Ullas Fiber Blog

Ullas Fiber Blog

May-Midsummer

This is a crocc-stitch a swapfriend(Fleur) from xstitchpal did for me.This reminds me of the Midsummer night June23/24 and I was a young girl.They told us to go picking 7 sorts of flowers and put them under the cushion and then I could dream of the man I was going to be married with.Yes when I was about 17 i dreamt of a man in grey suit.I saw no face.Well it could be...perhaps blonde hair.I was in love with a boy....was it ..?No if you believe in dreams it was my DH but...no blonde hair.

In Sweden we have a long cross "dressed" with flowes and leafs and...and we dance around this on the Midsummernight and it's called with something like The pole of the Midsummer.

Thank you Fleur for a lovely picture giving me so many nice and a little sad memories.

A Midsummernight dream

Dancing in the summer

The birches are green and the nights are without darkness.The girls are dancing celebrating the summer.This reminds me of the Midsummernight(June 23/24) when we have these types of decorations with flowers and leaves on a big "cross".This night you pick 7 sorts of flowers under your cushion and you are going to dream of the one you are going to be married with.Well I did it when I was young and only once I saw a man in grey clothes-no face-very alike the one I was in love with.No it was not the one I'm married with.It was only a wish I had at that time-I was about 17 years old.An unhappy love as often at that time.

I have had a day free.2 days more.Tomorrow I send away presents for some friends and enjoy the summer

A xstitchpal ,Fleur,sent me this lovely card.

Squares,the springtime and a skein from my one skein SP

The spring is here and the green and yellow/gold colours dominate as well.I'm a member of the Project Spectrum swap and the colour for May is green and for June my favourite colour blue.

Thank you my One-skein SP who sent me a lovely ribbon yarn in blue/lilac and gold.A yarn combined with a skein in one colour of blue or lilac I think is going to be just perfect for.....I have not decided what.It came today a long way from Singapore.What a surprise and I really love it.

Granny squares in cotton are wonderful to do and I really feel happy to do them because you have so many possibilities.The green one contains of DMC perlé nr 8 and the other one in thicker yarn.A perfect crochet for a summerday sitting in the garden.



I love theese days with sunshine and warm weather and the daylight nearly 24 hours.You can walk in the sunshine,you have very good light for crochet,embroidery,knitting...... It's easier to live this time a year.You can for a while forget the bad,cruel things you see or read about.
Now I have so many projects for the holidays but too many I think.In three weeks I start a 9 week long summer holiday.

Ullas Fiber Blog

´ May 19 1984 I got my first son.
What a lovely day to celebrate.
I'm so so happy I'v had the opportunity to
give birth to 2 boys.The best I 'v done
in my life.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday my son
Happy birthday to you

A tree for Christmas in CQ

After 2 day of rain/snow and sunshine I decided to do a little Christmas tree in CQ.Do we get more snow?I don't want Christmas in July even if I love Christmas.The snow melt down.We also had a little thunderstorm so it's really a crazy weather.It's enough to have snow in December.
This is the embroidery I have done and later I put it on a cone by paper used for yarn in silk.Mostly I use fabrics in silk but also 2 piecies of cotton.

Let's laugh/smile

Today we have the worldwide laughing day.
Let's laugh/smile and enjoy the life

The big day

A nice walk along the river this first morning of a new year in my life.The floating ice on it's way to the sea.The ice can be like silver.This is a promise that we have spring and soon the summer.
And I also want to show you my bonsais and a lovely card I'v got in a swap on the theme of oriental.

I wish you all my friends a creative and lovely weekend

It's my birthday today

It's my birthday today and we have a sunny day and the ice is no more on the river.What a day.
I'v got 2 bonsai trees(small ones) and so so many lovely cards.Today my son is going to do my favourite food and we are going to have a nice day,mostly outside when we have such a nice season with about +12 to +15C.A lovely time after a long snowy winter.

From Susan R in birthdaypals I got DMC threads to a little free pattern-Spring-from Lizzie Kate and thats what I start the day with until the other wake up.

Shadow knitted Kitty

Hello all

I found this link to a shadow knitted Kitty

http://chickybabe.org/driveby/patterns/chart.html

Have a nice weekend.
Ulla in the north of Sweden

Happy Easter

Happy Easter


I'm doing a little cross-stitch during Easter.

A chinese girl from
www.abcbroderie.com
Grilles gratuit.Personages.
Les chinoises.

And I have been writing postcards.
I'm a member of
www.postcrossing.com
I love getting postcards and lovely stamps from all
of the world and now I do get some cards every
week.

I also take a walk in the lovely weather.

Have a nice Easter.

Joy in April

So happy I could start doing Crazy quilt .I have had a pause since my mother died in August 2005.It was totally stop because what I did the day before she died was CQ and it's very irrational but I got a connection in my mind between the two-death and CQ.I have been reading and looking at pictures and 2 weeks ago I found a yahoo group for beginners in CQ and after some days I couldn't stop doing it.Now I feel like a winner.So happy so.CQ is life.Happy life.My heart is very insprated by snow and winter.I loved doing embroidery with beads and different gold threads.

The second picture shows the wonderful fabrics,threads,beads and so on I'v got in a birthday swap.I was "adopted"
in April because we are 2 in May.This is a symphony of colours.I'm so thankful for these gifts.The 6th of April was a day full of happiness because they did my day so full of joy.So much feelings.Tears of joy and of sadness.

A friend-Lita-sent a block on the theme Japan and she did it so well and combined some technics.I really love it.I hope I can do my birthday quilt for 2005 and have this block in the middle of the miniquilt.My birthdaypals did a block each on the theme of Japan 2005.Now it's only 1 I miss.

Soon we have Easter and I love the yellow flowers,mostly tulips.Today I have got 20 red tulips too.

This morning we got big big snowflings.Beautiful but...we long for spring.The daylight give us hope and we really get the possibilities to work in daylight.On Friday I start a week of Easter holidays.Lovely.

I wish you all my friends a Happy Easter

quilting weekend

Happy to be back again after a long time full of different "must".This weekend I participated in an online quilting on engelbee-a yahoo group I'm a member of.Our "teacher" is Rita and she has made a lesson how to do a threadspool quilt.And I did a version on it.I have not done the quiltstitches and a frame but as it is now I'm very happy for it.Thank you Rita.

Last weekend I was on a course in scrap quilting and I used small pieces of fabric for the spooles,not striped as it was on the "pattern".I'm happy to find that this technic to use scraps gives many opportunities .As you can see I have not used but 3 fabrics twice.I'm going to play with scraps many times more.They are also useful when you make cards so don't throw away small piecies of fabrics.

The winter with snow and cold nights is normal this time a year.I couldn't but buy this flower bouquet to remind me of the season coming late up here.It reminds me of Easter which comes in a few weeks.We have a time with much daylight,not yet 24 but....

Lovely gifts

A heart in crazy quilt .
http://chloesplace.blogspot.com/

A lovely blogfriend of mine has sent me a heart in crazy and it has embellishments too.She has put a tatting on it and there are beads and embroideries of different types and a print I have been longing for so so much.I haven't had any possibilities to buy it and now....I have it.Thank you Linda.
Her blog has many interesting informations and the links are just wonderful.And all the wonderful things she or her friends have done.Enjoy.

The other little card is from a friend on xstitchpals -a yahoo-group.I sent her roses and a butterfly and she sent me this very sweet well done card.Thank you Kath.
To swap is very very nice

Lovely gifts

http://chloesplace.blogspot.com/

A lovely blogfriend of mine has sent me a heart in crazy and it has embellishments too.She has put a tatting on it and there are beads and embroideries of different types and a print I have been longing for so so much.I haven't had any possibilities to buy it and now....I have it.Thank you Linda.
Her blog has many interesting informations and the links are just wonderful.And all the wonderful things she or her friends have done.Enjoy.

The other little card is from a friend on xstitchpals -a yahoo-group.I sent her roses and a butterfly and she sent me this very sweet well done card.Thank you Kath.
To swap is very very nice

Lovely gifts

http://chloesplace.blogspot.com/

A lovely blogfriend of mine has sent me a heart in crazy and it has embellishments too.She has put a tatting on it and there are beads and embroideries of different types and a print I have been longing for so so much.I haven't had any possibilities to buy it and now....I have it.Thank you Linda.
Her blog has many interesting informations and the links are just wonderful.And all the wonderful things she or her friends have done.Enjoy.

The other little card is from a friend on xstitchpals -a yahoo-group.I sent her roses and a butterfly and she sent me this very sweet well done card.Thank you Kath.
To swap is very very nice

2 wonderful gifts

A week full of blue,yellow and pink

This has been a lovely week in a way.Many swedish medals,many good results from athlets from other country too.And yes I have been listening very much and seen a little.Embroidery and knitting has been favourite works in the evenings.I have full time work so there are short periods of handicraft.I have also still great problems with a flu so....

I have done wristwarmers-link 12th of February
A square in dominostrikk-see more http://www.viv.dk
A lovely Hello Kitty in cross stitch-http://hkcreativity.canalblog.com/images/kfete.jpg
A heart for frienship-http://hatchedandpatched.com.au/hearttemplate.GIF
A card with roses and a butterfly-inspirated by Spring beauty in Cross stitch crazy February 2006
And at last a picture taken from the garden.This is a view from my window.A beautiful sunny winter day in the north of Sweden

Have a nice time all my friends