Mystery part 3

Part 3 of the mystery is ready and now it's only one more part to do. Wish you a lovely new day from the snowy north where we still have one day of Easter.A wonderful morning enjoying the sunrise.

Happy Easter

I wish you all a Happy Easter and a nice weekend.

A tulip on the first day in April

Sunday morning April 1 and its a sunny morning still with -6.4C.With this little tulip I wish you a lovely Sunday

Mystery part 2 and beautiful stamps

Part 2 of the mystery was the first I started the embroidery .After a long walk I went on with it.I'm very fond of the result so now I'm just wondering what the designer has in her mind.A house?Birds?More flowers? I wanted to show you the stamps on the lovely letter I got in the middle of the week.In some areas of the country you can see the cherry blossom and also other flowers.My penfriend send me these stamps on her letter to me.Thank you R.We still have a lot of snow and no flowers at all outside but lovely sunny days and cold nights so it's very nice to take a walk even early in the morning.Tomorrow I'm writing letters and some cards.I hope you have time to send for example a card to someone. I wish you a nice weekend.

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Participating in an on-line knitting café on Facebook and there we can do crochet things too. Many inspiring knitters are on-line. I wish you a nice weekend.

A tribute to the new day

A new day and I'm drinking my first cup of tea.The coasters were made last evening after a long day at work.Also a lovely thing to do when you are relaxing a little bit.And when you need a little bit of extra colours in your life.I needed.I made them in the size just perfect for my tea cups. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What colour did I start with????? What colour do you wish on your coaster? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

A lovely package and beautiful stamps on it came at lunch time in my postbox

It's Monday at lunch time and the postman arrived early today.He had some letters for me and also a little package.You se the the lovely stamps my friend M put on .Georgious.Yes we are quilters too so...yes we love to play with colours and pictures. And inside there is a letter where she tells me about the flower season,spring season has started in her area of the world.She has made this lovely basket for me,a basket with lovely flowers.Up in the north we have no flowers but the snow is melting down..... until June we have nearly no flowers outside.Thanks dear M för this gift.

A little flower without the green frame.

The lttle flower without the stitched fram.I miss just now DMC Olive 3011 for the it.This is the perfect little pattern for a day of cross stitch . What to use it for?

Cross stich is my favourite stitch just now.

A new little cross stitch I'm working on www.praireschooler.com/free/htm Tulips are just so beautiful,especially in the spring time. Wish yo all a lovely weekend.

The first part of the Spring SAL is ready. http://ravenelle.over-blog.com

cross stich on a special "fabric" made by a dear friend

You can do cross stich on linen,aida,evenweave and a special "paper".My friend M made this as a gift and soon we have Easter and I have changed decorations in my home.March is a month I have a a special focus on cross stitch but as I have done gifts for a swap friend I can´t show you what I have done until done. Tomorrow I'm going to start a Spring SAL by Maria on http://ravenelle.over-blog.com Wish you a nice spring time.

Things made on the workshop

Hand dyed fabric stripes was "braided" and on some places also applicated.Hopefully this can be a mug rug or a little decoration on a table.

this bag is made by recycled and hand dyed fabrics.We took the "hems" from the curtins.Perfect for the bag and as it's double you don't need to have anything extra inside the bag. .

A new Sew Along starts April 2

Zakka Style Sew Along

March 3- the girls day

Wishing all the girls in the world a nice and safe day. http://tttl1998.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-02-03T11:53:00%2B09:00&max-results=20&start=14&by-date=false Scroll down to January 23 This is a very interesting and nice blogger in Japan I'm reading.Enjoy.

Around the world.

Letters and packages are on the way to USA,Japan,Denmark and to the south of Sweden. A week ago we got a lovely card from our son and his wife visiting an island on the other side of world.What a difference.Here cold and very much white snow,there a lot of sunshine and white warm sand. The stamp we got on the card has an egg form.Very interesting stamp.I love stamps. Yes I´m "old" in many ways,I know ,but this is a fascinating hobby and it's worth being old in many ways.

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?