The socks are ready and mittens are on the way

I'm so happy the socks are ready and I have had time to start the mittens.I have had a long time a pattern by Emma Jacobsson "Randiga loppan" and I use off white and grey.I'm going to do a change with the knitting of thumbs.We get the autumn and soon we have colder times so it's good to be ready with some knitting before October when we can get cold nights and perhaps some snowy days.

The picture is taken 8.15 in the evening and we really have a lovely sunshine.

Knitting during the OS in Beijing

I'm knitting during OS in Beijing (a pair of socks first of all) and I participate on

www.stickameraosstickning.blogspot.com
Here you can see what the members do.We talk about OS but mostly about our knitting adventures.It's really inspirating and also very good to use some houres of knitting every day.Just now i have 4 days left of my holidays so i also can see some of the competitions which start early in the morning.Today I enjoyed Women football between Sweden and Argentina,between China and Canada and Japan and USA in vollyball(women).I also saw some swimming but not so much.In the meantime I'm doing a doll quilt too but I can't show you anything today.

The Mini Quilt for July

The Mini quilt for July is a quilt I made of fabrics by Kaffe Fassett and from other fabrics.I wanted to go on with applicatins and then I also choosed to make it in colours my swap partner likes.I got a mail she got it today so now I can show it for you too.

What have I done on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon?

Hello all

On www.cottonspice.com/CSblog there have been new projects everyday presented by different designers,small projects to do in a day or 2.I found it the last 3 days of the doing-together so the first I have done is a version of project 12.A nice project but I had to ghange colours because I had nothing to paint with and the colours were a little bit to much pink.I'm going to use the square to something but I have not decided what.

Go there and i hope you find something nice to do.
Good luck

Good luck

Lovely beads and a cross makes a lovely decoration to use.A conest too.

Hello all
I found a nice blog today and it seems to be a mother and a daughter doing lovely handicrafts for sale.
http://enmorochdotter.blogspot.com

Go and participate in the contest.

The last roses and lovely strawberries

Still we have these lovely summerdays summer and the strawberries are ready to eat.We had a lovely dinner and after that we were sitting in the garden enjoying strawberries,banans and cream.What a wonderful time we have.And the last roses....well when the roses get their last blooms we know that the summer has an end.In August we have darker nights and the mornings are clear and colder.

I wish you all a lovey lime

The first blueberry muffins and a preview of the mini quilt for July

A wonderful time and we get a lot of berries.First we could enjoy strawberries and then i found the first blueberries in the forest near our house.I couldn't resist doing muffins and what a happiness to have the possibility to do them so my eldest son could eat some before he went away to Japan after a 4 weeks long holidays.My children loved these when they were small so......the childhood gives many memories.


I also made the mini quilt for July ready to send away to my swap partner.Enjoy and guess..............

A rainy Monday but a postbox full of surprices and a joyful dance in the rain.

A rainy Monday in July and surprices were waiting for me.
In a swap on Doll Quilt
http://www.flickr.com/groups/dollquiltswap/
I got the most wonderful quilt from Jody in a very artistic pattern and in colours and fabrics I really love.I'm so happy for it.This pattern is really something to learn and use.Wow it's so great and Jody is really a very talented quilter.Thank you Jody.I was dancing in the rain....no the quilt was inside but.....a joyful dance is good for the body and the soul.

I also got my Mail Art from Margaret in Malaysia.So lovely redwork she made for me.I'm in a Mail art group on Yahoo.Thank you so so much for the Mail Art and all the lovely goodies you sent me.You made me so happy.

Flowers in the sunshine

A new mini quilt from my swap partner

Today I have got a sunny flowerful summer star from my swap partner.This quilt gives me "power" when the dark clouds are on the sky.

Roses for a friend

A friend and I celebrated a long friendship with a lovely day in Luleå.We talked and talked about life and embroidery.We couldn't resist buying some new beads and a little fabric for some of the projects we want to make.I made a biscornu for her on the theme roses as it's the time of the season where we have roses in the garden and I love roses very much.

http://chatelaine-design.de/newweb/cgi-bin/detail.pl?free10
As you can see I made some small exchanges.

I'm a Stitching angel

http://hugsnkisses.typepad.com/hugsfromhelen/stitchers.html

Go and look at this and I hope you come with us.

A new day has started and our postman came very early.
A new package from my secret friend M???????? on Stickamera.se has sent me just a lovely package.She hade made lovely small parcels so t was really Christmas in July.

Thank you.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The package is full of blue things as yarn,thread-metallic preperation so lovely,sweets in glass,beads,cappucino with dajm and a lovely pattern for a shawl.The pattern seems to be something I can use and knit.Lace.What a great experience.I have to test it.
You made my day.Now I have some homework to do and then I do some stitches on a secret gift to someone.

The end of June-mini quilt and a mail art

The month of June gave me a little time to do some swap things.I really love to do and get things too.I made a mail art and it was inspired of freebees on internet.I didn't send it without an envelope.To my friend I made inside 2 pouches for small items as a little embroidery or yarn.

To swap mini quilts give me inspiration and opportunities to learn new patterns.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/725005@N21/
This is a mini quilt trading swap- size 6"-12"
I also hope I can do some for friends and penpals in the future.Maybee I can do them one as a Christmas present.












The front of my first mail art to a swap friend





The back of my first mailart

Swap gifts from Else in Norway

I want to show you the lovely skein of Alpaca silkin petro blue and 2 skeins of Sulka,one in white and one in burgund,chocolate and a package of napkins.The card is made by Elina Helander from Utsjoki.Else lives in the north of Norway and she told me that they have got new fresh snow in the mountains.

Thank you Else.

Happy Midsummer

My favourite flowers in the garden or in the surroundings today.
Mimi asked about the names of the flowers and from the above
Lilac-bush
Crane´s bill
??????
Lilies of the valley

A long time ago they belived that 7 flowers ,picked on different places and you needed to go over 7 fences ,under the pillow on Midsummer Eve until Midsummer Day and you have dreams about the one you are going to be married with.Today there are not so much fences and we don't think it's possible.
This night is the lightest night and therefore it's a magic night.Everything can happen!?????!!!!!

Today we also celebrate the one who baptized Jesus,Johannes.

A package from my Secret friend on Sticka mera

Wow,what a great happiness to get a gift from a secret friend.
Socks in a wonderful colour,wool for felting and a wristwarmer kit with a pattern
inspired by a "spedetröja"a pullover.Thank you so so much.
www.ibodesign.com

May miniquilt for Kathy and the may quilt from Kathy

The May quilt from Kathy.A red little quilt and a sentence from a lovely Christmas song.



This miniquilt (about 7"x7")I made for a swap friend in Canada.I wanted to do something traditional but also a combination of colours and fabrics reminding of Canada,Japan where my eldest son loves and the swedish summer .The yo-yo flower is made of a fabric that reminds me of the swedish summer.

If you are interested in this small quilts we swap you find the flickr group here
http://www.flickr.com/groups/725005@N21/

This week

Hello all

This week has started with a lot of work.In my sparetime it's cross-stitch,knitting,looking at football and different things as smeeting with friends,going to the dentist and........

I.m doing my first mail art combining the flowerbasket from the sampler on
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/anne-les-petites-croix/

and the heart from
www.theworkbasket.net

I do the embroideries in DMC 815 on linen fabrics.

Have a nice day all my friends

The summertime comes to us

This time a year we have not so many flowers.Now we really long for the symphony of flowers and real summer with warm air.I hope I can use some of the early beauties as an inspiration for the doll quilts I'm going to do when my holidays starts in 10 days.In the meantime I 'm knitting a pullover in blue cotton yarn.An hour in the morning and some houres in the evening and maybe it's ready in July.

Today we celebrate the National day here in Sweden.
Have a nice day