VM-knitting

Saturday and a great sportevent in Osaka

http://www.tourism.city.osaka.jp/en/

We have already seen Carolina Klüft doing very good results in Osaka.Very happy for that.It's going to be a very nice week with many good results and hopefully a fair game for all in this great competition.

http://bortaboijn.blogg.se/
inspired us to knit something during the competitions.I have started to do mittens.As I have started working fulltime I only have time to do small things.I go on working with different technics from Barbro's course.

Have a nice weekend

Secret Santa Christmas swap

A great quilter has organized a lovely swap I couldn't resist
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com
We can do a small quilt,a stitchery,a bag ,softies or something else we would recieve ourselves.August 27 we start again quilting and I'm going to follow a course.I'm really looking forward doing quilts and so on.Today I ordered some muslin and some japaneese fabrics in light colours.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Tomorrow we start working after a long vacation .
I wish you all a nice new week.

I'm in a new swap

We are going to swap a teacup and yarn and maybee something else.
I'm really looking forward this.
www.stickamera.se
It's a swap among knitters in the nordic countries.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Intarsia knitting

Saturday and I have some houres of knitting intarsia.It's going to be a bag with a type if checkboard in red,3 different grey colours and white Per Gynt and a frame in black,also in Per Gynt.After knitting everything I'm going to felt the bag in the washingmachine on 40.
http://mimoknits.typepad.com/knitting/2005/02/garter_intarsia.html

Tomorrow I go on working with the bag and some other technics in knitting.I have bought a course from a swedish blogger who just now has a knittingcourse on Hammarö.
http://hem.bredband.net/b382726/stickning.html

Updated my flickr

Some more pictures taken today August 9 when I was walking my favourite route.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

My home and a favourite river I love to walk along

Dear all

We have had days of rain and days of lovely sunshine.With the rain I got a little flu but when the sunshine came back I really had to be on the road again.The new pictures are from yesterday when I was on my daily walk.Sorry the battery and the power ended up.But 2 pictures showing my home and a little of my favourite place where I love to walk along show you a little of my world just now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
Have a nice time.

Sunday morning 29.7

This morning 3 young people came back from a 2 year long sailing trip.Many adventures and many thoughts they have given us through a report every Saturday in a regional newspaper.They have done what we dream about .

They said that what we search
maybe we have just where we are.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Have a nice day.

A trip to Gammelstad

I visited a wonderful place 80 kilometers from my home.A world heritage.
http://www2.lulea.se/gammelstad/english/frames.htm
A sunny day and I went to Gammelstad visiting the old church and the special "village" with small houses used in the past when we had to go to church some holidays every year.Well it's a long time ago when there were no cars or something else that made it possible to go home sleeping and then come back next day.You can find many pictures on the link above and 3 on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

On http://www.lulea.se/hagnan/ where they had a handicraft day.You could see people doing tatting,felting,knitting,doing braclets and so on.I met my secret friend from Stickamera-well now she is not.Our secret period is over.

http://brittmariel.blogg.se/

and we had a lovely chat.

I aslo met some other friends who also was knitting and so on.Sorry I took no pictures.I forgot.So sad.There are so many very good people working with different handicraft.Tomorrow, Friday 27.7, they are also showing what they do but I have no possibilities to go.Thank you all for some lovely houres.I hope we meet during the autumn/winter having more interesting houres/days.
http://www.norrbottenshemslojd.se/bilder/Bildgalleri/Stamman%202007/index.html
http://www.pixbox.se/alb_show_id122209_page9.html

Christmas past and only 6 months left until Christmas 2007and Harry Potter

Today I present my first embroidery for Christmas.I'm a member of a SAL and I started 2 days earlier when I had time to do some stitches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
There are 8 more to do and I don't know how I'm going to use these squares.In USA from where this pattern comes they do small decorations for a wreath or for the Christmas tree.

I'm also in a Harry Potter period.I have seen 3 films during the weekend and now I only have number 5 left and I'm waiting for the last book too.No post today??It would be great to have a pattern for Fenix,the bird who made so Harry Potter could go on living.Today I'm very tired.The weekend has in other words been very intensive,an intensive weekend with Harry Potter.

A needlebook in cross-stitch 20.7

A new day and a needlebook is ready
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/857535904/

I made it by using a pattern from
www.casamiainitalia.com/hp/crossstitchfc.html

DMC 111,221,469,935 and 3787

thin white linen

We have a lovely sunny morning and it's Friday and the end of a summer week.Still I have some weeks free and have the chance to do some embroidery,patchwork and knitting.
I wish you all a nice end of this week

2 lovely summerdays

A lovely day with my friend

Once a year a good friend of mine and I do something together.We live so far away from each other but we try to get some houres when she comes visiting her father.
First of all we went to the new Cultural house in Luleå
What a wonderful library they have.What a great part of the house celebrating books and other media.What a happiness to be a librarian in this library.
http://www.kulturenshus.com/bibliotek.4.5ee063d310c3f1df7dd800016871.html
In this house they have a exhibition hall for modern art,they have wonderful concert halls,some restaurants.We had a lovely lunch and a wonderful time to talk about life,art and handicraft.
We also was visiting a museum and could see a wonderful exhibition with embroidery and weaving art.

Update on the Quaker sampler
Go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/
It's a picture taken 8.30 in the evening.I love the summer and the handicraft.
Have a nice time

Embroideries and Yo-Yo

It has been an inspirating time with embroideries.Still I have vacation and every morning I take the chance to do something in textile.In the beginning of the week we had rainy days and I needed to do some nice things.First I made 2 patchworkblocks for a swap-no photos and I hope to get more time for quilting later this month.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/.

First of all I made a little card reminding of east Asia-a combination of embroidery and a bead from China.When I was in Beijing we also visited a place where they did these beads and so on.Later on I have been thinking of the bad situation for the workers doing different luxury products for us.


Then I have been doing an embroidery of a Flower girl,mostly in metallic DMC,a little cotton and beads from Mill Hill.I'm a woman often dressed in jeans but I love to create the opposite,dresses ans do on decorated with beads and "gold and silver".I love to work with crazy patchwork too.When I was a little girl I loved to be a princess or an angel and my mother made me dresses and wings,not so expensive ones but I felt I was a princess or an angel.It's good to have the fantasy...even when you are older.The last days I have been in another world full of luxury......well DMC-metallic and beads......


http://yoyo-along.blogspot.com/
Yo-yo is a nice way of doing a little decoration.Click on links on the link above and you find a lot to be inspitated of.
http://flickr.com/groups/59895199@N00/

www.elliphantom.com/completed_in_2006/ez_baby_sweater
An example I also found today.Maybe it's not so practical but....


A new week starts and I have started a Quaker sampler
http://users.skynet.be/bk236098/CARINNE/ImagesQuaker/QuakerComplet.pdf
DMC 3808 on white linen fabric.
I love doing one or two motives a day.Now we have warm and sunny and it's also a perfect embroidery when you enjoy sitting in the garden

Have a nice week all my friends

What I did this morning

Dear all

A sunny warm morning in the north of Sweden and The Sampler girl had a sweet little square with "Harry Potter" as the theme.A freebee just to use at once.I used both silk,linen and cotton yarn on this little embroidery on Aida because the early morning was really early and no shops were opened .Thanks Tanya for a lovely morning.
http://atthehoneysuckletree.blogspot.com/

July 6

Go to her website too
http://thesamplergirl.homestead.com/home.html and you find other freebees too and she has a great number of lovely patterns to buy too.


I have lovely memories with the first book about Harry Potter.My youngest son and I we read the book ,some pages each,and we had so many nice evenings reading and enjoying the story.
Now he is 19 ......

About biscornu-a link

Here you find instructions and examples of biscornus both with embroidey an one example of a patchwork biscornu.

http://own-two-hands.livejournal.com/4186.html

Good luck.
I'm doing a new one.Pictures later this week

A biscornu from Gabriele in Berlin

I want to show you a biscornu I have got today.I'm in a swap on Freindly stitchers-a yahoo-group .
This wonderful one is made by Gabriele in Berlin.She made the embroidery on a very fine linen fabric.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/.

Midsummer and a pair of socks

Dear all
We have been so happy for a lovely warm air and a sunshine nearly 24 hours every "day".We have had nice days in the garden and the flowers are coming.We could eat in the garden too.
I have had the possibility to rest in our hammock.Could it be better?

To knit in the garden is a favourite for me and on http://www.socktopia.net/ they published a new pattern during the Midsummer and I couldn't resist knitting them.You find the beginning of a sock and wonderful flowers from my garden on

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/.

I have made 2 rows extra between the last in pattern for square 1 and 2 -one with 5 knit on knit and 5 purl on purl and then I changed and made a row with 5 purl and 5 knit and this made it easier to follow the pattern.

Have a nice time

Midsummer in the north of Sweden

Today 21June we have the longest day this year.Oh this beautiful daylight.

About swedish Midsummer celebrations.
http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/CommonPage____11366.aspx
Here in the north of Sweden we really have nearly no darkness at all.We really enjoy the summer now .Tomorrow it slowly starts to turn to.....

We are going to be at home enjoying being together ,both the sons are at home.We are also going to enjoy being in the garden and enjoying being active in the nature.We are going to have barbeque tomorrow and maybe we can sit in the garden eating our dinner.

I wish you all a nice summertime.

Kumihimo

The last thing we did in the course was to do Kumihimo,a technic to do wonderful bands for different things.We tried to do the simpliest one and we succeded in doing a short one.You have some strands and twist them from 1 to 6 or ....if you use more strands you have to twist several times.I think I will use ribbons to do handles for a purse.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/

After that we had lunch and said goodbye.Some of us are going another year too so we meet in August /September.I'm looking forward it as we are going to do simple clothes and use some of the technics we have learnt to decorate them.
Have a nice new week

Pink little "bag" for my cellphone

A lovely free day celebrating knitting and I made this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/537537285/

First it was going to be a bookmark but too big and I have so many .As I'm a member of a knittingroup making bookmarks every month we get lovely patterns every month.To do a bookmark is a perfect piece to use a special pattern on and to do small presents .Now I felt this would be a perfect "girly" thing.....well also elder ladies with silver in her hair can use pink,a perfect combination with pink and silver.

Tomorrow we have the last day of our course.On Friday we made an exhibition with things we have done.10 ladies-yes we have been creative and now we have our "exam"

A new Friday

With this picture I will wellcome a new summerday.To crochet a little flower made my day on our national day 6 June.I also bought flowers to have in the garden.White flowers have a special beauty I really love and they give my relaxing times and inspiration to do something.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/535491884/

I wish you the best

Summertime in the north of Sweden and new photos

The sun is shining and we have green garden and some flowers too.Just a fantasic time.
After a month full of work I try to give you some glimpses of the nice things.
First of all I want to mention "Sommarslöjd" on
www.nordiskamuseet.se
where you can see a lot of laces as crochet,bobinlace,embridery,tatting,print.....both old and new design.Most of all I was fascinated in purses decorated by crochet,beads...in a crazy but beautiful combination.And so many braclets and other decoration.Thick yarn or thin metalthread or...If you are in Stockholm during the summer go and visite the exhibition.I hope I can do one more purse using a little doily, crochet one,tatted lace and some embroidery on.

On flickr I have some new pictures of purses I have made during the course and some CQ for Christmas-a heart and a tree.2 blocks for a RR on crazyquiltinginternational and 2 blocks I hope reulting in a "chicken"or a......I'll tell you later what I made.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/

I still work 2 weeks before my holidays so we have a lot more to do before.After that I hope I can have more time to do small projects,be outside walking or....and enjoying meetings with friends and family. I get a little more time to blog , to write letters,snailmails , and read books.

I wish you all a lovely time

My birthday and my first biscornu

It's the first day of a new year in my life.The day has been calm and I have had time to reflect on life and handicraft.Many small gifts and some bigger ones have made me so happy.As I 'm a member of 3 swaps in different yahoo-groups and I'm really so happy to be a member of these.Every month you have somebody to make happy and this is very very good.

I have started this pattern for a biscornu ,first in yellow on white aida but I'm not satisfied with the result so I start a new one tomorrow.Maybee I use linen fabric instead.
http://www.lekkerthreads.com/Sun%20Mandala%20Biscornu.pdf

I wish you a nice and creative week

Hairpin lace

Dear all


I want to show you a wonderful easy technic we learnt on the course this weekend.In the 60's and 70's I saw scarfs in this technic and I got one from Anna,a very great handicraft lady who has inspired me very much.She was a friend of my mother and she could so so much and give me the feeling it's a happiness to do different textile handicrafts.
You can go to www.google.com and search on hairpin lace and you can find more about the technic and you can also find patterns .
Good luck

How to work with hairpin lace
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art5429.asp


My first small products you can find on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/

A gift from my "hemlis=secret friend"

Dear all

It's the first day of May and now and then snowflings are falling down.Hopefully it melts down at once.We said wellcome to the spring and the lovely May.The river is still covered with ice but....The days are longer and longer.

I have been so so happy for the first lovely gift from my "hemlis",a secret friend in a knittinggroup.

Earl Grey Luxury
A chocolate soap bar-I'm still smiling.Thanks for the joke.
Thin needles so lovely to knit with
A pattern for wristwarmers
A lovely skein of silk -so so soft

Thank you once again.This is just so fun.
I have also a friend to do nice things for.Waving to her.I think you read this blog but still I'm very secret....I hope.

To my "hemlis" on Stickamera.se in swedish only

Hejsan "Hemlis"

1. Vilken sorts garn tycker du mest om? Ull,ull-silke,alpacka.mohair
Är det något material du absolut inte tycker om?Acryl,polyester.....
2. Vilka är dina favoritfärger?
Naturvit,blå,lila,rosa....
3. Är det någon färg du absolut inte tycker om?Kanske brunt eller orange eller...
4. Vilken sorts stickor tycker du bäst om/använder du helst?
Metall,bambu eller rosenträ
Raka och strumpstickor.
5. Hur länge har du stickat?45 år
Mittemellan kanske för jag har mycket att lära ännu.
6. Dricker bara te
7. Är du allergisk mot något?Rök.
8. Vilken slags musik tycker du om?Folkmusik och klassiskt.Lyssnar egentligen på det mesta.
9. Favoritgodis?Kexchoklad men jag måste sluta med godis.
10. Håller du på med någon annan "skapande hobby", förutom stickning?
Broderi, virkning,patchwork,färga garn,knyppla.......
11. Vad tycker du är roligast att sticka? Sjalar,vantar,muddar och sockar?
12. Prenumererar du på någon sticktidning?Endast Piecework.Köper Interweave knitting.
13. Har du något drömprojekt på önskelistan?En sjal från Victorian lace.
14. Använder du pulsvärmare/handledsvärmare? I så fall, vad är ditt handledsmått?15-16. Tycker du om att sticka pulsvärmare?1Jaaaaa
6. Stickar du sockor?Ja
17. Vad har du för fotstorlek? 37
18. När fyller du år? 6 maj
19. Stickar du med pärlor?Ibland.
20. Vilken slags böcker (ej stickning) läser du helst?Romaner.Olika faktaböcker om mina olika intressen.

Ser fram emot att vara din hemliga vän.

The first new sock, friendshipdoll and some days of relax

The first sock in Regis is read.

Cuff:CO 60 on 2 1/2 on 4 needles
R 1-12 k2,p2....in 12 row

Wavy lace ribbon
Leg:R1-*k 2tog,yo,p2*.........
R2-*k2,p2.*.......
R3-*k2,p2*........
R4-*yo,ssk,p2*.......
R5-*k2,p2*.....
R6-*k2,p2*.....

Then I used an ordinary sockpattern from Garnstudio for the rest of the sock.


Yesterday I did the CQ fron of the friendship doll www.dollmakersjourney.com/Friendship3p.jpg
I'm going to do it in the samy style as my CQ-card.During the next week I maybee get the time to do some embroidery.

I have had some holidays and it has been so good to get time to just relax.I really needed it because I had a very busy time in March and also a flu now and then.Today we had a little barbeque in the "garden".Well in the white snowy garden but the snow melts down and we have a lot of sunshine.Many people have used the Eastern period to be out in the nature too.

I wish you all my friends a lovely Springtime.

Friendship dolls

http://www.lasieexotique.com/mag_friendshipdolls.html

This is also a lovely idea too but perhaps not common today.

Pattern to a friendship doll

http://www.dollmakersjourney.com/friendship.html

Happy I found more about this type of dolls.

Link to a wondeful doll someone made for a swap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewquilty/438653292/?#comment72157600053941275

I wish I could do something like that.

Click on ....

Click on Läs om påskristet och påsken after the article about Fastlagsriset.
There you find a lovely Easter egg I dream about.Mady of sugar and decorated a little kitshy but...Only seen it once but never have had it.Costs a lot and I haven't seen them in shops for a long time.Well a dream makes you happier.

Easter

Today it's a "long Friday" when we reminds of the cruel death of Jesus.
In my chilhood the remining day was a day of silence and they only plaid some christian songs and calm music on the radio.No shops,no visits,no....well you really had a day of sorrow.For a child it was not so easy to understand.

Nowadays it's a day of resting and being in the nature or just relax and maybe visiting near friends or go by skiing or by snowscooter or....here in the north of Sweden.You can go shopping food and so on.The Christianity has not the same role now.
You can see some pictures of decorations and so on.Sorry it's only in Swedish .Hope you can enjoy the pictures.
http://www.nordiskamuseet.se/makeframeset.asp?sUrl=http%3A//www.nordiskamuseet.se/publication.asp%3Fpublicationid%3D1437&Cat=&catName=&publicationid=1437

Happy Easter

Project of the day

Project of the day

http://www.kreinik.com/kshop/product.php?productid=971&cat=160&page=1

I wish you good luck with the preparations for Easter.Tomorrow I do this little ornament.You can finsd a lot of lovely patterns if you go to www.kreinik.com and click on freebies.Why not the lovely new sampler?!

A new CQ- card

Happy to have the possibility to show you the card I made during the weekend.It's for a swap and the new owner has got it today.

Up here in the north we still have a lot of snow but the warm and sunny days make me dreaming of flowers and berries and this card tells you a little about that.I hope it inspires you to make a card too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

A little project-a link

A new day,a new opportunity to do something.As my day is full of work I have only a few hours in the evening to do something of my own.
Why not this little project I found on a blog?
http://stonesoupart.blogspot.com/

Have a nice day

Inspirational link

It's Monday and I want to give you my favorite link of the day

http://www.flickr.com/photos/movinghands/sets/72157594488104676/

Nice to look at all the quilts and make the day more colourful.

What a great event

http://www.masondixonknitting.com/

23 March

What a lovely event a long way from here but so great and inspiring.

Have a nice Friday

Knit for peace or crochet or do embroidery or.....for peace

A special day with focus on peace

http://www.squidoo.com/knitforpeace

I do my second mitten this evening.
Enjoy living in a place of peace and work for peace for everyone in the world.

click on Carl sovrum and Karins sovrum

Click on Carls sovrum
Click on Karins sovrum

The bedroom of Carl Larsson

http://www.clg.se/s_index3.htm

In the background you can see what inspired me.

Karin Larsson

A link to a site about Karin Larsson.
http://www.mittnerike.nu/karin/karin.html

A new purse/bag

We had a challenge on the course to do a present to a famous person and I choosed Karin Larsson,a famous designer but most known as wife to a painter Carl Larsson.I was inspired by curtains she made for the bedroom of her husband.Often she made things in white/off-white linen fabric but I also saw some in black wool fabric with embroideries in bright colours.
Mostly used wool fabrics and inside cotton.The embroidery is made by linen yarn and red beads.
Now I'm knitting mittens in black and I hope I can do some embroideries on them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/

the link

http://community.webshots.com/user/Malinaplass

Go to workshop.

A new day and little "bag"

A wonderful day -a day without any work but what I choose to do.I'm going to do a "bag"A blogfriend has done the instruction to all of us.

We have + 0.2C and a little snow comes.The daylight grows and the darkness leaves us more and more.The landscape is covered with a thick cover of snow and the river has very good ice so ot's possible to use it for skiing,going by snowscooter or what you want.Not until the beginning of May we have an open river.

Socks in the special pattern I saw on mittens from Rovaniemi and my day

Wednesday-a new day with new adventures.

Another interesting blogger from Finland with knitting as a speciality.
http://mustaavillaa.blogspot.com/
March 4 she tells us about socks her aunt makes .They are in the same technique as the Rovaniemi mittens.
I'm knitting a second potholder for a swap in blue with an edge in white.
Tomorrow I start a little bag/purse I found on the blog of Hideko and Ati.
Have a nice day

February /March

Embroidery and quilting in a lovely combination I really love.
These 2 blogs are wonderful and I often find inspirations here.They both have links helping you to find new bloggers and useful information.

http://hideko-windfromtheeast.blogspot.com/
www.gunnelsvensson.blogspot.com

Hideko made a purse.Maybee I do one too.
I'm going to take part in a course in free embroidery,a course I follow at home and send in the results of each lesson and then get response.It's a course 2 members of Täcklebo broderiakademi started.

Knitting.

I have been 2 times to Finland the last weeks.
Mittens from Rovaniemi
http://lenealve.blogspot.com
October 2005 there you find a pair of mittens.Lovely soft colours in a special technique.

www.yarnharlot.ca
February 2006
She shows a little about the technique with several small "skeins".

I bought a pair of mittens in Rovaniemi but it seems to be patterns from Inari.Bright colours as in the traditional mittens from Rovaniemi but not the right pattern.Black main colour.
We also visited
www.santaclaus.fi/?dephd=8044
A nice but a little but too commercial place where you can find the"Santa",our fantasy figure who comes on Christmas Eve with presents to the family and especially to all the kind children.Often the mother or the father wnt out buying a newspaper or something else and he or she couldn't meet the Santa but the Santa left the presents also for the absent person.What fascinated me very much was the thousands of different Santas in different materials and forms.And the many tourists from many countries visiting this place.
We saw very big snowmen in snow -nearly double a human being in lenght.Very very nice.And the children could play a little too,slide on the ice. f ex.

I have made wristwarmers in feather stitch and 2 potholders
www.garnstudio.com
English pattern for the potholders and other patterns.Choose english.
81-13

An angel in cross-stitch to make today

And if you want to do a sweet little embroidery
http://storage.canalblog.com/70/60/218631/8925240.pdf

I only made the angel and the flakes/stars-no words but it says Happy new 2007.
White stitches with a little gold in the middle of the stars/flakes and perhaps a little on the hair on natural coloured linen fabric seems to be my favourite combination.I have done it in the colures the chart says and it's also very lovely.

Have a nice day

-30C and snowflakes

Have a nice day.

Started early this morning by driving a friend to the bus..................-30C............................
Today is a perfect day sitting inside .
If you need inspirarion I send you 2 favourite links for crocheting a little winter project.

http://www.nancyhearne.com/drawingboard/snowornament.htm
http://members.aol.com/crochetalong/snowph.html

I have to go working all the day and I have about 2 kilometers to walk.Much warm clothes and it's OK but...

Kaffe Fassett design

Tomorrow I go to Stockholm visiting
http://www.waldemarsudde.se/

Click on Pressbilder to the left of the site and then click on Kaffe Fassett

You can find some of his embroideries and knittings designed by him.
I'm also visiting other exhibitíons and have a great dinner there.More about my weekend next week.

I wish you a nice weekend

Projects ,life and winter.

The fourth day of work starts in an hour.We have a lovely morning with -10.6 C,a sky full of stars and a moon also brightening up the dark morning.Every morning is a gift but some mornings are more comfortable after many good dreams,many hours of sleeping and a day not so full of hard work.

1.If you want to do a little knitting-do what I did yesterday evening.Off-white cotton yarn.Why not pink or read or........

www.pagebypage.com/dishheart.php


2.If you want to celebrate Christmas or winter.

www.passionericamo.com

I hope the have 2 hearts in cross-stich freebies still on their site.

3.A smaller embroidery?

www.brookesbooks.com/CrossStitchFreebies.html

4.I wish to buy and do this little embroidery for a bag.A crazy-quilt lady from Janlynne

www.hemflit.se/merinfo.php?id=10158

I wish you all my friends a nice end of the week,the second one of 2007.

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A week of holidays

Happy new year all my friends.

-0.1 and a thin powder of new white snow.6 days until the first day at work 2007.Enjoyed familylife.Birthday for my younger son and my elder came home from Tokyo.
To rest a little give you time to reflect over the life and the situation on the earth.

Some thoughts.

Why do some countries have capital punishment when you are not as a private person allowed to kill?
Nobody has the right to short the life of another person,not even a state.

We have so much to be grateful of.Why are we not?
Do we live in a world of fantasy or..?
Catch the day.

To have friends is a great gift to a human being.
To have a family is a great gift to a human being.
To live in peace is a great gift to a human being.


What am I going to do these days of holidays?

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1505664480034628746BCSPln

I'm knitting socks in white and I use a pattern,Snow Flakes by Jeanie Townsend.The link above shows how the sock looks like.

http://thesamplergirl.homestead.com/Providence.html

A nice little embroidery made by a creative women.She also sell beautiful samplers.


Perhaps I have time to do a little scissor fob or ornament from Alchemy Stitchcraft.She has a lovely group too and there I found a little embroidery(2"x2") in cross-stitch and with some small beads on too.

And I 'm going to talk walks in the warm winterdays.
And go on enjoing the familylife.
And read some pages in a great nove.

Well well some of it...........Can't stop being a time optimist.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a Merry Christmas

After a day full of preparations we listen to Christmas music.Soon we decorate the Christmas tree and go to bed.24December ,to lunch, we have porridge and different bread and something on.The dinner we have fish(salmon),meat from elk,vegetabilies,eggs,sausages,fruitsallad and.....
In the evening we get the Christmas presents and enjoy being with the family.My sister with family visit us.What a great joy!

27December we have a new "Christmas eve " when the elder son comes home and the younger has birthday-19 years old.We have holidays and hopefully we can enjoy walking along the river and just enjoy the short time of daylight.But every day the daylight grows and we get longer days,hopefully some with sun too.

I try to knit so´cks to my husband.Maybee the are ready 27December.

I wish you a lovely time.
Take care and enjoy life.

A Christmascard I made

The last little project in cq I made for a swapfriend.
6 December
http://creativeribbons.blogspot.com

Crochet link and a great news

Happy crochet time

http://www.roxycraft.com/free_patterns.htm
A snowman and a reindeer in crochet-sweet and fast projects.

Great news
My elders son comes home from Tokyo 26 December and we have him here for a month.27December our younger son has birthday(19)We are so happy to be all 4 for a month.Hard to live so far away from each other.

angels in cross-stich

It's Saturday and I have been doing an angel in cross-stitch

http://www.tiag.com/otherproducts/xmasangels.html

The first one from 1986-except for the word.I also hope you find someone to do.So many patterns and so many lovely angels.

Have a nice weekend

The needlebook I made

Dear all

Now I can give you a link to a blog where you can see the needlebook I made nearly 2 weeks ago.So happy that my friend did this slideshow showing the needlebook I sent her.Thank you P.
7 November
http://clasmog.canalblog.com/

Have a nice time

A challenge

Dear all my friends

Today we in Sweden have a special day reminding of our friends who are not with us on the earth.We lit candlles on the graves and we often lit lights at home too.I lit an extra light for my mother.

I have had a week of holidays and it has been so lovely.I have been resting,walking,doing embroideries,writing letters and cards.We have had cold but sunny and and the landscape so so white and glittering by the sunshine.The daylight is shoerter and shorter but 23 December it turns.

Violetta Parra has a song
"I want to say thank the life"
I agree

I decided to take up Sandies offer of a challenge http://abeautifulcraft.blogspot.com/
The first 5 people to respond to this challenge, via comments will each get a small gift from me.
Tell me your favourite colour.
Tell me if you prefer a small gift to use in crochet,embroidery,patchwork or knitting.

The catch is, you must also offer on your blog the same sort of offer. This is not an exchange where you send back to me, it's called 'paying' it forward to others who read your blog.

Sorry my pictures are gone out in the cyberspace and I still have no new system.

A time full of inspiration and no pictures on my blog

It's an autumn morning and the nature is in red/green/brown and the clouds don't let the sun shine.
Sorry to say the pictures on my blog is down.Something has happened.

http://thesamplergirl.homestead.com/Freebies.html
This is a freebee I'm doing just now.We have had a weekend where you have had a celebration of everything that has grown in the garden and for example on Öland they have a big weekend where they have pumps with candles in and many artists have open and you can see their paintings or handicraft.Still we have some vegetabilies in the garden but not a long time.We only enjoyed havin candles on our table while eating dinner.

Halloween is nothing I have celebrated but I do this little ornament just because I now love the colours.I also have done crochet in the colours common on Halloween.

www.sanmanoriginals.com/free.html
Here you also find nice pattern in cross-stitch.
I'm going to do the one with Peace .

We instead have candles on the graves and we have a special weekend when we think of our relatives who are not with us any longer.I'm going to have candles on the grave of my mother and father.

The young ones in Sweden tends to celebrate Halloween.

www.crochettoday.com
This is a new magazine I bought and I love the patterns but I think I want to use other yarns.It seems too much thick yarns and not yarn of wool or cotton

I wish you all a lovely day

Wristwarmers,crochet blocks and a cup of tea

A cup of tea in cross-stitch and you have no problems to sleep.This is a pattern I used for a card to a friend and I have done it before.I love it.It's from a swedish magazine and I don't know the designer.Can it be from DMC?

And one more type of granny square on the theme of late summer.I think of flowers late in the summer and a morning for fairies.We have had a lovely summer so I try to do different squares celebrating it.



I'm in a SAL knitting wristwarmers.A grey pair especially for my sister.She is very fond of modern clothes and she says grey is the colour for the winter and yes I think it's going to be a colour for the summer 2007 too.The cables are lovely.The pattern is from "pulsvärmare" by Birgitta Adolfsson page 56.I made them in Alpacka from Garnstudio.

Why not do a pair of wristwarmers as a present or a Christmas gift?I do.

Autumn squares-knit or crochet

We have had a real autumn day with rain,a little sunshine and so many different colours from the box of autumncolours.
The knitted dishclothes are interesting to do with a coloured thread and for the pattern varigated thread.
I'm a member of a monthly dishcloth KAL group on yahoo.This pattern was the second pattern in August and I really like it.

http://monthlydishclothkal.blogspot.com
Here you get more information and links.

http://.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/knitting.html
Here you find a lot of patterns and the dishcloth I have made is a variation of 3 and 1 checked -2.On the groupefiles there are many good patterns.There you find the pattern to the one I made.Be a member you to.

At the bottom of the page you find crochet and when you click on it you find a lot of patterns for crochet dishclothes.

This is a fantastic possibility to learn different patterns and use it to other things too.

The other square is an easy granny square with different green colours and a varigated one.Both my squares are perfect to show the colours we are surrounded of.The grey clouds are not represented.The rain has made the air good and the garden got a refreshing too after a very warm summer and nearly no rain.

Tomorrow a new week starts and I have 2 projects for the sparetime-a little embroidery for a swap and wristwarmers in light grey alpacka,one with cables..I'm a member of a KAL.More about this later.

I wish you a creative new week

A snowflake and crochet mittens in winter wool

The sun is still shining and it's warm outside,an autumn so nice and bright.The winter is a long way from here but I couldn't resist doing a little snowflake/a little doily.I'm in a Snowflake CAL an every Monday some women in the world crochet a snowflake.Most of the ones I have made have been gifts to friends.Mostly used in the Christmas tree but this one can a doily,a small one.

From Hege in Norway,a swapfriend for August, I'v got a lovely yarn I have used for crochet mittens anf felted in the washingmachine(40 degrees).It must be yarn not superwash prepared.You also use a special soap.Soft and warm and so beautiful.Hege thank you once again.The yarn is just perfect.

Swap in summertime

A doily I'v got from my Summer secret friend on Crochetville,Fe in the Philipines,is white and really big in pineapple pattern and this is really a lovely one in a thin cotton yarn.Thank you Fe.Sorry I have no link to your blog.She also sent me a lot of yarn,patterns and beads so I'm really prepared for a new crochet season.She has been so kind writing mails and e-cards during the period we had the swaptime.

A just wonderful very special brooch came from my Project spectrum friend in July(lilac/pink colours)Judy in Australia.She makes so many lovely beadworks.She works very artistic.What a happines to have her as a swapfriend.She has also sent my lovely presents as beads and yarn in a great variety of qualities.And some small bijouteries.Thank you Judy.You also gave ne so many things to do lovely embroideries and crochet and....

www.sheeprustling.blogspot.com

Later this autumn/winter I come back showing more gifts and what I use them to.

Have a nice new week.I have started working again and there are fewer houres to do handicraft but very worthful ones.

An air of late summer

An air of late summer

The flowers in the garden have colours of yellow and orange and I couldn´t but crochet this little doily as a remember of the last flowers this summer.

From the course on Gotland some recycling things as bottles and tubes and decorations in crochet and knitting.Our teacher had made some prototypes and we had a breat fun doing different experiments.What a great fun.

6 weird things/habits about myself

Yasmin tagged me and here comes my answer.

1.I can't resist beautiful fabrics.

2.I can't resist beautiful beads and yarn.

3.I often start a project and don't do it ready in time.

4.I try do do things 5 minutes before stop-time.

5.I have many plans/dreams that I never fullfill.

6.I often buy candies when I buy food and I eat it myself.

Have a nice Friday.

A bag I made for a secret friend in Australia

Hello all

I'm back after some days full of knitting and and joy.So much inspiration an so many new skeins of yarn.And all the nice chats with knitting friends from different parts of Sweden.About knitting I write another day.
I only present a bag made in the middle of July.It's made by japaneese fabrics and a little cross-stitch embroidery,a part of a free pattern on the member site of DMC.The colours of the bag are, in reality, a bit darker.I had some different ideas about this bag but the embroidery was a little too dark so I had to choose among my fabrics so the bag could be more bright.The blue japaneese fabrics can be dark too so you have to get some lighter blocks or strips to get the patterns more clear.I'm very satisfied with the result.And the new owner is happy for the new bag.A women can not have too many bags

one more links to crochet flowers and to a bookmark

One more link to crochet flowers
flowers http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-flowers-1.html
And why not crochet a bookmark
http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/10bookmarks/elepineapplebkmk.shtml


Enjoy the things you can crochet in a few hours.

A link to postcards from Gotland

Some postcards showing the lovely island Gotland.


http://gotland.net/vykort/?cat=vykort/blandade%5Fgotl228ndska%5Fvykort

Roses and preparing for some days on Gotland and knitting worshops....

Good morning from a sunny north

Roses,roses,roses...
I send you all a link for a crochet pattern to roses.
http://www.adornmag.com/exclusives.shtml

Tomorrow I start a travel to my favourite island,Gotland-the island of roses,to participate in knitting workshops .I'm going to learn more about popular patterns in different regions of Sweden in older times and a little about creating small decorations on a common knitting.F ex on Gotland they have patterns with roses on mittens.You can find these patterns in the Baltic states also.We are also going to visit some who are spinning yarn and dye yarn also.Perhaps we also have a lovely pick-nick in the lovely landsape.And all lovely tal´ks about knitting and life.

Have a nice day

A little about Crazy quilt- a new link

It's early morning and I'm the only one not sleeping in this house.I found a nice blog about crazy quilting-a blog by Hideko in Japan who I first met on Chahinsofhearts.I recognised that she has a special style I like.I have not been doing CQ for some months now so I had nothing to swap with but I was so fond of her style.Well I hope I can do it in the future.
http://hideko-windfromtheeast.blogspot.com/

And on this blog you can find more information of another japaneese CQ-quilter,a very famous one ,who has done books and so on.You can find informations of other things too.
Have a great day.

Link

I try again to give you a link

Look at January 27 2006

http://anned.over-blog.com

Daisy Lane Cottage and other projects and thoughts

I have started a new embroidery -Daisy Lane cottage.On this blog I found a nice picture on it.I have done the door and a little more so this picture shows how it's going to be.

It's very nice to participate in a SAL doing something together.There are a yahoo-group LHN -which means Little house needlework.We are some members doing this SAL.You feel like you are on an embroidery café even if you sit alone with a cup of tea and your little embroidery.

The other thing I'm doing is a bag on patchwork for a swapfriend in Australia.Secret bag.In August you get a picture.I have always on the needles wristwarmers in shadow knitting.

I feel very sad because the violence is growing in some countries and it seems to be real war there.Here we live in peace and other can't sleep,they loose friends and relatives,they loose their happiness,they loose their childhood,they loose everything.Why can't we talk to each other and solve the problems?
Some of my blogfriends also have hard times just now.I send you my thoughts.

Catch the day
Ulla

Congratulations to Italy

Congratulations to Italy

The end of WM in football ended and Italy is the winner of this game.
Sorry for France and one of the greatest player in the world.What happened?

Cross-stitch

I also want to show you some small embroideries.2 of them are from Praire Schooler-freebees,the tulip is a part of a freebee on DMC and the swedish "horse",a common symbol of Sweden ,is an old pattern I have bought on Tradera.These were done when I had a hard period on my work and I needed something to do and to be relaxed of.I hope I can use the tulip for a bag Im doing and also the horse inside telling the new owner where I come from and I`m going to have my and her name on it.

The doily

Better luck this time?

WM-knitting and crochet

It has been a nice period of wonderful weather and good football to listen to.
Tha bag Fake..gama,a KAL I was in has this result,not ready but nearly.I think it's going to be nice but I have some hours without football to do this to a real bag.A nice pattern to work with and I have made it in double cotton 12/6.

From my One-skein-pal I got a skein of a mixed yarn and this is what I could do of it.Only about 50 meters so ....Nice colours but perhaps a little bit too thick.

From my Secret Crochetville pal I'v got wonderful cotton yarn in turqouise and I made a little doily in it.Wonderful yarn to work with.Anchor Lifestyle.I have more of it and also 2 skeins in a pink and white varigated "Lifestyle".There are going to be more doilies later this year.

Bookmarks which reminds me and you all of the lovely summertime and all the wonderful flowers we just now have here.These are going to be sent to friends in a bookmark swap on Crochetville.

Next project is a bag in patchwork and cross-stitch.
Now I go out in the lovely warm air and wish you all a lovely time

Congratulations

Congratulations to France,Germany,Italy and Portugal.

The last Friday in June

A lovely Friday -the last in June.
A sunny morning and day.
Breakfast in the garden
Made a bookmark this morning.
I was buying food before lunch
The postman came with a lovely card from Mimi on the Philippines.A card full of blue sky,blue sea,beautiful buildings and full of joy and friendship.Thank you Mimi.
I do one more bookmar now while I'm listening on the radion-a man is talking about his life and experiencies of birds,of illness,of life,of friendship,of hope....
We are going to buy a ring to my elder son's girlfriend.
We are going to have dinner in the garden all 4.
We are going to follow the footballmatch between Germany and Argentina
We are going to sleep in the night full of daylight.

I wish you a nice Friday too

Project spectrum -blue

The Project spectrum with the colour blue for June

I love the blue colour very very much.My swap partner Randi in Denmark sent me 2 skeins of yarn in blue-one in Alpacha and one from Opal.They are going to be as parts of socks.I have Alpacha in another blue and the combination is going to be very good.The other skein I can combine with a varigated yarn.

Tea-already served.Good Earl Grey.The details for the summertable.A soft drink.Small letters and nice noteblock.
Thank you Randi
I hope you have got my package too.

Summer SP on Crichetville and relaxing in my hammock

I'm so happy because my Summer SP on Crochetville sent me the things I really love.Candles so wonderful during our long dark winter.Already in August when we get dark nights I love to have a candle on the table.And the lovely yarn.First of all the turqouise yarn in cotton,exactly for a a little doily.The pink yarn I think I can do some rose doilies .And the beads.The brown/gold I think I use for a doily or for wristwarmersThe patterns are so inspirating.


During an hour in the middle of the day I was relaxing in the hammock.It's so wonderful to see the sky and listen to the birds and feel the warm summer wind.Just to be,not anything else and I really could hear what I thought and I got fresher thoughts.....

Catch the day/the hour/the minute/the second.

Crochet links and One-skein-swap

I found a good link with some free patterns in crochet.Perhaps you find something to do.
http://thecrochetdudepatterns.blogspot.com/

And another free only today- a sweet bookmark
http://www.anniesattic.com/free_pattern_day/index.html

I have done the front of my bag so now I begin with the back.A nice knitting.We still have a lovely summertime so I hope I get it ready very soon.

Yesterday I'v got a little skein,40g,Musique from Christal Palace-45% acrylic,40% wool,15% cotton in One-skein-swap.I knitted wristwarmers in it.It was so short -about 50 yards so i couldn't do so much.The yarn is ok but it was hopeless to rip up and it's a little to much combination for me.I never buy this type of yarn myself.I often use cotton or 100% wool or silk.The best for our climate is wool for the winter and cotton for the summer.Sometimes I use a combination of wool ans silk.

Soon I'm going out for a walk,a lovely walk along the blur river.

A nice blog where I found the KAL

Here you can find what you need if you want to knit this bag.
http://knitlit.blogspot.com/

A new knitted bag

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitbyabus/141480345/

The new knitting for me during the WM in football.Yes I needed a new thing to concentrate on and I found a KAL and a pattern a little odd and I think nice.Now I'm on the third pattern row on this.I use natural coloured cotton,Järbo 12/6 and I knit with 2 threads on 4 1/2 mmm.

We have had the lightest night of the year now and it turns to darker periods.We have had a lovely time during the Midsummer and I could be knitting in the garden too.The Midsummer is really a magic time with the nights without darkness,the birds singing and all the flowers that come after a long winter with snow and cold times.

Sweden is not longer in WM.Now I can enjoy every game.I liked the meeting between England and Ecuador but the meeting between Portugal and Holland was really not but a chaos and not a good sportmenship at all.

Today I knit a little and hopefully take a long walk.

Ullas Fiber Blog

Dear all

I mean bloggers.
Sorry>

A word

Dear all

2 bliggers,Sue and Yasmin have this wonderful little "game"
While catching up on blogs this evening, I saw this meme here and there. I'll give it a whirl...

Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me--it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this into your blog so that I may leave a comment about you.

This is not so much about fishing for compliments as it is an exercise showing how hard it is to use just one word to describe someone! Give it a try & I'll do the same for you if you're so inclined.

I hope you enjoy it and I'm looking forward hearing from you.Go on with this please.
Have a nice day/evening

Blue and yellow

This is a doily in blue and yellow from "Sömnad Handarbete nummer 2 1981".I made it in aida-12 squares/1" and the embroidery is done on a danish thin cotton from Handarbejds fremme,a just wonderful yarn to work with.The blue and yellow are the colours of the flag of Sweden.

My youngest son has his graduation on Friday and we had many flags around our village and nearly every present they did get had ribbons in these colours.We are so happy he had his graduation with good results and he still has the trust on the future.
And both my sons are at home until August.

I'm also a member of Project spectrum and the colour for June is blue.
The sky is blue.
My favourite colours is blue
The filet square also has a part in a blue colour I love most of all.

Now I have 2 days more on the work before my holidays.

Ullas Fiber Blog

Ullas Fiber Blog

May-Midsummer

This is a crocc-stitch a swapfriend(Fleur) from xstitchpal did for me.This reminds me of the Midsummer night June23/24 and I was a young girl.They told us to go picking 7 sorts of flowers and put them under the cushion and then I could dream of the man I was going to be married with.Yes when I was about 17 i dreamt of a man in grey suit.I saw no face.Well it could be...perhaps blonde hair.I was in love with a boy....was it ..?No if you believe in dreams it was my DH but...no blonde hair.

In Sweden we have a long cross "dressed" with flowes and leafs and...and we dance around this on the Midsummernight and it's called with something like The pole of the Midsummer.

Thank you Fleur for a lovely picture giving me so many nice and a little sad memories.

A Midsummernight dream

Dancing in the summer

The birches are green and the nights are without darkness.The girls are dancing celebrating the summer.This reminds me of the Midsummernight(June 23/24) when we have these types of decorations with flowers and leaves on a big "cross".This night you pick 7 sorts of flowers under your cushion and you are going to dream of the one you are going to be married with.Well I did it when I was young and only once I saw a man in grey clothes-no face-very alike the one I was in love with.No it was not the one I'm married with.It was only a wish I had at that time-I was about 17 years old.An unhappy love as often at that time.

I have had a day free.2 days more.Tomorrow I send away presents for some friends and enjoy the summer

A xstitchpal ,Fleur,sent me this lovely card.

Squares,the springtime and a skein from my one skein SP

The spring is here and the green and yellow/gold colours dominate as well.I'm a member of the Project Spectrum swap and the colour for May is green and for June my favourite colour blue.

Thank you my One-skein SP who sent me a lovely ribbon yarn in blue/lilac and gold.A yarn combined with a skein in one colour of blue or lilac I think is going to be just perfect for.....I have not decided what.It came today a long way from Singapore.What a surprise and I really love it.

Granny squares in cotton are wonderful to do and I really feel happy to do them because you have so many possibilities.The green one contains of DMC perlé nr 8 and the other one in thicker yarn.A perfect crochet for a summerday sitting in the garden.



I love theese days with sunshine and warm weather and the daylight nearly 24 hours.You can walk in the sunshine,you have very good light for crochet,embroidery,knitting...... It's easier to live this time a year.You can for a while forget the bad,cruel things you see or read about.
Now I have so many projects for the holidays but too many I think.In three weeks I start a 9 week long summer holiday.

Ullas Fiber Blog

´ May 19 1984 I got my first son.
What a lovely day to celebrate.
I'm so so happy I'v had the opportunity to
give birth to 2 boys.The best I 'v done
in my life.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday my son
Happy birthday to you

A tree for Christmas in CQ

After 2 day of rain/snow and sunshine I decided to do a little Christmas tree in CQ.Do we get more snow?I don't want Christmas in July even if I love Christmas.The snow melt down.We also had a little thunderstorm so it's really a crazy weather.It's enough to have snow in December.
This is the embroidery I have done and later I put it on a cone by paper used for yarn in silk.Mostly I use fabrics in silk but also 2 piecies of cotton.

Let's laugh/smile

Today we have the worldwide laughing day.
Let's laugh/smile and enjoy the life

The big day

A nice walk along the river this first morning of a new year in my life.The floating ice on it's way to the sea.The ice can be like silver.This is a promise that we have spring and soon the summer.
And I also want to show you my bonsais and a lovely card I'v got in a swap on the theme of oriental.

I wish you all my friends a creative and lovely weekend

It's my birthday today

It's my birthday today and we have a sunny day and the ice is no more on the river.What a day.
I'v got 2 bonsai trees(small ones) and so so many lovely cards.Today my son is going to do my favourite food and we are going to have a nice day,mostly outside when we have such a nice season with about +12 to +15C.A lovely time after a long snowy winter.

From Susan R in birthdaypals I got DMC threads to a little free pattern-Spring-from Lizzie Kate and thats what I start the day with until the other wake up.

Shadow knitted Kitty

Hello all

I found this link to a shadow knitted Kitty

http://chickybabe.org/driveby/patterns/chart.html

Have a nice weekend.
Ulla in the north of Sweden

Happy Easter

Happy Easter


I'm doing a little cross-stitch during Easter.

A chinese girl from
www.abcbroderie.com
Grilles gratuit.Personages.
Les chinoises.

And I have been writing postcards.
I'm a member of
www.postcrossing.com
I love getting postcards and lovely stamps from all
of the world and now I do get some cards every
week.

I also take a walk in the lovely weather.

Have a nice Easter.

Joy in April

So happy I could start doing Crazy quilt .I have had a pause since my mother died in August 2005.It was totally stop because what I did the day before she died was CQ and it's very irrational but I got a connection in my mind between the two-death and CQ.I have been reading and looking at pictures and 2 weeks ago I found a yahoo group for beginners in CQ and after some days I couldn't stop doing it.Now I feel like a winner.So happy so.CQ is life.Happy life.My heart is very insprated by snow and winter.I loved doing embroidery with beads and different gold threads.

The second picture shows the wonderful fabrics,threads,beads and so on I'v got in a birthday swap.I was "adopted"
in April because we are 2 in May.This is a symphony of colours.I'm so thankful for these gifts.The 6th of April was a day full of happiness because they did my day so full of joy.So much feelings.Tears of joy and of sadness.

A friend-Lita-sent a block on the theme Japan and she did it so well and combined some technics.I really love it.I hope I can do my birthday quilt for 2005 and have this block in the middle of the miniquilt.My birthdaypals did a block each on the theme of Japan 2005.Now it's only 1 I miss.

Soon we have Easter and I love the yellow flowers,mostly tulips.Today I have got 20 red tulips too.

This morning we got big big snowflings.Beautiful but...we long for spring.The daylight give us hope and we really get the possibilities to work in daylight.On Friday I start a week of Easter holidays.Lovely.

I wish you all my friends a Happy Easter