Proud Grandmother...

May I introduce the new member in our family... Nemo's little boy- no name yet- born the 10 of April. Exacitly just the rigth size ;-)
I'm so happy both my grand children lives close to each other so I can vistit them at the same time.
It is hard to think how fast the babies grew up, it is only a year since Emma was this little... and look at her now...
Here she are - one year big and ready to learn her little cousin all the fun stuff she are doing.....
I have been able to do some sew stuff lately too, I got a challenge from Kjerstin to finish my Veranda View. So at last it is out of the dark in my UFO pile and ready to be hung on the wall.
I hav also done this little quilt, ok - almost done. I have to stitch the name of the boy as soon as I got it... LOL. The other photos are my two daugthers and Emma. It is some of the first photos I got of them all. The hearts on the little quilt are from a block exchange I have been a part of for two years now. Last year we made Friendship stars, and this year hearts. We where 8 ladies and last week 7 of us meet and had a show and tell... Realy funny to see how diffrent we used our hearts a lot of great work.
Just take a look at the photos...





Next year it is Lapphøna and I who will arrange the swop...
I will be so fun to meet all the girs again , we only meet once a year . So to the girls- it will be fun to see you again next year here in Trysil. ;-)

Untill next time - have fun and tacke care.... I will keep a close eye on my mail box. I know there are some great stuff on the way from Australia....

Shopping,shopping,shopping....

Yesterday I went on a trip to Oslo with a lot of my friens from Elverum Quiltelag. We where on a shopping trip visiting both Katrines Quiltestue and Lappemakeriet.A big event to be abel to chare all this fun together. Look at all the happy faces, I think every one got some treasures... ;-)
May Britt has a lot of photos on her blog, thake a look ...
Of course I had to make my second bag from the Bag club to bring. Don't every Quilt trip demant a new one? This one are "Beach House by Natalie Ross In Stitches. Unusual colours to me , but I love it.
And just the rigth size to bring on for shopping....
Here are a few photos from the trip ... At Katrines we got some coffee and offer to sit down and thake a time out in the shopping...
She also had some great show and tell.....
This is her new Bom , starting soon. Realy beautifull big quilt, but to big for me ....... I belive LOL

By Lappemakeriet some of us "Girls" found this seat... Tough to climb, but great to sit and swing our tired legs on... Now I realy can cach a glimpse from my childhood........
Particular when I can see the way May Britt get down from the seat ..... LOL She realy made the day for Irene and me ;-)
I have done one more item this last weeks, Flora Engleløper by Nothern Quilts. A Broderus kit. I feel so great - all of my subscriptions done this time ..... So now I can just wait for the next kit. Block 2 from Down in my Garden has arrived - hope to start to make the block to morrow...
Hm ....If I got some new treasures.... of course.. Take a look. New fabrics- Cosmo floss- Octagon Paper Pieces- Straw needels and "candy" What else can a quilters heart wish...

Oh one more thing.... I manage to order the buttons for Lynettes new BOM to day.... (Thanks and hugs to you May Britt.) I will get them from Siw at Quiltegården. This must be one of the great "MUST HAVE" items this year....

Have fun and take care , I belive I will be back soon.... Soon more to show and tell ;-)

Spring ??

I manage to finish the first block of Leannes Down in the Garden to nigth. So now I'm ready to get block two of this great BOM. I love to work with the fabrics from Lecien and the Cosmo floss.The colours are so vernal.
The first finish in April are done...an old little wallquilt from years ago...I challenge Vigdis to do another during Easter Hollydays....Wonder if she took the challenge...The stitchery are from Nothern Quilt and are called "Is te" ( Ice Tea) Some of my photos are still relaxing, I'm still wondering how to turn them.....
I'm sorry to have to show you this beautifull little quilt the wrong way. It is a Round Robin from Elverum Quiltelag. And it is mine. ;-) Thank you Anne, Mary, Inger,Berit,Anne N,Wenche,Laila,Toril,Mette and Elin. I love your work. If you want to see more of our RR you can go here.....
There has been a important celebration this Easter..... Emma are one year. Not a baby any more but a big girl... I have to show you her great cakes .... Her mum made and decorate them for her party.
First her Bløtkake (creem cake) decorate with her name , one candle and sweets on.Realy tasty :-)
and second her princess crown cake. A chocolate cake with lots of yummy sweets on it..A tasty cake for children of all age.
So all of you who love chocolate you misst something there... LOL

To day it has been sunshine here, I hope it will last a long time now. Easter has been great for sewing in my part of the world, but now I hope for spring. I have seen some birds of passage who has come back. But they looked cold....

There are an old saying going like this: One Swallow are no summer. - But I hope one Starling are... There was one in my garden yesterday....
I cross my fingers ;-)

At the Quilt Annual meeting...

Last weekend we packed our trunk in the car and went to Stokke and this years Annual Meeting in NQF.Not long after the start we saw 3 mooses. WOW they are big and luckey for us they just walk across the road.
There was a lot happening at the Quilt meeting. Lots of ladies, old and new friends, shops ,classes and meeting. I went only to have a great time and to spend some time with great friends... But I had to go to the lecture by Yoko Saito.A brilliant quilt artist, She didn't speak english but the interpreter did her best so we learn a little from her work. She have made 25 books and has a lot of peoples to help her. Yoko had two quilts in the show... Big quilts with a lot of tiny applique...
I had to take some close up photos..... Look at this butterfly..I wonder if I ever manage to do sutch beautifull appilque...


This is another of Yokos quilts.If you want to see more from the classes and the show, look at May Britt and Hannes blogs.
The whole happening was at Brunstad Conference Center in Stokke. Our "home" for the weekend was one of these little cabins close to the sea. But it was only used to sleep and late nigths relax. Most of the time we were shoping- looking and haveing great time with other quilt ladies and great friends...
When I got home I found this kit in my mail box. The second bag kit from QFD. So now I'm looking forward to do Natalie Ross's Beach House Bag. I love the colours and the fabrics.
Ok- ok .... I did bring some stuf home from the Quilt meeting LOL I got two thimbles- one from the Registration bag and the other from Tønsberg, the near by town. I went there with some great friends visiting two quiltshops. Lenes hobby and Quiltefryd. I found a lot to buy..... Some fabrics and a lot of batting. I have some ufo'es to finish... ,-)
Here are some of my buying... I got three books -Baskets made from cloth by Yoko Saito, If quilts could talk by Whimsicals and Bits and Pieces by Karen Costello Soltys.Lots of - want to do- in those books. :-) The frabrics on this photo I was so luckey to win. And I got a lot of thread.... Cosmo Marble Thread and Cottage Garden Thread. It is so fun to be able to try the thread I have seen on blogs. Cottage Garden Thread you can get from Quiltegården and Cosmo thread from Katrines Quiltestue.I love to stitch with the both of them .
I even got me some new fabrics, and a kit. I fell in love with this little quilt the first day. It is 12 little houses around one a littel bigger.You can find a photo here. I got an idea what to make from some of this fabrics, and hope to show you soon . The rest of the fabrics are just because..... But I realy need them ;-)

When thinking back to this trip I had some bitter-sweet experiences, but now it is time just to look forward and forget....With some of my closest and dearest friends I have started to save money for the next Quilt Annual Meeting. It will be in Tromsø, a town up in the north of Norway. I have never been there before so it will be a great opportunity to see more of Norway.

Untill next time take care of your friends and yourself ;-)

Hugs.

Something old - Something new...

I have been traveling around these last weeks too..... ;-) My last trip was to visit Emma when she was sick. Not great to be little and sick for the first time. I hope she will be well again soon. She and her mum will come and stay with us for Easter - and we will celebrate her first birthday here. Can you belive she are almost 1 year...
The last time they were her it was OL - and I belive Cyan got hooked. Here she are on the table watching Petter Northug.
But now I'm looking forward to Easter and after that SPRING. I hope the snow will melt away and there will be warm sunny days soon. But I'm not the only one. I saw this Gull in Oslo. It seems a bit cold on the feet.
I have manage to do some finish this month too. The first are this" relax" little wall quilt.I got some "Cottage Garden Threads" and had to try it. It is great to stitch with ;-) The pattern are from Natalie Bird's book All Creatures Great & Small. Some of the photos in this blog are realy relaxed..... I have start to use Picasa - but it don't play to well with me all the time... More to learn....
More relax finish--- The last from the Stitchery of the Month Club. Strawberry & Creem by Lynette Anderson.A needle case and a sewing bag. So now I have done all of the kits. This has been a great BOM from Under the Mulberry Tree.
The reason I call this blog "somthing old - something new" are partly this.... I have restarted on this old--- Eh realy old Bom. I got my last block 5 years ago...I only have to finish one block now and the borders. The quilt are called "Wildberry Vines" by Nancy Odom.
And the New start are this----- The first block of Down in the Garden by Leanne... I have been looking forwart to start on this quilt ever since I saw Leanne stitch on it when she and Gail where in Trondheim.Great quilt who bring back great memories.
It is so fun to look at the diffrent colours and fabrics in the two quilts. Both looks great in their own way.


At last I have one more little finish.... A little table runner made with small samplers and old fabrics after a idea fromTrine Bakkes new book "Andre Lappesaker"A new book with "old" ideas. I have to make more from this book..

To morrow I have to start to pack and get ready for this years Annual Quiltmeeting.
I wonder what I "realy need" this year.....
I will show and tell you next time..
Have a great weekend- I know I will :-)

Olympic work.....

Jacob and I have "busy" days looking at the Olympic ...... realy hard work. "We " got silver by Marit Bjørgen earlier to nigth ( puh) and later to nigth it will be at last one more silver.... or may be gold in curling. All this TV watching allow me to do a lot of UFO's and keep Jacob from pluck of his feather.( He use to do that when he is bored.)
I have not only been busy sewing - I manage to order some new Thread. Cottage Garden Thread. I have heard a lot about it- first from Leanne and Gail when they were in Trondheim and I have read about it on different blogs. I have not started to stitch with it yet, but soon. I got my tread from Siw at Quiltegården. She also gave me a tip to wash in in water with vinegar so the colour won't come of . Just in case ;-)
Now fore my OL work.... The first bag from the Bagalicious Club. I had to exchange the fabrics. The green with writing on was so beautifull so I had to put it on the front of the bag. :-)The first Designer was Sweetwater - and now I wonder who made the next bag pattern...
I have also manage to make one more kit from the Stitchery of the Month Club, My Folio by Melly and Me.I'm working on the last of this kit's.I got them from Under The Mulberry Tree. It has beenso fun to get all this kits in mail. I hope there will be more fun sometimes. When I have made all the kits I will show them.
I have manage to make me new Table mats.They are "Broderusk" from Nothern Quilts named "Muse Broderusk" ( Mice- stitchery) Only three in the pattern but I mixt two pattern to get the fourth.
I feel happy manage to do all this finish in February, now I have to start on my March OPAM 2010. I got a lot of items to choose from so the problem will be what to pick.. LOL

Happy stitching - The boys with the "funny" pants have started to fight fore the Gold - or Silver.
I will watch the Curling game a little if I can keep my eyes open...

Running days..

Days are running almost too fast- or I have too mutch I want to do... I have a lot of things I want to do - a large pile of fabrics I want to use and plenty of new patterns and ideas it would had been soo great to do. But I'm not the only one who got plenty of "want to do" items I guess.
Still I manage to buy me some new Quilt magasines this weekend. With more new ideas... Emma also found great pictures on the front of the latest of Love of Quilting magasine.


The last weeks I have got a little "snow-baby" outside in garden. The snow lump looks like a little baby if you have a great imagination. May be it is going to be a snowman when it grows up :-)
But back to what I have manage to do..... One more finish from the Stitching club.. A little Gail Pan stitcery "My Sweet Home"This Stitchery of the Month Club has been soo fun with all the great pattern. I'm working on the last one now while I'm watching/ listening to the OL winter games... It is going to be a lot of hand sewing the next two weeks.
I have made two Toilet bags also this month. I made several as christmas gifts,but there was some one who didn't got one. :-) It is a fun and easy AnnAKa patten.
I have been so luckey to get some great gifts. A lovely little needlecase from Karen. Thank you soo mutch ;-) I love to get new needlecases to my collection. And this was a great surprise to get in mail.
And this beautifull "pulsvanter" ( mitten without fingers) from Lapphøna. She are such a great knitter. Take a look at her blog. Thank you - I love them ... ;-)
I have got some more great mailings... The last kit from the Stitching Club- Lynette Andersons pattern Strawberries and Cream. ( my TV woork) and the first kit from The Bagalicious club.Also in progress.

If I look at my sewing desk there are a lot of "almost done" items... So to morrow I will try to start my sewing mashine and do some more items ready for hand sewing- still a lot of OL events to listen to. :-)