Crochet link and a great news

Happy crochet time

http://www.roxycraft.com/free_patterns.htm
A snowman and a reindeer in crochet-sweet and fast projects.

Great news
My elders son comes home from Tokyo 26 December and we have him here for a month.27December our younger son has birthday(19)We are so happy to be all 4 for a month.Hard to live so far away from each other.

angels in cross-stich

It's Saturday and I have been doing an angel in cross-stitch

http://www.tiag.com/otherproducts/xmasangels.html

The first one from 1986-except for the word.I also hope you find someone to do.So many patterns and so many lovely angels.

Have a nice weekend

The needlebook I made

Dear all

Now I can give you a link to a blog where you can see the needlebook I made nearly 2 weeks ago.So happy that my friend did this slideshow showing the needlebook I sent her.Thank you P.
7 November
http://clasmog.canalblog.com/

Have a nice time

A challenge

Dear all my friends

Today we in Sweden have a special day reminding of our friends who are not with us on the earth.We lit candlles on the graves and we often lit lights at home too.I lit an extra light for my mother.

I have had a week of holidays and it has been so lovely.I have been resting,walking,doing embroideries,writing letters and cards.We have had cold but sunny and and the landscape so so white and glittering by the sunshine.The daylight is shoerter and shorter but 23 December it turns.

Violetta Parra has a song
"I want to say thank the life"
I agree

I decided to take up Sandies offer of a challenge http://abeautifulcraft.blogspot.com/
The first 5 people to respond to this challenge, via comments will each get a small gift from me.
Tell me your favourite colour.
Tell me if you prefer a small gift to use in crochet,embroidery,patchwork or knitting.

The catch is, you must also offer on your blog the same sort of offer. This is not an exchange where you send back to me, it's called 'paying' it forward to others who read your blog.

Sorry my pictures are gone out in the cyberspace and I still have no new system.

A time full of inspiration and no pictures on my blog

It's an autumn morning and the nature is in red/green/brown and the clouds don't let the sun shine.
Sorry to say the pictures on my blog is down.Something has happened.

http://thesamplergirl.homestead.com/Freebies.html
This is a freebee I'm doing just now.We have had a weekend where you have had a celebration of everything that has grown in the garden and for example on Öland they have a big weekend where they have pumps with candles in and many artists have open and you can see their paintings or handicraft.Still we have some vegetabilies in the garden but not a long time.We only enjoyed havin candles on our table while eating dinner.

Halloween is nothing I have celebrated but I do this little ornament just because I now love the colours.I also have done crochet in the colours common on Halloween.

www.sanmanoriginals.com/free.html
Here you also find nice pattern in cross-stitch.
I'm going to do the one with Peace .

We instead have candles on the graves and we have a special weekend when we think of our relatives who are not with us any longer.I'm going to have candles on the grave of my mother and father.

The young ones in Sweden tends to celebrate Halloween.

www.crochettoday.com
This is a new magazine I bought and I love the patterns but I think I want to use other yarns.It seems too much thick yarns and not yarn of wool or cotton

I wish you all a lovely day

Wristwarmers,crochet blocks and a cup of tea

A cup of tea in cross-stitch and you have no problems to sleep.This is a pattern I used for a card to a friend and I have done it before.I love it.It's from a swedish magazine and I don't know the designer.Can it be from DMC?

And one more type of granny square on the theme of late summer.I think of flowers late in the summer and a morning for fairies.We have had a lovely summer so I try to do different squares celebrating it.



I'm in a SAL knitting wristwarmers.A grey pair especially for my sister.She is very fond of modern clothes and she says grey is the colour for the winter and yes I think it's going to be a colour for the summer 2007 too.The cables are lovely.The pattern is from "pulsvärmare" by Birgitta Adolfsson page 56.I made them in Alpacka from Garnstudio.

Why not do a pair of wristwarmers as a present or a Christmas gift?I do.

Autumn squares-knit or crochet

We have had a real autumn day with rain,a little sunshine and so many different colours from the box of autumncolours.
The knitted dishclothes are interesting to do with a coloured thread and for the pattern varigated thread.
I'm a member of a monthly dishcloth KAL group on yahoo.This pattern was the second pattern in August and I really like it.

http://monthlydishclothkal.blogspot.com
Here you get more information and links.

http://.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbout/kpatterns/knitting.html
Here you find a lot of patterns and the dishcloth I have made is a variation of 3 and 1 checked -2.On the groupefiles there are many good patterns.There you find the pattern to the one I made.Be a member you to.

At the bottom of the page you find crochet and when you click on it you find a lot of patterns for crochet dishclothes.

This is a fantastic possibility to learn different patterns and use it to other things too.

The other square is an easy granny square with different green colours and a varigated one.Both my squares are perfect to show the colours we are surrounded of.The grey clouds are not represented.The rain has made the air good and the garden got a refreshing too after a very warm summer and nearly no rain.

Tomorrow a new week starts and I have 2 projects for the sparetime-a little embroidery for a swap and wristwarmers in light grey alpacka,one with cables..I'm a member of a KAL.More about this later.

I wish you a creative new week

A snowflake and crochet mittens in winter wool

The sun is still shining and it's warm outside,an autumn so nice and bright.The winter is a long way from here but I couldn't resist doing a little snowflake/a little doily.I'm in a Snowflake CAL an every Monday some women in the world crochet a snowflake.Most of the ones I have made have been gifts to friends.Mostly used in the Christmas tree but this one can a doily,a small one.

From Hege in Norway,a swapfriend for August, I'v got a lovely yarn I have used for crochet mittens anf felted in the washingmachine(40 degrees).It must be yarn not superwash prepared.You also use a special soap.Soft and warm and so beautiful.Hege thank you once again.The yarn is just perfect.

Swap in summertime

A doily I'v got from my Summer secret friend on Crochetville,Fe in the Philipines,is white and really big in pineapple pattern and this is really a lovely one in a thin cotton yarn.Thank you Fe.Sorry I have no link to your blog.She also sent me a lot of yarn,patterns and beads so I'm really prepared for a new crochet season.She has been so kind writing mails and e-cards during the period we had the swaptime.

A just wonderful very special brooch came from my Project spectrum friend in July(lilac/pink colours)Judy in Australia.She makes so many lovely beadworks.She works very artistic.What a happines to have her as a swapfriend.She has also sent my lovely presents as beads and yarn in a great variety of qualities.And some small bijouteries.Thank you Judy.You also gave ne so many things to do lovely embroideries and crochet and....

www.sheeprustling.blogspot.com

Later this autumn/winter I come back showing more gifts and what I use them to.

Have a nice new week.I have started working again and there are fewer houres to do handicraft but very worthful ones.

An air of late summer

An air of late summer

The flowers in the garden have colours of yellow and orange and I couldn´t but crochet this little doily as a remember of the last flowers this summer.

From the course on Gotland some recycling things as bottles and tubes and decorations in crochet and knitting.Our teacher had made some prototypes and we had a breat fun doing different experiments.What a great fun.

6 weird things/habits about myself

Yasmin tagged me and here comes my answer.

1.I can't resist beautiful fabrics.

2.I can't resist beautiful beads and yarn.

3.I often start a project and don't do it ready in time.

4.I try do do things 5 minutes before stop-time.

5.I have many plans/dreams that I never fullfill.

6.I often buy candies when I buy food and I eat it myself.

Have a nice Friday.

A bag I made for a secret friend in Australia

Hello all

I'm back after some days full of knitting and and joy.So much inspiration an so many new skeins of yarn.And all the nice chats with knitting friends from different parts of Sweden.About knitting I write another day.
I only present a bag made in the middle of July.It's made by japaneese fabrics and a little cross-stitch embroidery,a part of a free pattern on the member site of DMC.The colours of the bag are, in reality, a bit darker.I had some different ideas about this bag but the embroidery was a little too dark so I had to choose among my fabrics so the bag could be more bright.The blue japaneese fabrics can be dark too so you have to get some lighter blocks or strips to get the patterns more clear.I'm very satisfied with the result.And the new owner is happy for the new bag.A women can not have too many bags

one more links to crochet flowers and to a bookmark

One more link to crochet flowers
flowers http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-flowers-1.html
And why not crochet a bookmark
http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/10bookmarks/elepineapplebkmk.shtml


Enjoy the things you can crochet in a few hours.

A link to postcards from Gotland

Some postcards showing the lovely island Gotland.


http://gotland.net/vykort/?cat=vykort/blandade%5Fgotl228ndska%5Fvykort

Roses and preparing for some days on Gotland and knitting worshops....

Good morning from a sunny north

Roses,roses,roses...
I send you all a link for a crochet pattern to roses.
http://www.adornmag.com/exclusives.shtml

Tomorrow I start a travel to my favourite island,Gotland-the island of roses,to participate in knitting workshops .I'm going to learn more about popular patterns in different regions of Sweden in older times and a little about creating small decorations on a common knitting.F ex on Gotland they have patterns with roses on mittens.You can find these patterns in the Baltic states also.We are also going to visit some who are spinning yarn and dye yarn also.Perhaps we also have a lovely pick-nick in the lovely landsape.And all lovely tal´ks about knitting and life.

Have a nice day

A little about Crazy quilt- a new link

It's early morning and I'm the only one not sleeping in this house.I found a nice blog about crazy quilting-a blog by Hideko in Japan who I first met on Chahinsofhearts.I recognised that she has a special style I like.I have not been doing CQ for some months now so I had nothing to swap with but I was so fond of her style.Well I hope I can do it in the future.
http://hideko-windfromtheeast.blogspot.com/

And on this blog you can find more information of another japaneese CQ-quilter,a very famous one ,who has done books and so on.You can find informations of other things too.
Have a great day.

Link

I try again to give you a link

Look at January 27 2006

http://anned.over-blog.com

Daisy Lane Cottage and other projects and thoughts

I have started a new embroidery -Daisy Lane cottage.On this blog I found a nice picture on it.I have done the door and a little more so this picture shows how it's going to be.

It's very nice to participate in a SAL doing something together.There are a yahoo-group LHN -which means Little house needlework.We are some members doing this SAL.You feel like you are on an embroidery café even if you sit alone with a cup of tea and your little embroidery.

The other thing I'm doing is a bag on patchwork for a swapfriend in Australia.Secret bag.In August you get a picture.I have always on the needles wristwarmers in shadow knitting.

I feel very sad because the violence is growing in some countries and it seems to be real war there.Here we live in peace and other can't sleep,they loose friends and relatives,they loose their happiness,they loose their childhood,they loose everything.Why can't we talk to each other and solve the problems?
Some of my blogfriends also have hard times just now.I send you my thoughts.

Catch the day
Ulla

Congratulations to Italy

Congratulations to Italy

The end of WM in football ended and Italy is the winner of this game.
Sorry for France and one of the greatest player in the world.What happened?