Dear Secret Santa

Dear Secret Santa

I'm i a swap on this blog
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/

Don't show my Christmas presents.

Wednesday 31.10 2007

Dear all

A long time without blogging.Today I start working a little bit later than usual and I therefore had the opportunity to take some photos of the landscape and what I'm knitting an sewing just now.Sorry I can't show some small items as they are small secret gifts.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
I also hope I can take a short walk along the river because it seems to be very beautiful day.
Wish you all a lovely day

Snowflakes and ladderstitches

Dear all

This weekend I really needed to relax and the best help for me was to do small embroideries.When I feel unhappy I use embroidery as a "self-therapy" and it's not expensive and maybee it results in a little gift to someone.Crises can develope or make you feel bitterness.When you grow older every day is worth so much you can't spend so many days being"angry or bitter".May war against bitterness is full of embroderies.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
In every stitch I put in memories and hopefully I can get a pattern of the chaos.The small square maybee I use for a pincushion.The biscornu has got some stitches and beads and I hope I'm going to do it less ugly and more "happy".

A cup with yarn from Ingamay

Today the sun started shining and the postman came with a package from the swap A cup with yarn.You can look at all the present she sent me and you understand the happiness I feel.Many thanks to my swapfriend.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
Ingamay has a blog really worth following.I can see she has been on Gotland and there she bought me lovely tea.She has knitted lovely blue and white potholders too.Maybe she knows I try to learn sewing clothes.Lovely buttons.And she wish me a safer walk using a reflex.And the candy....I couldn't resist eating it after the dinner.

And the cup from Rörstrand.Just so georgious.Fantastic.

http://www.boxtown.nu/

Leslie's block

I want to show you the stitches I did on Leslie's block
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

This is a RR in Crazyquilt.I love embroidery and patchwork in a combination.

The first little quiltie

A quiltie is a little quilt,about 5"x5".You are free to choose way of doing a textile picture.I have done this first one combining patchwork,traditional embroidery and embroidery with beads.The fabrics are from different handdyed cotton,mostly a little bit ugly and not so perfect dyed at all.Try to find squares or stripes and use them and go on creating.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/1423469298/

Autumn leaves,a new shawl and a square in cross-stitch

Dear all

Autumn colours in red and yellow are very common in the landscape.Very beautiful but also a remindness of the winter that comes in October/November.Therefore I made a shawl in 100% wool from Hedängen,a yarn a secret friend
http://annapuh.blogdrive.com/http://annapuh.blogdrive.com/ sent me and I love it.The varigated yarn makes me so happy.

I also show you a square I made for a swap,a square I really like .The colours are also inspired of the autumn.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Have a nice day

A challenge by Freja

Dear all

Freja,a dear friend of mine, made a challenge for me and she wants me to tell 8 habits/things about me.Thank you Freja for the invitation.
http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/4940

1.I wear jeans every day,mostly blue ones.
2.I love starting new projects even if I have 100 UFO's.
3.I love getting real letters written by hand and decorated with beautiful stamps.I love writing letters to friends home and abroad.I have some penpals.
4.Every human being you meet has a great novel to tell you.And your novel can be told.Don't miss it.The life has many colours so go on "painting"as long as you can.
5.I'm afraid of getting Alzheimer as my mother and some of her relatives got.
6.My sons are my jewels.The best thing I have got in my whole life.
7.We are all equal even if we have different possibilities.
8.Work for piece and understanding.Begin with yourself and go on......

I send you reader this challenge and I hope you find something about yourself you had forgotten.Please send a note when you do it.I know many of you already have done this .

I wish you a creative new week

VM-knitting

Saturday and a great sportevent in Osaka

http://www.tourism.city.osaka.jp/en/

We have already seen Carolina Klüft doing very good results in Osaka.Very happy for that.It's going to be a very nice week with many good results and hopefully a fair game for all in this great competition.

http://bortaboijn.blogg.se/
inspired us to knit something during the competitions.I have started to do mittens.As I have started working fulltime I only have time to do small things.I go on working with different technics from Barbro's course.

Have a nice weekend

Secret Santa Christmas swap

A great quilter has organized a lovely swap I couldn't resist
http://chookyblue.blogspot.com
We can do a small quilt,a stitchery,a bag ,softies or something else we would recieve ourselves.August 27 we start again quilting and I'm going to follow a course.I'm really looking forward doing quilts and so on.Today I ordered some muslin and some japaneese fabrics in light colours.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Tomorrow we start working after a long vacation .
I wish you all a nice new week.

I'm in a new swap

We are going to swap a teacup and yarn and maybee something else.
I'm really looking forward this.
www.stickamera.se
It's a swap among knitters in the nordic countries.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Intarsia knitting

Saturday and I have some houres of knitting intarsia.It's going to be a bag with a type if checkboard in red,3 different grey colours and white Per Gynt and a frame in black,also in Per Gynt.After knitting everything I'm going to felt the bag in the washingmachine on 40.
http://mimoknits.typepad.com/knitting/2005/02/garter_intarsia.html

Tomorrow I go on working with the bag and some other technics in knitting.I have bought a course from a swedish blogger who just now has a knittingcourse on Hammarö.
http://hem.bredband.net/b382726/stickning.html

Updated my flickr

Some more pictures taken today August 9 when I was walking my favourite route.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

My home and a favourite river I love to walk along

Dear all

We have had days of rain and days of lovely sunshine.With the rain I got a little flu but when the sunshine came back I really had to be on the road again.The new pictures are from yesterday when I was on my daily walk.Sorry the battery and the power ended up.But 2 pictures showing my home and a little of my favourite place where I love to walk along show you a little of my world just now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
Have a nice time.

Sunday morning 29.7

This morning 3 young people came back from a 2 year long sailing trip.Many adventures and many thoughts they have given us through a report every Saturday in a regional newspaper.They have done what we dream about .

They said that what we search
maybe we have just where we are.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

Have a nice day.

A trip to Gammelstad

I visited a wonderful place 80 kilometers from my home.A world heritage.
http://www2.lulea.se/gammelstad/english/frames.htm
A sunny day and I went to Gammelstad visiting the old church and the special "village" with small houses used in the past when we had to go to church some holidays every year.Well it's a long time ago when there were no cars or something else that made it possible to go home sleeping and then come back next day.You can find many pictures on the link above and 3 on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1

On http://www.lulea.se/hagnan/ where they had a handicraft day.You could see people doing tatting,felting,knitting,doing braclets and so on.I met my secret friend from Stickamera-well now she is not.Our secret period is over.

http://brittmariel.blogg.se/

and we had a lovely chat.

I aslo met some other friends who also was knitting and so on.Sorry I took no pictures.I forgot.So sad.There are so many very good people working with different handicraft.Tomorrow, Friday 27.7, they are also showing what they do but I have no possibilities to go.Thank you all for some lovely houres.I hope we meet during the autumn/winter having more interesting houres/days.
http://www.norrbottenshemslojd.se/bilder/Bildgalleri/Stamman%202007/index.html
http://www.pixbox.se/alb_show_id122209_page9.html

Christmas past and only 6 months left until Christmas 2007and Harry Potter

Today I present my first embroidery for Christmas.I'm a member of a SAL and I started 2 days earlier when I had time to do some stitches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
There are 8 more to do and I don't know how I'm going to use these squares.In USA from where this pattern comes they do small decorations for a wreath or for the Christmas tree.

I'm also in a Harry Potter period.I have seen 3 films during the weekend and now I only have number 5 left and I'm waiting for the last book too.No post today??It would be great to have a pattern for Fenix,the bird who made so Harry Potter could go on living.Today I'm very tired.The weekend has in other words been very intensive,an intensive weekend with Harry Potter.

A needlebook in cross-stitch 20.7

A new day and a needlebook is ready
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/857535904/

I made it by using a pattern from
www.casamiainitalia.com/hp/crossstitchfc.html

DMC 111,221,469,935 and 3787

thin white linen

We have a lovely sunny morning and it's Friday and the end of a summer week.Still I have some weeks free and have the chance to do some embroidery,patchwork and knitting.
I wish you all a nice end of this week

2 lovely summerdays

A lovely day with my friend

Once a year a good friend of mine and I do something together.We live so far away from each other but we try to get some houres when she comes visiting her father.
First of all we went to the new Cultural house in Luleå
What a wonderful library they have.What a great part of the house celebrating books and other media.What a happiness to be a librarian in this library.
http://www.kulturenshus.com/bibliotek.4.5ee063d310c3f1df7dd800016871.html
In this house they have a exhibition hall for modern art,they have wonderful concert halls,some restaurants.We had a lovely lunch and a wonderful time to talk about life,art and handicraft.
We also was visiting a museum and could see a wonderful exhibition with embroidery and weaving art.

Update on the Quaker sampler
Go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/
It's a picture taken 8.30 in the evening.I love the summer and the handicraft.
Have a nice time

Embroideries and Yo-Yo

It has been an inspirating time with embroideries.Still I have vacation and every morning I take the chance to do something in textile.In the beginning of the week we had rainy days and I needed to do some nice things.First I made 2 patchworkblocks for a swap-no photos and I hope to get more time for quilting later this month.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/.

First of all I made a little card reminding of east Asia-a combination of embroidery and a bead from China.When I was in Beijing we also visited a place where they did these beads and so on.Later on I have been thinking of the bad situation for the workers doing different luxury products for us.


Then I have been doing an embroidery of a Flower girl,mostly in metallic DMC,a little cotton and beads from Mill Hill.I'm a woman often dressed in jeans but I love to create the opposite,dresses ans do on decorated with beads and "gold and silver".I love to work with crazy patchwork too.When I was a little girl I loved to be a princess or an angel and my mother made me dresses and wings,not so expensive ones but I felt I was a princess or an angel.It's good to have the fantasy...even when you are older.The last days I have been in another world full of luxury......well DMC-metallic and beads......


http://yoyo-along.blogspot.com/
Yo-yo is a nice way of doing a little decoration.Click on links on the link above and you find a lot to be inspitated of.
http://flickr.com/groups/59895199@N00/

www.elliphantom.com/completed_in_2006/ez_baby_sweater
An example I also found today.Maybe it's not so practical but....


A new week starts and I have started a Quaker sampler
http://users.skynet.be/bk236098/CARINNE/ImagesQuaker/QuakerComplet.pdf
DMC 3808 on white linen fabric.
I love doing one or two motives a day.Now we have warm and sunny and it's also a perfect embroidery when you enjoy sitting in the garden

Have a nice week all my friends