What a Weekend

This weekend has been so busy and sooo great. Nemo has been at home,there has Trysil Utvandrer Stevne and I have been in a wedding.So to day I feel a little tired, but I have prepare for my next visitors. My brother and his boys are comming from France to night.So this week will be a great family week.
Above you can see a photo from the wedding. The new married couple are going on a little trip with a horse-cart.It was a lovely wedding.
Nemo had some great job done this weekend. She had to try my new sewing area basting a kit she got with my brother from USA. She also had more done, but I think she will tell about it on her blog. So I will keep it a secret....
I manage to do the binding of this little table runner, made of fabrics I bought on the NQF meeting this spring at Olavs gård.
On friday I meet some great Quilting ladies from USA.They where at Trysil Stevnet. I have been so luckey to get mail from three of them. They found my blog seeking for Trysil.Here we are standing in front of a great quilt they had made. All the people from Amerika had theirs signature on it. What a great gift! The girls are: Gloria Lundblad and Carolyn Omland Loken,both from Alexandria, Minnesota. Me, Nemo,Synøve from Trysil,Tulla from South Haven, Minnsota. It is Gloria and Carolyn who has made the great quilt. Thanks to Gloria I have got all the name put in order. ( Thank you Gloria)
Nemo and I was so luckey to get Ivy and Tulla on a short visit.They had a realy full program. It was so great to had some time to talk and getting to know them a little. I realy hope we will be able to have more fun together by mail. Thanks for spending some time with us!
I even got pressents...Fabrics from Minnesota from Tulla. The name of the fabrics are one of my dreams....Minnesota Shophop. (Nemo has told me of the shops she has been visiting when she have been in Bemidji.) From Ivy my Quilt club got fabrics from Texas , with the state Flower, Bluebonnets on. This is my part of the fabric, and I know what to do of it..... I even got a thimble from Gloria. It are from the Runestone Museum in Alexandria. A new dream to visit the museum. Thank you girls you are so great :-)On sunday, the last day of the Stevne there was a lot happening on our local Museum, Solbakken.As it was the end of Trysil Stevnet the museum was trying to show how it almost had been when peoples started to emigrate to Amerika.It was a lot of "old" food ans showing how they use to make for instanse fabrics and knitting wool and so on. Nemo has meet a friend of us. She has her Trysil Bunad on. (Trysils national costume) Elegant I think.
Ta the end I want to show you some great photos nearly from the past...Here are a lady who are calling ( lokke) the herd home.
These couple has been cutting the gras and made it ready to go to the barn....
She are knitting of home made yarn. Look at her shoes. They are made of Birch bark. Warm, but not quite comfort to wear.
At last the lady with the Spinning Wheel. Thanks to all the ladies in the past, we learn to make thread so we could make make yarn and fabrics.... What on earth would we do without them ...... ;-)

Now I have some fun work to do.... I got my partners from Chookyblues SCCS 2008 and the Stitchers Angel Swap. They are............. Oh , no I'm not telling.
Have fun and take care.....

Swap and BOM

I got my Four Seasons Quilt Swap summer quilt in mail last week.It was Amanda who was my secret partner. It is realy a great quilt and she has put some lovley post card in the parsell as well. Thank you Amanda your quilt are lovely. ;-)
Lynette has asked about the progress with her free Bom , Noa's Ark. Here are mine blocs.I'm making them with old Debbie Mumm fabrics. I have even found a Noa's Ark fabric to make some border of. I found a lot of unknown fabrics when I arrange my sewing area. LOL
Hope you all have a great week....

Weekend in Trondheim

Last weekend we went to Trondheim, my husband and I. On Saturday my mother and I went to town. It was "Olavs dagene" Some days to remember St Olav. A "king" who christianze Norway and was killed in a battle in 1030.There are a lot of happening around the cathedral on these Olavs dagene: Celebrate mass for the pilgrims and a fair, as in the good old days, beside the church.

Her are a little glimse from the fair. All the items you can buy are well done, not just cheap trash.
You can even run inn to people you know.... LOL. Abyquilt and her daugther was with us. I wonder what they have found here. We all had a great day walking in the sunny town. We looked in a lot of shops and manage to go to Quiltegarden before it close for the weekend...
And there I got a big surprise..... I had been drawn to win a prize for some coasters I made last year.(My coasters are in the front of the picture.) It was a challenge from NQF s annual meeting on Hell. I use the prize to buy me some great new quilting stuff... Some new fabrics,a new pattern ,made by Brenda Ryan, a yo-yo maker, I have got great new ideas from this blog, and at last..... Cotton Country Quilt, a great Bronwyn Hayes book. It is so fun to go shopping when it was so surprising. Thank you Siw. ;-)
I got more surprises when I came to Trondheim. My mother had made me a great pin cushion. The shoe with the boy and the dog. I love it. I got my self a new thimble from the Cathedral.When I got back to work I even got a thimble from my co-worker Irene, she has been on a trip to Lofoten. Yesterday I made me a little pin cushion from a pattern from the latest edition of Quiltemagasinet. I got the fabrics as little gift from Kim. Luckey me ;-)
My I introduce the newest member of our family, Jonas. He realy looks like a child , but he are a doll my mother has made. She are a great doll maker and has a lot of beautifull porcelain dolls all in great dresses.I will take some photos to show you next time I visit Trondheim.

As you can see I realy had a great trip. ;-)

Christmas in July....

I read a lot about Christmas in July and it has realy been that for me. :-) When my father came he brought a new christmas dinner set ,who my morher has painted. She realy know how to make great China paiting.And from the Christmas club I got the kit of this great guy. Rudy are made after a pattern from Melly and me. Guess who is lokking forward for Christmas. And to day I learn that Chookyblue are hosting a new Secret Santa Christmas Swap. It is going to be so fun.
I have manage to finish a lot during the summer. I have send this to my PIF partner Margy . I hope she liked it. The saying are : Badedag ( Bath day)
I have also post my Four Seasons Quilt to a lady somewhere in the whorld..... Realy hope she likes it. And I'm keeping an eye on the postman waiting for mine quilt..... It has been so great beeing a part of this Swap.So thank you Margaret for hosting it.
I have also done the binding of this quilt from a class earlier this year. So now my wisp's are shrinking a little, but..... There are a BIG but.....
Here you see some of the new pattern I got with my father....It is all somthing I WANT to do...
Ups he didn't bring Chicken Feather. I manage to get it on Lille Stasjon when I started to work after my vacation.I love the books of Bronwyn Hayes... ;-) Back to the pattern, as you can see I have started on one. Hekseliv (Witch life) made of AnnAKa. The other are pattern from Lappestua, Crab-apple Hill and Bareroots. A lot to do for me :-)
When Nemo return from France I got this wonderfull gifts from them. Her and her boyfriend. Two thimbles from Paris and some new fabrics designed by Pat Sloan. I love them , wonder what to make...
I won this Pin on a giweaway at Quilt Fabric Delights. Hope you can see how great it is. I have signed up at herPincushion of the month club.
My collection of thimbles are growing fast, thanks to great friends. I got these from Lisbeth ( the one from Røros) and Reidun. Thank you girls, I will remember you....
When I was "baby sitting" Nemos rats they realy looked over my progress on the stitching. It was Quiltmakers from The Freckles Collection who the liked best. I can't understand why... LOL

There are some great Giweaway going on now. Take a look here
and here.....

I see May Britt has told about her trip to Trondheim, I will tell you about mine next time. I have some stitching to do now. See you soon, with lots of news to tell and show. ( A lot of more WANT TO DO...)

KLEM

My friend and co-worker Irene stoped for a little chat and some coffee on saturday. Jacob was so happy to see her, as you can see he had to give her a realy good hug (klem). They had not been seeing each other since Leanne was visiting Trysil last year.I belive Jacob (and I) want her to come more often. ;-)
We always love when great friend are stopping by ...

Holidays at Home

This holiday I have been at home,but there has been lots of happenings. I have been looking after Nemo's rats, while she and her boy friens are traveling in France( luckey them) The rats are no problem to look after, but I use to spoil them Nemo says, giving them to mutch to eat.
To day my father started to exchange the rest of our windows. He started last year, but to morrow it will all be done.Cyan was quick to follow him and look what he was doing, or may be if he was doing it the right way.She only had a quick look before she and her mother started on they way back home.
I have got lots of mail in my vacation. (I'm clever to keep the postman busy ) From Australia I got Rosalie's book - Gift. Lots of things I want to make in it.Realy a great buying.I also got two issues of Homespun. Mutch "want to do " there too. From England I have ordred Pretty Little Pincushions. A realy great book with lots of new ideas. And at last I got two pattern from America.Two stitcheri-pattern from Crab-apple Hill. Hocuspocusville and Bluebird. Wonder when I will be able to do all I want?
I got mail from Nadine, she has been my special angel,helping me with the pattern of this quilt shown in Marie Claire idees.She even add some great strawberry fabrics in the parcel. Thank you Nadine you are so kind with me. Klem.
One saturday I went to a local second hand market. Here are what I got.... a sharpener made like an old sewing mashine and this old scissor. There are smal angels faces and lots of flowers on the little scissor. Great buyings I think.
I have been replacing some of my quilts and as you can see Cyan had no problem to use the one who got of my wall.

I have manage to do a lot of quilting in my hollydays. Here are a little quilt for a special little guy.
And this one made for my mother in law's 75. birthday.We were cellebrating her last saturday.
This little quilt are one from Jordbærstedet's stitching klubb. I got the pre-printed pattern and fabrics. Then I have to decide what to make. I made a little wall-quilt to put my quilt- pins on.The saying are "ut på tur- aldri sur" Mening somthing like this: Always happy on a trip.
I have atlast done this quilt, a BOM I got from Jordbærstedet some years ago.I realy love it and think it looks so great. I wonder why I didn't got it done before.
The last item this time are the elephants from Noa's ark.I love this little BOM. It is so fun to see what animal Lynette give us to do next time....

At last I want to tell you about a great give away here. Just have a look.

I have more to share with you ,but I think it is enough by now, so have a great day.... see you soon. :-)

A Friend from the past

Yesterday I had to find a friend from years ago. My little old Bernina ,who I got a long time ago. Almost 30 years I think it must have been since I got her. She had made a lot of clothes when my daugthers was small, and she was a part of my early start in the Quilt world.... And now she has got a new start. (Short I hope) My Janome has got some data problems and are on hers way to see the sewingmaskin-docktor. I hope it will be a short stay....I realy love all the data-stuff when it works. ;-(
I have some realy good friends..... some days ago one of my friends , Lisbeth, called and asked where I was thinking to put my thimbles and askes if I want to have her case. I think that was a silly question. Of course I want it. ;-) So thank you Lisbeth, you are so kind. ;-) Look how great my thimbles my looks, and they has realy good space. I need more thimbles, so now I know what to whish if sombody askes. I have put some of my small angels in the case as well.
Yesterday Lapphøna and I persunade our husbonds to take a trip to Lillehammer. Of course we had a reason to go. We had not visit the quilt store ,Quiltespesialisten, since two years ago. I had no acute need for fabrics, but when I got out on the street these great fabrics had steal their way into my handbag......It is realy hopless to be hard in a Quilt store. I even got me some new thinblers. One from Lillehammer and the other from Skibladner.
Look what I have manage to do with the fabrics I bougth at Katrines Quiltestue when I was in Oslo some weeks ago. I have started on the Simple Pleasures Quilt. ;-) To day I have prepare 5 more smal stitchery blocks. I think I will do mostly hand sewing untill I got my maskine home...
I also work on several Swap's Here are a sneak peek on my Four Seasons Quilt Swap. The summer quilt. Starting to get ready to take a trip out in the world. I have also started on my Miniature Booty Quilt.... and to day I have signed up at The Stitched Angels Swap...Always enough to do. I also work on some Gift Quilts that I will show later.....

To day I read on Kim's blog that there were snow in Bundarra....I'm so happy I got summer. But I want to wish every body who like snow in July A merry July Christmas. Take care and enjoy snow.....I will enjoy summertime as long as I can get it.
Love what weather you get, if it rains you can sew. Have fun and take care.