Toile de Jouy

Saturday I found these antique pieces of old quilts with toile de Jouy prints, at an antique market. They are small and some are very worn but I loved them so took them home!!!

This is what I read at the museum at Jouy site and Wikipedia: Making fabrics with these kind of pictures started mid 18th century in Ireland. They became very popular in Britain and France after that. The term 'toile de Jouy' is French and came from the toiles produced in Jouy-en-Jonas (near Paris) starting around 1760. Later these toiles were produced in many more places in France and they all had their own patterns.

So I have a selection of different pieces and they come from different French areas. I don't know which pieces come from where. I hope to find out soon. I already ordered a book about toile de Jouy.

 Interesting and strange pictures aren't they? Some seem to tell stories I think.

Some pieces are quilted (so there are 3 layers) and other pieces are just pieces of single fabrics.

Lots of possibilities to use those in a wall quilt ( probably to fragile to use as a bed quilt). I washed them and laid them out on a bed. Every time I walk by I enjoy looking at them! 

May be any one of you know sites or books with reliable information?

Wishing you lots of creativity,

Groetjes

Annemieke

Cathedral windows update

Cathedral windows in the Alsace, France, with the little holiday cabin where we stayed in the background, in September.

Cathedral windows at the swimming pool in le Vendée, France and on the terrace, also in September.

I'm still working on it whenever I have some time left in between other projects,sometimes  in the car or on the couch in the evening 

 

This is the size of my cathedral windows quilt today, photographed in the late afternoon sun. It measures:
82 cm by 72 cm.

Groetjes

Annemieke

Second day exhibitions at Ste Marie-aux-mines

Work from Sheila Frampton-Cooper (from the USA, but now living in the Provence). There are many quilts displayed from her, she made all of them the last 5 years. I like her work very much. She told me she works  in an intuitive way, without patterns or plan. She creates it while she works at it.

Sheila Frampton-Cooper: 'Deep sea portals'

Sheila Frampton-Cooper: 'Marie Magdeline de la Sainte Baum'.

These three quilt projects above are made by Barbara Lange from Germany.

 Made by Gaby Mett. I would love to make something like this :)

 Made by Rebecca Campeau (France). Strange isn't it?

Detail photo from work made by Beatrice Lanter.

These two extraordinary quilts were made by Brigitte Busk from Denmark.

This one is called : Flames and made by Hilde van Schaardenburg (The Netherlands)

One of the 'Modern quilt guild'  quilts. There many, but this is a detail from a quilt made by Kathy York (USA)

And the last picture from today. I made my first little block from the 1718 Coverlet. I'm surprised at how similar the fabrics are! This was from a scrap bag I bought yesterday (see post from 16 september 2015).

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. There was so much to see. These photo's above are just a selection from what I liked or wanted to show because it looked new to me.

Groetjes

Annemieke

First impressions of Ste Marie-aux-mines patchwork meeting

 Just some pictures very old quilts,

 Lots of things to buy, very busy at the stands...

 Nice quilts at the exhibitions like this one from Austria (sorry I forgot the name of the maker)

The beautiful fabrics I bought to make the 1718 coverlet (yes a new project;). Some of them are linen from:
Neelam and from Magret Behrends-Kohl (also the scraps at the left). Others are mostly Oakshott cottons at the Quiltcabin from Dortmund.

I enjoyed the first day very much and I will be back with more pictures!

Groetjes
Annemieke

Vendee, clear skies, Atlantic ocean, bright colours.

Even een impressie van een paar daagjes Vendee, in Frankrijk. Heldere luchten, de Atlantische oceaan, vissersboten, zeemeeuwen, wiite huizen, geschiedenis en boomklimmen!!

Just an impression of a few days Vendee, in France. Bright skies, the Atlantic ocean, lots of fishing boats, seagulls, white houses, history and clibing trees!

Groetjes

Annemieke

Hexagons to 'Feather the nest'

Gisteren een berichtje en vandaag weer een...maar ik kon niet wachten want ik wil je graag deze foto's laten zien. Nadat ik het boek:'' Feathering the nest'  van Brigitte Giblin bij de De Sampler had gekocht kon ik niet wachten om hieraan te beginnen. Het is zo leuk om een middendeel uit te zoeken. Je moet ineens heel anders naar stoffen kijken omdat je een flink patroon nodig hebt. Het randje er omheen ging best snel. . 

 Yesterday I posted a post and now another but I could not wait to show you these pictures. Once I bought Brigitte Giblin's book Feathering the nest at the Sampler (Haarlem) I started these 2 blocks. I had to look differently to my stash of fabrics because the panel needs a big pattern.The outside hexagons are made really fast.  

 Er staan héél veel leuke quilts in. De kleurencombinaties zijn zo anders dan anders, echt verassend.

In the book are a lot of fun quilts with a very different use of clour and print as I am familiar with.

 Nog meer blokken en dan witte randjes erom. Witter dan ik gewend ben. Het was even wennen maar op deze manier kon ik er ook weer moderne stoffen met een witte ondergrond in verwerken.

I used white around the edges. It combines better with the modern fabrics than beige I think.

 Voor de randen zijn strepen en duidelijke grafische patronen leuk. Ik heb ook wel geprobeerd om uit mijn eigen voorraad stof te pakken omdat ik eerst wilde uitproberen of het wel wat werd.

 Nu ligt het al weer even te wachten omdat ik aan het bedenken ben hoe nu verder. Ik wil het wel anders als in het boek. Misschien nog groter?

I will have to thank what next. Maybe I will do it a little different than in the book. Maybe make it larger with extra blocks?

 En nog even het strand langs de Vendée (Frankrijk) waar we ruim een week geleden waren. Niemand te zien, super mooi!

And again a picture from our week in the Vendée ( France). This is the beach, along the Atlantic coast. No one there, very beautiful! 

 Eindje verder op, weer heel anders. Het hele strand is nu eindeloos breed en er is van alles te zien.

Another part of the beach, very wide and quiet again.

 Onze hondenvriendjes waren ook mee. Goof ( rechts)met zijn 12 jaar loopt langzaam en moet uren snuffelen, maar ja, hij doet het zo graag, dus lopen wij ook maar langzamer. Lizzy (links) is ruim 4 en is het omgekeerde, razend snel, in alles wat ze doet.

Our little dog-friends were there too. Goof (on the right) is twelve years old nw and he walks slow and all the sniffling takes for hours but he likes to come. Lizzy (left) is four. She is very quick and funny!
Have a great monday,

Fijne maandag verder,
Groetjes
Annemieke