The last post in 2010...

My SSCS 2010 gift.... this year I got it from Kris.. Thank you Kris I love it. Look I got this great bag. If I'm clever in 2011 I will fill it with gifts for Christmas made all through the year... Hm In my dreams may be...
When I got the bag this great Australian items was in it... A little cross stitchery, pencils, notpad, pot holders and a lot of chocolate.A great present. Thank you Donna for making all this fun happen.... Next year tooo ??? I do hope so :-)
I hope you all are having a great Christmas time... Jacob are pleased with "his" Christmas tree... So pleased as he walk on my data all the time...just to look at it ... or may be to eat a little on it.He are not easy to put in his cage in the evening, he are yelling and making a lot of noise, not easy for "santas litle helper" to go to sleep... ( I wonder if Jacob are a bit spoilt... )
Who Santas little helper are.... Emma of course... Are she not cute in her Santa dress :-) I'm so luckey to have her and her mum cellebrating Christmas here with me. :-)
This Christmas has been a binding - Christmas for me.... Magda ( my new sewingmashine) and I had some serious "get to know each other"-days. So stipling and binding was a great way to start:-) So now I got more on my OPAM 2010 list... 2 tablerunners..... One are a realy UFO and the other after a Annaka pattern, with a twist.... ( I have to learn to read the pattern)

Magda and I also start to make Mug rugs.... One for me...
Two for Nemo and her boy friend...
Four more as Christmas gifts....
I also manage to make some tablerunnere... two in red...
and two ligth one.. I made this 4 tablerunnere a while ago, but as it was Christmas gifts I could not show them earlier.... So now my list for the OPAM 2010 are compled....
I was hoping to reduce my UFO pile, but I don't tink I did that... So I hope to start 2011 in the pile.... Hm I belive I hear some one are having a nasty laugh.... Ok , ok I belive we all try the same...

But as this are my last blog in 2010 I want to wish you all a Happy New Year...
See you all in 2011.
Hugs :-)

Busy December....

I got a visit from "Santa" a few days ago....He didn't use Rudolf to bring my present, but a big truck. The parsel he brought with him was big too :-) Early Christmas for me.. :-)
Still I have mutch more to look forward to... - Meeting Peder and his parents - and Christmas visit of Emma and her mum, mutch more importen than my gift for myself, but the gift are somthing to "play" with after Christmas too..... Hmmm what the gift are..... LOL
My new sewing machine... Janome, Horizon,Memory Craft 7700 QCP. I have been playing a little with her, and she are GREAT. I have a lot to learn - so there are going to be fun to play with her after Christmas. I have a lot of UFO's to finish. I can't show you what we have been working on, 7700 and I( got to give her a name, but what shall I name her?? ) We have been making gifts for Christmas. A lot of bindings for me to do now.. :-)
I have got some great mailings lately too... My SSCS gift, with these lovely Christmas Ornaments . My secred Santa are Kris . She send me a big packet too - I wonder what it is, but I have been clever and put it avay untill Christmas. Thank you Kris and a big hug to Donna for making all this fun happen this year too ;-)
I have been busy this December... I have been on a quick trip to France visiting my brother and his boys just outside Nice. I brougth Christmas gift with me and got a lot with me home... Almost like Santa :-)
The view from their posh was fantastic. A lot diffrent from what I see here in the woods. LOL
It was a busy trip, with a lot of fun. I was so luckey to be able to come with the boys to their Christmas party at school, and meet the French Santa. No gift for me, but all the kids got :-)
I manage to grab some magazines to bring home with me.. More I want to make. I wish we could get these magazines in Norway...
It is a lot diffrent from France, the view from my posh, but they are both beautifull. Look at this cold winter sky. It is sunrise in -20 degrees..The world are beautifull- we just have to stop for a moment and enjoy it.
In the end of this blog I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas , hope you all will take a moment and look for the beauty in life. This photo are taken out of the bus window on my trip to France. This morning the world was blue and cold - 25 degree., I wonder how many small santas was looking at the bus. :-)

Next time I will show you what I have been doing latly. It is Christmas gifts.... :-)

Have fun and take care... Christmas Hugs :-)

Small finishes and big secrets...

Emma has a big secret to tell Peder... and a lot to learn him... the seret is.... It is soon Cheristmas. Emmas second - Peders first. :-)
Peder are practice his crawling.... May be Emma has told hin about all the gifts under the tree??
I know it will be a lot of gifts for them both... and some for the rest of us too.... LoL


I know I got a lot of secrets in my Advent calendar. I'm so luckey to get the calendar from Quiltegården as a gift. I had to order two of my santas to guard it. No peeping - I promice ;-)
It shuold have been some guarding on the coffetable saturnday. Quess who helped him self with some chocolate when I walk my quests to the front door... Jacob just had to get some Saturday candy...


Last month I was soo lucky to win a gift from OPAM 2010.Look what I got...Christmas Jingles a pattern from Natalie Ross- Great fabrics ( I think what to make of them ..) -Message Pads and a pen. Thank you Kris and Peg for hosting this. I love my gifts ;-)
Talking about OPAM 2010 - I manage to do some more small finish this monath. Larry the Lamb , a wool pincushion.It is almost to sweet to use. I have to play more with wool- it is fun and easy :-)
I have done some tiny stitcheries... to decorate for Christmas.Happy holidays from Blueberry Backroads. As a member of SSCS 2010 I'm going to get more to put on the tree. :-)
At last I want to show you what I have been doing to day.. I took May Britts challenge and start to make Mug-Rugs. Great little christmas gifts.. and a fun way to use some of my leftovers. But the more I make - the more new ideas I get....
The Rug in front has a stitcery I got in a class with May Britt some weeks ago. So thank you May Britt for giving me all this inspirasjon... To morrow I'm going to start making more Rugs... There are more leftovers crying to be used..

Have a great Advent with lots of Christmas spirit ;-))

Snow at last...

At last the snow has come.. no more dark evenings. To day I went outside and found the snow sticky. So i had to make me a snow-lantern. I put a candle in it and ligth it this evening. It is beautiful.
Yesterday I went to a class with May Britt- it was needleturn workshop. A lot of A-ha from the girls. We all enjoy the class, and did great work..I will show mine next time .. It is not all done yet.
A lot of busy girls, not only sewing we also did a lot of chatting :-)
May Britt was staying at mine house.. We had a great evening with sewing and chatting... and a little wine:-) May Britt brought some kit - Christmas Bauble by Hatched and Patched. They was so great so I had to make some of my own...
It is my first attempt to use wool- felt. Funn and easy- I have to make more from it. I got the Felt at Katrines Quilte Stue the last time I went there. So here are my first finish this month.A Christmas Bauble...
Yesterday I got this wonderfull parsell in mail from Sølvi.Two thimbles , one from Røros and one from Rørvik. And look at the sockings. Not for everyday use.Thank you Sølvi - I love it all. Hugs :-)
There has been a lot of change in my house. I got a great joiner to do all the hard work. I'm going to hire out a part of the house. It is to big for me alone. So when May Britt got here, she brought new tools with her. I asked her to go and buy it after I saw it in a advertising. Ladies tool... all pink. So now I can decorate my wall by my self :-) All my photos and quilts are moving around...
This is my new sewing area in the sitting room. I can watch TV when I sew...
And here are my new wall- almost done. All the skirting are missing, but I got the Yuletide Joy Quilt on the wall -- Early start of the christmas season this year LOL I love the look of my sitting room now. And to morrow Jacob are comming home from his trip. Wonder what he will think of our new home :-)

Still making Bags...

I have been clever this week - at last I manage to start my sewing machine LOL...
This is another bag from the Bagalicious Club by QFD. Pita Bag by Sue Daley Designs. A sweet little bag - realy fun to make. I have got kit nr 7. So I know what I have to start to make as soon as posible :-)

This little button I have only coloured - all by myself ;-) Hugs'n Kisses button from 2008. Lost in my UFO pile- suddenly spotted , now done :-) I wonder why something just remain undone for so long.... Or is it just by me it happen??
I still make bags-- It is so fun . This is a Lommerusk (pocket fluff) kit from Nothern Quilts. I manage to make more two from the kit... One for me and one for a friend... The saying are from a Norwegian song.. (If you be the owner of a thousands plums....) So now I got a new bag for my stitchery kits.
I have also manage to do this Weekend bag for a friend. Easy to make and it take what ever you need for a long weekend or more. I got one myself and use it when I go for a visit to my girls..
I feel so great starting to use my new sewing room- My next projects are Christmas gifts.. I suddenly discover it is only two months left.....
Last sunday my brother and I went to the family cabbin deep in the woods here in Trysil. I live behind the montain in the middle of the photo. It was a cold day and there was ice on the lake. It was so quiet that we could hear the ice getting thicker. A strange sound almost like the sound of whales under water.
A fun and great adventure to keep in mind ;-)

Hope you all will have a great adventure this weekend.
Hugs ;-)

Start of the "Quilt Seasong"....

To days photo are from the bridge and as you can see the last days windy weather has made all the leaves disappear. It was 3 degress below zero this morning, so now the nature are prepare for winter and snow. Now it is time to start "the quilt" season, as they call it in the Elm Creek book I'm reading now. I got The Aloha Quilts as my bed-reading. Great book - but I read english realy slow :-)
My thimble collection are still growing thanks to great friend ... This two are from the northern part of Norway.Harstad, where my mother spend most of her childhood, and The Artctic Circle. Thank you Nancy and May Britt. ;-) I have never been so far north., but a great dream of mine are to take a trip with the Hurtigruta. In Mach next year I'm going to Tromsø - NQF annual meeting are going to be there. Guess ho are looking forward to be there and meet all the other quilting ladies......

I have been clever and manage to do a little Quilting so far this month .... a little wall quilt to hang over my bed.I love the fabrics in the frame- I hope you can see all the small angels.
I have also made Emma a knitted sweater to use in the kindergarten.- I hope she and her mum like it... ;-)
The kids are growing- Here are Peder with his new bibs. He got them the last time I saw him. It is a fun and useful way to use funny fabrics :-) Peder are a big boy now with two teeth.
And Emma are almost ready to walk out to meet the world- the carriage are safe to walk with --- just in case. ;-)
It will be so fun to meet them again soon...

Have a great start of The Quilt Season... I hope to be able to finish a lot of my UFO's now.
Hugs;-)

Start of the dark fall...

Now it is the start of the dark time of the year... It is the time when I love to sit inside and stitch by the fire...
I have manage to get some finish this last week... I have to start to use my new sewing area... So after a year Butterfly Bouquet are done. I start to make it at Quiltegården when Leanne and Gail where in Norway.
The other finish this time are a coat for Peder. I belive he need it now- the summer are gone in Oslo too.
I even got some new thimbles to show you. I got them from Bjørg- I don't remember where it is from ( Bad memory?? ), Lisbeth from Riga and my brother Bjørn who has been on Svalbard. Thank you all, I love the thimbles.
Guess who are feelig great?? I'm done with the challenge from the quiltguild. It is Abyquilt who are giving us this challenge...Two new blocks next month, a new little quilt by summer. Fun ;-)


I promise her , May Britt to show photos from my new sewing rooms, when it is all done and every thing are tidy... Well as tidy as it can be... Ok I have to get up some little curtain here to spare the fabric...
Here in my sewing room Here I need all the ligth I can get... Ups... some one has been using it. There are leftovers on the table ;-) I have made the top of Red Brolly's Christmas quilt from Homespun. (Show you later )
Here are my sewing room from the door- notice the radio., I play music when I sew.. To day it was Dr Hook - Yes I know-- A big surprice for the people who realy know me ;-)))
I know there will be a lot of music from this rooms now ;-)

There are two small "ladies" I have wanted to show you for a long time. Are they not beautiful - I got them years ago from Nemo. She was only a school girl when she made them for me.The one in the yellow dress are named Whoopi Dollberg. Think you all can tell who she named her after..

This days I'm moving around and organize almost every thing in my home, so may be there will be more fun and sweet memories to show you next time. Untill then have fun and take care.
HUGS :-)