Norway lengthwise ...

I have been a lazy blogger lately... Once again... But I have travelled a lot, up and down in Norway. And had a lot of fun .. This is a glimpse from Karl Johan , the main street in Oslo, during World Championship on ski. By day time LOL I went to one of the Reward distributions, just to have been there. I could not see anything just a part of one of the big TV screens. There where 100 000 peoples gatherd just to cheer. wish you all could hear the sound of the national anthem...
My next travell was to Tromsø and NQF annual quilt meeting 2011...
This is Ishavs katedralen ( The Arctic cathedral) by nigth. There where a beautifull consert just for us, NQF ladies.
We ladies from the southern part of Norway had to try every thing Tromsø are known fore...( In Norway) Here at Rorbua drinking Mack beer... Irene got a lot of beer( just as for 10 years don't like beer... )but the Fish soup and water was great :-)
More food, this time at Skarven. Water and coffe fore me and Bacalao- tasted for the first time :-)
The view from our hotell, Hurtigruta.
Some of us even manage to take the cableway to one of the mountain tops... It was the only trip that day, to mutch wind. 22 m/sec... Scarey but fun, and guss how proud we where after.. :-)
Some photos out of the windows....
The town Tromsø...
We went all the way up to the top here...
When we went back to take the bus to town every body walk in a line... Wonder if the reason was the ice and the gravel ..... :-)
This is a photo of Aurora Borealis, Nothern Ligths... A photo of a photo... we did not succes to see it in " real life"
One nigth there was Fish soupe in the Polar aquarium... I manage to get photos "from under sea". Look at the colours...
More great colours....
A photo of a photo of a Polar bear...
A King crab.... One reason not to swim in the sea.... :-)
NQF ladies looking - talking and waiting for the soup...
And I found a Quilt.... Svennebrev.. I will start to make this quilt as soon as posible... Ok Ok I saw a lot of beautifull quilts in Tromsø. If you want to look go and look at Hanne and May Britts blogs...( Just scroll down.)
Back to my home, I have mange to finish one item .. (But I have done a lot of Flowers... )This is Make and Bake Month 1 Pincushion by Busyfingers....
Once more a little trip to Oslo - spring are just around the corner... I saw one little Crocus...
Here in Trysil I have had my last walk in the Ice road across the river. The snow are melting and there are water in the "road"...

But it means SPRING.

Have a great sunday, I'm soon of to see May Brit...
Hugs ;-)

Feeling of spring...

This is how my garden looks to day, still I got a spring feeling. The sun feels a little warmer every day , but cold nigths. - 20 degrees tonigth...
But I see I got spring feelings in my work now.... I want colours...More than white - greay and blue...
So I start discreet... I found 6 of the basket blocks from Bunny Hill... and some soft pink and brown...nice start... Then i found the brown with roses.. beautifull fabric, but not enough for the borders.... then the spring feeling take off..... I found the pink fabric with small girls on ... eccentric but I love it :-) The little quilt made me think of "trollkrem" ( a dessert made of mountain cranberry- because of the colour :-)
Then I got more happy colours in mail - the first of the Make and Bake club... Great red fabrics - a little superbob thread-a recipe and a pincushion pattern... So now I have to deside what fabric to cut in .... I got this from Patchwork with Busyfingers. Love it ;-)
Then I realy got the spring feeling..And start to realy play with colours... I got Vignette in mail and fell for Leanne's Hexagon Quilt - me who don't like to make hexagons, fell realy hard. I have to do a quilt with all that great colours and look at the stitchery hexagons... :-)
So now I'm playing with leftovers and brigth colours. I have found some great helping tools... Sewline gluepen- a MUST have - The Bottom Line superior thread and Milliners Needles.. + a new scissors.... The little green box are filled with hexagons ready to be flowers... So now I'm going to make me some spring flowers :-)
This are my new magasines , who are filled with new temtations of items to make ...
It feel like there are going to be a busy spring... wonder if I have to sleep at nigth...

Have some great "waiting for spring"days - I'm of to make me some flowers.

Hugs :-)