OS in Canada and we are knitting together

Saturday morning and the winter Os has started.In Ravelry we have different activities in knitting and I'm in Team Sweden.The first mitten project I'm working on is mittens in Blue-green yarn in wool,Peer Gynt,with a type of cable I have not done.The twist is done in 3 steps.

The cable
Row 1: k2,p2,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the needle in front,k 4,p2 and knit 2
Row 2:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2.
Row 3:k2,p2,k2,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the extra needle,k2.
Row 4:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2
Row 5:k4,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the extra needle,k2.
Knit 15 rows:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2



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Socks and a wonderful knit "purse"

This is a wonderful gift from M I'v got some months ago and since then I have used it every day for the present sock knitting.Also perfect to have my mitten knitting in.The colours on the "purse" are my favourites.I'm so happy for it.




2 wonderful socks in a snowy tree,






The pattern I used
http://stickamera.se/blogg/2009/05/29/sockmonster-kristina/

Lovely pattern and a perfect idea to have a cable in the middle of the sock as it gives a good form for the foot.

We do one Christmas present every month

Now my first Christmas present is ready and I have done.........well I know you read my blog so.....
This is a wonderful thing to participate in.
The blogger who inspired us to start has a wonderful knitting blog
http://asalmanakk.blogspot.com/

Some glimpses of January 2010

I send you all my best wishes for 2010 to be a creative and peaceful year.



A little pouch made by fabrics with silk paint and machine stitching.A sweet little thing not easy to get a good picture of.



We made fabric bowls on the workshop lasr weekend and this is my first one.So much joy we had so I hope we can do it more and maybe do it even more artistic.



I go on workshops in different textile technics,in textile art.Dying fabrics is someting we loved to do the first work shop weekend this year.
We had a high thinner bowl we put full of fabrics and then we put batik colours on.Very exciting to see what pattern the fabric had after about 20 minutes.Somebody told me this is a special japaneese technic.What do you know about it?



An embroidery kit and a patternbook.So nice little heart saying something about Japan and patter book has a lot of sweet cross stitch pattern I really love to do during the year 2010



I love to get letters with different stamps on and often I can learn something about the country or the art or handicraft or..



Soon the first month of 2010 and I wanted to give you some glimpses.First of all my friend M in USA sent a lovely little package to me and it came a snowy day and the card brightened up the day so much.I know she has had her birthday in the middle of Jamuary.A delayed Happy birthday dear M.
And then the lovely workshops we had .

Fireworks January 1 2010

The last day in December 2009

What am I doing in my spare time during the last day of 2009?
Yes I'm knitting new gloves in red with trees on.A lovely islandic pattern showing something of December with red for Christmas and love and white trees coved by snow we can see in the forest this time a year.We can see the near our house.....well we can see a little dark green under the snow.
http://www.istex.is/default.asp?sid_id=19413&tre_rod=002&tId=1&qsr



We have a very special phenomina around an the electric cadle in our Christmas tree in the garden.Only around one canle we have this formation of snow and it's something we see from our windows in our dining room.Something very nice.

December 27 ,22 years ago we got our second son

December 27 is a very happy day for me.We got our second son 13.20 .Today it's his twentysecond birthay and we have the happiness to have him on holidays with us.We have been eating cinemon buns,a favourite he wishes as an extra breakfast.Later we are going to eat his favourite food.

Gifts from S and B

Gifts from O and from Ma

More gifts from M F and M S

The little pouch ,the sewing case and something I can have pencils and a little ruler in are really wellcome and I can use it when I go to a workshop in quilting.

Gifts from M F and M S

I am so so blessed that I also got lovely quiling gifts from the MF and M S.They have really succeded in finding fabrics in 2 different styles I really collect and use in mini quilts.

A lovely basket from L in Australia

The basket contains good things for a quilter as pins,laces,flowerband,a fabric with motives from Australia and a sweet koala for the key.

Christmas gifts from M,a quilt and some fabrics.

When I was on the Östasiatiska museum I saw some kimonos with fabris with the pattern I recognize on the orange and yellow fabrics from M.It seems to be a shibori technic.Very interesting.



The mini quilt has many quilting stitches,some in metallic gold and other in white.It's har to show it in the picture.The quilt is on the snow in front of our house.The details are taken inside.


Another lovely star on the borders up and down the mini quilt.The idea to do fantasy stars make the quilt more exciting.


What a georgious quilt fom my friend M!My friend M is really a fantastic quilter and she has done something reminding us of winter.She lives where the snow seldom comes.And the lovely crazy stars!I really really love them.

The way to the Sauna and our Christmas tree

We started the celebration in the Christmas Eve with a lovely bath in the Sauna with a lot a warm air and only "light"from the fire.A tradition we really love.

The Christmas day. -22C

Our little Sally

Now my sister is a grandmother
http://www.nll.se/webb/Opererande-specialiteter/Kvinnosjukvard-Sunderbyn-/Webbisar-Sunderby-BB/Webbis-Arkiv-Sunderby/Palgrim---Caroline/

All is calm,all is bright

Christmas Eve and it's about 08.00 in the morning.A cup of tea and Christmas songs.All is calm and all is bright.Soon I'm going to start making rice porridge.Maybee I do some cakes too.The morning houres are very special and really worth gold.I feel very relaxed just now and I really wish you a nice day.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wousAXtPE48

Later my sister and her husband come celebrating the day with us.It's the day of the year when you wish all your family can celebrate together.My elder son and his girlfriend are celebrating a long way from here and I really wish them a nice Christmas.


Wellcome to us if you are in the surroundings.

December 23-the day before

Started the morning with a cup of tea and writing e-mails and so on.The deep darkness and the white snow gave me a special feeling of Christmas.

A friend has a wonderful blog where you can see her collection of Santas and some lovely quilting items.
www.quiltan.blogspot.com

Now some homeworks are done and the lunch is over.Christmas songs and flowers make me extra relaxed.Later we have some shopping to do and some more decorations in the Christmas tree.

I wish you a lovely day
Ulla

Celebrating Santa Lucia

The darkest period in Sweden and we celebrate Santa Lucia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0FyZqNp5Q&feature=related

Candles,beautiful songs and Santa buns and it give us hope.In 9 day the days the darkest day has been passing by and we can enjoy a little longer time with daylight.All the celebrations with candles and beautiful songs give is hope.

Gifts from my "Stitchers Angel" in a swap

What a great happines to get these lovely things from my swap friend in Angel stitches.
http://web.me.com/knot_yembroiderylady/Knot-y_Embroidery_Lady/My_Blog/My_Blog.html

Go to
http://hugsnkisses.typepad.com/hugsfromhelen/the-stitchers-angel-swap-2009.html

Here you find links to free patterns she used.

A tablerunner I made this weekend

This is a result of a challenge we have in our quilt group.I have gor 10 different fabrics about 12.5"x12.5.I used half of them and the rest ....well......maybee later

Try to win this lovely skein of yarn with beads

Go to www.stickfrossa.blogspot.com and try to win by signing up.

The first Sunday in Advent

The lovely Advent Time is here.So many candles brighten up our dark season.Suddenly we get new inspiration to go on.
Today we have the first Sunday in Advent and it's about 4 weeks to Christmas .I have been in the center of our village and we could see Santas,many children wishing Christmas gifts.We could see 2 small ponny horses and a wagon full of happy children going around.Many stores showed lovely Christmas gifts and Christmas decorations.I meet many people I know more or less and it was really many attractions to enjoy too.I also made a short visit in a weaving room where people were weaving nice things.At home i had a lovely time with tea and lovely cakes I bought

Sunday Sunshine

The daylight is wonderful and a day with sunshine makes you happy.

New Boom and a Give Away

http://karmaquilt.blogspot.com/

It's going to be a bag to.............................

It's going to be a bag.
The fabrics in colours are reproductions from the Civil War 1855-1870.
What way do I turn it?


I also want to send my best regards to you who are so kind and give me so nice and ceative comments.Have a nice new week.

The snow is falling down and it's time for quilting

A new page for a swap partner

We cant all be stars
but we can twinkle.

This inspired me to do this page but also the colours we have a sunny day in October.On the course in Textile Art we worked with machine embroidery and I used varigated thread to it.When I was ready with the emboidery I felt it was to empty.A perfect flower from a Kaffe Fassett fabric made it "twinkle"

Log cabin blocks in bright colours

Today I started to do a little quilt in log cabin and it's so fantastic to work in bright colours when we have a few pale colours outside.It brigtens up the day.