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

May 25 All the mothers day

This morning I found a blog from Finland.She make things I really love too.The crochet snowflake on a hat or on mittens or crochet squares in soft colours.
www.jattasoheltaa.blogspot.com





The flowers are made by and designed by Mimi,a blogfriend of mine.
www.mycrochetstuff.blogspot.com
There you find a free pattern to the flowers.
With these flowers ,so easy to make and so lovely to use as a decoration, I want to celebrate all the mothers in the world.What a happiness to have /have had a mother and to be a mother

I got a lovely Pay it forward from Stina

Yesterday I got the most lovely gift from Stina.

http://kviltstina.blogspot.com/

We participate in a Pay it forward which means I get from someone and send to somebody else who send to.....
As you can see she is so good in embroidery and also in quilting.This is a lovely thing to bring an on going embrodery.She made me extra happy as it came on the day for the birthday of my son.

Good morning -it's your birthday today my dear son

May 19 1984 we got our first son and now he is 24.What a great day.

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear son
Happy birthday to you

A dear friend passed away

A very dear freind passed away some days ago.The sun,the blue-green colours and patchwork are things that remind me of her.I miss you so much.You never have too many friends.

Till min hemlis/secret friend på Stickamera.se

1. Vilken sorts garn tycker du mest om?
Ull och blandning ull och silke.
Jag vill inte ha sockgarn som har flera färger för jag har mer än nog då jag sällan stickar sockar.
Jag vill inte ha garn som är superwashbehandlat.

2. Vilka är dina favoritfärger?Blåa nyanser,mörklila,vinröda,vit/offwhite....

3. Är det någon färg du absolut inte tycker om?Orange och gult

4. Vilken sorts stickor tycker du bäst om/använder du helst? Metall och både strumpstickor och riktigt korta stickor och långa stickor
5. Hur länge har du stickat?
Jag har stickat nu och då under lång tid. Mittemellan.

6. Dricker Te

7. Är du allergisk mot något?Rökning.

8. Vilken slags musik tycker du om?Just nu är det visor,världsmusik,klassisk musik men också rock

9. Favoritgodis?????????????

10. Håller du på med någon annan "skapande hobby", förutom stickning?lapptäcksteknik,virkning,broderi både traditionellt och fritt och med pärlor och silkeband.
11. Vad tycker du är roligast att sticka? Vantar,pulsvärmare,halsdukar och ibland enkla sjalar.
12. Prenumererar du på någon sticktidning?Piecework.Köper Interweave knitting ovh Interweave crochet.Någon enstaka gång Knit simple.

13. Har du något drömprojekt på önskelistan?Att sticka vantar från olika delar av Sverige men också från olika delar av Nörden/världen.Önskar garn och mönster på vantar från din del av världen eller från ditt drömområde.

14. Använder du pulsvärmare/handledsvärmare? Ja.
I så fall, vad är ditt handledsmått?17-18 cm

15. Tycker du om att sticka pulsvärmare?Jaaaaaaaaaaa

16. Stickar du sockor?Inte ofta

17. Vad har du för fotstorlek? (T.ex. längd, omkrets på tjockaste stället.)37.

18. När fyller du år?6 maj

19. Stickar du med pärlor?Jaaaaaaaaaa

20. Vilken slags böcker (ej stickning) läser du helst? (Deckare? Fakta? Romaner?)
Fakta om broderi och patchwork.

Thank you all for the congratulations and the gifts

It's my birthday today May 6

Early morning May 6 and the sun is shining.Today I have my birthday and I'm happy to start a new year.
Have a nice day.

Doll quilt

Monday morning and the doll quilt is ready.I have been inspired of the sun and the river in summertime.I have used cotton fabrics and the stitches mostly are in cotton but some are DMC metallic.

Please go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ullafr/?saved=1
to see a better picture of the one I sent away.

A potholder in paper yarn and a felted bowl

Last weekend we had a nice time in Borås.I bought a pattern and paper yarn to do potholders.Hard to crochet but a nice result.Well not so useful as a potholder but as a decoration.We also used paper yarn when we tried to weave small items.More about that another day.I also learned a little abour felting and the first we did was to do a pattens.My flower is a happy flower but not a perfect one.I used spring colours as we had a sunny day and we saw beautiful flowers.Here in the north we still have a lot of snow.The potholder is on the snow when I took a photo of it.Just now we have a very great difference ,in the south of Sweden a landscape that change to spring/summer and in the north the snow slowly melt down.Still the river is frozen but the ice is weaker and you can't be on it I think.

Bright wristwarmers in knitting and crochet-Lara Croft

Lara Croft also has done a pattern for socks in crochet.It's in spanish but I think you can get an idea how to do even if you can't spanish.
http://tejemanejes.com/Bernart-de-Ventadorn.html


An online knitting magazine on www.black-purl-magazine.com has these wristwarmer in their latest edition and I really love the bright colours and the pattern inspired by the "Korsnäs sweater".Why not do mittens inspired of this pattern because it's more wearable if you live in a part of the world where we have real winter.I also like the idea to combine knitting and crochet.Hopefully I have time to do them during the summer holidays.

http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=317
Here you find the designer Danielle Kassner aka Lara Croft.She has done many things using some colours and patterns in crochet things.Go and be inspired.She also is in Ravelry- a knitting and crochet comunion online.
www.ravelry.com

Cherry blossom in Japan

Cherry blossom in the evening.Wonderful even if the colours are pale.The spring is beautiful also in Japan and these pictures were sent to us from our son who lives outside Tokyo.So nice to start a new week with these flowers in my mind.Thank you my dear son.

The last knittings

It has been a time of work but also some minutes/houres of knitting.Even if the winter is leaving us I love to think of next winter.

Wristwarmers are lovely to wear even in the springtime and I did the in soft yarn,the burgund ones are in merino wool.The striped ones are made of Regia silk,a yarn I tried to use to socks but it's really thin and I tried to do cables and I couldn't get a good result so.....wristwarmers are perfect to do of it.

Mittens in wool....yes I love the clear winterdays when the sun is shining.I long for more shiny winter days but I also long for the summertime.The pattern is very common in the nordic countries and I love it.It reminds me of the lovely snowflakes in different patterns,some are like thin lace,other are bigger and in the fantasy you can see "flowers"

Pay it forward

It’s the Pay It Forward Exchange. It’s based of the concept of the movie “Pay it Forward” where acts or deeds of kindness are done without expecting something in return, just passing it on, with hope that the recipients of the acts of kindness are passed on. So here’s how it works. I will make and send a handmade gift/send fabrics or yarn to the first 3 people who leave a comment to this post on the blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I do not know what that gift will be yet, and it won’t be sent this month, probably not next month, but it will be sent (within 6 months) and that’s a promise! What YOU have to do in return, then, is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.

http://kviltstina.blogspot.com
The pay it forward I'm in now I found on kviltstinas blog.I made a difference in my promises as marked.


So come on and join me.To give make you happy.
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A reminding of the cherry blossom in Japan

In CrossSticher Issue 197 I found a pattern in cross titch of cherry blossoms and I couldn't resist doing them.I know in Japan it's the time for these lovely flowers we never have here. I want to send all my friends all over the world a wish of peace and joy.Just now I have some days of winter holidays.