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.

All my harts are done

Just could not stop. My intentions were to get a head start. I prepared some blocks ant thought they would be nice as “on the go” projects.
And yes, they were :o)
I love to sew hearts. They were so quick and easy to do. Suddenly I had a big pile of heats. All my 10 swap sets thru out 2009 are done, and some extra (128 in total). I want my quilt to be bigger than the set measurements. I hope there are some of the other swappers with the same thought.

First set has changed owners. I just handed in mine, unfortunately I did not have the time to stay around, and therefore I do not have my first 8 swapped heat blocs in my possessions.
….Not yet.
Meanwhile,I got plenty of other exiting projects to attend to.

Blue Flower Tablecloth

Picture is shot with my cell phone at the cabin.


February UFO done.
This month has been busy doing swap-hearts and completion of my contribution to the quilt competition. But I have promised my self to complete at least one old project each month. And I need to fulfil my goals. This month I choose the Blue Flower. Just a couple of leaves left to appliqué. Then the quilting and binding. And I just made it. I made my goal for this month as well. Puh!

February is a month of few days; witch is of both, good and bad. In need for days to complete quilts, it is bad. Good is; soon I’ll get the march design of the Christma wish BOM.
March would be better due to UFO’s. I hope to complete more than one old project :o) ….. But I’ll not make another promise than the one I already have made.

Love and Merry

I am ready for March.
I love Gail’s design. They are so tender and calm. Adorable! And I have left a comment on her blog to enter her lottery to win her new design. I wish....
I have pictured it in my mind choosing colours as red, pink, aqua and turquoise.

Anyway
Januarys LOVE and Februarys MERRY is done, the stitchery that is. The frame I need to think about. It is difficult to go shopping for Christmas fabric in February. I dived into my box of "love and merry" fabric the other day and had a look. Why is there nothing that tempted?

New frontier blown.
Neil Armstrong famous words: «That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind».

I just did the opposite. For others it might be nothing, but to me it vas a big step into the unknown. I have passed a new frontier. Frightening.....

I have entered my first quilt competition!

When I first reed the terms and conditions in a Quilt magacine it never crossed my mind I would enter. But during a conversation with a former college, an idea hit my mind. Back in my car I made some sketches. From that moment on I could not stop thinking about it. Therefore I decided to do it.
I have been working on this project for months. The process from idea to a completed quilt is serially hard work. And now it is done.
I am not sure how the rules are, therefore I would not tell any more or show you pictures yet Not even a sneak peak. But I do have a question to you all.

Do you tell the person who set you on the idea in the first place, or do you keep quiet?

Discourse and workshop by Kaffe Fasett

This one i could not resist. I love red, pink, purple and turquoise.

I just signed up for the discourse and workshop by Kaffe Fasett
http://kaktusquilts.blogspot.com/2009/02/kaffe-fassett-foredrag-og-workshop-11.html

To be honest, I hate Kaffe’s fabrick. They are sooo useless. Bright, big patterned, boisterous and noisy. I could go on for ever.....
On the other hand, looking at the amount of KF’s design that has fount the way into my stashing, it seams I hate the design so much I love it. One of my UFO’s for 2009 is a Kaffe quilt. If I told you all I’ll complete it before the workshop in September, may be I would….?

This'll be so much fun. Looking forward to meet the designer.

Heart Swap

My quilt society is arranging Heart Block Swap. I love block swaps.

These are 6" blocks, background fabric white to black, and all the grey in between. Heart is to be in red of course.

There were last year arranged a project of voluntary work in making blocks, to make a lottery prize. This prize quilt became so nice we decided to make a block swap to make our own heart quilt.

Now I've signed up for 8 heart blocks each month, for 10 months.

I have jumpstarted this project. Therefore I can show you my first 40 blocks for swapping, + 12 extra for my own quilt.

Looking forward to show you the first 8 blocks I get in return.

January

Honey Bee Blocklottery from Hell

(A small comunity outside Trondhjem is named Hell.)

During the yearly gathering of Norwegian Quilt society. There is always a block lottery. I am just the type of woman who cant resist. " years ago it were held at Hell, and this time I were one of the winners. Lucky me :o)

I want to send greetings to all the ladies who has contributed to this quilt:

Lise Smith - Porsgrunn

Elin M. W. Skogly - Darbu

Anne Lise Strøm - Mosjøen

Jonne Svendsen - Midsund

Irmelin Watnedal - Bergen

Kristin Kristoffersen - Gjerdrum

Reidun Sexe - Town unknown and

Bente K. Jørgensen - Town unknown

If anybody knows these ladies, pls let them know I have finally finished the quilt. Unfortunally I'll not be at this years gathering at Olavsgaard to show you the result. (I am going to Nordic gathering in Gothenburg instead)

Thank you all for a lovely Quilt.

UFO’s of 2009

Susannes Purse
Honey Bee Lottery
The "Happy Bag"
Blue Flower Tablecloth

Pink Flower Tablecloth
Houses from Helsinki
Flower Swap
Kaffe Fasett Quilt
Purple AnnaKa
Japanese coins
Small purses for friends
Toilet bags
Pencil houses
½ on ½ Swap
Do Your Own Block
A Warm Quilt
Stitchery sampler

Blue Hearts

1x1"
Etc…..

There are more, much more. I’ll probably find others on my way down the layers in my stitching room. It would be like a geologic g
But I would like to start some new projects as well during 2009.