Something done.... at last ...

I have been a slow blogger latly... but it is not just me, when I tryed to blog -blogline was down..may be we got spring-relaxed both of us :-))
But now atlast I have a lot to show. First the result from the block exchange.. Here are mine. I made a lap quilt after an idea from an old Quiltmania magazine. (nov/des 2009)
Randi made more stars and got a beautifull little quilt...
Brita made a great quilt with a gost block in the middle....
Kjerstin made herself a lovely table runner...
Vigdis also made a table runner. It suit perfect on her table ...
Tone made a long table runner. A great idea for the party table. It is so fun to see how different all the items turned out. Now it is Kjerstin who are organize the challenge in 2012
It will be fun to see what block she want us to do :-)
This winter my birdhouse has been away for a renovation. This week I got it back- and it looks soooo great. Now can the birds get their seed and the Squirrels a place for a nap. :-) A big thank you to the cabinet maker Jan.
At last I want to show you my Svennebrev ( craft certificate) a pattern from Lappemakeriet. All done in Debbie Mumm fabrics. I manage atlast to start use them. Guess who feel great :-) This will be my summer quilt, I use silk batting, for the first time , but not the last... Beautifull to work with.
I only use DM fabrics on the back of the quilt too.I hope they will give me sweet dreams...

Now I got more ideas of what to make for the rest of the DM fabrics... Hope to start soon, so may be next time there are more to show...
Untill then have a great time.
Hugs :-)

Spring?? - Summer ??-- Winter ??....

I spend some days in Oslo after Easter- beautifull sunny days- almost summer. Look at these trees. I don't know the name- but they was soo great after a long and cold winter. I love the pink tree...
And this.. a great withe tree. I had to try to get a close look at the beautifull flowers... April here in south part of Norway has been the warmest in a long time... But easy come ...
easy goes... This is how was in my garden this morning :-( I won't have more snow now I want summer ... But it went to a great sewing day. I have spend most of the day in my sewing room.. And yes I have a lot on my mind and on my Want To Do list...
I have manage to do one little finish.. the second of the Pincushions from the Make and Bake club by Busyfingers... Sweet and useful. It is English Paper Pieced... I didn't belive I would enjoy making PP this mutch...
I realy have a lot going on with Paper.... Flowers for the Hexagon quilt from Vignette - Snippespekulasjoner from Lappemakeriet -a little Octagon quilt ( just because..) -It Takes Two by Sue Daley...Guess if I love the Glue pen from Sewline :-) I went to the lecture by Sue Daley at Katrines Quiltestue. And learn a lot about how to work with PP , a lot of tip and new ways to do PP :-)
I have been knitting a little lately - bad influence by Nemo :-) she has been knitting cloths for dishes. I as so luckey to get one - but I had to start making more. It is so fun to play with all the great colours..
Talking about playing... At last I have started to play with all my Debbie Mumm fabrics, I got a lot, thanks to Anne- Kjerstin, Hanne, Bjørg, May Britt , Irene and Tonje..and I love every inch of them.. (The fabrics that is...)Isn't this a lovely pile a lot of sweet memories and some who are new to me... Thank you Girls :-) you are so kind and sweet :-)
I have started to make "Svennebrev" (craft certificate) a great block quilt by Lappemakeriet.(This quilt on the photo are made by Hanne:-) ) I have made these 9 blocks so fare, but hope to make the whole quilt fast... It is so fun to use Magda ( my sewing machine) again.. Great girl she are :-))
To tell a secret.. I got one more finish this month.. but I can't show it yet. It is a block swap. Once a year 8 ladies swap blocks and make what we want from them, then we all meet one evening and have a show and tell... To morrow is this years great happening... I hardly can wait and see what the other ladies has made.... mine are.... Oh Now - you have to wait untill next time , then I will show you..
I have a lot going on for the rest of this week - a lot of happenings including Quilt ladies. Tell you more next time ... soon I hope. Untill then take care and happy stitching :-)

Good-bye Winter...

Last week Irene (no blog) and I went to visit Lappemor at Tynset. We went from my home and a little diffrent way for Irene. A calm and quiet road, we onlt saw 4 cars for 150 km. But we saw a lot of beautifull scenery... sutch as these mountains. Great for skiing in easter-- fore those who goes on cross-country skiing... Hmm.. not me . I prefer easter on the porch :-)
Irene and I had a great time at Lappemor- and yes, we found a lot to buy :-) The reason Irene are laughing are that most of the buying are mine... I wonder why...( may be because Irene was visting Lappemor just a few days earliere...)
I have not been in Lappemors new store... This is just a little glimpse. It is a great Quilt store with a lot of temptations. If you drive by Tynset-- You have to stop :-))
The last months has been busy for me , with a lot of travelling up and down Norway.. So i feel great manage to have two small finishes in April.. A little bag for Peder, to store his Duplo in. And a beautibag for all of Emmas stuff for the hair and so on..
I got some grat mail last week too--- Love Cats by Natalie Ross. I won it in her giveaway. Thank you Natalie... Now I just have to be able to find time to make me a turquoise cat :-)

Unntill next time I wish you all a happy Easter...
I have a lot on my must do list.... I still make hexagons. More than 30 flowers now... and i have some Quilting I want to do... and so on. Later this week I'm going to a lecture by Sue Daley at Katrines Quiltestue. Wonder if I shall sit on my hands so I don't come home with a lot more MUST HAVE items...

I will tell next time :-)

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 :-)

Still playing with UFO's...

To day my little mobile and I was luckey.We got a "mobile mitten"
Vigdis made one for her mobile some days ago - and we envy her mobile his mitten ... She are a fast knitter...I'm a veeeery slow one :-)
But to day when Lisbeth - another fast knitter- come over for some coffe and chatt.. she gave me this mitten. Luckey me :-) Thank you Lisbeth, We love it :-)
I have been quite busy for the last days... Making more Japanese Boxes... Still fun , but I have started to think how to make the border... I have seen some great appique borders, but I don't remember where- so now I'm looking to old books and magazines for some ideas...
Me and Magda has been working a lot the last week. First we have done this beautifull place mats. I got it as a kit for Christmas from my friend Bjørg. She are a great designer. I feel so luckey to get make some of her designs. :-)
Magda and I have also - at last -manage to finish this UFO.. Simple Pleasures by Anni Downs. I stitch all the small stitcheryies in 2008...and made the top 2009... but forgot to read the pattern.... Hmmmm. so I forgot one white border...ok back to the UFO pile with it... Refound last year.. what to do with it ... RICk-RACK is the answer.. and buttons on the last border. Old buttons :-) So this is my way of Simple Pleasures. :-)

I just have to show you another of my Christmas gifts.. From Emms and her mum.. A Cup Cake stand. Isn't it just great.So now I know what to make the next time I got some quilting girls over for coffe :-)

Have a great week end.. Happy Mothers day and Valentine :-)
HUGS !

Ufo- attack...

There has been a sort of a UFO- attack in my home lately. When I decide to organize my sewing area there pop out a lot of new and old ideas -- read UFO's.. And a lot of them are realy great and I want to do every one of them ... No wonder it is hard to sleep... I even found book and magazines... Terrible :-)) This little wallquilt are a start of somthing I found in a new magazine. Quiltmania nr 81. And of course I had to start making it, but just a small one - remember I "hate" to work with Paper Pieces... LOL But I couldn't help trying to do this Japanese Boxes. It is so fun to make geometricale shapes....
This is a very old UFO, just poping up from the dark forgettfulness :-) Once again Paper Pieces...All made by left overs a long time ago....Now I have to find a special frame to put on it. I got some idea... once again with Paper Pieces.... Hope to show you soon... I love this little item, hard work to put it to gether , but now I hope you can see there are no start or end of the triangle.... I saw it on an old Frenche magazine year and year ago...... Don't know what magazine of who the author are...
Oh - yes I have manage to do some finishes also... A table runner from Nothern Quilts and another after an idea on the net.... Magda has been lending me a helping needle with this :-)
She has also had a needle or two on this Christmas Basket by Red Brolly...Fun to stitch, but not so easy to get perfect together... I have store it with my Christmas decorations,It will be fun to find and use in December..

Now I'm off to do more of my Paper Pieces... I have to work fast, so I don't remember that I " hate" to that.
Have a great week..
Hugs :-)