Jessamy is that you?

guilty as charged :-D

and for those of you wondering: we are listening to the highlight of the radio year the Top 2000 6 days of music chosen by the listeners no two songs the same! - right now we are heading into the last 100 songs

and click on thered "breedband" if you have high speed internet or on the red "smalband" ifyou have dial up and enjoy!

Jessamy, Can you recommend any quilting shops in the Amsterdam area?

thanks, Lynn

Jessamy wrote:

Hi Lynn,

there are 3 in Amsterdam itself the first two are in the town centre: Birdblocks Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 99

1012 RE Amsterdam the girls who own and run the shop are fun - they like brighter colours and make fun small kits - say Hi to them from me as we were in a class together a few years ago and catch up at every show we are both at (NAYY - friends yes - do I get something for sending people? no)

and conveniently right next door: Den Haan en Wagenmakers Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 97-99

1012 RE Amsterdam they make repro chintzes and sell them here .

and in the northern part of Amsterdam a new to me shop - never been and haven't done business with them: Quilthoek de Bricoleur Ankerplaats 28

1034 KC Amsterdam-Noord

for more locations around Amsterdam and in the rest of NL

it woks like a frapper map

Jessamy wrote:

OY -- Jessamy, where were you when I was in Amsterdam in 2001 (went with DH who was attending the ASME gathering that year)???? I couldn't find a quilt shop to save me and I even asked the kind young ladies at the front desk to look in the phone book and all of the touristy literature available! I did manage to find a very nice needlework shop and spent way too much money there :-)! I took a day trip out to the touristy areas and bought some really nice fabrics at a one of the huge outdoor Market's in one of the small towns we stopped in. It might have been Edam (that's the name of the famous cheese town IIRC) but I'm not sure. Speaking of that day trip, we stopped in a touristy area that had three lovely windmills and included a small "town" that had been turned into shops -- all sorts of shops, even one that made wooden shoes by hand. It was absolutely wonderful!! There was an elderly Japanese couple on the tour and the husband was the only one who "spoke" English. The poor dear was having trouble understanding English spoken with a Dutch accent :-) so I ended up translating the locally spoken English into American accented English which he more easily understood (due to television programs I am sure). The woman needed to use the rest room and was baffled by the need to purchase a coin to be used in the door to the individual commode. I took her hand, led her to the rest room and had her do what I did and we managed quite nicely. They stuck to me like glue for the rest of the trip and it was a much more enjoyable tour for it :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

errr... I didn't have a computer at home till November 2001

more on Amsterdam:

at the top are links to lostof stuff to see and do I also forgot to mention the Albert Cuijp markt an all day every day market with a lot of fabric shops hiding behind the stalls - not quilting fabric but definitively a place to go look as they sell Dutch Java prints which are fun to use in quilts :-) I'm glad you had fun though :-D it sounds like you had a memorable trip :-D

FiederEls in NL wrote in news:en8fa4$52g$1 @news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:

Well.. i guess not huh? lol :-)

FiederEls

yes it was and is even now :-)

I wonder what happened to my reply to you?

"Jessamy" wrote in news:45983b1f$0$11739$ snipped-for-privacy@news.wanadoo.nl:

I have no idea.. But isn't this great fun? Only another 51 weeks till the next Top 2000 ! Can't wait.. lol Anyway.. Have a great Jaarwisseling ! lol. And only good things happening in 2007!

FiederEls.

yes it's fun! I have a ball every year! I'll be counting down the days LOL

the same to you els! and may you find that extra half hour just when you need it most :-)