Congratulations to Japan.Gold in football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58j899VUYpQ&feature=related

Wristwarmers

http://sheeptoshawl.com/lithuanian-wristers-twitter-kal-pattern/

I followed the pattern until the last rows but then I couldn´t figure out what I'm going to do.

And the last rows like this:

row 1 " k2tog,k2,yo,k1,yo,k2,k2tog"
row 2 k
row 3 knit row 1
and so on until you feel it's perfect for you.

I found out I had one stitch to much so I made a double k2tog in the end of the first knittting of row 1.

God luck with your knitting.

Flowers in our garden

The garden is full of flowers but the period of roses is ending now.Soon the strawberries are ready and later the potatoes and the vegetabilies .We are going to have a special period of fresh food.

A summer bag from M

This bag has really a smart construction as it's so small when you don't use it.My friend is a very good designer of bags,both in crochet and knitting and she makes them so perfect.Thank you dear M
http://miyukisfactory.blogspot.com/
Just now we have roses in the garden but it's a short time so I choosed to use them as a background to the bag.We also have + 25.8 C.A very warm day ....here in the north of Sweden

A new bag of the rest of the blocks

My Friday started with stick walking at 06.00 in the morning as I know the day is going to be very warm,at least +25C.Then 2 cups of tea,an early breakfast and some houres of sewing.A perfect start of a day.
Some blocks were not used for the tablerunner so I made a new little bag of it.For the handles I used other scraps from my stash.

I wish you all a lovely day.

Tablerunner and a potholder

A tablerunner made by blocks made by someone and they were in a scrap bowl when we had the last workshop.Beautiful colours and a nice pattern.Not 100% perfect but so so nice.Really something perfect in our kitchen.

A quilt friend of mine made such a beautiful potholder and I got the pattern from her.
It's made by hand dyed fabric .We have sunny summer days now so this is a celebration to the summer.

www.lappatoklart.blogspot.com

Happy Midsummer

I wish you all a Happy Midsummer.
Maybe you are picking seven sorts of flowers and put them under your cushion,during the night between the Midsummer eve and the Midsummer day, and you are going to dream about the one who is going to be your wife or husband.

A quilting weekend

I went on doing blocks in reprofabrics from the Civil War area.
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/
On this blog you can get a new block pattern every week.Hopefully I get more time to do more of the blocks.Until now I have done the easiest blocks and I really love them.

A little memory from this weekend I took small small fabric sraps from a paper basket and made this little pincushion. Every little piece reminds me of people in the quilting group I was in this weekend.And you wonder why I did this?!?
I had no pincushion with me this weekend and had some troubles with the small needles and this also reminds me of the lovely group of people we were this weekend.


We were in Luleå in a quiltshop called Quilterian,The lovely owner of this shop has a blog

www.quilttopmaker.blogspot.com

Her shop is full of fabrics in in many patterns and colours.A little fabric heaven.And books,laces,buttons....................

New socks made by yarn I'v got for my birthday a month ago

Two pair of socks are ready,made by yarn I'v got on my birthday exactly a month ago.The blue pair is made in wool and he purple is made in a mixture of wool and other fibers.One more pair in purple is on the way.What I found out was that the way of doing the cuff Imade on the purple pair is a very good idea.The socks are very comfortable to wear.

Friday ,sunshine and a letter

It's a day when we have holidays,we can enjoy the beautiful sunshine ,the songs from the birds and a very green landscape.The postman came very early and what made me so happy is a letter from a pen friend in Japan,from a place nearer Fukushima than I knew before.To get a letter from M and the things she wrote about reminds me of the short distance between paradise and hell.They live with the earthquakes and the radiations so near.In this situation they have to go on and dear M I feel so happy you can start painting and quilting even if it's hard.

For me Japan is so near connected with handicraft made with a great perfection and beauty and they have stamps I really admire.Every letter with their stamps give me a special feeling.After the last catastrophy I really feel the paradox between the reality and the art.The last month I have got lovely small cranes in paper from a friend that gives me so much hope,they never give up.

Recycling

To use old curtains in a good quality and make eco bags and maybe also something necessary for a weekend is a very good idea.The bag to the left is made by the fabric which was handdyed by the fabric you can see in the "purse"up to the right.A great difference between the two fabrics.I really recommend handdying and you maybee get very fresh fabric.

The little "rug" is hooked by strings of cotton fabric.Hard to do as the cotton was not so easy to work with.A friend of mine made one in an old fabric but a fabric used many many times more than mine.

The Happy Easter Socks are ready

The socks in Regia World Circus Color 03751 are ready.It has been a great joy knitting them.Well there are too much colours for a every-day-life pair of socks but for an extra happy day they are perfect.
I wish you a nice Easter day/Spring day.

It would be great to get a comment from you too.Please send one!

Happy Easter/Happy Spring

I want to send all my friends a Happy Easter or a Happy Spring.started a new pair of socks in very bright colours.I need a lot of colours just now to brighten up the days when we have not so much snow and absoloteky no flowers or leaves in the trees.

Awards to following bloggers

Awards to

This week I want to give an award to following bloggers for their inspiring blogs:

http://chi-jp.net
http://asalmanakk.blogspot.com/
http://hideko-windfromtheeast.blogspot.com/
http://barockbloggen.blogg.se/
http://bearspatch.blogspot.com/

An award from Metta

From a lovely blog friend I'v got a lovely lovely award.So honoured.
Please visit her blog
http://mettasblogg.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much dear Metta.

Tomorrow I give 5 awards to........

An ATC for a swap on Facebook

The ATC card is a small card about 6.9 centimeters x 7.9 centimeters.I used matallic thread(tenntråd) and beads on a piece of thin red wool fabric(more or less an egg form) and 2 dots with beads on,also in red,on a fabric in white with patterns in black.Finally some cross stitch with gold thread(DMC).

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.