Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Quiltsterne get-together weekend

There is a very large germanspeaking patchwork yahoo!-group named 'Quiltsterne' with more than 1400 members. Every two years there is a meeting organized somewhere in Germany by a local group of Quiltsterne. This year it took place in Gernsheim which is only 30 min drive from home. And this year I took part the first time.

The meeting place was a youth hostel at the edge of the town. About 123 women spent a superb week-end there with a lot of patchwork, quilting and chatting. Also workshops were organized which the teachers held free of charge. I choose a collage workshop with Ute Glück. I know her from a handquilting class we both attend a few years ago. Ute was a very good and patient teacher and she divided her time equaly between all the participants.


The second workshop was about sewing patchworkcloths. It was very interesting and there were a lot of general informations and tipps about piecing cloths.

Beside this was a big show'n'tell about quilts and another one about bags, cloths and other small items. They also mentioned that there is a trend that many quilters started sewing and knitting cloths. But when you have a closer look at the cloths available at the shops in my area, a lot of small brands disappeared, only the big brands survived and I often see someone with the same cloth in a different colour. So there seems to be a trend to wear more indvidual cloths.

Also part of the get-together was one room with boths of five quiltshops and a fleemarket.



I was at the get-together from Friday 18:00 til Sunday 13:00, but it felt much longer. The next get-together will be in summer 2009 in Xanten.

Tomorrow I will have a quilty breakfast organized by the owner of my- now closed – LQS and a few quilting friends.

3 comments:

Teodo said...

katia.
this quilters meeting should have been very interesting.
Did you do this little quilt with UTE?
It's very nice and happy.
ciao ciao

Angelikas quilts and knits said...

Die Collage ist total klasse !
Liebe Grüße
Angelika

Anonymous said...

Hi Katja

I finally started on your socks. They're knitting up pretty quickly and I'm please with how they look.

Have fun at Quiltsterne!!

Your secret sock pal