Glenn Andre’s sweater

Finally I came around to finish Glenn Andre’s sweater. It is hand knitted and in the Norwegian Wool yarn “Smart”. Meaning it is machine washable and not itching.

Pattern is from Sandnes garn.
I finished it late yesterday evening, and look who is wearing it this morning.

Treasure Box

Before the summer I signed up for a TreasureBox swap.

We were to make one “box”, and there should be a little something inside. We all received one secret friend to send to, and mine was Heidi. Wanted something Black with bright colours. This is how it turned out:

½ on ½ Swap
Some months ago I signed up for a ½ on ½ Swap.

There where 4 different colour combinations to choose from.
Since I was new to this crazy stuff, I thought, I do one of each.

This is the 4 blocks I sent to Rebecca:

1 Red and Blue + 1 Purple and Pink + 1 Yellow and Green + 1 Black and White

Now, some time later I have had 4 blocks to embellish and embroider. Can’t show you pictures yet. I am not aloud to.
I’ve had one Black/White, one Red/Blue and 2 Pink/Purple. I can’t even tell you from witch country they are from. Then you might understand If I had yours…..

I am dying to show you pictures of the blocks I sent back to Rebecca. But I cant at the moment.

There will also be some kind of a competition. Rebecca is not telling us the whole story. It is like the fairytale are being told as we go along. I am so excited.

I have just e-mailed Rebecca asking for latest news.

I am a Snapdragon What Flower Are You?

Sounds frightening! But looks nice.

Nice day

To day I went to the park, to walk the dog. It is a beautiful day.
Finally summer has ended. The weather has been windy and it’s been raining like ….. The air is clean, the ground wet, and you can feel the weather is changing. You know you are alive.

I ended up with a bag full of nuts. Well, when I started to pick, my thought was to plant a few and see if they would grow. And then I thought the rest would be nice in a Christmas decoration. But I can’t use all of these for a decoration. Can I? ...

Is there anybody who has a suggestion what to do with all these nuts? I would be very happy for suggestions. They are too nice and precious to go in the bin!

Nina In Norway

Another million thanks.

This million goes to Beverly in USA.
She is the second one to send (my son) Glenn André (8 years) a stitched heart.
It hit my son right in his heart. Two dragons. One stitched, and the other one to put on a sweater.
The heart contained a Chinese coin. And beautiful green shells and buttons. (he was very sorry one of them were broken in the mail) But, mom can fix almost anything. He loved the heart.

Beverly said in her letter to Glenn Andre she wanted to continue what Maureen started. Give this Art/Craft loving boy in Norway, hearts made of love, from all over the world.

Even the envelope is taken care of. It was stamped with a chine’s sign.
He is so thrilled.

Today I received e-mail from Maureen saying thank you for the drawing Glenn sent. And today a special drawing is on its way to Beverly.

Glenn André receved a new heart yeasterday.

I will be back with info and picture tomorrow.

Round Robin
Lap no.1

Finally I got around to do my centre block.
I wan a couple a weeks ago a pattern for a tablecloth. And I loved the butterflies.

This is my result of a pile of nice fabric and this pattern.

Now it is sent to the next participant in this RR. (My package became too heavy.)

Look what happened.

Yesterday I tried to finish my Crazy Round Robin. I do not know how many times I was interrupted. How annoying! It is still not done.
During my process of running back and forwards to my sewing room my little dog “Lady” saw an opportunity to have a royal rest. Luckily all the needles were in the other end.

Another Round Robin
I just can’t get enough!
I’ve signed up for another Round Robin. “Ordinary” Round Robin? Not a crazy one this time….

I love the idea of RR. It is always nice to se results of RR’s. They are always beautiful. And I do want to own one myself. Then I have to participate.

I entered, and in the same minute, my head went empty. No ideas, what so ever. Empty!

In order to get an idea I went to the local quilt shop:
I got a small idea of some butterflies and a big pile of fabric.

1 million thanks

for the lovely letter that came to my son. He was trilled.

(He received a heart with a nice dragonfly in the air, a fish in the lake, several flowers and straws by the lake, a tree and a butterfly. The heart is beautiful!
The envelope also contained a sticker-book.)

Glenn André is 8 ½ years old and wants to be an artist. He loved my heart that I received from Maureen so much that I almost had to let it go….

Now he got his own heart from Maureen. He is working on an idea for me to make him a quilt with the heart.

“Never ever before have I received anything this nice in the mailbox. Who is she?” Glenn is wondering.
And he is so proud of it; he shows it to his entire friends.
“It is from Australia!”


Thanks for your caring love to the opposite of the world. You made us both very happy.

Nina in Norway

Santa is out of business.

I’m gone rely on the mailman.

Mailbox is in shock and so am I. Never ever before has it been so full of goodies.

My heart came home!

Beautiful.
Thanks to everyone ho has participated. I just keep steering at it. It is lovely. I am looking forward to frame it and put it on the wall.
And a special thanks to May Britt, who started this Round Robin.

Hearts and goodies

4 hearts arrived safe in Norway.
Thanks to
Margareth (Victoria, USA), Beverly (Kentucky, USA) Linda (NY, USA) and Hideko (Japan) for such stunning hearts. And all the extras you sent. Just can’t wait to start using it.

Thanks to Antoinette for the lovely beads you sent. They are heavier than I expected, therefore I believe they are stones.

Before the mailman came around, I went shopping for some yarn. My son (8 ½) needs a new home knitted wool sweater. When I came home I realised I had to finish a pair of socks first. The minute they were ready Johnny (18) said: “Mine!” And he has almost worn them since.

It is always nice when people around you appreciate the work you are doing.

Swap-Bot

I have entered a pearl Swap. I am not sure about this.
We were to send pearls for 5$ to our swapping friend.
If I by pearls for the amount of 5$ in Norway I almost get nothing. I bought pearls for 5 times that amount and still I feel it is to little. But now it is sent. This is what I Got for my secret friend.

Nr. 3 ferdig

Oh I love it when something is done. These Christmas decorations have bothered me for years. Every time I put something inside them they were hanging like old rugs. Oh I hated that.
I’ve told my self to undo them, and quilt them before Christmas for so many years now. Finaly I’ve come around to do so. Thanks to this competition to do UFO’s.
Now I’m looking forward to decorate for Christmas. It will be a pleasure to put stuff inside these now. In December there will be 5 Stockings on the wall. All of the same quality.

Second one done

in my attempt to get 25 projects done by the end of October.
This is also a reversible quilt.
I attended a course witch were held at Varatun Gård in Sandnes. The Instructor, Nancy Eriksen, knows that there is a lot of decoration missing on this one (if it is supposed to be like her model). I didn’t want to appliqué on my quilt since I don’t want it to be a Wall hanging.

On the back side of the quilt I used fabric that I didn’t like. I just had receved some fabric I knew I would not use on a top. I didn’t know they were brand-new and expensive. I just didn’t like them at the moment.

One UFO done!

Finally I’ve come this fare to say 1 done.
It took some time but I have worked on/quilted several projects to save up some needlework I could bring along when I leave the house.

These were finished yesterday. Some years ago I made a quilt in reversible quilting. I even had some classes in the way of doing it, and therefore I had some bits and pieces. Now they are put into 2 sets of potholders. Both sets are Yellow and purple.

Tomorrow there will be another Ufo finished…

Home is…..

I just finished embroidering/embellishing a small picture. Well it is not finished yet, but now there is a new challenge: The frame.

All the small knots are pearls. I don’t know if it was a smart ting to do, but I just had to.
This is one of the projects I’ve signed up for the UFO-challenge at Desire’s Lappeteknikk

Summerpresent.

This summer I entered a swap called “Summer present”.
We would all get a secret friend, and during summer we should gather stuff our secret friend would fancy. Wrap it in nicely, and send it in the end of summer.
Actually we were all going to open at the same time during an internet-chat. But unfortunate I cant participate so I was aloud to open it today. Yeah!

It contained:
A very nice Country Sampler Pattern (I will do that one day). One pair of Quilt Clips. They will come in handy (maybe already tonight). So will the Double-faced Basting Tape. Brilliant.
A package of NeedleGripIt would be perfect in my needlework-box. It would save my fingers of being perforated. The present also contained 3 spools of nice coloured special effect tread, an a piece of fabric in one of the colour scale I love.

Beautiful!

I could get even crazier. But I had to control myself.
Isn’t it gorgeous? This is the result of me doing a detour in town and drop by “Perlehuset” (House of pearls).
I am into ½ on ½ swap where I needed some black and white stuff. As you can see I ended up with “a little bit more”. But, it’s not space consuming items, and I will need them. All of them. Even more……..