With a lot of help from my friends..

I got a new sewing room , to tell the true - I got two. Not all done yet, but I have to show you. May Britt and I have had a busy weekend. And to day Bjørg came and help us. ;-)
To get all the photos in correct order you have to start at the bottom .... ( I'm tired and bloglines are" lazy"so you can do what you want by it .... ;-)
Also - my Janome in front og the window...
With the cutting table next to it...
And in the next room ... FABRICS... Lots and lots of fabrics , and kits, and magasines, and a copy machine..... and the Witsh quilt on the wall....( self-portrait???) LOL


Here are the working girl...May Britt doing what she told me to do the whole day... Throw away stuff I don't need or use....
Bjørg organize my sewing cotton .... Wonder if I dare to use it.... ;-)
And my self ... looking and wondering when will I ever manage to finish all my UFO's and make all I want/need to do .... Oh- it is hard to be a quilt-girl. LOL
This is the end of my "old" sewing area.. Now it will be the living room in the hiring out part of my house, as it use to be.. Easy come - easy go...
Here are the start of my new sewing area.. All empty only the copy machine...
The last photo of my sewing area.. as it looked on saturday morning.
Now I'm ready for the new start in my Quilting life.
I will soon be back with photo of new items made in the new room --- promise.
Hugs - and thank you May Britt and Bjørg. ;-)

Indian summer .... Soon ???

I have been on a day trip to my friend Lisbeth's (no blog) cabin.Her family has a beautifull cabin not far from here - with a lot of quilts.. But I didn't got photos from inside... I will show you next time I visit the cabin. I hope it will be soon. But I got a photo of the view. Isn't Trysil great ? ;-)
This summer there has been a challenge in my Quilt association. We got a small piece of the figured fabric -- and this is my little quilt. A little sewing boks with a lot of sewing tool. ( buttons)
If you go her you can see what the other did... Lots of great work.
I have also manage to do the 5. of the bags from the Bagalicious Club... Melly and Me great Sunrise bag . I have not been able to do the Wallet yet- but all the pieces are on my sewing table... So I promice it will be done ;-)... This is a great club hosting by Sarah at QFD. And I know the next bag are in mail .. More to look forward to ;-)))
I have also done the two first blocks of Lynette's In my Garden BOM. And yes I can't put them next to each other.... I used the same fabrics on the last border... I didn't notice untill it was all done .... I have to concentrate on the next block ;-)
Here where I live fall has realy put his foot down now... It has been a lot of rain and this nigth was cold. Below zero... Brrrrr... So I have to enjoy my indors flower... Jacob are tasting the berries on my " Kunskapens tre" I don't know the English or the Latin name of this flower...
But it taste like "shit" Jacob tell me ... and let it stay.. ;-))They told me in the Flower Shop it tasted bitter...
Soon I will be of to visit Emma and Peder for some days ( luckey me) and leaving Jacob with his Baby ( Bird) sitters ;-) I hope for great "Indian Summer" days.
I'm also like Nemo looking forward to Christmas... Thinking about what to make for my Secret Santa Christmas Swap friend.. Thanks to Donna who are running this once again ... I love all the fun of this swap...

So untill next time I hope you all will have great sunny days :-)

Summer berry....

A long time ago there was a song named Puff the little dragon.. A sweet little song- and now I have my own little dragon ;-)
Peder and his mum has been staying at my house for a week, and it is so great to be abel to follow him on his way to be a big boy..
Late summer here in Norway means Wildberry....Realy yummy...Fore some Peder says.. He tried Blueberry for the first time here - not realy fresh from the woods- but as infant food.Overpraised I belive was his opinion. And the poor boy all dressed in pink... It is hard to be a boy in a girls world ;-)
This is the second summer for Emma - so she know how to enjoy wildberry.... Strawberry and raspberry are her favorite. Here she are in deep concentration over a bowl of raspberry...
She could not put the bowl down untill it was all clean and free from all the berry with vanilla kesam. ;-)
Emma has entered nursery school... So now it is realy working days for her had her mum, but it seems like Emma enjoy to be with all the children;-)
Luckey for me I will be visting them both soon :-)
On my sewing area there has been lazy days for a while now ..... put I have some " want to do"- items... one of it are this great little wallquilt by Red Brolly. The pattern are in Homespun no.86.Vol.11 No 7. So on my last stay in Oslo I had to take a trip to Katrines Quiltestue for fabrics. ( nice excuse ;-)) I manage to get me some more just need items. Two small Schnibbles pattern - some new Seasons thread - a green fabric ( just because...) and hexagon flowers from Busy fingers...
I have also got some great mail .... Lynette Andersons new book It's Quilting Cats & Dogs... Oh -- It is soo great - I want to do a lot from it. Wonder where to start. .... So I realy have to rush to my sewing area and start to work ..... ;-)
I even got this DVD in mail. I won a giveaway on Sue Daley's blog...Lot of more ideas I want to try... Thank you Sue - I have to start something soon... ;-)

So now I almost wait for bad weather with rain and wind... great sewing weather .... so I can start to work on some of my new ideas. Hope I will be able to show something next time.. Soon I hope :-)

... and this was July...

In last minute I manage to do one finish this month too.... This July has been soo strange and busy, so I have to be pleased to manage to do a little on the sewing front. But in August I need to sew a lot.... and I know there will be some great sewing days to look forward to... ;-)
This little wall quilt are A Stitcher's Priority by The Birdhouse. A great way to use some of my scraps.
I have been busy home this summer, but I got some great family members who has been travelling... I got this thimbles from my aunt. She has been on a Cruise in the Mediterranean and luckey for me she remembered to buy thimbles for me. :-)
I got this from my brother,who has been travelling in Norway. I'm soo pleased when they remember my collection of thimbles... So a big thank you to both of you ;-) Hmmm I wonder if I should take a day and count thimbles.
I have had great visit this month... The whole family has been here in Trysil celebrating Peder's christening. It was a great day. And luckey for me they all stay for at last a week. For the first time Emma and Peder was here together. Emma was giving me a helping had organize the scrap from my life. A little quilting lady?? Time will show- but next week she are going to start at the nursery school and her mum back to work. I can't belive how fast time runs...
Oh -- do you want to have a litte look of the christening child.... LOL.. Here he is Peder Arian ;-)
He was clever and sleep almost all the time.Great guy ;-)
I will show more next time - Peder and his mum are comming to stay for a week soon, it will be a sewing week... ( If I can wake up my sewing machine who has been disregarded the whole of month)
I hope to be back with a lot to show soon -- I have started to use my scrap - once again - and have a lot I want to do .... As usual... LOL

Hugs to you all ;-)

June means summer .....

I did manage to finish this quilt from last post... Guess who feel great. So now my Tote Bag are empty , and all the Ginger Blossom fabrics are used.Fore the first time I quilted by using Stipples made easy. Fun but hard work on a quilt this "big". It make me wish I had a longarm machine...


I have been busy re-organize my sewing area during the last week. It was a total mess, I had to put everything in order. So now I know what has been hiding ;-) I found a lot of well hiding smal fabrics samplers, so now I'm in the mood of playing with small pieces once again. I'm thinking on making me some small "minne-brikker" I dont know how to translate this --- Hm-- Memory doily... I will show you some beautiful day :-)

I have also got some great smal pieces of fabrics in my mail box... Milk Chocolate and charm pack from Moda. Thanks to the pattern in the Chocolate box I got an idea what to make from it ;-)
It is realy summer here in Trysil now.Warm summer days and realy green.This is a photo across the river to where I live.
And I have got a new "friend" He or she jumps up in the window sill , hope I will notice and offer some bread or somthing else to eat.Of course I give the cute little fellow something.
I have also manage to do some quilting stuf... This little wallquilt are a UFO from a long time ago.I don't know or remember where I found the pattern, but it is from a miniature book. I used the selvage from old fabrics , so there are a lot of great memories in it. I took my quilts out doors this time and the small blue flowers above are Forget-me-not flowers. It suit this little quilt--- almost forgotten ;-)

I have been clewer and have done the 4.of the bags from the Bagalicious Club.Beaufort Bag from Hugs'n Kisses.Fun and easy pattern , and it holds a lot ;-) This Club are soo fun , I wonder how the last 4 bags looks like ;-)

Untill next time - have fun and take care. Hugs :-)

Busy June...

To day it is my birthday and there has been a Ladies party... And here are the guest of honor, Emma. She and her mum came yesterday and will stay over the weekend.
But I got more great guests - some of my dearest friends. We realy had a great time - talking and making more plans for the summer. Yes, it include Quilt-shops and fabrics... LoL.
Thank you girls for a great day and the lovely gifts... I know what to bring to bed to nigth ;-)
Here are some of my gifts....Sweets,socks,stringbag, fabrics,book (my bed reading) and look at the little box in the middle. You will never quess what it contents..... Quilt- shop-air LOL. When May Britt went to Trondheim I told her I miss the smell of a quiltshop- so Siw and her made this to me.. Fresh Quiltegården smell. Yummy ;-) But there was more than the smell inside it there was a great necklace. Thank you Siw- I love it. Hugs ;-)
And tomorrow there will be more guest. It is so nice to have visitors for coffe.
There have been a lot of happening so fare in June... Irene , Bjørg and I have been on a Quilt store excursion. We went to Moelv- Quilteliv and Brumundal - Fabrikutsalget. And of course this was the day I had a empty battery in my camera. I only got this photo outside of Quilteliv. We had a great day- made lots of new plans for new quilting items... and got a LOT of new fabrics...

It seems like we could start a little Quilt shop, but it is our treasures on the floor at May Brits place. We had to visit her and was giving her a hard time with our "show and tell" The poor girl had to go to work ;-)
As you can tell I have been to busy with my social life so there has been a little on the Quilting front, But I have been able to cut in my fabrics pile ( only for shortly ;-) But my Tote bag with ginger Blossom fabrics are empty, and I got this Quilt top. To day I got Stipples made easy from Quilt- design. It will be fun to use it for the first time...
There has been more happening in June also. My little Quilt group has had its annual Barbecue and we could sit outdoor, but we had to have our coats on. Yes. we had dinner - not only wine ;-)
Have a great summer everybody- see you all in August.
So now I want to wish every body a great summer and "Skål" as we says in Norway.
I hope I will be back soon with some finish for June ;-)

Colours of summer....

I love the colours of summer ..... To day has been a great sunny day: the sun didn't go "to bed" untill almos 23 o'clock. I took this photo when it coloured the clouds red.So now I hope the old saying tell the true..... "Evening red make the mornig bright"(aften røde gir morgen søde)
All thing grew fast in summertime - The children also it seems. Look how big Emma and Peder are. It is so fun to be able to meet them and be a part of theyr life.... :-)
I went to Oslo for some days and when I got home this beautifull parcel was waiting for me. I need more Cosmo floss for my Down in the Garden BOM so I ordred it from Sarah at QFD and there was some new fabrics who wanted to come al the way to Norway. LOL Every parcel I got from QFD are soooo beautifull wrap up so I always want more.... I think Sarah realy know how to get me hooked... ;-)

Here are some flower photos from my trip. Beautifull flowers in the town. I dont know the name of the bush.... But it was great..
And so was this Lilac too -- not to forget the couple in front of it LOL.
But I have manage to do some Quilt work too.... more bags. ;-) Just what I needed... This is a "Broderusk" from Nothern Quilts.Named " Duft av roser" ( smell of roses) . Look at the great button who was in the kit.It is from "Snella og Petronella" Take a look - and have fun ;-)
I have also made my third of the bags from the Bagalicious club. A sweet little bag named "girl friday" by the Janelle Wind collection. It is a bag with glasses case in great Cosmo fabrics.Quess who study the pattern so I could cut the fabrics and get leftovers..... This is another great kit from Sarah at QFD.... And luckey me got 5 more bag kit to rejoice at before the fun is over...;-)