Red red red...no roses but a peony

We have a warm sunny day and the peonies are in just georgious ,but only for a few days.we have real summer just now. Enjoy!

A new day

It's early morning and I couldn't sleep any longer.And outside I could see the lovely flowers on the tree outside our house.Why be sad?No not at all.A morning has "gold" to give you.And this morning is the second day when the "sun is a little bit longer away from us".Now we get ,slowly,less of daylight.Why not take the chance to enjoy the daylight when ever you have the power to do it.And I have vacations so.......well I 'm going on knitting the shawl...... Wish you a nice Sunday.

Happy Midsummer

With an ATC on the theme Midsummer I send you my best wishes. A friend sent this ATc to me and it's "what to do during the Midsummer night" when there was a tradition to collect 7 different flowers to put under the cushion.During the night you were going to dream about who you were going to be married with Enjoy the middle of the summer.Now,very slowly ,we are going to get more darkness too.

White and pink

February 2 http://textilejoy.blogspot.se/2012/02/february-2.html It was a very cold day and the trees were covered by snow/ice June 19 and the summer is here and the trees are covered by white flowers. Both the days have a special beauty I really love. Now I'm knitting a pink shaw in kashmir and silk.The EM in football is lovely to follow even if the swedish team isn't on the top of teams.Today they play against France. Wish you all a lovely time.

Saturday morning with flowers and a green garden

Early morning,02.40-02.50 and I couldn't sleep so what to do but enjoy the silent landscape.Among the first things promising a summer is a tree in a garden very near our house.Soft pink.What a great joy. From the student lunch a wonderful flower decoration.They are going to brighten up our weekend a lot. The sun is shining.Hard to get a good photo but hopefully you can imagine the daylight we nearly have 24 houres(day and night). The first flower in "påsöm" ,liksidig plattsöm.it's something I learned during my visit in Dala-Floda where they have many flowers on the female folkart clothes. http://www.brodera.nu/plattsom.htm

Roses for you and me

Our handicraft paper has a number about roses/flowers in different areas and type of handicraft.Hopefully I have it in my postbox tomorrow.Today they had on their site a pattern I did this evening.No,no words yet but hopefully before the weekend. I made it in linen fabric and red in DMC 3685 and green in 3362.You can choose your favourite color and it seems the designer used at least 3 different colours on the roses. http://www.hemslojd-tidningen.se/2012/05/28/diagram-till-rosenbroderi/

False shibori

The last workshop I participated in I learnt to do a type of shinori.What's very interesting is the made fabric about 24 hours after using print colour,a thin colour version with more water in than when you print on the fabric and then waiting and suddenly you get a surptice.I hope you can follow the line from white fabric to false shibori.

A great joy to be one of the winners of Creative cards

I got a letter from Australia with the creative card from http://rosaliequinlandesigns.typepad.com/rosaliequinlandesigns/ Yes I had the opportunity to win these cards where I can find both how to do the item and also patterns to copy for the 2 embroideries.the designer Rosalie makes really nice and cute patterns for embroidery and sewing.Always with a nice twist.Thank you so much Rosalie.

Pincishions made in the Zakka -Sew-along

The pincushion in blue-green colours with linen is made by hand dyed fabrics,a little print and a bead embroidery in the center of the flower.The second one is made in linen and a japaneese fabric.and of course I decorated it with some beads in pink.A perfect work during the weekend.I love this SAL as it contains a lot of small useful things to do.

Socks in pink and grey

Hopefully these socks are going to be a favourite.They are knitted in pink Regia and grey Fabel. Half of the cuff is knitted with k2,p2 and that gives the sock a special shape I love.Very comfortable to wear too. Wish you a nice end of Easter.

Mystery part 3

Part 3 of the mystery is ready and now it's only one more part to do. Wish you a lovely new day from the snowy north where we still have one day of Easter.A wonderful morning enjoying the sunrise.

Happy Easter

I wish you all a Happy Easter and a nice weekend.

A tulip on the first day in April

Sunday morning April 1 and its a sunny morning still with -6.4C.With this little tulip I wish you a lovely Sunday

Mystery part 2 and beautiful stamps

Part 2 of the mystery was the first I started the embroidery .After a long walk I went on with it.I'm very fond of the result so now I'm just wondering what the designer has in her mind.A house?Birds?More flowers? I wanted to show you the stamps on the lovely letter I got in the middle of the week.In some areas of the country you can see the cherry blossom and also other flowers.My penfriend send me these stamps on her letter to me.Thank you R.We still have a lot of snow and no flowers at all outside but lovely sunny days and cold nights so it's very nice to take a walk even early in the morning.Tomorrow I'm writing letters and some cards.I hope you have time to send for example a card to someone. I wish you a nice weekend.

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Participating in an on-line knitting café on Facebook and there we can do crochet things too. Many inspiring knitters are on-line. I wish you a nice weekend.

A tribute to the new day

A new day and I'm drinking my first cup of tea.The coasters were made last evening after a long day at work.Also a lovely thing to do when you are relaxing a little bit.And when you need a little bit of extra colours in your life.I needed.I made them in the size just perfect for my tea cups. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What colour did I start with????? What colour do you wish on your coaster? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

A lovely package and beautiful stamps on it came at lunch time in my postbox

It's Monday at lunch time and the postman arrived early today.He had some letters for me and also a little package.You se the the lovely stamps my friend M put on .Georgious.Yes we are quilters too so...yes we love to play with colours and pictures. And inside there is a letter where she tells me about the flower season,spring season has started in her area of the world.She has made this lovely basket for me,a basket with lovely flowers.Up in the north we have no flowers but the snow is melting down..... until June we have nearly no flowers outside.Thanks dear M för this gift.

A little flower without the green frame.

The lttle flower without the stitched fram.I miss just now DMC Olive 3011 for the it.This is the perfect little pattern for a day of cross stitch . What to use it for?

Cross stich is my favourite stitch just now.

A new little cross stitch I'm working on www.praireschooler.com/free/htm Tulips are just so beautiful,especially in the spring time. Wish yo all a lovely weekend.

The first part of the Spring SAL is ready. http://ravenelle.over-blog.com

cross stich on a special "fabric" made by a dear friend

You can do cross stich on linen,aida,evenweave and a special "paper".My friend M made this as a gift and soon we have Easter and I have changed decorations in my home.March is a month I have a a special focus on cross stitch but as I have done gifts for a swap friend I can´t show you what I have done until done. Tomorrow I'm going to start a Spring SAL by Maria on http://ravenelle.over-blog.com Wish you a nice spring time.