Small finishes and big secrets...

Emma has a big secret to tell Peder... and a lot to learn him... the seret is.... It is soon Cheristmas. Emmas second - Peders first. :-)
Peder are practice his crawling.... May be Emma has told hin about all the gifts under the tree??
I know it will be a lot of gifts for them both... and some for the rest of us too.... LoL


I know I got a lot of secrets in my Advent calendar. I'm so luckey to get the calendar from Quiltegården as a gift. I had to order two of my santas to guard it. No peeping - I promice ;-)
It shuold have been some guarding on the coffetable saturnday. Quess who helped him self with some chocolate when I walk my quests to the front door... Jacob just had to get some Saturday candy...


Last month I was soo lucky to win a gift from OPAM 2010.Look what I got...Christmas Jingles a pattern from Natalie Ross- Great fabrics ( I think what to make of them ..) -Message Pads and a pen. Thank you Kris and Peg for hosting this. I love my gifts ;-)
Talking about OPAM 2010 - I manage to do some more small finish this monath. Larry the Lamb , a wool pincushion.It is almost to sweet to use. I have to play more with wool- it is fun and easy :-)
I have done some tiny stitcheries... to decorate for Christmas.Happy holidays from Blueberry Backroads. As a member of SSCS 2010 I'm going to get more to put on the tree. :-)
At last I want to show you what I have been doing to day.. I took May Britts challenge and start to make Mug-Rugs. Great little christmas gifts.. and a fun way to use some of my leftovers. But the more I make - the more new ideas I get....
The Rug in front has a stitcery I got in a class with May Britt some weeks ago. So thank you May Britt for giving me all this inspirasjon... To morrow I'm going to start making more Rugs... There are more leftovers crying to be used..

Have a great Advent with lots of Christmas spirit ;-))

Snow at last...

At last the snow has come.. no more dark evenings. To day I went outside and found the snow sticky. So i had to make me a snow-lantern. I put a candle in it and ligth it this evening. It is beautiful.
Yesterday I went to a class with May Britt- it was needleturn workshop. A lot of A-ha from the girls. We all enjoy the class, and did great work..I will show mine next time .. It is not all done yet.
A lot of busy girls, not only sewing we also did a lot of chatting :-)
May Britt was staying at mine house.. We had a great evening with sewing and chatting... and a little wine:-) May Britt brought some kit - Christmas Bauble by Hatched and Patched. They was so great so I had to make some of my own...
It is my first attempt to use wool- felt. Funn and easy- I have to make more from it. I got the Felt at Katrines Quilte Stue the last time I went there. So here are my first finish this month.A Christmas Bauble...
Yesterday I got this wonderfull parsell in mail from Sølvi.Two thimbles , one from Røros and one from Rørvik. And look at the sockings. Not for everyday use.Thank you Sølvi - I love it all. Hugs :-)
There has been a lot of change in my house. I got a great joiner to do all the hard work. I'm going to hire out a part of the house. It is to big for me alone. So when May Britt got here, she brought new tools with her. I asked her to go and buy it after I saw it in a advertising. Ladies tool... all pink. So now I can decorate my wall by my self :-) All my photos and quilts are moving around...
This is my new sewing area in the sitting room. I can watch TV when I sew...
And here are my new wall- almost done. All the skirting are missing, but I got the Yuletide Joy Quilt on the wall -- Early start of the christmas season this year LOL I love the look of my sitting room now. And to morrow Jacob are comming home from his trip. Wonder what he will think of our new home :-)

Still making Bags...

I have been clever this week - at last I manage to start my sewing machine LOL...
This is another bag from the Bagalicious Club by QFD. Pita Bag by Sue Daley Designs. A sweet little bag - realy fun to make. I have got kit nr 7. So I know what I have to start to make as soon as posible :-)

This little button I have only coloured - all by myself ;-) Hugs'n Kisses button from 2008. Lost in my UFO pile- suddenly spotted , now done :-) I wonder why something just remain undone for so long.... Or is it just by me it happen??
I still make bags-- It is so fun . This is a Lommerusk (pocket fluff) kit from Nothern Quilts. I manage to make more two from the kit... One for me and one for a friend... The saying are from a Norwegian song.. (If you be the owner of a thousands plums....) So now I got a new bag for my stitchery kits.
I have also manage to do this Weekend bag for a friend. Easy to make and it take what ever you need for a long weekend or more. I got one myself and use it when I go for a visit to my girls..
I feel so great starting to use my new sewing room- My next projects are Christmas gifts.. I suddenly discover it is only two months left.....
Last sunday my brother and I went to the family cabbin deep in the woods here in Trysil. I live behind the montain in the middle of the photo. It was a cold day and there was ice on the lake. It was so quiet that we could hear the ice getting thicker. A strange sound almost like the sound of whales under water.
A fun and great adventure to keep in mind ;-)

Hope you all will have a great adventure this weekend.
Hugs ;-)

Start of the "Quilt Seasong"....

To days photo are from the bridge and as you can see the last days windy weather has made all the leaves disappear. It was 3 degress below zero this morning, so now the nature are prepare for winter and snow. Now it is time to start "the quilt" season, as they call it in the Elm Creek book I'm reading now. I got The Aloha Quilts as my bed-reading. Great book - but I read english realy slow :-)
My thimble collection are still growing thanks to great friend ... This two are from the northern part of Norway.Harstad, where my mother spend most of her childhood, and The Artctic Circle. Thank you Nancy and May Britt. ;-) I have never been so far north., but a great dream of mine are to take a trip with the Hurtigruta. In Mach next year I'm going to Tromsø - NQF annual meeting are going to be there. Guess ho are looking forward to be there and meet all the other quilting ladies......

I have been clever and manage to do a little Quilting so far this month .... a little wall quilt to hang over my bed.I love the fabrics in the frame- I hope you can see all the small angels.
I have also made Emma a knitted sweater to use in the kindergarten.- I hope she and her mum like it... ;-)
The kids are growing- Here are Peder with his new bibs. He got them the last time I saw him. It is a fun and useful way to use funny fabrics :-) Peder are a big boy now with two teeth.
And Emma are almost ready to walk out to meet the world- the carriage are safe to walk with --- just in case. ;-)
It will be so fun to meet them again soon...

Have a great start of The Quilt Season... I hope to be able to finish a lot of my UFO's now.
Hugs;-)

Start of the dark fall...

Now it is the start of the dark time of the year... It is the time when I love to sit inside and stitch by the fire...
I have manage to get some finish this last week... I have to start to use my new sewing area... So after a year Butterfly Bouquet are done. I start to make it at Quiltegården when Leanne and Gail where in Norway.
The other finish this time are a coat for Peder. I belive he need it now- the summer are gone in Oslo too.
I even got some new thimbles to show you. I got them from Bjørg- I don't remember where it is from ( Bad memory?? ), Lisbeth from Riga and my brother Bjørn who has been on Svalbard. Thank you all, I love the thimbles.
Guess who are feelig great?? I'm done with the challenge from the quiltguild. It is Abyquilt who are giving us this challenge...Two new blocks next month, a new little quilt by summer. Fun ;-)


I promise her , May Britt to show photos from my new sewing rooms, when it is all done and every thing are tidy... Well as tidy as it can be... Ok I have to get up some little curtain here to spare the fabric...
Here in my sewing room Here I need all the ligth I can get... Ups... some one has been using it. There are leftovers on the table ;-) I have made the top of Red Brolly's Christmas quilt from Homespun. (Show you later )
Here are my sewing room from the door- notice the radio., I play music when I sew.. To day it was Dr Hook - Yes I know-- A big surprice for the people who realy know me ;-)))
I know there will be a lot of music from this rooms now ;-)

There are two small "ladies" I have wanted to show you for a long time. Are they not beautiful - I got them years ago from Nemo. She was only a school girl when she made them for me.The one in the yellow dress are named Whoopi Dollberg. Think you all can tell who she named her after..

This days I'm moving around and organize almost every thing in my home, so may be there will be more fun and sweet memories to show you next time. Untill then have fun and take care.
HUGS :-)

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 :-)