After
finishing my Lucy’s Ladder quilt, I wanted to do something different, just for
a little bit, so I revisited my granny square project.
All 120
granny squares were finished, they needed to be put together into a blanket. I tried
to crochet them together, in two different ways, but did not like the effect.
The whole thing did not lie flat, which is what a want, I am a quilter after
all! So, being a quilter, I decided to sew them together.
I made rows
to make sure that – even though they are all different – granny squares that
looked a bit alike would not be put next to eachother.
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Whopper was
guarding the little piles to make sure no one would mess them up!
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Sewing these
granny squares together goes so much faster that sewing those fabric patches!
After a few
days this was the result.
It still
needs a crochet border, I will think about that later, after a week of this
crochet project I was itching to go back to quilting again!
During the
weekend we visited a culinary festival in Scheveningen and with Scheveningen
being a fishing port it could only be about fish, the name for the festival was
appropriate: Vissch!
The set up
was that several fish restaurants from Scheveningen presented smaller versions
of some of their dishes, a great idea!
A few dishes
that we tried:
The fish and
chips from restaurant Day by Day
The lobster
from restaurant At Sea
The lobster
ravioli from restaurant Het Gouden Kalf
Crabcakes
from restaurant At Sea again (crabcakes on any menu anywhere, I have to try
them!)
And these
had loads of crab meat, yum!
Also for dessert
we stayed at the At Sea tent, Caipirinha ice cocktail with strawberries and
limoncello froth.
It was a the
first time for this Festival, I sure hope it will return!
Phyllis
