The Norwegian Quilt Associations annual quilt meeting 2012–part 2–The shops

A lot of quiltshops was attending the annual quilt meeting. There was so much to look at, so much inspiration and far too much I wanted to buy. Enjoy the photos and get inspired.

The visitors at the quiltmeeting got to vote for their favorite quilt shop and Quiltegården from Trondheim won this year.

And here is some photos from Lappemakeriet.

Quiltekroken from Bergen

Quiltefryd from Tønsberg

Lines Hobby from Tønsberg

Lappemor from Tynset

I was lucky to come on some quiet moments to take photos of the shops. But I can tell you there was so crowded some times so that you could hardly move around. As you see from the photos there was a lot of inspiration in these shops. I will give a big hug to all the quiltshops who loaded up their cars and drove hours to bring all these goodies to the annual meeting.

Another blogposte from the annual quiltmeeting will come in a day or two.

The Norwegian Quilt Associations annual quilt meeting 2012–part 1

 

Just came home from a wonderful long weekend in Bergen where the annual quilt meeting in NQF was this weekend.  Days filled with inspiration, shops, quilt shows and good friends.  About 450 quilters in one hotel, several of quiltshops (among those my favorites) Have about 200 photos on my camera that I have to look through, so I guess there will be a lot of posts the next days.

A lot of shopping.  My intention was just to buy a border fabric for my Annas Veggteppe.  Seems that there was a lot of temptations in the quiltshops.  It felt SO good to just walk around in the shops to get inspiration, touch fabrics and to buy fabrics.  I guess you all know that feeling.

Look at these yummy cupcakes I received as a thank you from NQF. 

I want to give all the ladies who attended at the annual quilt meeting a big  hug.   It is always so fun to meet old friends, and to make new friends.  What a great weekend we’ve had.

If you visit NQF you can see the quilts that won the competition + a lot of other things that happened this weekend.

And I will be back with more posts ……………

Weekend with friends

Breakfast at the cabin.  Together with four other quilting friends I have had a great weekend, and stitching while eating breakfast is so relaxing.

This time I had it all planned.  Projects was put in boxes.  Almost every piece was rotary cutted and ready to be sewed together.

Easy just to sit down and start sewing all the pieces together.  I sewed the top for 12 pair of potholders.    Boooooooring to sew all these squares.

More fun to sew the star blocks for this wall quilt.  Now I have to find the perfect fabric for the outher border.  Will bring it with me when I visit the Norwegian Quilt Associations annual meeting next weekend.  Hope one of the shops there will have the perfect fabric.

Saying for today:

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
Henry Ford

February OPAM

I’m so happy there is an extra day in february this year. Just discovered I had no finish in february for OPAM. Could not let that happen….

……so I rushed into my sewingroom and sewed together a pair of potholders. One finish in february!!!

Saying for today:

Be like the flower,
turn your face to the sun.

Vitamin Q visit

Yesterday Hanne came over for a visit.  And I really needed some vitamin Q inspiration now.  Just chatting, laughing and playing with fabrics felt so great.  And eating sun buns too.

I finished my first block for Scandinavian Christmas, and have found some red, beige and brown fabric to make the churn dash blocks.

Today we have been sitting in my sewingroom all day.  Hanne stitching on her Scandinavian Christmas block.

And I picking fabrics for the star blocks in Annas veggteppe.

With Hannes help I manage to find the colours I want in this quilt.  And I started to rotary cut the blocks, sewed a couple too.

Rusken really enjoyed being there together with us.

Saying for today:

A true friend laughs at your stories
even when they’re not so good,
and sympathizes with your troubles
even when they’re not so bad.

I need good sewing light

Rusken and I have been relaxing this evening. My neck is not good so I staying away from the sewingmachine for a while.

Been stitching on the first block for Scandinavian Christmas. I love this block and it makes me smle.

But dear Rusken, I really need to have the OttLite on to see my stitches.

Saying for today:

Cats can be cooperative when
something feels good,
which, to a cat, is the way everything
is supposed to feel
as much of the time as possible.
~Roger Caras

A lot done during the weekend

Yesterday I packed a big bag full of quilt tops, batting and backings. Going to the canteen at my work I planned to baste a lot of quilts.  Big tables makes it easy to baste.  If I had done it at home I would have been crawling around at the floor.  My friend Bjørg also came over and basted some of her big quilts. Now I have five quilts ready to be quilted.  And I am going to machine quilt every one of them.

Was a little bit scared starting to machin quilt my Summer Blooms, but I am quite pleased with how it have turned out during the day.  Soon I will try to make more swirls on my quilting. 

When Rusken has not been outdoors in the snow and sunshine, he have joined me in the sewingroom.  But I guess he thinks I have been making to much noice today, with sewingmachine buzzing all day.

Now I have only the outher border left to quilt. It has been so fun quilting today, but I feel it in my shoulder now. 

So the rest of the evening I will just relax ,watching tv and stitching on my new project Scandinavian Christmas.

Saying for today:

The best vitamin to
be a happy person
is B1. 
~Author Unknown

Together with a big doze of vitamin Q
My own adding

Big plans for the weekend

The sun is shining so lovely today.  I have spring feelings and that made me buy these lovely tulips.  I love tulips.

I have big plans for the weekend. 

In my mailbox today was an envelope with pre printed stitcheryblocks for the Scandinavian Christmas quilt.   Thank you both Hanne and Grethe.  Guess this means I am in sewing this along with you.  Already found some fabrics to match the linen.

Fabric every where in my sewingroom.  On the sewing table was the fabric for Scandinavian Christmas, and when I turn around there is fabric for my Annas Veggteppe on display on my ironing board.  Not yet desided which one to use.    Hopefully I manage to find the fabrics I want to use during the weekend.

Also lying on the ironing board is my Summer Garden.  Hope I get it basted this wekeend so that I can start machin quilting it.

And when I turn around to the left I find this angel pillow that just need to be sewn together.

Not to mention if I turn even more to the left, I have a pile of half done projects.

So this is going to be a very busy weekend in the sewingroom. 

Enjoy your sewing weekend too.

Saying for today:

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
Andy Rooney

Relaxing weekend

Saturday morning I put some sewing in a bag and drove up to my friend Irene’s cabin.  Two days just relaxing and sewing.    A great way to celebrate mothers day.

Coming home again Rusken was very curious what I have been doing these days.  He had to inspect every seam.

My summer blooms is now ready for basting and quilting. 

And i finished the bird row for this quilt.  I have traced the birdhouse stitchery to have as an “On the go”stitchery.

Saying for today:

The nice thing about teamwork
is that you always
have others on your side.
Margaret Carty

What’s on my design wall

……I mean on my design doors.  I do not have a big enough wall so I can put up a design wall, so I use the doors and some tape to hang the projects up. 

This is one of the projects the project I am working on at the moment.  It was a secret project in the beginning, but now I can show you.  As you all see it is my version of Gail Pan’s Winter Blooms.  I am making Summer Blooms. 

Why it has been a secret?  Just had to get it confirmed that I am meeting Gail Pan and Helen Stubbings when they are coming to Tønsberg in the end of March.   I am so doing my happy dance right now.  They are coming to Quiltefryd in Tønsberg and I am going together with three good quilting friends  to both the inspiration evening and joining tuesdays workshop.  So now this quilt will be given focus, so I can show at least the finished top when I meet Gail.

Saying for today:

The beauty of life does not depend
on how happy you are,
but how happy others can be
because of you

One finish january OPAM

With a good helping claw I manage to finish this tablerunner today.  So I got one finish for january OPAM. 

Action in the sewingroom

Remember these pinmoore I bought thursday? Today I wanted to try them out so I basted my tablerunner with them and was going to start quilting it. But then another guy took fancy in them.

Mom….have you bought me a new toy??

Do you neet some help with the quilting today??

Not???

I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaant to play with them!!!

If I can’t play with them, neither shall you mom.

It is so funny playing with these.

And even if you hide them here on the ironing table, I can smell where they are LOL

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So I think I have to give up quilting today. Or perhaps I have to look the door to my sewingroom while doing it. But not any fun having Rusken outside scratching on the door to get in. Because he is so stubborn and he really wants these pinmoors.

Another saying for today:

"In a cat's eye,
all things belong to cats."
- English Proverb

Sewing sunday

Saying for today: