Happy New Year from me to you

I wish you all a Happy New Year

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All is calm,all is bright...

It's only one day left of the year 2007.With this picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/2148325875/
I will send you a wish of possibilities to rest and to enjoy also the days without so much action.We have had a nice Christmas with our near and dear.We have celebrated our youngest son who was born December 27 1987.What a great richness to have children,well they are grown-ups now so the are not....but in a way for ever children.

Have a nice time

26 December and a day of calmness

Dear all

Thank you for all kindness and best wishes during this lovely holiday.
Today we get fresh new snow and we feel a special calmness now.It's a day with time for reflections.Peace on earth is so important and with that we could use our money and strength to fight against poverty and missunderstanding.I have uploaded some pictures to show a little about our Christmas.

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Merry Christmas to you all

It's early in the morning and I will send you all my best wishes for this holiday and for today.All seem to sleep but me.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS

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A song with Elina

A song for you all my friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js2cpDX0JqE

Elina is a student on our school and the last day at work she and her sister sang songs for us,so did also Sopranos.Beautiful voices.
Many thanks for your lovely songs.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Have a nice time.