A new week amd a new knitting for charity

A new week started and my goal for this week,in my spare time,is to knit a hood for someone in need of warm clothes. Soon we get a prince or a princess in Sweden and some of you want to do something to celebrate it.A very good idea to celebrate it is to knit or crochet something to someone in real need of warm clothes.We know their little baby is going to get so many gifts so some of us can do a gift for someone else in need of warm clothes. En uppmaning till alla som tänkt sticka/virka/handarbeta till det kungliga barnet Viktoria och Daniel snart nedkommer med. Ge istället era alster till välgörenhet, tex. till Hjälpstickan (http://www.hjalpstickan.se/). Det finns många hemlösa, utsatta, fattiga som behöver varma filtar, sockor, tröjor mm. Skicka sedan istället ett gåvobevis till hovet med vad ni skänkt och vart, det tror jag Viktoria och Daniel kommer uppskatta mycket mer än att få tusen babymössor skickade till sig. Sprid gärna detta vidare!

Saturday

A weekend gives you an opportunity to do things you really love.I started the day with a cup of tea,some fruits and some houres of listening to radio programs.Really relaxing.Hopefully I knit some more rows on a shawl I make for charity.February is a month when I focus on charity. www.hjälpstickan.se Next weekend I send away 2 small packages with things. Another passion I have is writing letters and this weekend I hopefully I'm sending letters to Japan and USA. We really give each other glimpses from our everyday life and we write about our hobbies and..... Now it's more than a week without a snail mail in my postbox.Time to write and send away and in a month I hope I get a letter or two.Already I'm longing for that.Maybee you also know someone longing for a letter or a postcard from you? I wish you a lovely weekend.

Happy Valentine

Gifts from Margaret,a swap friend from Malaysia.Thank you so so much.

A gift from my DH Wish you all a lovely day.

A new hood/cap or...for charity

http://www.hjalpstickan.se/sa-har-gor-du-2/gratis-monster/ I'm knitting my version of Svd mössa.You can find the free pattern only in swedish.As you can see I use small skeins of wool yarn a lovely lady sent me and her wish is that i do something for charity.Really honoured.Lovely to knit some rows or more in the morning or in the evening or both. I wish all my reader a nice Sunday.

The socks for charity are ready

February socks are ready now and I have had aa great time knitting them

February 2

A new day and we have just now ,07.52,have - 28.8 .

A day with two letters and a skein of sock yarn.

A day without a sock knitting in wintertime is not a good day.This pair is going to be for charity and I really want to do them in happy colours.Hopefully the colours are going to be even more beautiful when I take a photo of them in daylight,maybe ready to show them next week.Wellcome back.

Yesterday was a very happy day when I got 2 letters,one from Japan and one from Sweden.Now it's very common with no real stamps.Stamps can give you information of something in the country,you can get so much beauty and so much inspiration.Both the letters was so so wellcome.

A cold winterday but the socks are ready

Happy to show you the January socks.It has been a nice time doing them.Hopefully I find another pattern for the February socks. Outside we have -17.3C and small white snowflakes are coming down.Beautiful.

Knitting new socks and learning hiragana

Started to knit new socks and this time it's in Regia colour 5270.I'm participating in knitting 1 pair a month. http://webstrik.blogspot.com/ Really a relaxing knitting in a lovely yarn.

It's wintertime and a weekend morning when you have no work you really can enjoy it. I'm also learning to write and read hiragana. http://video.about.com/japanese/Learn-Japanese--What-Are-Hiragana-Characters-.htm A very hard work is waiting for me. Enjoy the weekend.

one more on the theme Christmas round decorations

The applications are made by wool and in the middle from cotton and the background is linen fabric. Now a new picture in daylight. better one.

Wish you a lovely weekend

Monday morning

A new week and I already have been working for a while.A little time for a cup of tea and a little blogging.The Christmas time is over and the real winter with a lot of snow is here.The tulips are giving me a lot of hope and inspiration.I did this decoration a week ago and now the green flower,a white flower and the star cloth still are on my table. Tomorrow evening I have a little time for knitting and maybe I make a little embroidery this evening. Wish you all a lovely day.

Quilting

The brain of a quilter found on internet says a little about what I have in my mind today.After a workshop we were doing something to put small or big things in.This little "bag" is a perfekt one for example your little knitting,crochet or embroifery or...Made by recycled ,handdyed fabric and small ball applications.Our inspiration is a thing we have in our mind just now.As the Christmas is ending now and our Christmas tree is leaving our house and all the beaufiful decoration too.Well then I choosed the round form and in the scrap bag I found repro fabrics,only small scraps but enough for the pattern.

A shawl made for charity.I'm in a group where we are knitting for people in need of warm clothes somewhere in the country.

Knitting leaves for a border on a shawl

A little quilt Mystery I'm working on.

http://temeculaquiltco.blogspot.com/ We only have 4 blocks until we are ready to solv the mystery.The fabrics are mostly Civil War reproductions.I don't know,not yet, if I need to have other "red" fabrics.This is a perfect work for me now.

Happy New Year

Just take 2-Maybe omething for you too?

Gifts from Secret Santa

My dear Secret Santa is http://bettsylyn.blogspot.com/ and as you see we really live a long way from each other but we have the same interests.She sent me some items for knitting,a special knitting bag,needles,a scissor and a knitter gauge and a just fantastic bag with lovely embroideries and applications on .In this Secret Santa swap we try to do things we love but we laos think our friend like.Thank you so much. I have been a member of this swap for many years and I love it. http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/ The members are from different countries so it's really nice to do and to get gifts.Always something unexpected and so lovely.You can see on chockyblue differnt gifts to and from.Enjoy!

A tribute to my youngest son who is 24 today

We have been waiting for colder days so we could get ice lantern and today it happened,on our youngest son's birthday. Wish you all a good luck with the last days of 2011

The second Sunday of Christmas

A cup of tea or coffee and a newly done cake "pepparkaka"

Silent night Holy night

The Christmas day wellcome

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a lovely paceful Christmas/Holiday

Secret Santa Christmas swap

I have got your lovely package and the ornaments are just so sweet.Thank you so much. Arn't they Sweet?

A new month

Today a new little mystery starts on

http://mreteveian.blogspot.com/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON_5xDgYy0
A favourite song just now.

A lovely gift from a dear friend and pictures this morning

It's Sunday morning and I started with a relaxing morning.My DH is hunting elks and I have been reading and I have been doing some preparations for the Christmas gifts I'm going to do in November.We are not celebrating Haloween but we have some candles brighting up the day.

On Wednesday afternoon a package from a very dear friend was in the postbox.She has been a penpal of mine for some years.Real letters in the postbox.I love to get and write letters.Every time I also enjoy the stamps ,a great interest I have.Small arts .Sometimes every year we make gifts for each other too.When you see this gift you can understand the efforts she has made for me and so much love and friendship she has "put" in it.My favourite colours and my favourite motif, flowers.And the feeling,she wanted to brighten up the darker days we have.She really succeded.I'm totally overwhelmed.Thank you dear M.

Fabrics,an old button under and embroidery mostly with french knots

What's a garden without flowers?


Cotton fabrics with machine embroidery and handmade french knots.


Handdyed fabrics with embroidery with "gold and bronze threads"



A piece of embroidery from an old tablecloth and some french knots


Button with hand dyed linen fabrics and embroidery in Pearl cotton from DMC

Patterns for more blocks if you need something to do

http://bluenickelstudios.com/?p=3183

and a flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bloggersquiltuberfest/

I like this block
http://www.quiltdad.com/2011/10/quilt-uber-fest-block-1.html

New blocks from 2 different Quilt alongs, 2 different Boms

http://cvquiltworks.blogspot.com/2011/09/bloggers-bom-quilt-along.html
Once a month,(25)a famous quildesigner give us a block to do.I made it in fabrics by Kaffe Fassett.



http://milo-designs.blogspot.com
Here you find new blocks,one traditional and one modern,and I choose the modern one where I feel free to play with the pattern.

Both the QAL I make blocks who are about 8".

October 1 early morning

Knitting and quilting for the weekend.

During the weekend I want to do the block for the month.My fabric choice mostly consists of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.The background is from quiltersbasics.It seems the block is not so difficult to do.

http://www.aquiltinglife.com/




The newist knitting project I started on our knitting café at work is a scarf.A simple pattern k 2 purl 2.For an hour we were sitting knitting and chatting.Very nice and very relaxing .The scarf I started is going to be a Christmas gift for a friend.You know it's not more than 3 months and I want to give a little small home made gift to each of them,mostly a "warm gift" to friend here in the north of Europe..





http://www.aquiltinglife.com/

More in blue

The course we had last weekend was about dying and printing on recycled fabrics.The item we did was a book cover to our "book" for notes, ideas,drawings.....
The autumn is here and some bluebells can be found in the garden.But the nights are cold so they have hard times.Are they still fresh tomorrow?

Secret Santa Christmas swap

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Someone gets gift from me
Someone gives me

A new Boom quilt along starts September 25

The designer for the first block is
http://www.aquiltinglife.com/
Looking forward it.

198-yds-of-heaven a shawl I'm knitting

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/198-yds-of-heaven

a free pattern on www.ravelry.com

The yarn is handdyed on Tunagarn.It's going to be a warm shawl in the winter but maybe not a shawl for a party.I know I have not knitted the patterns 100% right but it's going to be ready until the weekend and maybe beautiful.Maybe we could call it "art-knitting".