Tour Leader: Jude Stuecker
Jude Stuecker is a studio artist who has created art quilts for over 20 years and also has a successful line of art clothing. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, where at age 9 she learned to sew from a traveling puppeteer. Later she moved to Asheville, North Carolina, to study Biology and English at Warren Wilson College, sewing all the while. Extensive traveling inspired her as did classes at Penland School of Craft and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Focused on surface design, her projects start as white fabric before dyeing, printing, cutting, and sewing. She lives and works in Asheville with her husband and two daughters.
Join the Fabrics, Flowers & Fashion tour to explore the Netherlands and Belgium on a trip packed with material pleasures sure to delight a fabric lover abroad.
Enjoy shopping at much-loved quilt shops, including Dutch Quilts, where reproductions of antique Dutch prints by Den Haan & Wagenmakers are the focus, and Birdblocks, a shop for modern quilters. There also is a stop at Vlisco, the treasure trove of Dutch wax prints. Founded in 1846, Vlisco has created more than 350,000 original fabric designs. In Belgium, tour the Fashion and Lace Museum, which houses stunning examples of Belgium lace and clothing, and the Hasselt Fashion Museum, dedicated to dress and fashion.
Much-loved cultural attractions include Amsterdam and its canals, the large and diverse Albert Cuyp Market, and Rijksmuseum, whose extensive holdings include masterpieces by painters of the Dutch Golden Age. A visit to Kinderdijk Windmill Village with its 19 working windmills gives insight into life in a land largely below sea level.
This colorful tour concludes with a visit to the magnificent Brussels Flower Carpet, an intricate display of thousands of flowers arranged in Brussels’ Grand Place square.
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If Government imposed COVID-19 restrictions mean that we cannot run a tour, or that you cannot travel to join a tour, then you will be given a 100% refund of all monies paid to Opulent Quilt Journeys for your tour.
Vaccination requirements
Opulent Quilt Journeys requires all participants on its tours to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
