I wish you a lovely new day

It's a sunny morning and soon I'm going to work.As you can see there are more flowers now and in the sunshine they are so so beautiful.On Sunday we had the Mother's day and I could do some granny squares for a bag.The granny squares are so lovely to do.The coloured yarns I have used are the ones who were left after the weaving "bed covers" in a weaving group.I have used "lefts" with the lenght of about 20". I had the happiness to have the possibility to buy some of them.




During the week I'm also doing a ring cushion but it's going to be a top secret until July 24 when my son and his girlfriend are going to be married in our church.What i can say the flowers above give me a lot of inspiration.We are so happy for that and it's a great honour for me to do one.
Well now it's time to go to work.
Why not do some granny squares you to?!?!



I wish you a nice day

A big big thank you for the RAK and for the coming summertime

It's early morning and it's raining -I couldn't resist taking of photo from my room and I really love this season with the flowers and the green garden,a short time every year but a really inspiring time.Nearly no darkness.


I'm so blessed as I have got a RAK ,a very big RAK,from a knitting friend in UK.
There are colours in thin and a little thicker quality for lace knitting.
Wool/Casmere,Silk/Wool/Cashmere nd Sil/BabyCamel and Cashmere.So beautiful colours in my favourites and the qualities so so kind for the skin.I hope I can be knitting shawls for many occasions and in different lace patterns.What a summer!

Flowers for a young couple

We send the young couple our best wishes.

May 19 Happy birthday dear M, you are 26 today

It's 5 o'clock in the morning and I couldn't sleep any longer.The morning is so lovely with a bright sunshine and the landscape is so green and fresh.My eldest son has his birthday today.26 years today.................What a day.
Happy birthday dear M






After a little power nap I'm going to have the breakfast in the garden before I go to work.The birds are singing and the mosquitos are few just now.

Hand dyed fabrics

The colour we used was blue/green and a little red.








The colour is red and it seems as it was a candy red.











A blue/green/red variation.












The last workshop we dyed some more fabrics to use for quilting.We have sunny warm days just now so the fabrics was ready to use nearly at once.I love the colours and the patterns they give.What a nice day dying,crochet,sewing and having many nice chats.

2 blocks for a tea quilt

I'm doing a little tea quilt and now the first blocks are ready,nearly.Maybe I make some more embroideries on them.The rest is an open question as I have many ideas but which are the best?Maybe I do some flowers too in another technic.This is going to be a nice project.

Knitting and quilting May 14

I have been so blessed and I got 2 skeins of Kashmir/Alpacka in a give away at www.staketshantverk.com
and I choosed the colour plum.
The owner of the online shop has a very nice blog

http://eva-i-staket.blogspot.com/

where you can follow her in her development in knitting and crochet.
As the yarn is dark I tried to do a crochet the shawl but I didn´t feel so happy for that so I decided to knit a favourite one.I started with 4 stitches and knitted 2 rows and then I started to increase on the side every 2 rows.It gives a comfortable shawl.The yarn is so so lovely,warm and soft.I love this yarn.Thank you so much Eva.



On a swedish blog I found a link to a lovely blog
http://bearspatch.blogspot.com/
So much to be inspired of.I found a sew along at the theme tea and I decided to do something about tea as I'm really very fond of it.I had some fabrics with tea cups/coffe cups so I took one pattern and put it on a piece of my hand dyed fabric.I'm going to do some stitches hear and there.

Mittens with rows of Novelty bouclé

Mia on http://miastick.blogspot.com/ had a give away in April and I had the possibility to get Novelty bouclé from Handpantedyarn from her.What a challenge!I wanted to do a pair of mittens with decoration rows by the yarn.The yarn is in 100%wool but it's not so much "stretch" and it need room.Purl 4 rows ,knit 2 rows ,knit one row with bouclé,knit 2 rows and purl 4 rows .........

Kool- Aid a really interesting gift

A really nice gift from a RAK friend.She sent a Kool Aid in the colour Tropical Punch.From her I got 25g of light grey wool yarn to give a new colour.I'v got a really bright little skein to use for small knitting patterns.I really hope I can have more colours of Kool Aid in the future.I really love hand dying yarn and fabrics.
She also sent a white skein and 2 balls of black yarn.Thank you for all dear Ingrid.I think I'm going to do mittens or maybe socks of the skeins.About that later ,in June.

The winners of the Give-Away

Dear all

The winners are

1.Zarina
4.Stina
8.Umme Yusuf
11.Ellen Lock


Please send a mail to me with name and adress.

It's my birthday and I have a give-away

This is a give-away of 2 small packages of fabrics-each between 2 and 3 FQ.
1.Fabrics from different fabricates.
2.Kaffe Fasset fabrics

This Give-away ends om May 8 at 8 o'clock in the evening (swedish time).


The give away is closed.

A block for our Quiltgroup and roses for all my friends

The tote bag is ready.Time for dinner in the north of Sweden.

The tote bag is ready.I made a simple bag without any special pattern-I used the stack ans slash blocks and added blue fabrics for the rest.The hand dyed fabrics are just wonderful to work with and I really recommened the stack and slash blocks.Let the fabris play together.

My fabrics and blocks for the bag

Blocks in stack and slash in hand dyed fabrics and fabrics for the rest of the parts of the bag.
You can follow us at
http://dandelionquilts.blogspot.com/

We do tote bags tomorrow

Tomorrow I start sewing a tote bag together with blog friends in different countries.

You can follow us at

http://dandelionquilts.blogspot.com/

You can also find links to the different participants.

See you tomorrow.

Spring is in the air.

The little fabric page is made on the theme "spring is in the air" and I combined the love of tulips ,"a very much spring flower for me",and the snowflings falling in our part of the world in March and April.These fabrics are hand dyed and I also made embroideries with beads and DMC pearl yarn.

World yarn swap on Ravelry-a package from New Zeeland

Yesterday was a very special day when I got this lovely mix package from my swapfriend in New Zeeland.As you can see she made a lovely combination of items for knitting,embroidery,patchwork and my passion for tea.The colours give me a reminder of the spring we are waiting for.Just now we have a lot of melting snow bur also a light snow fall.The birds are singing so a warmer period is coming.
Thank you for brightening up my day.

link to a give away

http://adventuresinaliceland.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-party-time.html

Send her a note and give her the best wishes for her blog.

Happy Easter

KAL-we are knitting mittens this month.

From April 1 I participate in a KAL
http://vackravantar.blogspot.com
and I knit the mittens in dark grey and plum.The plum colour on the picture is too much blue.The yarn I use is M&K ECO Baby ull
dark grey 0170
plum 181
I'm knitting the mittens with with needles 2.5mm.Now I have some holidays so I hope I can get some houres of knitting,walking in the sunshine and quilting.

Happy Easter

Log cabin - a workshop

The blocks I made during the workshop in log cabin and as you see there are many different "patterns" you can get only playing with the colours and the position and length of the stripes.A good idea is to have many stripes in many fabrics and colours before you start sewing.



You can do trees or other things in log cabin too.

Wristwarmers in a wonderful lace

The wristwarmers are knitted in Navia 350m/50g with 2 1/5 mm needles.


row 1 "sl 1,k2,psso,p2"
row 2 "k1,yo,k1,p2"
row 3 "k3,p2"
row 4 "k3,p2"

http://frkbadegakk.blogspot.com/2008/01/kabelvanteoppskriftmock-cable.html

A pinwheel coaster

I'm so inspired of the pinwhell pattern and the possibilities of it.This is the first little item in it.Maybe I do potholders too or...

Pinwheel party

RAK a scandiavian RAK group on Ravelry-a gift for me

Here you can see what someone from Åland sent me.I'm totally overwhelmed.This can be a miniquilt or a bag.I was so surpriced as I'm really new in the group.

Cupcake pincushion .Many thank you for the Spring party and all the lovely support I'v got during the weekend.

http://creativityamongstchaos.blogspot.com/2009/07/cupcake-pincushion-tutorial.html

This week -a fulltime work,the youngest son visiting us and some blocks to do.This little cupcake is going to be a little luxury item to do in hand dyed pink fabric and whit fabric.
I wish you a nice new week

Spring sewing party-what I'm working with.

I love Amish patterns and I found a nice idea on a blog
http://lazygallibamish2010.blogspot.com/
and that was to do your own version of something Amish.A liberated Amish.The batik fabrics are the ones I have done during the two last course weekends.They are hand dyed and they are so nice to work with.
The "quilt" is on a the snow.We have got even more snow today but it's warmer now,about -9C instead of -29C we had yesterday morning.A perfect day for sewing.
Now it's time for dinner.

http://cottoncharmquilts.typepad.com/charmingchatter/

The challenge we got.Do something of the material.

We had a lot of buttons to use and we could fabricate the fabric I didn't like at all.Blue and brown in a "sad" combination.We got some more very non coloured things.Lovely to choose more white to hide what you don't like and to get the blue colours more clear.We also could hand dye things to.Beads and some other decorations made the bag as I wanted to have it.What a lovely day.

Happy Valentine 2010 to all of you.

With this mini quilt I wish you a wonderful day.I made it for a swap and it's done in cotton-linen with wool circles and embroidery in DMC pearl cotton and the red little heart is made in thin cotton yarn.The winter season with the bright snow and often a lovely sunshine give a lot of inspiration.The heart symbol is very common and I only wanted to do a "shy" one that only gives you a little hint.

OS in Canada and we are knitting together

Saturday morning and the winter Os has started.In Ravelry we have different activities in knitting and I'm in Team Sweden.The first mitten project I'm working on is mittens in Blue-green yarn in wool,Peer Gynt,with a type of cable I have not done.The twist is done in 3 steps.

The cable
Row 1: k2,p2,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the needle in front,k 4,p2 and knit 2
Row 2:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2.
Row 3:k2,p2,k2,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the extra needle,k2.
Row 4:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2
Row 5:k4,6 on an extra needle in front of the knitting,k2,knit the stitches on the extra needle,k2.
Knit 15 rows:k2,p2,k12,p2,k2



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Socks and a wonderful knit "purse"

This is a wonderful gift from M I'v got some months ago and since then I have used it every day for the present sock knitting.Also perfect to have my mitten knitting in.The colours on the "purse" are my favourites.I'm so happy for it.




2 wonderful socks in a snowy tree,






The pattern I used
http://stickamera.se/blogg/2009/05/29/sockmonster-kristina/

Lovely pattern and a perfect idea to have a cable in the middle of the sock as it gives a good form for the foot.

We do one Christmas present every month

Now my first Christmas present is ready and I have done.........well I know you read my blog so.....
This is a wonderful thing to participate in.
The blogger who inspired us to start has a wonderful knitting blog
http://asalmanakk.blogspot.com/

Some glimpses of January 2010

I send you all my best wishes for 2010 to be a creative and peaceful year.



A little pouch made by fabrics with silk paint and machine stitching.A sweet little thing not easy to get a good picture of.



We made fabric bowls on the workshop lasr weekend and this is my first one.So much joy we had so I hope we can do it more and maybe do it even more artistic.



I go on workshops in different textile technics,in textile art.Dying fabrics is someting we loved to do the first work shop weekend this year.
We had a high thinner bowl we put full of fabrics and then we put batik colours on.Very exciting to see what pattern the fabric had after about 20 minutes.Somebody told me this is a special japaneese technic.What do you know about it?



An embroidery kit and a patternbook.So nice little heart saying something about Japan and patter book has a lot of sweet cross stitch pattern I really love to do during the year 2010



I love to get letters with different stamps on and often I can learn something about the country or the art or handicraft or..



Soon the first month of 2010 and I wanted to give you some glimpses.First of all my friend M in USA sent a lovely little package to me and it came a snowy day and the card brightened up the day so much.I know she has had her birthday in the middle of Jamuary.A delayed Happy birthday dear M.
And then the lovely workshops we had .