Workshop with Angela Madden

Last weekend we had a workshop with Angela Madden.
http://www.angelamadden.com/
We were working with flowers in different ways.First she learnt a way of doing a pattern of a flower and the tulip I have done is about 85% from a pattern she gave us.The fabrics are handdyed exceot of the fabric for the petals

The second is a fantasy flower made on handdyed fabric with different parts of different "silkflowers".This was so funny to do.The quality we got is for cards or a small decoration,not anything to wash in the washing machine.

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.