For the Love of Textiles

For one time I am going to write this post in Dutch.  It is not that I don't want to write in English, but this topic has to do with Dutch Poetry and writing this in English looks a bit strange to me.. But just one time..I promise..the next post will be in English again.. And there is always Google Translate, if you really want to know what this is all about... but I tell you: this weekend was just MARVELLOUS. Wat een feest was Het Tuinfeest gisteren.  Ik ben er vandaag nog helemaal ondersteboven van.  Voor wie niet weet wat Het Tuinfeest is: Het is een Poëzie-festival georganiseerd door Theater-restaurant De Bouwkunde (bij ons om de hoek). Het festival wordt gehouden in de tuinen rond het Klooster en de straten er rondom heen.. De afgelopen jaren waren wij altijd op vakantie in deze periode, maar nu waren we thuis en konden we het allemaal meemaken.  De afgelopen week werd er hard gewerkt..  De Banners werden opgehangen... ...

The 3th week of the 7 weeks Summerholiday has now started. Over the last 30 years we used to go on holiday for 4 weeks. This holiday is different. Under normal circumstances we would go away in the first week and take a ferry up North or in direction West. Heading to Scandinavia or Scotland or Ireland. Because of Bram's healthissues, we can't go away that far anymore.  So, this holiday we had planned to stay at home. I was slightly worried that I wouldn't like that. But after thinking and talking I came to the conclusion that:   Deventer is a Nice Town to stay in summer.  There is the river, the parks..the nice centre....very relaxing... There is the Poetry festival "Het Tuinfeest"   which is going to happen this Saturday in the Cloister-garden behind our house. Our friend - the City-Poet Lammert Voos - will perform there too, togehter with other famous Poets and more entre-acts.   Sunday the big bookfair will be held all around town. We usually miss all o...

Last Friday afternoon I went with a very good friend to the craft-fair in Zwolle because I had booked for the both of us a little workshop Bohus knitting . I didn't know much about it so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it had nothing to do with traditional Scandinavian knitting but that their was a lot of influence of fashion , art and design in the knitted garments.The colour combinations are really wonderful as can be seen on this cap Marja did show us which is knitted with the original yarn and nothing can beat that. You can't buy the pattern or the yarn. It can only be bought as a kit through the website from Solsilke . After we got a little info from Marja , we did start with a little wrist-warmer in which we could see the effect from Bohus knitting. I haven't finished it yet, but will and probable knit it a little longer to make fingerless mitts from this sample. I didn't spend much at the fair (have plenty of yarns at home) but I couldn'...