The end of the year swap

The end of the year and I will show you one of the gifts I have got from Lody.As you can see I have got fabric,threads,buttons,bijouteries,afob,a biscornu,a pattern and a box with rose embroidery onThanks to Lody.

My Secret Santa Julianne sent all these lovely gifts to me

All these lovely presents have made a long journey from Aistralia to the north of Sweden.
Thank you so much dear Julianne

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas to all of you.I wish you all peace and understanding

I wish you all a peaceful time
Ulla

The flowers from my son and his girlfriend living in Japan.
The Christmas trees in patchwork are from my friend Masa also living in Japan

So beautiful flowers from Mattiaz and Mitsue

A knock on the door and someone from a flower came to us with these lovely arrangement of flowers My son and his girlfriend ,living a long way from here, sent us a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.Oh you made us so so happy.

Gifts from karin,my swap partner on Stickamera

3 skeins og varigated blur yarn-Sarek and blueberry tea.2 lovely chocolates and a card.My swap friend have relatives here.The partner I sent to in the same swap was a friend from a handicraft course.What a coincidence.
Thank you so so much Karin.I think i make a pair of mittens of the yarn.
Merry Christmas

Soon we have Christmas

The Christmas is on the way and we have started to do some preparations.What a great time even if it's a little bit to much to do.

Gifts from 2 different swaps-I'm so so happy.

In a scandinavian quilting group we have had a Christmas swap and yesterday we had a great opening of our packages.Sigrun in Ski sent me beautiful flowerful fabrics and wonderful coasters.

Hiroko,a blog friend and I we made a personal swap and I'v got a Christmas decoration made in a beautiful pattern and so fantasic done.The second beauty is a needle book with the theme birds.I love samplers and she has made a part of a sampler in a needle book.And she sent me a sweet pink fabric too.

The weekend embroidery

A weekend with cross stitch was the beginning of the Christmas holidays.
First of all a bird made in aida and DMC.The pattern is a freebee from
http:// dany88.canalblog.com
I have seen one made in red aida with white DMC-a really wonderful one.I hope I can do one in red and white for the next year,

The scissor fob is made in thin linen fabric-I think 32ct and DMC.
www.primitivebettys.blogspot.com
I love it because it's so thin and delicate in the colour combinations.
Betty has some other lovely patterns,some are freebees,and I really enjoy her patterns even if i'm not so "primitive" as she can be.

The first Sunday in Advent

The snow is falling and we have some relaxing houres before the dinner.I visited the handicraft market.So much people and so much inspiration.A friend og mine was selling this little glass to have a candle in.Lovely silence.

I wish you all a peaceful time.

Saturday morning

Saturday morning and the white fresh snow brighten up the day.This weekend we are going to meet some friends and hopefully I also get some stitching time.This time a year I make some small Cristmas gifts so I'm not going to post any pictures from my Santa sewing room.Tomorrow we lit the first of four candles.Now we have 4 weeks until Christmas.Have a nice weekend.

Mini quilt -theme Fall

A mini quilt for a swap friend on Swap til you drop
http://www.flickr.com/groups/877639@N22/
Inspired of the glowing colours from the autumn leaves and the surrounding in sun dawn.A great joy to use colours I love but also try a new way of doing blocks.I made squares about 6" and put together f ex 5 fabrics and cut them all together in a special pattern-I made them in 3 parts "along" and then I cut them in 3 parts across.At last I combined the pieces in sifferent combinations and.....sew them together.In reality the quilt is darker .This quilt was so funny to do.

Snow and Embroidery

Today it's the first day with snowfall this autumn/winter and it's only a thin cover of snow in the garden.I couldn't resist taking a photo of the last 2 small cross stitch I have made the last week.Enjoy them.

The pattern for the bookmark
www.puntiantichi.com

The snowflake -it's a freebee but I have no link to the pattern

A pair of Socks and thousands of candles on the graveyard

Hello all

The cold times are here and we have -9C and a sunshine in the middle of the day.
So happy I have knitted a pair of socks during October.Socktober.A great idea to do something before the snow and the coldness comes.

Today I also visited the graveyard and we put candles on the graves of our relatives.It'was candles on nearly every grave and it'so so lovely to see.It'a a day of rememberence of our dead friends and family members.A very special day.It's a day of sorrow but aslo a day full of memories and silence.

An embroidery for a biscornu

An embroidery for a biscornu I'm going to do.I used varigated DMC and it's a good pattern and you get so much for the houres you use on it.
http://vavipetitmonde.free.fr
http://vavipetitmonde.free.fr/IMAGES/grilles%20gratuites/2006/divers/rosesetbleuets.JPG

A needlebook in wool

This is a needlebook made for a swap friend in Stitchers Angel swap.

Quaker time a weekend project

http://lunedautomne.over-blog.com

The pincushion I decided to do I have had in my mind for some months.The fascination of quaker and samplers is very inspiring and there are thousands of good patterns and they are very useful.The houres I have used for this project have been full of joy.
DMC 221
Linen fabric 22ct

Tha first half of October

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October 4 we celebrated the cinamon buns and I made some to my family.What a good start at the day.
Socktoberfest was started by http://petrao.blogpot.com.I also participate by doing socks in blue.The first one is ready.Very happy for that.
The doll quilt from my swap friend in Swap til you drop .A lovely more glowing quilt than the photo shows.And she also sent me a cham pack in pink colours.What a great joy.I do my little quilt for her but I show you when I have made it and she has got it.

Mini quilts for August made for swap partners

Patterns I won and a new mini doll quilt from my swap partner

This wonderful mini quilt is a combination of Yo-Yo and common quilting stitches aroun.My swap partner also put a small button/bead in the middle of every "flower".Isn't it lovely?
http://www.whatidobesidework.blogspot.com/



I have had the honour to win a lovely pattern from Rosalie.
http://rosaliequinlandesigns.typepad.com/
The flying Santas are so cute and I hope I can do both the Santas(female and male).I think I use the on a cushion andI also think I'm going to do it in redwork.
Thank you for your generosity.