Hilde Hoogwaerts

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	<title>Hilde Hoogwaerts</title>
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		<title>kaleidoscope full splash</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Hilde Hoogwaerts
Textile Artist &#38;amp; Tutor

︎ &#38;nbsp; ︎ &#38;nbsp;︎


about &#124; quilts &#124; shop&#38;nbsp;&#124; contact</description>
		
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		<title>intro</title>
				
		<link>https://hildehoogwaerts.com/intro</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:22:01 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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		<description>Hilde Hoogwaerts&#38;nbsp;is a textile artist currently based in The Netherlands.
 Her uniquely international approach to quilting redefines conventions in textures and patterns, and tells stories of her decades abroad.&#38;nbsp;


Photo by Michel Wettstein</description>
		
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		<title>Quilting</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:35:14 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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		<description>Hilde, originally from Nijmegen, the Netherlands, started making quilts in Atlanta about 30 years ago. That’s where her life of traveling the globe began. In the decades that followed, she lived in 11 countries across 4 different continents, absorbing techniques, styles and textiles from North America, South East Asia, the 

Mediterranean,

South America, and finally West Africa, before finally settling in Doorwerth.


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		<title>fly away with me</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:46:48 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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		<description>Hilde’s latest book, Fly Away With Me, was released in September 2023 by QuiltMania.
This book, bursting with energy and color, is totally dedicated to the beautiful African fabrics she encountered, and the 14 projects that are explained highlight their superb 
prints. Creative, contemporary and traditional at the same time, it is suitable for all levels of expertise and creativity. All patterns are explained in inches and centimeters, accompanied by full-size templates and richly illustrated with magnificent photos. Book in English and French.

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		<title>about</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:58:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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Born and raised in The Netherlands, Hilde first caught the quilting bug in Marietta (Georgia, USA) over 30 years ago. Since then, she has lived in 11 countries across 4 different continents. While living and travelling around the world she got the chance to explore different techniques, styles and textiles: North American, Asian, South American, Mediterranean and West African.


“Sharing my love for African textiles with those who want to learn something new and who are, like me, passionate about the vibrant colours is one of my goals”


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portrait by Bertrand Bechard

Hilde started making boxes with acid free grey cardboard / binder board (French&#38;nbsp;cartonnage) when she lived in Singapore. Soon she started teaching with a friend and&#38;nbsp;discovered she loved teaching and sharing her passion for colours and textile crafts. This is&#38;nbsp;when she started her small business Geckoboxes, which she continued in the countries that&#38;nbsp;followed, with the craft connecting her to new friends and inspiration.


From 2015 until 2018 she resided in Accra, Ghana. When relocating there, Hilde decided not&#38;nbsp;to bring any of her own materials with her as she wanted to work only with those available&#38;nbsp;at the local markets, such as Makola market, and the various stalls along the streets. Hilde&#38;nbsp;became fascinated by the women draping their bodies with different fabrics in such vibrant&#38;nbsp;combinations of colours she would never have thought of. This is where her journey of&#38;nbsp;bringing together the bold prints and colours of the African fabrics in her quilts started. 

In Accra she hosted workshops focusing on how to make boxes in different shapes and sizes. For those who couldn’t sew but wanted to do something with the widely available fabrics this was a great skill to take on. She also collaborated with small local entrepreneurs and&#38;nbsp;showed them how to make gift boxes for their own businesses. 

 After 3 years in Ghana, Hilde and her husband returned to the Netherlands with a supply of&#38;nbsp;African fabrics big enough to continue making quilts and boxes for many more years.


	Resume
Thread designer with Aurifil Threads  
Owner of Gecko Boxes
Member of Dutch Quiltersgilde, MQG, SAQA and SAQA Europe &#38;amp; Middle East 
Books: 
Author of Flying away with me (Quiltmania 2023)
Included in:&#38;nbsp;Quilt Lapis Lazuli cover girl and patterned in Quiltmania #150 magazine
Quilt Fly away with me featured is Quiltmania #19 Simply Modern magazineFeatured in Dutch magazine Quilts en Zo #19 – 2019
Exhibits:The Patchwork &#38;amp; Quiltdagen – Rijswijk (NL), April 2019
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Solo exhibition 
Quilt Festival Birmingham, August 2019
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ‘Fly Away With Me’ Hilde Hoogwaerts 2018

Pour l’Amour du Fil Quilt show - Nantes (Fr), April 2023
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Solo ExhibitionQuilt National ‘23 Dairy Barn Arts Center - Athens Ohio (USA), May 2023
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Juried International Artist with my quilt Summer GardenCarrefour European Patchwork Meeting - the Alsace, September 2023
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Solo ExhibitionInternational Quilt Festival Luxembourg, May 2024
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Solo Exhibition
Quilt Festival Birmingham, August 2024
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ‘El Fandango’ Hilde Hoogwaerts 2023
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ‘Blue Lotus 1’ Hilde Hoogwaerts 2023


web design by romke hoogwaerts&#38;nbsp;︎︎</description>
		
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		<title>quilts</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:58:54 +0000</pubDate>

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Fly Away With Me&#38;nbsp;African kaleidoscope quilt, 3x3 meter / 118” square, 
machine pieced and quilted, made in Ghana, 2018


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Summer Garden&#38;nbsp;
2x2 meter/78” square
machine pieced and quilted


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Summer Garden
on view at the Quilt National 2023: The Best of Contemporary Quilts, in Athens, Ohio


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For more pictures please follow her on&#38;nbsp;Instagram!</description>
		
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		<title>contact</title>
				
		<link>https://hildehoogwaerts.com/contact</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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Contact


Feel free to&#38;nbsp;contact Hilde for any inquiries about her work, book, workshops or other products.
Follow her on Instagram, Youtube or Facebook, and&#38;nbsp;read about her travels on her blog (no longer updated).
︎︎︎</description>
		
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		<title>closed</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:57:13 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Hilde Hoogwaerts</dc:creator>

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Closed for the holidays


Dear valued customers,


My shop is temporarily on pause as I am taking a short break. I look forward serving you again when I return. If you have any questions, please leave a message at hildehoogwaerts@gmail.com and I will respond as soon as I can. As of September 23rd, the webshop will be open again.


Thank you for your patience,

Hilde


︎


Lieve klanten,

Mijn winkel is tijdelijk dicht vanwege een korte vakantie. Ik kijk ernaar uit jou weer van dienst te mogen zijn als ik terugkom. Als je vragen hebt, kun je een bericht sturen naar
hildehoogwaerts@gmail.com. Ik zal dan zo snel mogelijk reageren. De webshop is vanaf 23
september weer open.

Bedankt voor je geduld,
Hilde

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