SSCS 2009

I got the greatest SSCS gift from Sonia this year. Thank you, Sonia. You send me a wonderful parcel. Look what I got... a little bag, I will use it for my sewing stuff, a nedle and thread-keeper,a pincushion- with pins,a scissors and a Seam Ripper.......
I also got this great stuff- a small embroidery kit,a message magnet and some chocolate...
Even two thimbles had found its way under my Christmas tree. One thimble from Sydney and the other from Manly.When my oldest daugther heard where they were from she told- Oh I have been there.... Luckey her.
I feel like I have spolied at Christmas this year- as every year- there was soo great gifts under the tree for me. Thank you every one--- It was just what I needed everything. ;-)
It has been a snowy Christmas so fare this year- Cold start and a lot of snow. But I know a luckey little girl who got a warm bag filled with down to sit in when she goes out for a walk.So if there are about 10 degrees below zero, she will be nice and warm.
To day we got a visit in the birdcage in the garden. A lovely red bullfinch looking for sunflower seed.

Hope you all have great Christmas days all over.
Merry Christmas to you all.

Christmas

These days there are Christmas trees on every corner, this was one I saw when I was in Oslo a week ago. From a distance it looked great, but it was fake. Made by steel. Big steel snowballs. :-)
There has been realy busy days lately, but now the Christmas peace has come to our home. It has been realy winter ourside- more than 30 degrees bellow zero one day, and most of the week with - 20 or more. So Emma have been staying inside most of the time. Just some small trip in the car. Luckey for here she had great new knitted coat with socks and cap. It will be her first Christmas- so guess who got a lot of presents....
Cyan hope there will be some for her too. It looks like she are going to sleep next to all the gifts to night..
I have not only been a lazy blogger- I have also not been able to finish mutch in the quilting world. Almost all I have manage to do are Christmas gifts and can not be shown here... Only these little purses. They are for bringing your favorite tea-bags. I had to make three, two to give away and one for myself. Great idea. I found the idea on Among the Gum Trees blog. Thank you for all the great christmas ideas.
At the end I want to give all in blogland a big Christmas hug and hope you all will have a great Christmas. Now it is in the middle of the nigth here in Trysil, all dark outside, so Santa are free to
come with gifts to all.

Have a Merry Christmas all of you in blogland.

Home again...

I have been a lazy blogger for a while...Hm. there must be somthing going on ..Ok... I have been able to take a photo of these lovely flowers, only a week ago. I have been in France to visit my brother and his family.So the flowers looks diffrent from the ice-roses I use to see here now.But so fare this year it has been little of them , it is not cold white snow, just slush..
The view from my brother's veranda was great. I whis I could been there in summer time.Image to sit here in soft warm nigths... Looking out on Grass and all the way to the sea, smelling all the flowers , lavendre, may bee some perfume ( Grass are known for making perfume) and listen to all the sounds of the nigth....
This is what I leave, it was cold this day and they were making snow in the ski area.Great view this also, but some thimes I feel you can't see the beauty where you live.Our house are in the middle of this photo,a brown house next to the spruce.
I have been clever and done a lot of quilting and stitching the last month, but because of the fast comming up Christmas I can or will not show it to you....But this quilt are done in the last days. The blocks are from a Thimbleberry club, and at last I got it to be more than a UFO.I feel great about all the UFO's I manage to have done in 2009 and will try to get a lot more done in 2010.... I hope... ;-) There are a lot of them just laying around just waiting to be done...and I REALY want them... I have a lot of new ideas on my wish list too. There are soo mutch I would like to do.I see new patterns and ideas all the time, so I think 2010 are going to be a busy year... ;-)
Wnen I got home from France and some great days in Oslo visiting my girls,I had got a lot of mail.New patterns, a kit , Homespun and this gift...It is from my SSCS partner Sonia.When I took the parcel there was a scary sound. Allmost like broken glass, but it was just the little bell.
Look at the great Noel ornament, I wonder if Sonia know about my trip to France ;-) She even send me a great hand made card. Thank you Sonia... I will not peep,but it will be hard to save the gift untill the 24. But I will do that. Nemo are going to spend cristmas here this year, so we must both wait to open our gift.

Have a great weekend and Lucia. I hope to be able to do more Christmas stuff... ;-)

Great Giveaways

Helen is having this great giveaway on her new BOM. A lovely quilt with a lot of work...


Sara from Quilt Fabrics Deligths are having a Giveaway too....

Take a look at both blogs, mutch to read and a lot new ideas and object I want to be able to do.... Somethime..

Have a great day..
Here are great days to stay indoors and sew.. Wet-wet with snow , rain and fog ... Oh ! Ugh!

Great Memories....

If there are some one who want to see how great it was at Quiltegården when Leanne and Gail was in Norway ....
Here are what Norge Rundt show on TV...

Christmas traditions

Lasr week my mother-in-law helped me to start my Christmas traditions. We made "lefse". It is an old traditison bred almost like thin wafer crispbred ,but soft. Almost like fabric and made of potato and flour. She starts with a piece with the size of an apple .....
The she rolls it out to a big circle....
And lift it over to the griddle. Now I have to do my work... Brush of redundant flour and turn it and bake it on both sides.Then move it to a table to get cold under a baking cloth...
At last we had 52 "lefser" waiting for Christmas breakfast and dinners... We had to taste it home, and it was realy great... Yummy ;-)
I have started to make Christmas gifts - I can't show yet. But I have manage to do some small thing for myself. I have made a little Christmas quilt after Gail Pans pattern, Rolly Polly Santa.
And this little cat. She are a little needlebook.I love to make small and fun Needlebooks and Pincushions . Now I have started to look in all my old Japanese books for new ideas... and I have found a lot...
My collection of thimbles have grown lately... From my friend Lisbeth I got this beauty with a butterfly on. She has been on hollyday in the Canary islands ( I belive....) Thank you Lisbeth ;-)
I also got this great thimbles...The one in front I got from a lady in Holland.It is from Katwijk aan Zee. Thank you. It is great ;-)
The last three I got when Nemo and her botfriend got home from a trip to London. - the last trip for a while ? ? ;-) - The himbles are ; the Queen ,Harry and William- The royal Prinses and the last shows diferent well known places in London. Thank you both. ;-)
Now I'm off to make Christmas gifts and the last for my SSCS gift.
Hope to have more to show you soon.
Have a great day and take care.

To my Angel...

When I got home from our Quilt Meeting there was a wonderfull surprise waiting for me... My present from my Stitchers Angel.. Mine angel was Kate from Australia. But Kate I don't have your mail adress so I can't send a mail with a big Thank You Hug... Please send it to me... I love alle the godis.. I'm so proud to the owner of it all. A needlebook - a pincushion and a litte bag with a lot of godis inside..

Here see what was hiding in the little bag... Floss -Quilters Pins ...Messuring tape.. she had even add two Kit-In- A -Card made byWildcraft farm.. And the cutest little frog says Hello from the front of the card.
Once again Thanks Kate. I wish I could give you a real hug. And thank you Helen for hosting this swap..

I know the gift I made for a Angel are on it's way- I hope she like it too...

Blue and white...

This is how my world are these days... Mostly blue and white.Outside the sky are deep blue and the montain are white.To day my whole garden are white, it is white frost allover the grass. More than 7 degress below zero make everything shine.
My mind are blue and white too, I work a lot with these colours from my stash. I'm working on a memory quilt and it brings a lot of memories, some great and some a little sad.. I will show you when it is done.But I have a great time making it... ;-)
Yesterday I hade some great visitorns in my rowan, a crowd of Waxwings were looking for berrys. When they are comming and I see Swans in a plough on the sky .... there are no doubt, it is allmost winter.
I have manage finish a little needlebook this week. I got the pattern when Leanne and Gail was at Quiltegården . We got some small free pattern from both of them.Great useful items. Thank you both I love to have them as great memories.
To day I'm off to the quilt meeting in Elverum , bringing my blue and white quilt bolcks in work...
It will be soo fun to meet all the girls and see what they are doing now. If you goes here you can see some great works..There will be more photos after the meeting.
I have a great weekend in front of me.... I'm going to Oslo to vistit Emma and my girls. Emmas mother are celebrating her birthday. And on monday I'm going to a Show and Tell at Katrines Quiltestue with Lynette Anderson...

So there are a lot happening in my blue and white world.
Have a great weekend, I know mine are going to be GREAT.....
HUGS ;-)

Sewing days...

I have been busy with a lot of sewing these last days.
I have done this great bag., it is the kit I got from Lappemor, when she meet me on the bus when I came from Leanne and Gails clases in Trondheim. I love the bag - Lappemor has choose beautifull fabrics so this are my new favorite bag- at the moment... ;-)
When we came in to the class room at Quiltegården , we found plastic bags on our desks with the kit to this bags in it. A lovely bag to carry new projects in , and a great memory from the weekend. Thank you Siw and all your great helpers.
I have manage to do a little somthing for Emma also this last weeks. She has became almost a big girl now. Soon 7 month old.The time runs so fast - It will be so fun to meet her again in a couple of weeks---- and her mother and aunt too ;-)
I made Emma this book from a kit I bought in Gøteborg this spring.Fun and easy to make and it is machine washable, realy great for someone who love to chew on everything...Outside there have been some days with snow and some days with a lot of sunshine, but I belive the winter are here soon. Great sewing days ;-) But it is not so simple to be a bird.. I saw this woodpecker in a pine in my garden. They are a bit shy so I had to take the photo through the window pane..

This are also out of my window pane,A lot of hungry birds eating frosen rowanberry..
But some birdes has a easy life .... Jacob sit warm and satisfied inside and look at the cold birds outside in the snowy tree.Some birds realy got a easy life..... Or not ... He has some battle with me about if he can drop my pins on the flor or eat my thread.... Or fighting with Cyan about who are the boss in this house......
Cyan are a smart cat woman and let Jacob belive he rules the house, as other ladies I know :-), and take a nap in Emmas carriage.

To morrow I'm going to give first aid to an old quilt..... a WISP who has been lying in my sewing room for a looong time... I got Buttonhole stitching-refusal and pretend not to have the quilt, but now is the time to bring it in to the ligth and have a re-start.... I want it and even got a its own place to hang it when it is done... So now I cross my fingers and hope to do the rest of it...
I will show you later...
Have great days--- I have a lot on my mind and in my fingers now-- One thing are done and in the mail- the parsell for my Angel in the Stitchers Angel Swap... I hope she like it. ;-)

Take care and have great sewing days ;-)

A little glimse from last weekend

tv-trøndelag

Here are a little glimse from the class last weekend. This is a little bit of what the TV will show.. I realy hop they are going to show a lot more, after all the work the team do...

Enjoy and wish you had been with us ;-)

At the end of the rainbow....

Last weekend some ladies from my Quiltgroup and I went to Trondheim to take a class with Leanne and Gail . They has come all the way from Australia to Quiltegården. We where going by bus , and not far from Trondheim these fashionale rainbows appear. ( the photo are out of the buss window) So now I'm certain there are a treasure at the end of the rainbow. We found a weekend filled with show and tell, old and new friends, and a lot of new ideas ,and must do items.
We where not the only one trying to get something out of the weekend, on saturday there was a film team from "Norge Rundt"( A norwegian TV- show ) They where doing a repotage from Gail and Leannes visit and what we Quilting ladies where up to. The team realy had to work. It was fun to see how mutch work a little report in TV are.... It will be on TV in about a month.
Leanne had done some great pattern for us. A redwork for saturday and this bouquet for sunday.I started on this- promise to show when it is done...
Gail had some santas for saturday and this little quilt for sunday... I started to stitch santas, but I will do this quilt soon. She brougth with her all the models from her book. It is a must have book , filled with beautifull small quilts and ideas. May be a Christmas gift to wish for.
Here you can see some of the models they brougth with them all the way.
This was what meet us when we came to class on saturday... At last I got what I have seen on photos from clases in Australia - Bags with gifts , name tags and pattern in... WoW. We got a great gift from Siw. I will show that also when done.This was a great start on a fantastisc week end. We where a lot of blogging ladies. Sølvi has a photo of us all with all our names and blog adresses.It was so fun getting to know the faces behind the blognames...
This is Siw, the hostess for all this fun. She are on Hurtigruta with Leanne and Gail now. With new ladies- in new classes. They also got AnnAka as a teatcher. I know there are going to be grat fun on the boat too...
This are some of what we where doing in class. It is a start of Lailas Garden-which I'm going to start on soon....
Here you can see some og our Santas...I have almost done two... One for me and one to give away...

Even I got a lot of new pattern , some fabrics and a lot of "realy have to have"-items at Quiltegården- There where a kind lady waiting for us at the bus station in Tynset with more we just need. Lappemor came with a new pattern and stitchery batting. I also was so luckey to get a wisp from her... Again - show when done...

At the end for to day- I have to say Thank You to all my friends from last weekend.It was so fun to meet you all and I hope we will meet again some times..
Hugs.

One more sleep...

My Quiltquild are 10 year and there has been a great exhibition. There was a lot to show.... Lovely bags, small and big quilts - and what ever you can imagine.I will only show a few photos, but look at Abyquilts blog... She has plenty of photos..
I'm off to a class with Leanne this weekend , so I had to show her Butterfly Garden in blue. A beautiful quilt..
This is another lovely corner... all made in Jpanese fabrics...
And at last I hade to show this little mastepiece It is so small ,but look at the bee... ;-)
I have manage to do a lot of quilting and binding on small wisp's the last weeks. With a lot of "help" from Jacob. He are always ready to give me a helping beak, what ever I say....
But in spite all the "great help" I have done a lot... This are from The Stitchery of the Month Club. A Janelle Wind pattern called Tea for Two. It was suppose to be two coasters and a tea cosy, but I don't use tea cosy ,so I made me a little table runner-And I love it.
I have also done some maskin quilting and binding on these old wisps from the bottom of my pile. Sorry to say - there are a lot more to work on....
This table runner are a new one... an great idea by AnnAka...I got the fabric with the printed redwork design on last time I went to Trondheim all the red fabrics I found in my stash. :-)
As I mention earlier I'm off to a class with Leanne , but not only her... Gail Pan are comming as well. I meet Leanne three years ago when she was in Trysil, so it will bee so fun to see her again.
Gail I will meet for the first time. I have got a mail from Siw at Quiltegården tellig what choice of class we got- and I know what I want to do... I will start on one of Gails pattern on Saturday, and one of Leanne's on Sunday. I will show you my choises next time...
On friday there will be a show and tell ( a trunk show) by both the ladies...
I know it will be a great weekend with a lot of new and old friends.

Now I have to do as this litte "lady" from the exhibition--- go to bed and have a good nigth sleep..
Have a great weekend , I know I will. I will be back with a lot of photos and a head filled with new ideas....