Stitching in the Netherlands and Noord Groningen Quilt Show

Meet Karin Hellaby and your Tour Manager at London Gatwick airport for your early morning flight to Amsterdam. On arrival we’ll drive to the centre and visit the Dutch Costume Museum, which is housed in a beautiful 17th century canal house. The museum houses a fine collection of garments from different places in the Netherlands and periods in Dutch history. After a guided tour and lunch at the museum, we’ll walk to Den Haan & Wagenmakers where you will 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 can meet and get to know your fellow stitchers.

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 two full days of stitching in a private room at the hotel. Karin will host workshops during which you can stitch a project she has designed especially for this Dutch holiday. Each day 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 in the hotel each evening. 

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 Gatwick.