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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.

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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.....

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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:

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......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.....