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.

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.

The first morning 2011

I wish you all a Happy New Year with LOVE and PEACE!

The tulips in lunchtime.
I have been knitting on my scarf and i have had a relaxng time during the first houres of 2011.

Happy New Year

A picture from my garden in the evening 20.15.I wish you all a Happy New Year.

A white winter day-a Christmas gift and a new knitting

Today I changed a little and the white and off-white are the colours I prefer today.

First a picture of a beatiful flower arrangement in white we have got from our dear M ,an arrangement she did for us as a Christmas gift.We love it very much.
Yesterday our son and his lovely M left Sweden after about 10 days of holidays and I had to focus on something new.On http://kammebo.blogspot.com/2010/11/halsduksmonstret.html

row 7..... must end with yo,k1,yo,k2,p2,k3



you can find the pattern.I 'm knitting in Peer Gynt with needles 4.It's going to have a tiny width ,maybe a little bit too small but...
I wish you a nice day

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

The Christmas days are over and I have got time to enjoy my Christmas presents.From my secret Santa I have go the most wonderful gifts.
http://www.dragonfly-crafts.blogspot.com/

1. 2 "bags",one for the scissor,a second one I think I have embroidery yarn and needles in and a sweet little cross stitch embroidery.She lives in Australia where they have spring/summer.
The swap was arranged by the owner of the blog
http://www.chookyblue.blogspot.com/

2.A lovely redwork embroidery with a nice scene when you get Christmas gifts.Could you be anything but so happy when you see this?!?

3.A beautiful bag full of summer feelings in patchwork and embroideries,on the back I found a little cat and in the front a flower and a butterfly.And we have between -30C and -20C.

Thank you so so much.You sent an air of summer in our cold white winter landscape.

Silent night

M and his father were doing "icebottles" for the candles and this picture I took at the end of Christmas Eve when all our celerations ended and we were going to bed after a lovely day.
A link to one of my favourite songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUZ_twxVwY&feature=related

Merry Christmas from me to you.I wish you a lovely weekend.

Early morning and all is calm ,all is bright......
We are going to celebrate the Christmas with our family and we really enjoy being together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON_5xDgYy0&feature=related

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

The first little gift I have got is something for the Christmas tree and until we have it inside I have it in our dining room brightening up our days.The 2 big packages are waiting for the opening day.So so happy.
What can it be inside?No, let it be a secret.
I want to open it on the Christmas Eve when we open the other gifts.

Thank you dear Fiona