We’re approaching the beginning of the Belgium long summer vacation and together with that a big change will occur for Compagnie M.
Compagnie M. turns into Compagnie Maramures!
I hear you thinking out loud: Mara…what!? This is how our tourist guide summarises this region: ‘Maramures in northern Romania is one such little know corner of Europe. Amid beautiful rolling hills and lush river valleys live people who for the most part still follow the traditional way of life.’
I’ll just show you some pictures!
I’ll just show you some pictures!
Maybe you’re wondering why this ‘vacation announcement’ is worth a special post on my precious little blog? Well: this will be my new working place for a couple of weeks. I’ll be taking my sewing material with me and will go sewing for the Romania children there! I just though it would be nice to help them with making some clothes…
But sewing for Romanian kids, means I’ll need a lot of fabrics. That’s why I tried to find some sponsors and guess what: I even had to refuse fabrics being offered at the end. We do drive with a big Land Rover, but I could only make a reservation for 3 cases in our car for Compagnie Maramures.
So here is a very special thanks to my sponsors for this project! Thank you Julija’s shop, Georgette, Mirabelle and Klijntje. I could never do this without your support!
To give you an idea, this is a selection of the fabrics I’m taking with me:
No sewing without thread: Ruth from Georgette is my ecological thread supplier! Her web shop is full of ecological fabrics and other supplies. As ecology is very important to me, I love the way she chooses for this ecological materials. When I asked her to sponsor, she couldn’t sleep that night because she just started a couple of months before and of course a start up is always difficult. But this thread is really essential: so thanks for the support!
And last but not least: I’m afraid that I’m not going to be able to keep up the tempo of sewing, pattern drawing and blogging like I did until now. I’m not even sure that I will have internet access all the time. I hope I’ll survive!
So I invited some blogging colleagues to write something specially for you from time to time during this period. This is the list until now: Elegance & Elephants, Frances Suzanne, Straight Grain, Sanae Ishida & Suburbia Soup. Thanks for helping me to keep my blog alive!
We’ll be leaving by the end of the month. I’m sooo excited about how this will turn out.
The Charles pants (children) paper sewing pattern
The Lotta skirt (teens/women) pdf sewing pattern
The Nore Dress (kids) pdf sewing pattern
veel succes en goeie reis!
Dankjewel nog eens voor de stof! M
Waaaw, wat geweldig dat je ginder voor de Roemeense kindjes gaat naaien. Ik bewonder je! Alle respect!!
What a great plan – and some beautiful fabric to work with. I live in Brussels and our dear friend is from Romania – I know it’s meant to be stunning! Good luck (FYI – I hope this doesn’t sound rude or bossy – but ‘yarn’ really only refers to the stuff you knit with. For sewing it’s ‘thread’. I feel like such a prat writing that – but you did say to mention if there were any English mistakes!). x
Oh thanks a lot Laura! I’m really trying to improve my English so no problem if you correct me! I already changed it…
Your English is fantastic – I can’t imagine blogging in a non-native language! Looking forward to following your adventures. x
Sounds like you are going to have a wonderful (although very busy) summer.
I just love your fabric choices, I have just emailed Klijntje to see if they will ship to me here in Australia.
Cannot wait to see what you make.
Enjoy your summer, we are at the start of our winter and its getting very cold.
By the way, I just love your blog, only found it a few days ago.
Will be trying some of your patterns within the week.
Thank you.
Petje af! Wat je doet, hoe je mensen bij elkaar krijgt, je mooie stoffen die je meeneemt… Ik wens je een prachtige vakantie toe!
Good luck in this great adventure!!
Wauw, wat een avontuur!
Veel plezier daar!
All the best on this amazing adventure, Marte! Looking forward to hearing all about it.
veel succes!
dat gaat een ongelooflijke tijd worden :)
wat een super mooi gebaar voor de kindjes daar
gaan ze vast heel blij van worden, succes!
heel tof idee, zou wel mee willen naaien voor die kindjes daar… succes!
Schitterend! Dat wordt een geweldig avontuur voor je gezin, en die kindjes daar gaan heel gelukkig zijn…
What a wonderful summer trip! Your sponsors are all so generous! Good luck, and have fun! :)
What a nice idea! You’re going to do a wonderful trip, ! bet!
…and: happy sewing!
MammaNene
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Dat is een heel mooi idee, en zo veel sponsoring! Daar wordt je hart toch warm van :-)
Thanks for all your nice reactions! I’m getting a little nervous already! In 10 days Bjorn will already leave with the car filled with our luggage. The kids and I will fly a little later, so he can come to the airport to pick us up! What an adventure indeed!
Your friends have been very generous with those wonderful fabrics! What a pity that their on line shop are not in English too. I’d really love to buy some fabric too!! Marcy