Weekend with the girls

Thursday, rigth after work, I drove up to my friends cabin. The car packed to the roof with sewingmachine, projects, quiltbooks and magazines and warm clothes. Two other friends joined us early friday morning. And from that time you could hear the sound of sewingmachines day and night (almost).

But we had time for some fresh air too. So good to walk in the sun even if it was cold. We could actually feel the sun warming, and this makes me feel that spring will arrive slowly.

A lot of different projects was brought to the cabin. Here we are discussing what fabric to use between the blocks Bjørg have made.

I was sewing on some "old" blocks that I started on about a year ago (at a similar quiltweekend in this cabin). This is the pattern I am using. At that moment I was not very happy with these blocks, perhaps because I run out of one of the background fabrics.

Bjørg also sewed together this cozy flannel quilt.

I am working on my small japanese purses.

Britt sewing together her blocks,

and used the door to hang up her blocks.

Bjørg made a lot of table runner backgrounds this weekend.

Britt also made tablerunners

Irene cut all fabrics for this wonderful quilt,

and sewed some blocks together.

I managed to finish my two small japanese purses. Perhaps I can use one of them to keep my wallet, lipstick and mobilephone going to dinner with Yoko Saito :)

And I sewed the blocks together on my Bread and butter quilt. And I realized I really love the look on it now. Looking forward to sew the outher border on it very soon. It is so fun working with my japanese fabrics. Know I will buy more of them at the annual quiltmeeting.

This has been such a fun weekend together with good friends. We are already planning our next trip together.

Saying for today:

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,

and one of the best things you can be.

~Douglas Pagels