SSCS and advent

This is how it looks like when you have packed

24+24 +4+4+4+4 packages,

4 christmasgifts

and 1 SSCS package.

Paper all over the floor.

But it is so fun to surprise

DD, DS and some good friends

with adventcalendars.

And the SSCS package is on its way to ?????????

some place that it is very very hot (I have read it)

And Santa says it is a secret,

but do you want a little sneak peak????

Not easy to guess :)
But I hope she will love what I have made for her.

Saying for today:

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
Author unknown

A trip to the capital

For my birthday I got from my children two tickets to a christmasshow in Oslo. And yesterday was the day I and Irene (no blogger) took the earlybus to Oslo. We wanted to spend the whole day in Oslo, eat dinner with my DS and do some shopping, before we went to see the show. And we had a wonderful day, even if my feet are sore with blisters from all the walking (so today I am wearing soft slippers)

One of the shops we visited was Kathrines Quiltestue. This is my first visit to her new shop.
And I must say it is one of my favorite quiltshops. So let's have a look around:

I really love the quilt hanging on the wall

So let's have a close up.

Really thinking hard on making this one.

And here is the shop owner herself.

Always smiling and very helpful.


I had one mission visiting this quiltshop.

Finding red christmas fabrics for a project.

And this is waht I bought.

Some lovely new japaneese fabrics and some laces

and just ONE RED fabric.

So now I will put my soft slippers on

and slippers into the sewingroom.

Have som projects on my sewingmachine.

Will show you later.

Saying for today:

Thoughts come cleary
while one walks

-Thomas Mann-

A giveaway

Have you seen Helen Stubbings new quilt "Life is beautiful"?? Go visit her blog and read about her giveway. This is one quilt I really would love to make. She wants us to give a quote relating to your beautiful life and here is mine (it's the one in my blog header) "A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart".

Weekend in Tønsberg

I'm away this weekend too. Now at a meeting with the Norwegian Quilt Association planning next years annual meeting at BCC. Ladies, it is going to be a great place to meet 3rd weekend in march, so start planning this weekend already.

But of course we could not sit in the conference room all day planning, we had to do some serious shopping too. And first place we visited was Quiltefryd.

And take a look at that cute red sign below her firm sign. Love it.
It is a wonderful shop filled with inspiration, so let's take a look.

They got a lovely room for workshops in the basement.

And a wonderful inspiration "room" where we can sit down, have a cup of coffee and just get inspired of all the patterns hanging around the wall.

The next place we went to was Lines Hobby. This is also a lovely shop with a lot of inspiration.

I know I will come back and visit both these shops. They were great.

After the shop hop it was time for workshop. I was the teacher this time and I was going to show them how to make scrappy hearts. You can get a glimps of the scrappy heart quilt hanging on the wall in the background.

Never has these ladies been sooooo quiet for so long time. They were so concentrated, and during the evening/night the hearts started to pop up.



And now the main question.....did I buy something in those two shops. Oh yes......

I can show you these 5 fabrics and the package with red buttons. The rest has to be a secret, knowing Hanne, Nancy and Bente is reading my blog. Soon christmas you know :)

Now heading for breakfast, then some more scrappy heart sewing and then home sweet home.

Saying for today:

Girls just wanna have fun

I am so lucky

Goodies (two envelopes) in the mailbox is always so great

and it really made my day

coming home from work

so tired and with a bad head ace.

The first one from Quiltegården with stuff I had ordered. Gail Pans book Basket in Bloom. And then some of Lynette Andersons fabrics. I bought the fabrics Lynette have used in her new pattern Christmas Eve, and I hope to start this cushion really soon. These fabrics have been hard to find in quiltshops here in Norway, and I know why.......they are so cute. Take a close look at those cute reindeers on one of them. I have also bought myself some new stitchery background fabric, look forward to try this out.

And in the next envelope was.......YES!!!!! the book I asked for in my previous post. A lady here in Norway was willingly to sell me her book, she posted it yesterday and today it was in my mailbox. I am so happy. You bloogerfriends are so helpful.

Saying for today:

Stitch your stress away.

Looking for this

Can anyone please help me :)

I am looking for this book "Friends for christmas" by Lynette Anderson. I know this book is out of print and very very difficult to find in shops now, have looked everywhere. But perhaps there is someone out there in blogworld who have this book and want to sell it or swap it , I would be very very happy.

Update: Thank you Hilde for selling your book to me. You blogger friends are great!!!!!

Saying for today:

Friends are the most important
ingredient in this recipe of life

Weekend with the girls

Four girls with sewingmachines, boxes loaded with fabrics and projects at a small cabin can be a challenge for everyone.
But we are having a great time, and we have learne to take use of the space we have.

Cutting table at the drawer in the bedroom

Ironing on top of one of the chairs

I manage to finish two projects. But I can't show you them yet. One is the christmaspresent for my SSCS partner. And one is the challenge I got from NQF (perhaps you remember the button and the lace I got some time ago). I am really pleased how they both turned out.

But I can show you this new project I am working on.

And it is Lynettes "Magical Christmas"

Oh....just noticed it is only

Saying for today:

A joy that is shared
is a joy made double.
John Roy