Crazy block

I have started doing a crazy quilt block I'm going to do a lot of stitches on and I'm also going to use beads ,lace and ribbons.If you want to see what the participants already have don you can go to

http://doyourownblock.blogspot.com/

"Våffla"

Yesterday evening,March 25,we had this lovely dessert as a celebration of Maria,the mother of Jesus.9 months until Christmas.The time goes very fast.

A very good friend of mine has done a very nice article about Maria,only in Swedish,but the painters are wellknown and you can there also see differnt interpretations of Maria.

http://barockbloggen.blogg.se/

The new wristwarmers made by left over yarn from a sock knitting

A ball of left over yarn from a sock knitting and white yarn made me feel I want to do wristwarmers,something I can wear later this season.And the white paterns are the ones made them a pair.The pattern I used is
http://www.studiostrategos.com/blog/2010/11/24/kis-mitts.html
They are just lovely to wear.

Send my best wishes to my friends in Japan

I send my best wishes to my friends in Japan


I hope everything is well with you all.

3 more blocks

These 3 blocks i have made in the SAL on http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/
Lincoln's Platform and North Star are the 2 blocks below.



Most of all I love thw north star.













The single block is a Cotton Boll,very easy to do but also very cute and open for different fabric choose.

Birds in the air

The Birds in the air is an easy block to do and I really love easy ones.The fabrics get the opportunity to show their beauty.The fabrics from the Civil War time mostly have not the bright colours .

Log cabin blocks

Log cabin blocks made in reproduction fabrics with patterns from the Civil War period.
I'm going to follow a sew along.There are both easy and more advanced blocks to use. Every block has a short story too.For me the patterns on the fabrics are very interesting.

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

A new shawl is ready.

The shawl in Fame trend(656) and needles 4.A very nice knitting is ready to wear or to put in my Christmas box for gifts.The pattern is perfect for a shawl in varigates yarn.I used a crochet hook when I made the edge of the shawl.

This weekend I want to knit the second sock I started to knit for a while.And maybee I do some blocks in a Civil War fabric inspired by

http://chi-jp.net/archives/2011/02/24-1120.php

who participate in a SAL

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

A little" toilet bag" made by stripes

The little "toilet bag" is made by stripes from something striped for a log cabin quilt.It's a fabric from the past,something used before in a bed.A very nice pattern on it too.It reminds me of the childhood.Nice memories.My mother often used it when she was weaving rugs and you could as a child look at the and sometimes find a stripe of something you have had.My father often found something from a shirt.My mother told him that he had been using the shirt too much and she needed that patter/colour.And it's very good for the environment to recycle.The theme in the work shop this weekend is recycling.Very very good.
I wish you a nice Sunday

Happy Valentine

We have had a sewing together on a yahoo-group I'm a member of and we got the possibility to use a pattern from www.lappedesign.no called Julehjerter.this has been very nice to do and I'm so impressed of all the different variations this pattern give.
The size
6"x 11 1/2"

I wish you all a lovely Valentine day.

A Christmas quilt-along 2011

http://shakerwoodquilts.blogspot.com/p/2011-christmas-quiltalong.html

The quilt-along fascinates me as the theme is "stars".The first star is the one you can see above.When I made the first one of two I observed that the solid fabric is not in a good quality so I have to change it.What I also found out is that the pattern is not so easy to make so the blocks take time to do.The printed fabrics are "Tilda fabrics" .

Broken needles

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Here you can read about the celebration of the broken needles.

"In the Hari-Kuyo ceremony, Japanese women gather once a year on Febuary 8th at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples to thank their worn out needles and pins for good service."

http://stitchtress.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/hari-kuyo/

A new fabric bowl

With 2 pieces of fabric in off-white, 2 small squares of rose fabrics and a heavy weight fusible interfacing I made this bowl.For what?Well just now it's only an eye candy.
Enjoy.

PS.We learnt how to do bowls on the workshop we had on Folkhögskolan(Textile Art).DS

Weekend knitting-a new shawl

A favourite pattern for a shawl.

Start with 5 stitches
Increase 1 after the 2 first stitches and before and after the middle stitch and one before the 2 last stitches.
Next row stitch all the stitches
You go on until your shawl has the right size.

Yarn :Fame trend 100 g about 420 m
Needles :4 mm



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Wristwarmers and 2 UFOs are ready

It has been a weekend and we have had our handicraft meeting.First I started to sew together the wristwarmers and they seems to be a soft and warm pair with a little glamour.
After our coffee brake I made handles to a little purse I started to do a year ago.The batic fabric pieces are from the stash at "school".Someone made some printings and I made machine stitching on them.As a decor I put some buttons on.2011 seems to be a good year.....until now.

The small "UFO" had a fabric,also from the stash,painted with silk colours.I made some bead embroidery and machine embroidery on.Now I'm satisfied with it but not the picture.The angels on the bottom seems to be....crazy but in reality not."A bad photographer."

What I'm knitting

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This is going to be wristlets.Made in black wool/angora yarn and with beads.
Maybee a Christmas gift for Christmas 2011.
The first one is ready.Or do I do something more on it?

A birthday card made for a swap friend

I'm so blessed.More Christmas gifts.

I'm so blessed.My penpal from Japan sent me these gifts.First a little sweet Christmas square in patchwork,then she has done a crochet gift for my feet really wearable during our cold period and at last a just georgious quilt in japaneese fabrics and patterns choosed with a great love. What a handicraft.Thank you so so much.

A Christmas gift from my penfriend M

My friend M made me a crochet purse with beads.She makes so wonderful bags,purses...some are designed by her too.Look in the window her lovely bags
http://miyukisfactory.blogspot.com/search/label/DownTown%20Knits
And the crochet/knitting is just so perfect.Thank you dear M.

The first morning 2011

I wish you all a Happy New Year with LOVE and PEACE!

The tulips in lunchtime.
I have been knitting on my scarf and i have had a relaxng time during the first houres of 2011.

Happy New Year

A picture from my garden in the evening 20.15.I wish you all a Happy New Year.

A white winter day-a Christmas gift and a new knitting

Today I changed a little and the white and off-white are the colours I prefer today.

First a picture of a beatiful flower arrangement in white we have got from our dear M ,an arrangement she did for us as a Christmas gift.We love it very much.
Yesterday our son and his lovely M left Sweden after about 10 days of holidays and I had to focus on something new.On http://kammebo.blogspot.com/2010/11/halsduksmonstret.html

row 7..... must end with yo,k1,yo,k2,p2,k3



you can find the pattern.I 'm knitting in Peer Gynt with needles 4.It's going to have a tiny width ,maybe a little bit too small but...
I wish you a nice day

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

The Christmas days are over and I have got time to enjoy my Christmas presents.From my secret Santa I have go the most wonderful gifts.
http://www.dragonfly-crafts.blogspot.com/

1. 2 "bags",one for the scissor,a second one I think I have embroidery yarn and needles in and a sweet little cross stitch embroidery.She lives in Australia where they have spring/summer.
The swap was arranged by the owner of the blog
http://www.chookyblue.blogspot.com/

2.A lovely redwork embroidery with a nice scene when you get Christmas gifts.Could you be anything but so happy when you see this?!?

3.A beautiful bag full of summer feelings in patchwork and embroideries,on the back I found a little cat and in the front a flower and a butterfly.And we have between -30C and -20C.

Thank you so so much.You sent an air of summer in our cold white winter landscape.

Silent night

M and his father were doing "icebottles" for the candles and this picture I took at the end of Christmas Eve when all our celerations ended and we were going to bed after a lovely day.
A link to one of my favourite songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUZ_twxVwY&feature=related

Merry Christmas from me to you.I wish you a lovely weekend.

Early morning and all is calm ,all is bright......
We are going to celebrate the Christmas with our family and we really enjoy being together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON_5xDgYy0&feature=related

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

The first little gift I have got is something for the Christmas tree and until we have it inside I have it in our dining room brightening up our days.The 2 big packages are waiting for the opening day.So so happy.
What can it be inside?No, let it be a secret.
I want to open it on the Christmas Eve when we open the other gifts.

Thank you dear Fiona

3 blocks from the mystery

The mystery blocks are done and this is a minimalistic version of it with red,whith and black.Now I have to choose what to do of it.Merete give examples as cushions ,a tablerunner or small squares for the table.My background fabric is white with some grey dots.Or do I choose black for the frame?Or do I something without a fram?

Here you find the blog of the designer and if you don't understand swedish she aslo has links in english for the different clues and you can find 3 examples of what she has done.
http://www.mreteveian.blogspot.com/

Link to mystery part 2

http://www.quilt-design.no/gaate/2010_julegaate.htm

Wednesday morning and links to a quilt mystery from Friday to Sunday.

Flowers in daylight.















- 21.8 at 06.40 in the morning.It seems to be a clear cold day.The flower arrangements,made by our students,make our morning so good.The candle brighten up our breakfast time.
Enjoy the new day you too.

From Friday to Sunday I'm going to follow a quilt mystery on
www.quilt-design.no/gaate/2010_julegaate.htm

And a link to the designer where you also can see some fabric combinations,
http://mreteveian.blogspot.com

A new book page on the theme forest and animals

The book page is made for a swap friend and I really had a great joy making it.As you see I started with the background "twisting" 2 different green fabrics.Sewing the "twists" on the background.Then I made a triangle with fiber fill in as a tree and and application of a tree in gold printed fabrics.Some embroidery with threads and beads.A type of 3 D.
(My english is not so good but I hope you understand what I mean)

Sewing blocks for swap friends

This weekend it has been an adventure to do blocks for different swap friends and try to find out what green,brown,red,pink or whatever they wished.I'm very fond of blue but this weekend when I did blocks with green fabrics I really found out this is a colour I seldom use but it's a lovely calm one.I think I really love the blocks with green fabrics(made in Japan) in combination with the red roses on white(Tilda fabric) and the green once in 3 different green colours.And maybee you all know I love flowes and red roses symbolize love.

We have got a lot of snow and more or less it looks like a Christmas landscape.I hope there are not going to be car accidents today,

A trip to Luleå

A new day and I feel so happy for the trip to Luleå.We were visiting an exhibition on Norrbottens museum,Krona och krans,an exhibition about wedding traditions now and from the past.
http://majapiraja.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/krona-och-krans-smycka-till-fest-och-brollop/
On internet I found a blogger showing some of the things I also l...oved to see.In the past you had for example flowers made of paper,really a long time ago,but I think we now have some brides using paper flowers or flowers in other materials.And the crowns made in different materials.So so creative and so beautiful.What fascinated me very much were the lovely mittens for the celebration.Most of them very decorated and made in wool or...no in silk yarn.

My sister and I we also were haveing a nice lunch,lovely "fika" with cakes and many lovely chats.We were walking a lot and we had rain,snow and sunshine.A long lovely day.
What a day!

Japaneese blocks.

All the day ,from early morning to late evening we were learning how to do blocks in a japaneese way.I did it all by hand.Very relaxing.Some also used sewing machine.This way of doing blocks give you the opportunity to use small squares of fabrics or small embroideries or maybe fabric flowers I have seen in japaneese books.
I used a square ,4",that gives the size of the block.You also have a circle of fabric,bigger than the square and the batting,for the background and the "frame".

My Sunday walk along the river and Elsa Beskow

During the weekend I took a walk along the river and suddenly I saw a "mushroom",a non eatable one,but one I was so fond of in my childhood.Elsa Beskow(1874-1953) made many lovely paintings in books for children.When I started reading we had a book full of her paintings and especially the small "people" with a hat in red with white dots were/are my favourites.It also reminded of different stories about Santa.The pictures are from "Vill du läsa? 11 by Besow-Siegwald.(Stockholm 1950.)It seemed to be a kind and beautiful world we were living in.Now we also have stamps with a part of her paining on.

Wishing you a nice new week

When the sun is shining...

A fabric book page from Monika

After a long day at work I had a little package in the postbox.I'm in a swap where we do book pages in fabrics/mixed materials.I wish pages with the theme "flowers and beads" and Monika has done a card with a flower in wool/silk? and a lovely bead embroidery.Around the flower in one of my favourite colour, she made machine quilting in silver thread on a fabric with dots in blue/silver.A page with a nice contrast.