Lynette Anderssons Noas Ark

Today I stitched the block 2 and #3 on Lynette Anderssons little BOM Noas Ark. They were so fun to make out on the porch in lovely spring sun (or should I say it's summer weather, because we had + 18 by 20:00 this evening).

My little dove block #2
And these cute cows block #3

Haven't you started this miniature BOM yet...........it's never to late :)

Saying for today:

A kind word is never wasted

Fabric and acronyms

Today I got the fabric I ordered for my adventcalendar. I've finished all the stitcheries and will now start making the heart blocks that goes between the stitchery blocks.
And these are the fabric I found in my stash to go with the new fabric. WOW....I'm actually using someting from my stash!!!! It feels good.

Will start preparing it tomorrow, today I have to clean up the house a little bit. My DD is coming back home from school and I want everything to be ready so we can have some quality time together this weekend.

Today I found this list of quilter's acronyms on this blog.

FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

FIU = Finish It Up

HSY = Haven’t Started Yet

OBW = one-block wonder

PIGS = projects in grocery sacks

PIPS = projects in process

SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy

SEX = Stash Enhancement EXperience (or Expedition)

UFO = UnFinished Object

USO = UnStarted Object

VIP = Very Important Project

WHIMM = Works Hidden In My Mind

WIP = Work in Progress

WIWMI = Wish It Would Make Itself

WOMBAT = Waste of Money, Batting, and Time

WWIT = What Was I Thinking

I want to add some extra words I've made up some time ago:

WISP = Work In Slow Progress

WIVSP= Work In Very Slow Progress

Do you know about other acronyms that is not listed here??

Saying for today:

A beutiful day by the Oslofjord

We've had a beautiful weather this weekend. I visited my boyfriend in Oslo and today we went for a long walk by the Oslofjord.


And when I came home a surprise in my mailbox. The books I had ordered from Amazoon had arrived very quickly. So now I have all the rest of the Elm Creek books.
I look forward to read them. I want to wait reading them so I can have them for my summerholiday, but................... perhaps I just start and read veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery slow on The Christmas Quilt.

I've finished the secret project and it's nicely wrapped and on it's way to the receiver. But you have all to wait until next weekend to see it.

Progress are done on my Butterfly garden block two. Number three has arrived and I read on Honeysucklecottage web that number four is being sendt this coming week. Better hurry.......

Saying for today:

We all grow best in sunshine and love

Where does time fly away.......

Already May 1'th. Can't believe april is already gone. Feels like it's just a few days since christmas. Why can't time slow down a little bit...............or perhaps it's we that have to slow down. Are we to occupied with everything and nothing so we forget to think about ourselves.

Today I visited my mother and had dinner with her. A nice way to celebrate may 1th. I brought some stitchery with me and she is always happy to see what I'm working on. She was a very talented quilter and I miss the time we sat together working on our quilts.

After dinner a lot of folk dancers came by and enternained us. It was fun to see all the different national costumes.
As I said earlier I brought some stitchery today and I manage to finishe all blocks for the adventcalendar. So now I just have to wait for the fabric I have ordered to continue working on it. (I had nothing in my stash LOL) Still have to applique 12 heart blocks.
And I continue working on Butterfly garden block #2. And now block #3 have arrived of course. I enjoy using the Roxanne glue and the silk thread when I'm doing the needleturn applique. And look...........isn't this scissor cute. Found it at our local quiltshop yesterday and just had to buy it.

Still a lot of bloggers coming up with noreply so please chech your profile and see if you have marked the show emailadress.

So...Doris, you mailed me but I can't reply you, please email me again.

And my friend Anita is searching for a fabric. She has too little to finish her project. Can you help her??

Saying for today:

Spring and a secret project

Finally.........the snow is almost gone where I live. We've had warm weather the last week. And I've eaten dinner out on the porch several days. Spring has sprung.

Hvitveisen is blooming and the birds are singing. The snow is melting and we are wondering is the river is going to be flooded this year. There is still a lot of snow in the mountains so we just have to wait and see.
I've been working on a secret project for some days now. I have known about this for over a year, but I started working on it on sunday afternoon. And I have to finish it before friday. I can't show you more of it because the receiver might perhaps look up at my blog. So I have to wait until next weekend to show you. Still some applique to be done and then the binding. So better hurry hurry.............

Have you remembered to visit my friend Nancy's blog and told her about your thimbles?? She is giving away some great prizes to someone who does. Timelimit is April 30th midnight norwegian time. So hurry hurry over to her blog and tell her you blogged your thimbles.

Saying for today:

As sunshine turns a flower's head toward heaven,
so your friendship lifts my spirit.

APRIL QUILTMEETING

I have not been able to blog for a while now. Going back 100% to work do not give that much time left for sewing, blogging and other things. I am so tired when I come home. And then there is houswork, paperworks for our quiltmagazine and trying to get some sleep. Have to start new routines.

But on thursday was the april meeting for our local quiltgroup. A lot of women this time, but not so much at show and tell.

But I got a few photos:

This "quilt" is made of old wool sweaters. She felted them by washing the sweaters on hot water, cut out peaces and put them together.
And out of the leftovers she made some bags.
This is a banner one of my friends is making for her granddaughters kindergarten. It has to be ready for may 17th when it's Norways national day.


And me of course with my new bag. I love this bag, and I guess I'll make one winter bag too, in dark colours.
A present where the lady is going to applique photos of the boy who receives the quilt.
Quilts from a workshop we went to some months ago. The difference in these two quilts are the quilting. One is machinequilted and the other is hand quilted. You can feel the difference when you touch them. Handquilting gives the quilt a soft look, and machinquilting the opposite.

A log cabin quilt.
A table runner

And here is Laila (to the left) helping a lady showing what she made out og BOM Out of the darkness. She did not want to make the whole quilt and decided to make pillows and tablerunners of the BOM's. A clever idea to do when you get bored of the BOM's.
And finally Laila and Lisbeth with their new bags made specially for NQF's annual quiltmeeting. We all need new bags going to big quiltmeetings, don't we LOL. Laila has a better photo of her bag here if you want to have a close look.

I've forgotten to show you one present I received at the annual quiltmeeting.

I've seen Wenche making a lot of these pincushions/threadbins on her blog. And when she pulled me aside at the quiltmeeting some weeks ago and said she had something for me I was surprised. And it was this beautiful one for me. I love it. Use it everyday as it is hanging on the table besides my sewing chair in the livingroom. Thank you Wenche :)
I made this toiletpurse some weeks ago, but have forgotten to show you. It's a pattern from Northern quilts. And I love the size of it. Plenty of room in it to bring all my brushes, creams, perfume aso.
Started to stitch on block two on Leannes Butterfly garden. OMG....there is a lot of stitching on this block.

And I've found the macro on my camera. So now I can do good close up photos :) Perhaps I ought to have read the manual on the camera several years ago LOL

Now I'm off to give a workshop in sewing hexagons on the sewingmachine. Only three ladies, but I guess we'll have a great day at the shop.

Saying for today:

A friend is someone you can trade
secrets with and never worry

Back from the cabin

I guess I'm not the only one packing everything and too much when we are going to a quilt retreat. Like this weekend when I was going to our annual spring trip to the cabin.
The car was loaded both in the back..............

........... and in the backseat. We were only two people in this car. And still we had forgotten something.

It is a small cabin so we had to use every space to work on. Rotarycutting and ironing at the kitchen bench........

and at the table in front of the fireplace.

And sewing at the dining-table. Five sewingmachines, five ladies and one teenager was having fun all weekend. Laughing, stitching, plenty of good food and good friendship.
The sun was shining all weekend. Although it was a cold wind blowing we found a spot in the sun and could relax a little bit from the sewing. You can see the there is still a little bit snow left behind the house.

We had sewing bags as a project this weekend. And here is five of the bags. One bag was already packed down in the car so I did not get a photo of that one. Mine is the one at the back left. It's from a pattern designed by Bente Nysæther Malm. It's a great pattern, so easy to follow, perhaps one of the best pattern I ever have used making a bag. I almost finished the bag before leaving the cabin. So I finished it when I came home, adding the handles, and now it's ready to be used at work tomorrow.

I could not manage to sit by the sewingmachine all weekend so I also did a little bit stitching. You remember one of the projects on my "to do" list. I have now stitched all 12 small stitcheries for the adventcalendar and have started to stitch on the last one.

Saying for today:

Friends are like fabric,

you can never have enough!

My to do list

I have decided to focus on some of my WISPs. Feel like I have to finish up something now. So I have looked through my boxes and found these:

#1 is the spring table cloth I started on at a workshop mai 2007. That's one year ago!!! So I want to finish it so I can use it this summer.

# 2 is continue handquilting on my Leannes House. Thought I should manage to quilt one block a week. But I have to take it slow. Handquilting is not that good to my shoulder. So I quilt a couple of threads each day.
#3 is Butterfly garden. Have prepared block two. It's a lot of stitching on this one. And I guess third block is soon coming.
#4 is the adventcalender I bought right before christmas. I planned to stitch one block each day at christmas, but........................ Have stitched a couple of blocks this week :)
#5 is Gail Pans sewing angels. Just two more blocks to stitch.
#6 is the Noas Arch stitchery BOM. A little cute stitchery that is fast to do. Block two is printed, but not stitched yet.

#7 is to start making something of all the civil war fabrics I have received. Do I start a DJ quilt or do I start the civil war diary quilt. Or do I start making monkey wrench blocks of all the colours?? Have to think a little about this.

But........

I do not know if I manage to stick to this planning.

Tomorrow I'm going to our spring cabin trip. My bags are packed. Sewingmachine ready. And new fabrics bougth for a new bag I'm going to make. Bought a pattern at our annual quilt meeting and I want to make it. I had planned to use only from my stash, but when I visited the quiltshop today they had sooooooooooooo many new lovely fabrics.............so .............you know LOL

Saying for today:

Today's happy together times,
are tomorrow's warm with memory times