'Foep' quilt with crazy borders finished!

Lots  of pictures of my finished 'Foep quilt'.  Enjoy!

Most birds have embroidered eyes, not this one. The fabric was just in the right place for this little bird. It made me happy when this happens.

This 'Foep' quilt has crazy borders. The original borders are beautiful, all made out of lace but I found my borders needed more colour for an overall balance. Crazy borders with a chicken found at a thrift shop.

Lots of ric-rac and other ribbons, fun for the children who will be sitting under this quilt. Probably my sister's grandchildren if they want too. 

My initials in light blue, embroidered with a chain stitch and perlé yarn number 8.

The title of the quilt and also the title of the children's story book by Ingid van der Harst embroidered in chain stitch too.

Some fabrics are a bit old like the brown one with flowers from the 90's, some new quilt fabrics, some from thrift shops like the dark blue shirt fabric...

 And others are from table napkins or Dutch folklore fabrics. There is different eyelet in there too like the light brow bird.

Fabric pocket on the back of the quilt, for the book about 'Foep' the cat.

Bird fabric scraps on the back of the quilt. I bought this at Ikea long time ago.

With Oscar of course. Always helpful.

The sun was a bit bright for taking pictures but I wanted to post about the 'Foep' quilt today and not wait another day;)

If you want to make the quilt too (and order the little book to read to little children) you can find the pattern here (available in English too)

GroetjesAnnemieke

'Foep' (birds and cats) quilt update

 My second Foep (birds and cats) quilt update. The first Foep post was here.

I made some changes and added lace in some places.

 Lots of lace on the brown border to tone down the brown.

 And other trim as well.

 Ric rac trim in the right yellow/mustard colour and old French trim.

For the outside borders I made crazy blocks and used lots of scraps including this thrift shop embroidery.

 This border with the crazy blocks on the left still needs quilting. I made the quilt 'as you go'. This means when I'm done sewing the borders I finished it all. I hope to be able to show the end result soon!

And finally meet Oscar at this blog. He is our new dog friend who came to live with us, after his former owners couldn't take are of him anymore. He made friends with us and our little dachshund Lizzy, so all is well.

Groetjes
Annemieke

Old books, crazy and Baltimore album quilts, part 2 USA

Lots of photo's in this post!!!

The George Peabody library  is in Baltimore and contains more than 300.000 books mainly from the 1800 and the 1900s. If you want to read something they will get the chosen book for you and you can study the book at a special desk.

 Detail from the iron work....always interesting for someone who likes patterns;)

 They made an exception for us, my friend arranged that we could go up a few stairs. We were happy!

 Beautiful and very impressive building!!!

 These were huge!!!

I accidentally took  photo's of books about 'The united Netherlands' (my country) , so I asked to take a peek inside.
And we looked at an old book about needlework, full of ideas!

 Detail of the library woodwork (at least I think it is wood).

The outside of the Peabody library, all made of marble.

Opposite the library there was a beautiful church. Baltimore has lots of churches.  My friend told me, freedom of faith was one of the main reasons people emigrated to the USA. Baltimore is one of the early settlements of the USA, so lots of history here.

 Me ;) in front of the church.

 This church window is inspiring isn't it?! I love it!

We also visited the Maryland historical museum
Of course the highlight from this visit, for me, were the quilts on display.  Most of them were from around 1850.

 Broderie persé, very beautiful.

A few very impressive and wonderful crazy quilts.

 Braided and embroidered ribbons.

Next to the quilt this was written:
'This crazy quilt was made by Mss Ella Teal and friends for Dr. Jackson Brown Baxley. Mss Teal was Dr. Brown's fiancé when he died suddenly. She never married.'
A sad story isn't it?

 And a few Baltimore album quilts.  I will show some photo's (from the many  I took!)

 And a rather big crazy quilt.

And than we went home over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, back to Maryland after a lovely day full of history, fun and learned a lot!

Groetjes
Annemieke