Hot days

Summer has arrived Norway.  Having HOT days.  Almost impossible to sit out on my back porch in daytime, but when the evening comes I love to sit out there stitching.

Together with Rusken. 

One looooooooooooooooong cat loves to sleep out there.

I have now finished all the blocks for my Antique sampler.  Hope I manage to sew the top together this long weekend.

But then there is the outher border left to sew.  All peaces are ready to be glued on to the paper and stitched together.  Nice work out in the sun.

Saying for today:

A perfect summer day is
when the sun is shining,
the breeze is blowing,
the birds are singing,
and the lawn mower is broken. 
~James Dent

Sunshine and sewing

Finally a warm and sunny day out on the porch. 
Let us hope the summer have come to stay.

Have been working on my Antique sampler in the sun today, listening to the bumble bee buzzing in the flowers on my table.  Rusken had to study it properly, but he did not like it when the bumble bee almost sat on his nose LOL

Some goodies in the mailbox.  From Monika I got this wonderful homemade card and a cute little stitchery.  Have already started to stitch it. And the chocolate is gone. Thank you so much Monika.

And from Gudrun I got this lovely items.  Cute tiny knitting sticks, a luggage tag, a cute bag and delicious chocolate.  Still got some left of those.  Big hug to you.  Love it.

Some weeks ago I looked through my stitchery box and found a lot of finished unused stitcheries.  I am preparing for a sales market this autumn and thought a good idea was to make……

some drawstring purses.  Four finished today.  Just have to find some cords to pull it together now.

also found some more stitcheries in my box…….

and have prepared for four new drawstrings purses.  It is so fun to make these.  And if they are not sold, I guess the family will get drawstring purses for Christmas this year LOL

Saying for today:

This was written on the home made card I received from Monika.  I love what it says.

17.mai

I have been visiting my daughter, my son and his girlfriend in Oslo and celebratet 17.mai together with them. 

A lot of people with flags out in the street so see the parade walking towards the royal castle.  I love listening to the bands playing while marching, and I love watching all those wonderful bunader (costumes).

We also walked up to the roal castle to see the royalties wawing to the parade passing the castle.

A wonderful day together with my family.

Mr. and Mr. Moose

It has been an amazing day with sun and spending a lot of time out on the porch.  Finally a day sitting out in the sun and I can feel the spring has sprung.

This evening I have been finishing the moose’s I started at the cabin last weekend.  Had done almost all the parts, and today I sewed it together.  A lot of handstitching to do and out in the sun it was a piece of cake.

And tadaaaa……..meet Mr. and Mr. Moose (design Northern Quilts).  If you wonder what they are going to be used as, I can tell you there is for covering the plastic wine bags.  And if you lift the leaf, you can pull the wine tap out of a hole and pour the wine down into the glass.

Saying for today:

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Another weekend at the cabin

When the quilt meeting last thursday was over Irene and I was ready to drive to the cabin where three quilting friends was waiting for us. 

As usual I had brought a lot of projects.  And I got a lot done.  Like sewing down the bindings on the Chrismas table cloth and some wallhangings (showed in my previous post from the quilt meeting). I hate sewing down bindings, but together with friends chatting and laughing it is done in no time.

But most of all I enjoyed working on blocks for my Antique Sampler quilt.  I am soon ready to sew the blocks together.  But have not started on the outher appliqued border yet.  So still a lot do do on it.

And as my machine project I started to sew these moose’s.  There was a lot of work prepping all the parts for the moose.  Still have to make legs for them, but then they are ready to be sewn together. 

Friday was a rainy day, but still we went out for a long walk.  And discovered traces from bear paws.  This photo is from our walk saturday when the sun was shining.

And we found some other traces from bear paws.  Can you see the bear paw??  It is a bit scary to know that the bear is close to the cabin.  But we did not see it. 

BUT…..during the night to saturday we heard the wolf howling.  An adventure mixed with both joy and  fear.  Not fun to know they are so close to the cabin, but so fun to have heard it.

Show and Tell from April quilt meeting

Last thursday it was a meeting in my quilt guild. A lot of ladies came to listen to Helle Løvenskiold who was going to tell about her quilting life. A joyful lady with SO many quilts to show. So this will be a very long post.

Enjoy the show and tell with Helle.

As you see she had a lot of wonderful quilts to show us. And she also told us about some of the tecniques she had used.

Then there was show and tell from the members of the quilt guild:

I have been busy finishing a lot of WISP’s lately and had brought them to the show and tell.

Two hearts design AnnaKa. Iwill make more of these because they was so fun to sew.

A angel pillow, also design AnnaKa.

A wallhanging (design Kim Diehl, her first book) I started many years ago is no finished. I have played with freemotion quilting on this quilt, will show you in another post.

A wallhanging (design Leanne Beasley)

Two table runners, the one to the left is my own design, the other one is design AnnaKa.

And at last the big Christmas quilt (design Northern Quilts)

Saying for today:

The ability to convert ideas to things
is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher