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…….for some reasons I can’t explain

– I know St. Peter won’t call my name…...

But for the future, I'll try to be good.

....I can't promise tho...

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OMG

Time flies
There are no excuses for me not bloging. Especially when I have committed to several activities on the Internet that needs blogging.
My life has been on standby, but unfortunately, time did not.

And yes! I do feel guilty and do have a bad conscience.
I have received the most beautiful handembroidered postcard from my seacret angel. It is adorable. Thank you so much.
And I received my Friendship bag witch included delicious cookies. I loved everything about it.

I have done some stitching, unfortunally I cant show you all. But someting I can. I’ll post pictures later tonight when the batteries to my camera are recharged.

What I can show you now, is my Kaffe Fasett Quilt that I completed this month. Liz at Kaktus Quilt did a great job and quilted it on her longarmmachine so it was done and presented at the gathering where the designer him self gave a speech.

This is my OPAM for September. To morrow I might show you next months project. Just kidding...

58 comments ....

results in 3 gifts + one extra for those who told about my Giveaway at their own blog.
And the winners are.....

One second...
This has been so exciting. I know from my own experience that you find nice blog’s around the Internet by surfing from one blog to another. It gives you a lot of inspiration and ideas. And by doing this I hope I’ve made my self a lot of new friends and that you all will come back to visit, and that my blog can bring you candy for your eyes and inspiration for your hands and heart. You are certainly my source of the kind.

One second gone... :o)

Thanks to all of you who bothered to comment, and to all of you that didn’t.

You are all welcome back.

And the winners are:

Hege

Carmen

Kathy
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And the extra goes to:

Marit Johanne

Congratulations. Thank you for participating!
This has been so much fun, and it isn’t over yet. Now I am of to purchase surprises’ in Pink, Offwhite and in a varaiety of autumcolours.

Next: I need snailmailadresses :o)

I need to do this more often, and soon it will be Christmas. Just 112 days to go.

And then I came across a beautiful giveaway.

Go check it out at No matter where i go...

September

Finally my calendar says September. Weather has been like autumn for weeks now. It’s been an odd summer this year. Now it is really September and we can all enjoy sewing, not feeling guilty for doing so. During summer it is not appropriate to hide out in the sewing room.

Today is the set date for my Giveaway. I’ll give it today as well, for signing up. And then, tomorrow, I’ll do the counting on how many…..

Stay tuned :o)

Giveaway

Siw Hege is having a lovely giveaway. Pop over and join in.

OPAM – August

I managed to reach the goal for this month as well. I have to admit it is a struggle every month. All I’m into now a day are a secret. I’m preparing my contributions to the swaps I’ve joined this fall. I love secrets, but I am sorry, I can’t show you my work, not yet :o)

But I managed 1 completed project this month as well. Perhaps some of you girls recognise some of the blocs. It is the result of a block-swap at Stoffbytteklubben. It turned out pretty nice in my opinion.

I have also received my 2.5” pieces from another swap. Aren’t they just lovely? I can’t wait for the day to come, when I can play with them in combination with my sewing machine. Wonder what they’ll transform into?

Close to closing day for the sign up, regarding my giveaway. I’m so happy I got new friends by doing this. I was pretty surprised on all the foreign bloggers who found the way to my blog. I love you all.
Soon I’ll do the counting on how many prizes I’ll draw, looking forward to do the announcing of the winners. And then to do the purchasing of the prizes so they fit the recipients. It is just like Christmas :o)

Status Giveaway ond other work

One week has gone after I posted my anniversary and the appurtenant giveaway.

I got 19 comments so far. I am so thrilled. A couple of more entries and the numbers of winning prizes will increase.

If this continue during the next weeks there will be some nice goodies going to some happy winners next month. I am amused by the variety of choices among the ladies who has entered. That is so inspiring.

Keep coming forward. I love preparing presents.

In the meantime while I wait for the drawing to approach, I am onto some stitching.
My Kaffe Fasett top is completed and is handed in to be quilted at Kaktus Quilts. Can’t wait to get I back.

I have also prepared some small bags for a fabric swap, just like candy,

the block-lottery blocks in connection with Vestlandstreffet are complete,

(picture coming tonight, I hope)

a block-swap-quilt has been quilted, and it is in the need for binding,

(tell you all next time)

and a stitchery motif is almost completed (future surprise, cant show you...).

3 year anniversary

29. August will be my 3 year of blogging? Who would imagine that I would continue to do this for so long? And still want to proceed. I love to tell about my quilting life, getting inspiration from others and making new friends. And yes, I’ve made bonds with a lot of you. Don’t let me down this time! Old and new friends, please enter!

To celebrate this event I’ll perform a giveaway. I can’t tell you all what the price is, because that’s what you are going to do.

Leave a comment telling me what color range or witch production you would prefer. For each 20 different quilting bloggers who enters I’ll draw one price. Meaning prize list could be huge. Not quite :o) Signing up limit is set to September 1.

Then the prizes will be purchased.

(For those of you who tell about it on your own blog (and tell me) there will be another chance of winning, separate drawing)

Oh, I love this. Come along and tell me what you’d prefer! (If you don’t I’ll check your blog.)

Friendship Bag Swap

I was tempted by Synnøve to join the Friendship Bag Swap over at the Quilting Gallery. If you check out her blog and her first try to make the bag, it is gorgeous and I figured if I joined this I would be in the position of owning more than one homemade handbag. Made by me, and others. A challenge I could not resist.

Just cant wait to fill this bag with goodies. That's the best bart of it.

It is a kind of a secret everything I do at the time. Meaning it is autumn ahead. It always starts with new clean paper sheets and new crayons in the fall.
I’m in, I love these swaps!

..... from now of I'll be blogging in bigger letters :o)

How doe's it looks....?

Award

Look what I received! Another award.

It warms a quilter’s heart during the rainy days of summer.

One thousand thanks to Drømmequilten for granting me this one and it goes straight back to you. Your blog is eye candy to me.
And other blogs who goes in the same category are:

Kaktus Quilt, Ritas lille verden, Anne Marie, Karins Quilt, Midland-design, Inger, Laila, Britt, Sølvi, MayKristin, Mitt Fargerike and Hanne

..... I could go on forever. But this'll do for now (card said 12)

Happy stitching.

OPAM for July

This month I put myself to a challenge. I hate zippers, but I definitely needed to finish some of the small projects I’ve neglected. The pile had grown over the years.
Therefore I made the decision I needed to get some finishes and minimize the pile. The reason why I hate zippers is I do them by hand. I’ve never figured out how to do them by machine and not needing to undo those several times to get a result I was comfortable with.

I started on top and have 4 done so far, plus the two football ones (previously).

Hopefully a few more will be done before the end of August.

RBR 4

One more completed number 4 in the line. This time it was a challenge in black and white. The easiest one so far, still it took me some time to do it. You know summertime and indoor sewing. Not the best combination :o)

I told you I was thinking of putting up my sewing machine to do some work. I did not need worrying of being lonely. Help came around immediately when the pieces where laid out on the floor. Isn’t she just adorable? She approve on every quilt I make, before the pieces are joined together.

I am in the process on this Kaffe quilt and hoping my dear friend will help me on the quilting.

Summer report

My summer holiday has started. Actually second week has already begun. The weather has not been the best, but I’ve certainly enjoyed my holiday so far.

We have spent most of the time at the cabin. The lawn needs moving at least 2 times a week. The vegetables are growing, and unfortunaly so does the weed.
I have been out in the forest collecting wild raspberries and blueberry. Don’t they just look delicious?

One day we even found a few wild strawberries. Jummy….

On the sewing side of life it has been rather poor. Well I had to finish these two bags for my son Glenn Andre and his friend Arne Jacob, who have traveled to a football tournament this week.
(picture is coming soon, it is in my camera)

And we have been on at tour into the Norwegian mountains. A two days walk just to try it. And it certainly gave us the taste for more. Now we are planning a couple of more trips the next months.

Now I am planning to set up the sewing machine. Wonder how this will end….

Stitchers' Angel Swap

I'm in....
Pop over to Helens and join. This'll be fun.

Kristiansand
I am going on my own to Kristiansand next week. It is business not pleasure, but Tuesday evening I’m free to do something on my own, and I want to do something special. Not just sit in my hotel room.

Anybody who knows of something interesting in the area that might suit me?
Anything like a quilt exhibition or a workshop would be nice. I know it is summer and holiday has started, but there might be somebody out there actually playing with fabric and thread, or anything in that direction.
I got my own car, and am not afraid of getting around.
So, where should I go? Any suggestion?

RBR 3
Time flies. Another month is gone. Witch means I’ve done another row in tha RBR-challenge.

This is Lykke’s 1. row. Not the best picture, but it is very nice work and lovely colours. This time I chose to do some hand appliqué. It turned out pretty well if I am aloud to say so myself. It was hard do send it off. Honestly, I wanted it for my self. Cant show you picture thou, rules you know.

What I can show you is this great price in a giveaway at Ryan's blog.

Nice? I think so. And there are more. Go have a look.

In the meantime. Have some nice sunny days wherever you are.

I have lost Hope.

I was surfing in blog land and a couple bloggers numbered the Christmas BOM from Gail Pan to 6 so far. Have we already done 6? Yes we have. All of them are just adorable. Now I am looking forward to number 7.
In the meantime I wanted to start the preparations of the assembling og the quilt. Then I realised my “Hope” was gone! All the others were there. I knew I hade done “hope” because I recognised the “swirls”

I searched high and low. I could not find it. I even went to the cabin, hoping to find it in my stitchery drawer. Sorry no, it seams like it is gone....

But I have not given up on “Hope”. I still hope it will surface. If not I’ll make a new one.
First I am onto the next block who will be released very soon (I hope).

Award's

Oh my God

Not just one award, I got 2 !

First on came from Lappedamen.

Second on came from Rita

Aren’t they just lovely. I’ll keep them as jewellery on my blog.
Thank you girls. I found my self a bit childish, receiving these awards made me smile. It makes me a bit soft when girls out there appreciate my blogging. Makes me wanting to continue.

Now I just have to figure out who I would pass these award on to......

"Special visitor blog" I can give to innumerous of bloggers and

"With friendship this rose" are to go to 8 bloggers.

And the nominies are:

.......

......I'll need to get back to you on this.

Anyway, feel free to pick them up if you happen to pas by.

Ellinors Quilt

I promised you a finish. And now I finally found the time to present it to you.

The quilt is for the “unwrapped” little girl, and if the weather should turn, and become cold, they can wrap her into this pink baby-quilt.
In the meantime when she is growing, practising on crawling; it is a great groundsheet at the starting line.

179 days to go

And plenty of time to enjoy the beautiful package of nice Christmas fabric, if I were the lucky lady to win.
Quilt Qua have a great give away, pop over and join in…I just did.

Imagine these great fabrics in combination with the stitchery patterns from previously post (done in green)

I Wish.....

Congratulation on a brilliant design.



and a giweaway to celebrate.

The design is just adorable, it hit my heart where I'm most vulnerable. Did you know it is (I am counting) 182 days until Christmas? It would be plenty of time if the pattern ended in my hands. Go have a look at Helen's over at Hugs'n Kisses and tell her I sent you (as if it helps...)
It is not my luck to win, but I am happy on the behalf of the lady who do.

Baby quilt in progress.
It is funny how new project develop. Enthusiasm is the word….

During my stay in Gothenburg I bought some magazines (ref post from Mai 30.). In one of those magazines I fell in love with some stitchery motifs. To go along with them I popped by Signes provisional shop at the NQT (need to think to remember the shops name). There I found the lovely hand dyed embroidery yarn I was looking for. I purchased the last bundle of pink thread.
After stitching these 6 lovely motives there were only 25 centimeters left from the bundle. That makes me a lucky and happy girl. It would have been so annoying to run out of threads so close to my goal.

Now these cute pieces of handcraft are being implemented in the girly baby quilt, which is growing and growing.
Next time I find a spear moment to blog, ......I might have a finish to present. Stay tune.

Happy quilting.

Hurray! A baby girl !

Do I make a crib quilt to all the babies born in my circle of friends? No I don’t. Just to those who are special to me, well they all are.
Even so, for the last years it’s been boys, boys and more boys. They are all separate big miracles, but this time they “unwrapped” a small baby girl (my DH’s way of saying she was came into this world by C-section).

I smiled all over my face, happy for the new parents and their family, and probably most of all, looking forward to make a girly quilt. I just could not wait, I jumpstarted the project right away. It will be in Pink.

We can all make a difference
I bought 3 small packages at NQT.

It is this week’s contribution to do a difference.

Not just in the “pink” direction, but for all good causes, big or small. This time I chose Pink. Well, the ladies from Denmark representing http://www.quiltpink.dk/, made my choice easy. I got bit by the basil, when I met the Danish girls.
I did my bit to their contribution on the fight against breast cancer. And it was fun to do too.

Now they are on their way to Denmark. Hoping to be used in an extraordinary quilt, which will be bought by someone special.

DYB

Finally, I've come around to finalize my DYB project.

It has taken some time to get here. The reason is; I just have not prioritized this project. It is regrettable that I did postponed my BYB. Now it has become the most beautiful quilt. Thanks to all the lovely ladies who has contributed.

Now that I have crossed the finishing line on this one, maybe I should think about jumping another stitchery round robin. Anybody who knows of such project?

Shopping

Did I go shopping at NQT? No I didn’t !

......a joke !

Of course I did. But this time I wanted to be constructive. Not just by some fabric here and there, just because I liked it. No, this time I had told myself to be smart. Buy fabric I like, and make sure they fit together.
Did I reach my goal?
You be the judge of that :o)

I loved these fabrics. They are meant to go together, in a project; witch will be published in a book that’s released in a week or two. Looking forward to receiving the book so I can start cutting these fabric.

In the same book there will be instructions to make a quilt from this pile of fabric. Aren’t they just adorable?

Last, but not least; a pile of quilt related magazines. I love books and magazines. They are my kind of low-fat-candy, fits prefect with coffee and chocolate.

NQT weekend

Finally I’ve figure how to work the combination: computer and internet here in Gothenburg.
…..It isn’t easy being stupid :o)

I thought I were “not allowed to show you pictures” from the exhibitions. Therefore I am not going to show you, I’ll just send you off to May Britt’s blog. She is more into the rules than I am. Go and have a look at her blog. She got pictures of the winners of the competition.
Congratulations to the winners. Their work is absolutely stunning.
Anyway, I have enjoyed some beautiful days here in Gothenburg, such lovely ladies, beautiful quilts, stunning shops and great friendships, and then continuously a beautiful town, more friendships, shopping, discourses and workshops. I could go on forever.
As soon as I get all my pictures form this weekend into my computer I’ll show you pictures of “all my other experiences” thru the last couple of days.
I’ll bring you ceremonies, presentations, courses, exhibitions (if I am allowed), happenings, friends and a visit to the Botanic garden.
It has been a great weekend. Now I need some sleep for the journey back home. I got some hours of traveling before I get home. (I’ll keep my camera ready to go if I need it this time)
I’ll give you more pictures from my extraordinary weekend next week.

So long; love you all.

Nina

Beautiful scenery

Tonight I’ve traveled the south of Norway. I have spent almost 6 hours going from Klepp at Jæren to Sandefjord. It is the most beautiful trip I have done on my own. What an experience.
I’ve been driving during the night. I started at 0100 and have driven approximately 60 kilometer. There were almost no other cars in sight. A lorry now and then, but is has been a quiet trip.
Even thou it is night and people are sleeping, nature is not. I have seen some spectacular sights this night. Unfortunally my camera were not available and loaded with batteries and memory card, but my hard disc (read brain) were up and running.
I’ll try to picture it for you:
Deer is not asleep during the night. They are out there feeding. Half way on my trip I lost control of counting them. There were too many. Deer’s are pretty common in Norway, but the amount I’ve seen this night is unbelievable. On two of the occasion’s, one were standing in the middle of the road. The first on ran into the forest immediately as I came along, but the second one did not. It was just standing there; looking at me. I stopped the car. I could not hut it in any way. It was big, standing there in front of my car. I believe we were steering at each other for some seconds before it walked into the green and disappeared. What a strange feeling.
It had been a calm, curious and quiet meeting for both of us.
And I’ve seen an eagle. It is a mighty sight. The bird was big and elegant, landing in a treetop next to me. Luckily I had stopped, to look at the beautiful surroundings at a bus stop in nowhere land.
Somewhere between 4 and 5 this morning the sun raised over the treetops. The fog was lying like quilts over the waters, rising softly to the sky. The light from the sun sparkled in the billions small water drops in the forest. Sometimes it looked like angels were coming down to earth.
Approximately 50 gees lifted from a field and flew low and crossed the road. I had to slow down not to drive into them. My husband would scream “Shoot!” since he is a hunter. To me it was a spectacular sight.
My trip to Stockholm was just amazing. Wish there were somebody there to shear it with.
Well I just tried to picture it for you. Hopefully you enjoyed it.

My last post

A lovely lady sent me an e-mail regarding my last post.
My thanks to her for addressing the question:
Not sure how to take your last post on your blog, if it is sooooooo boring then why take part in the give aways?
Sorry if my English is so poor it is resulting in an opportunity to be misunderstood.
I love give aways. Both participating and arranging.
What I find boring is when I want to spend time to pop around in blog land and discover “all of you” tell about the same giveaway.
It is more fun to read about quilting, gardening, cooking, family life, friendships and your everyday life.
It is fun to “stumble” into a giveaway now and then and participate. But all this “you need to”, “tell everybody” and “do something special....”. Sorry, but that’s the part of it, I find boring.

It is almost like “Look what I’ll give you for present, if you invite me to your birthday party”

Giveaway with no criteria is more what I like. Tell about it if you fell like it. That’s more my style.
Of course I appreciate visitors to my blog, but I am not going to seduce you by offering nice prices.

I love to blog, and appreciate others who do the same.

Any body else out there with reflection on this issue?
I’d love to hear from you.

Counters and Give Away's

Once upon a Quilt is having six fat 1/4's to give away. All you need to do, is pop around and put a comment and tell her what was the best tip someone gave you for patchwork and quilting. And of course tell it on your blog, like I just did.

"Everybody" is celebrating something with a Give away. I have decided not to get attached to all these giveaways. It is soooo boring to read about the same giveaways at several of my favourite blogs, and I find it a bit of childish to. Sorry....
Then again it is fun to give away presents.

Therefore I’ve decided to do something else.

During NQT this weekend, I’ll be blogging and post a lot of my impressions. Give you pictures and stories.
I’ll get a present for at least one of my visitors who comment on my blog during these days. But you do not have to blog it. I am happy people pop by, and enjoy my writings and pictures, without being "forced" to tell everybody they love to win in my give away.

Hopefully during this weekend my new counter will be busy.
Resulting in some other celebrations.... maybe...

Gratulerer med dagen !

The smiling boy in the picture is my DS Glenn André.

Hipp Hipp Hurra!

Blue and Black Cobblestone

I have received all the blocks in this swap. Now I have started to arrange them. It is rather easy when all the blocs are there. And such varayety in the fabric. I believe nobody og the 9 members in the group used the same fabric. A gerat inspiration.
Maybe I’ll find the time to assembly them as well before I need to pack my suitcase. In just a few days I am off to the Nordic Quilt Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sale
I routed my day so I could pop by my favourite quilt store last Friday. There were actually a reason for doing so, but as soon as I got there, it slipped my mind.
Kaktus Quilt was having a SALE. There were ladies in a longish queue.
Fabric at 10 NOK each meter is unbelievable. That would be something like 1.5 US$. Compared to ordinary Norwegian prizes at approximately 200 NOK pr meter ( 35 US$ ! ). This sale was next to give away.
I ended up with a pile of fabric. It was so cheap and fun it was an easy thing to; by the rest of the blot. This resulted in a buy of several meters, but who is counting? Hopefully they come in handy some day.

Greetings to Liz and Rita:
Thanks for the fun.

RBR 2

Second lap in this series is done. This one came to my house a bit earlier than it should. It gave me time to figure out how to solve the challenge. I had to go shopping for grey fabric. Grey is a difficult colour. I found Syglad’s choice of colour a bit “polluted”. Anyway, I have solved this one too, and are pretty satisfied with the result.

Can’t show you my solution to this one either.
I am collecting these pic's to the end of this project.

One less, on my May list, of "to do's".

Now I am of to do some gardening .....

RBR 1
First one done.
This one belongs to Kirsten. It was a beautiful stripe, simple and clean, in blue and white fabric. It is a brilliant idea. I am sorry for not thinking about it myself.
I have done my contribution to this RBR. I found this round easy to do since there where nobody that have “used all my ideas”. The difficult part is to get it the right size. I am not allowed to show you my work. It is supposed to be secret until the project is back at home to its owner, but the “startstripe” is no secret :o) But so far there has not been published a picture by thr owner yet, therefore I do not want to be the "messenger".

Now I just have to send it along to the next lady (will do tomorrow), and wait for a new RBR-challenge to enter my mailbox ( yesterday it did ).

April

This month I’ve completed 2 UFO’s so far, “Houses from Helsinki” and the "Flower Swap”. Not into separate quilts, but into one combined quilt.
“Houses form Helsinki” were my winning from the block lottery at Nordic quilt gathering in Helsinki in 2006. The block’s are mostly made by ladies from Finland.
“Flower swap” are blocs from a swap hosted at “Stoffbytteklubben”.
I assume some of the participants who has contributed to make this quilt, are to be found here in blog land. You girls may recognize your own work. If you do, give me a shout. In the meantime I’ll search for the names; I do know I have them somewhere.

Eggs for Easter

Why eggs? I remember it’s got something to do with the hen, all the nice chickens, and a little bit about new life being brought to life. Why, it is not important.
But eggs are not practical.
Some years ago we had a campervan. We would hit the road at every chance we got. Easter usually was a nice opportunity to go shopping in Sweden. Information to those of you who don’t know; I live on the west side of the country and Sweden being on the east side. Problem is the road connecting east to the west is not a straight line. It is ups and downs, rights and lefts.
Now you get it. Eggs won’t stay where you put them. They always roll around ending up like disasters, with all the sweets spread all over the entire floor. Therefore I made Easter bags for the children. And the Easter bunny has brought along these goodie bags ever since.

Giveaways in Bloggland

Nancy is having a great giveaway. She has been so lucky in the pats she is shearing with the rest of us. Isn't she nice. These cute bottelcovers are changing hands tomorrow. Pop around at Nancy’s blog and follow her directions to enter.

Another giveaway at PigTale & Quilts; 30 fat quarters. Pop aroud to do comments.

Who is to deside who is the most generous lady in blogland? Not me. But I can see there are lots of ladies entering these giveaways. I'm not the only one hoping to be lucky.

Easter greetings to you all.

We, my family and I, are spending the holydays at the cabin. Nice quality time together. Preparing and eating nice food, bake, watch TV, play cards. Do family stuff :o)

Easter is the so called "quiet week", but we do have some work to do in the garden as well. Not necessarily noisy work, but some of the days are not that “red” on the calendar and we used the opportunity to use the spade, motor saw, mill, ax and woodchopper.
These are preparations for next weekend. Saturday there will be a caterpillar in the garden. We need some help to tame the water flow and keep the soil where it is supposed to be. Afterword it is time to think about my vegetables.

When the days have been too “red and quiet” I have attended my sewing. I have to admit I’ve used the machine. I just had to…..Sorry about that.

The result is 2 finishes! I have combined 2 separate projects into one.
As soon as I figure out how to connect camera to computer I’ll show you all the result. In the mean time I’ll try to be silent with my stitchery or fabric cutting.

Easter greetings form me
Nina

Jelly roll giveaway

By the way - Green fairy quilts is having a giveaway at her blog - the most lovely moda jelly roll.

Get over there, have a look and participate by commenting.

...or then again not ....... the jelly roll is to be mine .......LOL

:o)

20 anniversary challenge.

2009 is the year when Rogaland Quiltelag will celebrate our 20 year's anniversary.
Hipp Hipp Hurra!

The RQL-board wanted to do something special and invited every member to a challenge. A small piece of red fabric were handed out to all of us together with a informing letter.


The challenge is to make a quilt (or anything at all made of fabric) where this red fabric is recognizable at our meeting in October.

This should be easy. Such a lovely fabric. I have started my contribution. I am not going to tell you until later what this’ll be, but I believe some of you recognize the flower.

RBR
RowByRowA new challenge. I love these challenges.
This is my first row. It is a white romantic fence on a blue background.

Close up.

Mari started this challenge at Quilt i Norge. After one year (11 laps) There will 12 Rows in total, and I will have to do the assembling my self. In these laps I am going to make a row who match to all the other participants raw*s in their choice of colour and theme. It is going to be a challenge. I have seen some of the participants 1.row.
I’ll keep you all informed during the process thou out the year, but no pictures of my appurtenant row.
I hope for a romantic, in the garden, at the cabin, by the sea, lap quilt.
In one year I’ll know.....

Joy

In my search for another picture I found this one. “Joy” is completed and has become friends with “Love” and “Merry”. Now they are 3, waiting on number 4.

It is less then a week for launch of the next pattern in Gail’s Chrismas BOM.
These are so much fun to do. Now I’ve started counting days until her next launch.

Norwegian valley of flowers
I look around in Bloggland and see there are some of the panels, who are being published, and I think to myself; do I have a proper picture of my contribution to the competition? I need to dive into my computer and see if I got a nice picture of it. I want to show you my “Growing Ideas”.
I have seen some of the beautiful panels. Wish I were at the annual meeting to see them all. Unfortunately I could not. Anyway, it has been an exciting weekend, not knowing either how many contributions to the competition, or if mine where one of the chosen ones to go to Birmingham.
Anybody out there who knows?
In the mean time I’ll go searching for a picture…..

Hotel rooms are nice :o)

When you arrive they are so clean and tidy. The bed is done and there are no clothes lying around. No kitchen to tidy, no family to feed, no laundry, no dog to walk. I could go on forever :o)

Anyway, when I get the opportunity I spend some productive hours on my own. I do enjoy an evening or two in a hotel room.

This time I brought along two of my UFO’s
Then I combined them into one.
Now it is handed in to be quilted.

Stitchery sampler

I love to do needlework. I always have. I have made a lot of pictures and Christmas ornaments doing cross-stitching. I found it very relaxing. Counting and see the motives grow. During those years of fine needlework I came to the conclusion I could not do French knots. No matter how hard I tried. To solve the problem when it occurred: My mom did them for me.

This could not go on forever. So I signed up for an embroidery class. The whole weekend I practice doing French knots, and I managed to do them.
Well I did not only do the knots. This is the sampler I started on to document what I learned. Now 2 years later I finally came around to complete it.
I am so proud. It is now on the wall in my sewing room.