In our country
there is the term ‘forever student’(eeuwige student), by this we used to mean
young people who took forever to finish a university degree. They were probably
having too much of a good time to actually study a lot … 😉
Although not
in the way this expression was originally meant, I am something of a ‘forever
student’, always curious to learn new
things or find out more about things that interest me.
Over the years
I followed a training to be a beautician (next to my day job at the time) , a
gold smith course (but after hurting myself in a nasty way a few times I concluded
that it was safer for me to work with fabrics and pins rather than with steel,
tools and machines…), all kinds of cookery courses, an Italian language course
and just out of interest and because I did not have the opportunity at the time,
about ten years ago I went to (Leiden) Law School for a few years.
Too many
interests, so many things to learn…
So patchwork
and quilting…
Except for a
period of 12 years where I did not have time for it due to family and work commitments
this passion has been with me since the late 80’s of the previous century (…)
and I of course I followed a lot of courses and workshops since. As a ‘forever
student ‘I just like the process of learning new things, of satisfying my
curiosity.
The past few
months I have been following a course that really triggered the forever student
in me…. I love it! For a long time I have admired Marcha’s (click) work, it is so
neat, so clean, so precise. Once a year at her shop the Quiltster (click) she
offers a course (click) on techniques
based on the Dear Jane quilt. And even though I have been a quilter for quite
some time now I am learning so many new things about various techniques and
find my work is improving. We only have two more dates left on our course, sad
to see the end of this.
I don’t want
to reveal anything about the actual work, but let me show you a few pictures of
those course days(the picture above shows that we are well cared
for by Marcha’s mum with coffee, tea and yummy cakes):-
Marcha’s shop
at the new location is great, lots of light, filled with quilts, projects,
beautiful fabrics, delicious tea and Bunzlau pottery
The course takes place on the open second floor:
my busy fellow students and our teacher Marcha… see you again in a few weeks,
ladies :-)
So far these
are the blocks I finished:
And the
blocking board that Judith (click) gave me last December comes in handy now, so
thank you again, Juud.
So will I make
a Dear Jane quilt… never say never!
And speaking
of students, Anja, one of the participants of the Happy Scrappy Workshop (click) that I
taught with Hubertine (click) as the Feathergirls two weeks ago, is really on a
roll, she made so many blocks already, have a look at her blog (click), really
nice to see this as a result!
Phyllis
