Noord Groningen Quilt Festival

Meet Carolyn Forster and your Tour Manager at a London airport for your early morning flight to Amsterdam.
On arrival we’ll drive to the centre of Amsterdam and enjoy a canal cruise. After the cruise and free time for lunch, we’ll walk to Den Haan and Wagonmakers where you’ll have time to browse the fabrics at this popular quilting store in the city. In the late afternoon we drive to Groningen and check in to our hotel for a 5-night stay. Over dinner you get to know your fellow stitchers. 

Today is your first workshop day. Carolyn will host workshops during which you can stitch a project she has designed especially for this Dutch holiday. We’ll break for an included lunch served in the hotel before continuing our stitching during the afternoon. There’ll be time to relax before dinner is served.

Two full days at the Noord Groningen Quilt Festival. We have a private coach and, following the route recommended by the show’s organisers, we’ll visit small towns and villages across the beautiful landscape of Noord-Groningen where you can admire the vast number of quilts on display. Both days you’ll have free time for lunch and each evening dinner is served in our hotel.  

Having taken inspiration from the Quilt Festival we now enjoy another full day of stitching in a private room at the hotel. We’ll break for an included lunch served in the hotel before continuing our stitching during the afternoon. There’ll be time to relax before dinner is served.

After breakfast we’ll check out of the hotel and drive to the town of Leeuwarden where we visit the Pakhuis Museum Koophandel, or ‘The Other Museum from Oldtimer to Lace’. Here we enjoy a guided tour with focus on the museum’s lace and quilt collection. After tea or coffee and traditional cake we drive to Schiphol Airport for our early evening flight to London.