Norwegian Quilt Associations annual quilt meeting 2013 part 1–The quiltshops

This weekend I went to the Norwegian Quilt Associations annual quilt meeting and it was also their 25th anniversary.  This is the big happening for quilters in Norway.  A lot of shops, workshops, presentations, exhibitions and the fun of meeting a lot of quilters from whole Norway.

Usually I blog during this weekend, but this time silly me forgot to bring my computer.  But now when I am safely home from a 3 hours driving I want to show you what happened this weekend.

Let’s start with photos from some of the shops.

Quiltefryd from Tønsberg. 

Northern Quilts from Steinkjær

Lappemakeriet from Bærums Verk

Kreative Ingema from Flisa is now my local quilt shop.

Quiltegården from Trondheim

Trådsnella from Lørenskog

Kathrines Quiltestue from Oslo.  This shop was voted as the best quiltshop this year.  Congratulations Kathrine and Co.  Think most of my money was spendt in this shop this year because they had the perfect fabrics and inspiration for my new projects. 

Kathrine had borrowed my basket quilt and I got a lot of wonderful comments on it.  And I think a lot of other ladies got inspired and bought those red bundles the shop had for sale.

Hanne in action taking photo of me taking photo of her.  Visit her blog to se her photos from this weekend.

Lappemor from Tynset

Maurtua is a quiltshop who is recycling old shirts and old texstiles.

Now you have seen some of the shops who was at this event. There were several more shops, but I did not get photos from all of them.

A lot of inspirations, and A LOT of temptations.  It was so fun visiting these shops again and again and again during these three days.  Every time I came back to a shop my eyes spottet something new and tempting.

I guess you understand that a lot of goodies had to come home with me.  I have plans with all of these projects and I will tell you more of that later. And notice…….just one red fabric this time.  Bought a lot of civil war fabrics and a lot of Sue Daley templates and paper pieces. 

Will show you photos from the exhibitions and from the presentation Joanna Figueroa later, but first I need a good night sleep.  Hope I will be able to sleep, because there is so many ideas tumbling around in my head right now. 

Relaxing weekend

This weekend has really been relaxing.  I’ve been quilting all day long on my basket quilt.  Knowing I will not be able to finish the whole quilt before next weekend.  But my goal is to have all the baskets done by thursday night. 27 baskets left to quilt.  Hope I manage it because I just have the evnings to quilt.

Did not quilt all day long yesterday.  Had to do something else because my arm startet to hurt.  So I went into my sewingroom and picked a box.

It is the This Goes With That (TGWT) design Sue Daley.  I have made 8 hexagons so far, but I have not touched the box for a long time.  I am in need of a easy “on-the-go” sewing next weekend and I thought this would be perfect. 

I love Sue Daleys patterns because they always comes with papers and templates.  And in this package it is a lot of templates.

The harderst part is to find fabrics.  Making this quilt in red and white too, so I am picking the colours from my basketquilt which I am very pleased with.

Five hexagon blocks ready to be made.

Saying for today:

Quilting quilting quilting

A great day watching winter sports and quilting.

The center block and 70 basketblocks quilted so far.  58 left to quilt.  Hope to get all the baskets quilted before march 15th when Kathrine is borrowing it to have it on display in her shop at the Norwegian Quilt Associations annual Quiltmeeting.

Saying for today:

February OPAM

I had some finishes for february OPAM, but I could not show them until today.

Yesterday my son’s girlfriend got these four placepats for her birthday.  And I am now going to make some more because she loved them and wished for two more.  Think I have to make some for myself too.

Another small finish for february is this pincushion we made at the quiltmeeting thursday.  I had to make a sample to show the ladies at the meeting.  Love this little pincushion and it is now in use besides my new sewingmachine.

Saying for today:

February quiltmeeting

February quiltmeeting in my local quilt group.  Look how consentrated these ladies are.

making this pincushion design Sue Daley.

They were all having fun and some ladies did EEP for the first time.  And some learned how to use the gluepen. 

Some ladies manage to sew the pincushion together and got to stuff it with batting.  No photos of all the pincushions yet, but I told them to bring the pincushions to the next quilt meeting.  May be a photo then.

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