A new mini quilt from my swap partner

Today I have got a sunny flowerful summer star from my swap partner.This quilt gives me "power" when the dark clouds are on the sky.

Roses for a friend

A friend and I celebrated a long friendship with a lovely day in Luleå.We talked and talked about life and embroidery.We couldn't resist buying some new beads and a little fabric for some of the projects we want to make.I made a biscornu for her on the theme roses as it's the time of the season where we have roses in the garden and I love roses very much.

http://chatelaine-design.de/newweb/cgi-bin/detail.pl?free10
As you can see I made some small exchanges.

I'm a Stitching angel

http://hugsnkisses.typepad.com/hugsfromhelen/stitchers.html

Go and look at this and I hope you come with us.

A new day has started and our postman came very early.
A new package from my secret friend M???????? on Stickamera.se has sent me just a lovely package.She hade made lovely small parcels so t was really Christmas in July.

Thank you.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The package is full of blue things as yarn,thread-metallic preperation so lovely,sweets in glass,beads,cappucino with dajm and a lovely pattern for a shawl.The pattern seems to be something I can use and knit.Lace.What a great experience.I have to test it.
You made my day.Now I have some homework to do and then I do some stitches on a secret gift to someone.

The end of June-mini quilt and a mail art

The month of June gave me a little time to do some swap things.I really love to do and get things too.I made a mail art and it was inspired of freebees on internet.I didn't send it without an envelope.To my friend I made inside 2 pouches for small items as a little embroidery or yarn.

To swap mini quilts give me inspiration and opportunities to learn new patterns.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/725005@N21/
This is a mini quilt trading swap- size 6"-12"
I also hope I can do some for friends and penpals in the future.Maybee I can do them one as a Christmas present.












The front of my first mail art to a swap friend





The back of my first mailart

Swap gifts from Else in Norway

I want to show you the lovely skein of Alpaca silkin petro blue and 2 skeins of Sulka,one in white and one in burgund,chocolate and a package of napkins.The card is made by Elina Helander from Utsjoki.Else lives in the north of Norway and she told me that they have got new fresh snow in the mountains.

Thank you Else.

Happy Midsummer

My favourite flowers in the garden or in the surroundings today.
Mimi asked about the names of the flowers and from the above
Lilac-bush
Crane´s bill
??????
Lilies of the valley

A long time ago they belived that 7 flowers ,picked on different places and you needed to go over 7 fences ,under the pillow on Midsummer Eve until Midsummer Day and you have dreams about the one you are going to be married with.Today there are not so much fences and we don't think it's possible.
This night is the lightest night and therefore it's a magic night.Everything can happen!?????!!!!!

Today we also celebrate the one who baptized Jesus,Johannes.

A package from my Secret friend on Sticka mera

Wow,what a great happiness to get a gift from a secret friend.
Socks in a wonderful colour,wool for felting and a wristwarmer kit with a pattern
inspired by a "spedetröja"a pullover.Thank you so so much.
www.ibodesign.com

May miniquilt for Kathy and the may quilt from Kathy

The May quilt from Kathy.A red little quilt and a sentence from a lovely Christmas song.



This miniquilt (about 7"x7")I made for a swap friend in Canada.I wanted to do something traditional but also a combination of colours and fabrics reminding of Canada,Japan where my eldest son loves and the swedish summer .The yo-yo flower is made of a fabric that reminds me of the swedish summer.

If you are interested in this small quilts we swap you find the flickr group here
http://www.flickr.com/groups/725005@N21/

This week

Hello all

This week has started with a lot of work.In my sparetime it's cross-stitch,knitting,looking at football and different things as smeeting with friends,going to the dentist and........

I.m doing my first mail art combining the flowerbasket from the sampler on
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/anne-les-petites-croix/

and the heart from
www.theworkbasket.net

I do the embroideries in DMC 815 on linen fabrics.

Have a nice day all my friends

The summertime comes to us

This time a year we have not so many flowers.Now we really long for the symphony of flowers and real summer with warm air.I hope I can use some of the early beauties as an inspiration for the doll quilts I'm going to do when my holidays starts in 10 days.In the meantime I 'm knitting a pullover in blue cotton yarn.An hour in the morning and some houres in the evening and maybe it's ready in July.

Today we celebrate the National day here in Sweden.
Have a nice day

May 25 All the mothers day

This morning I found a blog from Finland.She make things I really love too.The crochet snowflake on a hat or on mittens or crochet squares in soft colours.
www.jattasoheltaa.blogspot.com





The flowers are made by and designed by Mimi,a blogfriend of mine.
www.mycrochetstuff.blogspot.com
There you find a free pattern to the flowers.
With these flowers ,so easy to make and so lovely to use as a decoration, I want to celebrate all the mothers in the world.What a happiness to have /have had a mother and to be a mother

I got a lovely Pay it forward from Stina

Yesterday I got the most lovely gift from Stina.

http://kviltstina.blogspot.com/

We participate in a Pay it forward which means I get from someone and send to somebody else who send to.....
As you can see she is so good in embroidery and also in quilting.This is a lovely thing to bring an on going embrodery.She made me extra happy as it came on the day for the birthday of my son.

Good morning -it's your birthday today my dear son

May 19 1984 we got our first son and now he is 24.What a great day.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear son
Happy birthday to you

A dear friend passed away

A very dear freind passed away some days ago.The sun,the blue-green colours and patchwork are things that remind me of her.I miss you so much.You never have too many friends.

Till min hemlis/secret friend på Stickamera.se

1. Vilken sorts garn tycker du mest om?
Ull och blandning ull och silke.
Jag vill inte ha sockgarn som har flera färger för jag har mer än nog då jag sällan stickar sockar.
Jag vill inte ha garn som är superwashbehandlat.

2. Vilka är dina favoritfärger?Blåa nyanser,mörklila,vinröda,vit/offwhite....

3. Är det någon färg du absolut inte tycker om?Orange och gult

4. Vilken sorts stickor tycker du bäst om/använder du helst? Metall och både strumpstickor och riktigt korta stickor och långa stickor
5. Hur länge har du stickat?
Jag har stickat nu och då under lång tid. Mittemellan.

6. Dricker Te

7. Är du allergisk mot något?Rökning.

8. Vilken slags musik tycker du om?Just nu är det visor,världsmusik,klassisk musik men också rock

9. Favoritgodis?????????????

10. Håller du på med någon annan "skapande hobby", förutom stickning?lapptäcksteknik,virkning,broderi både traditionellt och fritt och med pärlor och silkeband.
11. Vad tycker du är roligast att sticka? Vantar,pulsvärmare,halsdukar och ibland enkla sjalar.
12. Prenumererar du på någon sticktidning?Piecework.Köper Interweave knitting ovh Interweave crochet.Någon enstaka gång Knit simple.

13. Har du något drömprojekt på önskelistan?Att sticka vantar från olika delar av Sverige men också från olika delar av Nörden/världen.Önskar garn och mönster på vantar från din del av världen eller från ditt drömområde.

14. Använder du pulsvärmare/handledsvärmare? Ja.
I så fall, vad är ditt handledsmått?17-18 cm

15. Tycker du om att sticka pulsvärmare?Jaaaaaaaaaaa

16. Stickar du sockor?Inte ofta

17. Vad har du för fotstorlek? (T.ex. längd, omkrets på tjockaste stället.)37.

18. När fyller du år?6 maj

19. Stickar du med pärlor?Jaaaaaaaaaa

20. Vilken slags böcker (ej stickning) läser du helst? (Deckare? Fakta? Romaner?)
Fakta om broderi och patchwork.

Thank you all for the congratulations and the gifts

It's my birthday today May 6

Early morning May 6 and the sun is shining.Today I have my birthday and I'm happy to start a new year.
Have a nice day.

Doll quilt

Monday morning and the doll quilt is ready.I have been inspired of the sun and the river in summertime.I have used cotton fabrics and the stitches mostly are in cotton but some are DMC metallic.

Please go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
to see a better picture of the one I sent away.

A potholder in paper yarn and a felted bowl

Last weekend we had a nice time in Borås.I bought a pattern and paper yarn to do potholders.Hard to crochet but a nice result.Well not so useful as a potholder but as a decoration.We also used paper yarn when we tried to weave small items.More about that another day.I also learned a little abour felting and the first we did was to do a pattens.My flower is a happy flower but not a perfect one.I used spring colours as we had a sunny day and we saw beautiful flowers.Here in the north we still have a lot of snow.The potholder is on the snow when I took a photo of it.Just now we have a very great difference ,in the south of Sweden a landscape that change to spring/summer and in the north the snow slowly melt down.Still the river is frozen but the ice is weaker and you can't be on it I think.

Bright wristwarmers in knitting and crochet-Lara Croft

Lara Croft also has done a pattern for socks in crochet.It's in spanish but I think you can get an idea how to do even if you can't spanish.
http://tejemanejes.com/Bernart-de-Ventadorn.html


An online knitting magazine on www.black-purl-magazine.com has these wristwarmer in their latest edition and I really love the bright colours and the pattern inspired by the "Korsnäs sweater".Why not do mittens inspired of this pattern because it's more wearable if you live in a part of the world where we have real winter.I also like the idea to combine knitting and crochet.Hopefully I have time to do them during the summer holidays.

http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=317
Here you find the designer Danielle Kassner aka Lara Croft.She has done many things using some colours and patterns in crochet things.Go and be inspired.She also is in Ravelry- a knitting and crochet comunion online.
www.ravelry.com

Cherry blossom in Japan

Cherry blossom in the evening.Wonderful even if the colours are pale.The spring is beautiful also in Japan and these pictures were sent to us from our son who lives outside Tokyo.So nice to start a new week with these flowers in my mind.Thank you my dear son.

The last knittings

It has been a time of work but also some minutes/houres of knitting.Even if the winter is leaving us I love to think of next winter.

Wristwarmers are lovely to wear even in the springtime and I did the in soft yarn,the burgund ones are in merino wool.The striped ones are made of Regia silk,a yarn I tried to use to socks but it's really thin and I tried to do cables and I couldn't get a good result so.....wristwarmers are perfect to do of it.

Mittens in wool....yes I love the clear winterdays when the sun is shining.I long for more shiny winter days but I also long for the summertime.The pattern is very common in the nordic countries and I love it.It reminds me of the lovely snowflakes in different patterns,some are like thin lace,other are bigger and in the fantasy you can see "flowers"

Pay it forward

It’s the Pay It Forward Exchange. It’s based of the concept of the movie “Pay it Forward” where acts or deeds of kindness are done without expecting something in return, just passing it on, with hope that the recipients of the acts of kindness are passed on. So here’s how it works. I will make and send a handmade gift/send fabrics or yarn to the first 3 people who leave a comment to this post on the blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I do not know what that gift will be yet, and it won’t be sent this month, probably not next month, but it will be sent (within 6 months) and that’s a promise! What YOU have to do in return, then, is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.

http://kviltstina.blogspot.com
The pay it forward I'm in now I found on kviltstinas blog.I made a difference in my promises as marked.


So come on and join me.To give make you happy.
.

A reminding of the cherry blossom in Japan

In CrossSticher Issue 197 I found a pattern in cross titch of cherry blossoms and I couldn't resist doing them.I know in Japan it's the time for these lovely flowers we never have here. I want to send all my friends all over the world a wish of peace and joy.Just now I have some days of winter holidays.

We have a tradition to take branchlets from the forest,branchlets without leaves ,and decorate them.We get green leaves in the end of May.Yesterday I was in a flower store and there they had painted ones.Love them.Colours and the contrast between snow and colourful things.The decoration is on my table but I couldn't get a good picture so I went out in the forest to get the right view.

Wonderful tulips for a Happy Easter

Enjoy the wonderful tulips.
Happy Easter to you

February Challenge

February,for me a month of flu and tiredness but also some lovely houres doing cross stitch to the challenge I'm in
http://sharonb.wordpress.com/take-it-further-challenge/
February-also a month focusing on memories from the past.
My childhood was in many ways very good.One thing I thought about was lovely blue flowers we sang about but I never saw them in reality but made in blue paper.Where were they?They were many kilometers from here.Made the memory in a pattern I found somewhere.

I was living near a forest I didn't love.I was afraid of the darkness and the dangerous thing I could meet there.And birds-I hated to learn about them.Crazy me.
Not until I met my DH I changed my mind.Here you find a lovely pattern with a bird.I love the free patterns she has,especially this.

http://windywillows.web.fc2.com/FreeChart.htm
click on willows

I also remember the long winters.We often cut snowflakes in paper and it was so lovely.The pattern I used for this is

http://www.periphaeria.com/Designs/Samples/archived_2007.html

Here you can see what I have done.

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

I wish you a lovely start on March

Friday morning

With this picture I want to celebrate the wintertime.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/2282675171/
Tomorrow we start the winterholidays,7 days free for doing things you really love.I hope I can take long walks,maybe a tour on the skiis and doing some handicrafts.
I wish you all a good start on the new weekend.

January/February

Dear all

In spite of the dark period in the north of Sweden,a lot of work and a flu I have had a possibility to do some handicraft
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

First of all I 'm in a challenge on Sharon´s blog

http://sharonb.wordpress.com/take-it-further-challenge/

and I wanted to do a biscornu inspired of my mother,a mother who learnt me a lot and who really gave me the strength to choose the life I wanted.She was a kind person and a person who loved the life and her family and friends.I thought of special sweets she liked and they were in bright colours.We had them very seldom but when...it was a real joy.

I also have done pincushion in other colours,inspired of the light we get in spring and summer.I long for flowers.

As we have winter just now I have done som products giving me some extra warmness.They are done in yarn I'v got from a dear friend,Kicki.Thank you so much.

I wish you a lovely time

I

Winner in Give away

Winner in Give away is





Petra

Tomorrow I send away her gift.

Valentine give away

To celebrate the Valentine day I want to give away something.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

To one I give a doll.
To 3 I give one fabric each designed by Kaffe Fasset.Tell me what one you wish.
To one sockyarn (from Rellana)for a pair of socks.
To one a skein 50g in 100%wool(superwash) white colour.

If you wish to get a little present please write a comment here or under the picture on my flickr-.

Sign in before Saturday.
Have a nice Valentine day.

I ' v got a lovely pincushion in a "give away" and my "give away" on the Valentine day

Dear all
After a long time of no-blogging I'm back .
First of all I want to show you the gift I'v got in a "give-away",a lovely white pincushion with applications in two pink colours.Thank you Petra.
http://petrao.blogspot.com/2008/02/ska-det-vara-en-nldyna-till-alla.html

On the Valentine day I'm going to give away some things.Wellcome back tomorrow giving me a comment than.
I wish you a lovely creative day

Pay it forward

Hello all

pay it forward!


Here's your deal: Be one of the first three people to comment here saying you want to play, and I'll send you something ,fabric for patchwork,yarn for knitting, crochet,tatting or embroidery.No handmade. In return, you post on your blog saying you'll do the same for the first three people to comment there.

Please tell me what present you prefer!
Please tell me what colours you prefer!

A headband Hello Kitty

The first item in a CAL on Ravelry in Hello Kitty group is done.
Nice to crochet small wearable things.The next thing we are going to crochet is a pair of mittens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/2161011291/

Happy New Year from me to you

I wish you all a Happy New Year

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

All is calm,all is bright...

It's only one day left of the year 2007.With this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/2148325875/
I will send you a wish of possibilities to rest and to enjoy also the days without so much action.We have had a nice Christmas with our near and dear.We have celebrated our youngest son who was born December 27 1987.What a great richness to have children,well they are grown-ups now so the are not....but in a way for ever children.

Have a nice time

26 December and a day of calmness

Dear all

Thank you for all kindness and best wishes during this lovely holiday.
Today we get fresh new snow and we feel a special calmness now.It's a day with time for reflections.Peace on earth is so important and with that we could use our money and strength to fight against poverty and missunderstanding.I have uploaded some pictures to show a little about our Christmas.

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

Merry Christmas to you all

It's early in the morning and I will send you all my best wishes for this holiday and for today.All seem to sleep but me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/2132023153/


MERRY CHRISTMAS

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A song with Elina

A song for you all my friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js2cpDX0JqE

Elina is a student on our school and the last day at work she and her sister sang songs for us,so did also Sopranos.Beautiful voices.
Many thanks for your lovely songs.

Dear Secret Santa

Dear Secret Santa

I'm i a swap on this blog
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/

Don't show my Christmas presents.

Wednesday 31.10 2007

Dear all

A long time without blogging.Today I start working a little bit later than usual and I therefore had the opportunity to take some photos of the landscape and what I'm knitting an sewing just now.Sorry I can't show some small items as they are small secret gifts.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
I also hope I can take a short walk along the river because it seems to be very beautiful day.
Wish you all a lovely day

Snowflakes and ladderstitches

Dear all

This weekend I really needed to relax and the best help for me was to do small embroideries.When I feel unhappy I use embroidery as a "self-therapy" and it's not expensive and maybee it results in a little gift to someone.Crises can develope or make you feel bitterness.When you grow older every day is worth so much you can't spend so many days being"angry or bitter".May war against bitterness is full of embroderies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
In every stitch I put in memories and hopefully I can get a pattern of the chaos.The small square maybee I use for a pincushion.The biscornu has got some stitches and beads and I hope I'm going to do it less ugly and more "happy".

A cup with yarn from Ingamay

Today the sun started shining and the postman came with a package from the swap A cup with yarn.You can look at all the present she sent me and you understand the happiness I feel.Many thanks to my swapfriend.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
Ingamay has a blog really worth following.I can see she has been on Gotland and there she bought me lovely tea.She has knitted lovely blue and white potholders too.Maybe she knows I try to learn sewing clothes.Lovely buttons.And she wish me a safer walk using a reflex.And the candy....I couldn't resist eating it after the dinner.

And the cup from Rörstrand.Just so georgious.Fantastic.

http://www.boxtown.nu/

Leslie's block

I want to show you the stitches I did on Leslie's block
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

This is a RR in Crazyquilt.I love embroidery and patchwork in a combination.

The first little quiltie

A quiltie is a little quilt,about 5"x5".You are free to choose way of doing a textile picture.I have done this first one combining patchwork,traditional embroidery and embroidery with beads.The fabrics are from different handdyed cotton,mostly a little bit ugly and not so perfect dyed at all.Try to find squares or stripes and use them and go on creating.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/1423469298/

Autumn leaves,a new shawl and a square in cross-stitch

Dear all

Autumn colours in red and yellow are very common in the landscape.Very beautiful but also a remindness of the winter that comes in October/November.Therefore I made a shawl in 100% wool from Hedängen,a yarn a secret friend
http://annapuh.blogdrive.com/http://annapuh.blogdrive.com/ sent me and I love it.The varigated yarn makes me so happy.

I also show you a square I made for a swap,a square I really like .The colours are also inspired of the autumn.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Have a nice day

A challenge by Freja

Dear all

Freja,a dear friend of mine, made a challenge for me and she wants me to tell 8 habits/things about me.Thank you Freja for the invitation.
http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/4940

1.I wear jeans every day,mostly blue ones.
2.I love starting new projects even if I have 100 UFO's.
3.I love getting real letters written by hand and decorated with beautiful stamps.I love writing letters to friends home and abroad.I have some penpals.
4.Every human being you meet has a great novel to tell you.And your novel can be told.Don't miss it.The life has many colours so go on "painting"as long as you can.
5.I'm afraid of getting Alzheimer as my mother and some of her relatives got.
6.My sons are my jewels.The best thing I have got in my whole life.
7.We are all equal even if we have different possibilities.
8.Work for piece and understanding.Begin with yourself and go on......

I send you reader this challenge and I hope you find something about yourself you had forgotten.Please send a note when you do it.I know many of you already have done this .

I wish you a creative new week

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/