Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Kaffe With Giant Quilt


I found this photo of Kaffe Fassett in front of a giant quilt on Pinterest. There was no description or link. Does anyone know the story here? Pretty amazing.

UPDATE: Here's some info from Alida:
The picture of Kafe was taken in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands during a quiltexposition in “Het Fries Museum” in 21-03-2008. He is standing in front of the leaning tower “the Oldehove”

5 comments:

Made by Meet said...

http://www.quiltkabinet.nl/page_1221931598156.html
Here you can read about this quilt!
kind regards, Meta

Petra said...

A couple of years ago there has been a big quilt exhibition in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. A quilt shop, Quilt Kabinet in Earnewald in The Netherlands, organized to hang a very big quilt down from the 'Oldenhove' an old tower standing in the centre of Leeuwarden. The quilt was made from only Kaffe Fasset fabric. If I remember correctly they asked their customers to all made a little quilt to later make this big quilt.

During the exhibition you could see a lot of old Dutch Quilts (among many other quilts), a lot of them owned by Ann Moonen. I can mail you some pictures from this exhibition if you want.

Selvage Quilter said...

Thank you for the info! Pretty amazing!

Selvage Quilter said...

Here is a message from Alida:

“Dear Karen, The picture of Kafe was taken in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands during a quiltexposition in “Het Fries Museum” in 21-03-2008. He is standing in front of the leaning tower “the Oldehove”” I hope your curiosity is answered now.

I live near Amsterdam).

Quiltgreetings, Alida.

Annemieke said...

This quilt and it's story is amazing isn't it? Did you know that after the exhibition they made a lot of quilts out of that big one to give to children who were ill.
Groetjes
Annemieke