The first Sunday in Advent

The lovely Advent Time is here.So many candles brighten up our dark season.Suddenly we get new inspiration to go on.
Today we have the first Sunday in Advent and it's about 4 weeks to Christmas .I have been in the center of our village and we could see Santas,many children wishing Christmas gifts.We could see 2 small ponny horses and a wagon full of happy children going around.Many stores showed lovely Christmas gifts and Christmas decorations.I meet many people I know more or less and it was really many attractions to enjoy too.I also made a short visit in a weaving room where people were weaving nice things.At home i had a lovely time with tea and lovely cakes I bought

Sunday Sunshine

The daylight is wonderful and a day with sunshine makes you happy.

New Boom and a Give Away

http://karmaquilt.blogspot.com/

It's going to be a bag to.............................

It's going to be a bag.
The fabrics in colours are reproductions from the Civil War 1855-1870.
What way do I turn it?


I also want to send my best regards to you who are so kind and give me so nice and ceative comments.Have a nice new week.

The snow is falling down and it's time for quilting

A new page for a swap partner

We cant all be stars
but we can twinkle.

This inspired me to do this page but also the colours we have a sunny day in October.On the course in Textile Art we worked with machine embroidery and I used varigated thread to it.When I was ready with the emboidery I felt it was to empty.A perfect flower from a Kaffe Fassett fabric made it "twinkle"

Log cabin blocks in bright colours

Today I started to do a little quilt in log cabin and it's so fantastic to work in bright colours when we have a few pale colours outside.It brigtens up the day.

A weekend of remeberence

Tonight I'm going to lit the candles on the grave where my parents are.
I have a special gift from her ,a crochet blanket she made many many years ago and she used small amounts of yarn/scraps from knitted things for us in the family.I use it nearly every day and this is a "warm" gift for the body and the soul.

New mittens in Sandness Palett superwash

A perfect weekend project is mittens made in a varigated yarn.The cuff is made by knit 3 or 4 rows and purl 3 or 4 rows as long as you want to have it.I tried to get the same colour variation but it was impossible with the 2 skeins I had.A nice knitting and the yárn is so wonderful to work with.

Sandnes palett superwash
color 0578
This yarn reminds me a little of Noro yarn I used for socks but this is 100&wool.I bought it in the local yarnn shop.We had a knittinf meeting in the library and ther they showed this yarn and I fell in love with it.

Saturday morning a lovely white cover of snow in the garden but today it was a rainy cloudy morning .I love snow,not much snow but ...

October 4 the celebration of cinnamon buns

http://annesfood.blogspot.com/2007/10/swedish-cinnamon-buns.html

The first "snow" came this night but went away very fast.The leaves are falling so it's wonderful to celbrate the cinnamon buns instead,a very common "cake"in Sweden.I made some and we had a nice "fika".I wish you all were here.

Sunday September 20

I took a walk in the garden and along the lovely river.No sunshine and a little windy.The autumn is here.But the air is so fresh and now and then we have had sunshine during the day.And a lovely sun dawn with lovely red/pink colours on the sky.
The socks in yellow I knit are socks designed by Nancy Bush,a famous designer often using lace in her socks.I participate in a KAL on Ravelry so I'm looking forward the next clue.

Fantasy flowers

A type of crazy flowers on a fabric page made by scraps made for a friend,Ati,in Norway.The colours are very much my favourite colours just now.The summer has ended but the bright colours still exist in my memories.

I have also a sentence by Buddha on the back of the page.
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,our whole life would change."

Sunday September 6 new socks and a new block

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer09/PATTsunday.php
A lovely pattern,easy to knit and it gives a light lace pattern.I make the in a hand dyed yarn in 75% wool and 25 polyester.

http://delawarequilts.com/BOMs/DutchmansPuzzle/index.html

We are doing quilt blocks for each other in a flickr group.She sent me fabrics and a link to a pattern and this is the combination of fabrics I got.It took time to do but the result is good.

A give-away ends today

http://pialuttan.zoomin.se/blogg/permalink-20090827-239757.html

2 pair of socks and wristwarmers are ready.

This week has been really interesting when I started working after the vacation and the paticipation in a KAL during the WM.Some houres of knitting in my sparetime every day and eventually I saw some competitions on the TV.Well I listened a little but.......No medals for Sweden but many very good results for other nations.

www.swedenknits.blogspot
Here you can see what other participants have done.

Knitting during the WM in Berlin until August 23

The socks are made in handdyed merino 80% and 20%nylon(Jaqueline from www.chiligredelin.se)The inspiration to it is Sivia Harding's socks Rolling Thunder from www.knitty.com (winter 06)No beads and only one pattern and another type of heel.Lovely pattern for a varigated yarn,It gives the cuff a little shape.

The wristwarmers are made in handdyed wool/kashmir from www.sannsticks.se and also the pattern is from her.Irmelie is the name of the pattern.Nice to knit and to wear.

You can follow all the knitters in this KAL on
www.swedenknits.blogspot.com

White orkid and socks

A new week,the last of my vacarions,starts with flowers,a cup of tea and knitting socks.
The black ones are made by yarn from
www.chiligredelin.se
and the other pair in blue/green is made of yarn from
www.sannaticks.se

The black ones are made in no special pattern but the yarn is so smooth,it's in 80 % merino wool and 20 %nylon.I started with a lace pattern but it's too varigated so I choosed to do some rows in a different colour on the cuff.
The blue/green ones are made in 75% wool and 25 % polyamid.The pattern is from a KAL of Summer Lovin on www.ravelry.com.The pattern is so wonderful to do so the knitting make me so happy.Both the yarns are hand dyed.

The orkid is a gift I'v got from the girlfriend of my son.Thank you so much M.You really made me so happy and you really knew my favourite orkid and the white colour.
We have had the great happiness to have our both boys and the girlfiend of the eldest with us for 2 weeks.

A visit in my garden and in the forest near our house

It's July 6 and it's not so warm ,+12C, in the afternoon.I hope the roses keep om showing it's best side more days.We long for the strawberries but we can go on doing that for some weeks.In the meantime we have to enjoy the summer we have and all the flowers just so wonderful now.

With these pictures I wish you all a nice day

A biscornu for a friend who has birthday today

A biscornu for a friend who has birthday today.I wanted to give something reminding of June in the north of Sweden.

I wish you a Happy Midsummer

Flowers in the garden,mostly wild ones brighten up the day and night.We have so much daylight but today it's not so warm.Tomorrow they say it comes.The gramdmother has her birthday tomorrow and she is really worth all sunshine .We are going to celebrate the Midsummer Eve with BBQ and a sauna.You can see the sauna to the left on the last picture.Perhaps the sun doesn't go down tonight.Maybe we get a magical evening and night.No I'm not going to pick 7 types of flowers to put under the cushion.When I was young I did it but I don't know who I dreamt about.Maybe it was my husband.

I wish you all a lovely Midsummer