her English Teaching degree, quit her daytime job and found a new Art and English teaching job here in
town, so things are going well for her!
My mom lives in the same town as us
and I’m happy to still have her.
I also have a brother, he lives with his wife and son in Thailand.
(Here a pic of all of us. FLTR my husband, me, our youngest, our oldest, my mom, my nephew and my brother)
(Three generations this summer celebrating my moms 75th birthday)
I work 26 hours a week as a secretary
for an organisation who facilitates public education here in our region. At the
office we do all the non-educational work for 18 elementary schools.
I swim once a week with a friend in
extra warm water to keep my muscles fit. I have a lot of joint and muscle aches
every day :-(
I’m quilting since 2010. I have always
sewed, I made all the clothes for my daughters when they were little and I
made a lot for myself too. I stopped
when I got my job in ’99 but in 2010 I joined a beginners course ‘hand quilting’
here in my town. It was with traditional fabrics and when I discovered the
quilting world on the WWW I shifted to a more modern style.
I really like to
handquilt, I patch on the machine but I find it very relaxing to sit
on the
sofa and handquilt.
I donate 99% of my quilts to the ‘Droomdekentjes’
(Dreamblankets) organisation.
They distribute the quilts to sick children or
siblings of sick children.
I also make Little Quilts of Love and donate them to
a local hospital.
I 'organise' my fabric like this: stacks
of: DOTS – STRIPES – FLOWERS – MODERN –
LOW VOLUME – EVERYTHING ELSE – LARGE SHEETS FOR BACKING – WADDING – UFO’S.
It doesn’t look organised but I can find everything.
The fabrics from Anna Maria Horner,
Kaffe Fasset are fabrics I like very much but I also am very fond of low volume fabrics and fun-bright fabrics for
children.
One of my all time favorites are red-white-blue fabrics.
Fabric here in the Netherlands is very
expensive and we don’t have so much variety , so I order a lot in the USA and
the UK. The one thing I would have known before I started quilting is the
arrange of fabric that you can buy, how addictive fabric is and how expensive
that is for us here J
My favorite quilting tools are my rulers
and the silicone thimble I use.
I picked the metal top off the thimble because I couldn’t get used to
that.
I like the writing style of Jane Austen
and I have read all her books.
I don’t know if I would have liked to live in
the era, but reading about is is fun!
So that’s a bit about me, now on to the
block I chose:
a simple 9 patch in WHITE-RED-BLUE-GREEN!
I would like you to use white for the
centre block. I used white cotton from my local haberdashery shop, so as long
it is a crisp white I’m fine with it.
For the other 8 blocks, please select one
RED fabric and for the rest BLUE and GREEN.
Cutting instructions:
WHITE: cut one 4,5x4,5”
RED: cut one 4,5x4,5”
BLUE – GREEN: cut seven 4,5x4,5”
Layout your fabrics with the white
fabric as the centre block.
Sew each block with a ¼” seam allowance.
Sew the three rows together and you will
have a 12,5” block.
Once I have all the blocks I will make
it into a ‘Droomdekentje’ for a boy J
Thanks in advance for making one little
boy happy with his ‘blankie’!!!
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