More thimbles and civil war repro fabric heaven

In my previous post I showed you the thimbles I bought at the antique and collectors market. And I started to chat with my friend Nancy about it. I know she has a lot of thimbles too and now she shows them at her blog. She also has a challenge with a giveaway. So if you are curious what she shows go to her blog and have a peek.

This is my collection of thimbles. I got totally 67. And I guess I'll continue collecting :)

The thimble to the left is the one I bought saturday, but shows the other side where I guess the mark of the silversmith is. The one in the middle was my grandmothers and the one to the right is my aunts and it has her name engraved.

Kit from http://thimblescope.com/ commented on my blog with no reply. I have tried to email you on another adress I found, but do not know it you got it. So if you read this could you please contact me again.

Just before I went to our annual quiltmeeting I got my Civil War Diary book in the mail.

I have looked through it and there is so much interesting to read. A beautiful book.

But I'm now in civil war repro fabric heaven.

I had agreed with Karren about swapping Crazy Quilt stuff against civil war repro fabrics. And look what she sendt me. I love them all.

But that's not all................

Another sweet lady, Patricia Dignan, emailed me and asked if I wanted some of her leftovers from a DJ project. She is 72 years old and not a blogger, but she had visited my blog and noticed I asked about information of civil war repro fabrics.

And this is what was inside the firs package she sendt me.

And today another package was in my mailbox. And she tells me there is more!!!!!!!!!!! I had no idea that she would send this much fabric. I am so grateful. She is such a generous lady. Another proof that quilters are so kind and generous.

So now I just want more time to sew. I wish I could expand each day with more hours. I need more time to sew. Going back to 100 % work now gives me less time to sew. I am so happy being back at work, and my shoulder behaves very well, but I also want to sew!!!!!!!!!!

I'll get more quality sewingtime this weekend when I'm going to our annual spring cabin trip with the other girls. So now I have to prepare some (read; a lot) projects to bring with me.

Saying for today:

Never let a sewing machine

know you're in a hurry

Thimbles

Today I went to a antique and collectors market. I have for a long time wanted to go there, but always been occupied with other things that day. But finally today.............

A lot of things to look at, but nothing interesting to me.................until.....................

one stall that had a lot of thimbles.

So many lovely thimbles..................I wanted them all..................but they were a bit expensive so I bought only three...............this time. She promised she would be back next time (in the autumn I think). I have collected thimbles a long time. But that has been thimbles from places I've been on holiday or got from friends bringing them home from their holidays.

But now...........some antique ones................I know I want to collect more of these.

Look.........

I looked up pn the internet when I came home to check what the lady told me.

The one to the left is a Royal Crown Derby Thimble Art Deco from 1900. I found photo of it on this link.

The one in the middle is a Royal Doulton Canton thimble. I found photo of it on this link

The thimble to the right I am not sure. The lady who sold me it told me about it, but I did not write it down and now I do not remember. When I got it polished I found a mark L.D.W. I looked the mark up at this link, but could not find L.D.W, but I found E.D.W, is it the same?? If anyone knows anything about this I would love to know more.

I think I have to buy a book about collecting thimbles now, because this was fun. Starting to collect antique thimbles.

A question................is there any other blogger out there collecting antique thimbles?????

Saying for today:

Wrinkles are antique smiles

PS: I'm in civil war fabric heaven now.............
tell you more tomorrow LOL.

SHOPS SHOPS SHOPS

There were 22 different quiltshops attending at our annual quiltmeeting. And everyone had brought a lot of fabrics, patterns, books and lot of inspiring samples. There was too many goodies everywhere to look at. And you found things that you did not know you had to have all the time. The ladies went crazy down in the shop area............never seen so many happy ladies carrying big bags full of goodies. And afterwords seeing them relaxing in the sofa with a cup of coffee having show and tell for some friends with a big smile on their faces. Hearing from the other ones: Where did you find THAT one..............oh I must run down and buy that too............are they sold out...............OH NO................

I was administrating the shop area and had great fun seeing how they arranged their stalls. I asked every shopowner if I could take a photo of their stall and put in on my blog. And everyone said: Of course, it's advertising for our shop. I did not manage to take a photo of all 22 shops, but here are the one I got.

Below is photo of two sweet ladies from QuilTen.

Irene, Bjørg and Britt is visiting AppleQuilt.
Below two photos from Quiltekroken

Below two photos from Quilte.net

Below two photos from Lappemakeriet.

Anne Heidi with her shop Lappemor

Below two photos from Northern Quilts.
And look....Hanne is shopping!!! Btw.....I got mail from Hanne yesterday....
she is safe in Chicago and on her way to the DJ gathering.

Below photo from Merethes Atelier.

Some photos from Jordbærstedet.
Hanne is shopping here too......LOL

And then Katrines Quiltestue.

And then photo from Quiltegården. This shop got the visitors prize for
BEST SHOP AT THE ANNUAL QUILT MEETING
CONGRATULATIONS

Below photo from QuilteLiv.
Below photo from Lille stasjon.

and photo from Nannas Verksted.

This was a little look around trip in the shops. There were some more shops but I did not have time to get photos from every shop.

The big question..............DID I SHOP ANYTHING........LOL

Of course.

I had a budget and I did stick to that................but I guess if I had more time to look in the shops I had bought more...........................much more.

So here is my buyings:

One box, eight patterns, five fabrics to make new tablemats, easy threader, two other fabrics and a big roll with 20 red and white fat quarters.
And on the lottery saturday evening I won this lovely roll with 20 romantic fat quarters. Guess who was smiling from ear to ear.

Two Sayings for today:

A fat quarter has fewer calories than chocolate!

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football.
Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds,
the danger of being trampled to death,
and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~Erma Bombeck

Pincushions

Some time ago Blueberrylane Design had a give away contest where we were challenged to show our most used pincushion. I did............and I won The Pincushion book by Lynett Andersson. I am so happy because I had been looking for that one for a while, but it was sold out everywhere. But now it's in the mail to norway. When I showed my pincushions I told you I was in charge of a pincushion exhibition at our annual quilt meeting and I promised you I would show you.

Here it is. We received 85 pincushions to have in the exhibition. From new funny ones to very old antique ones. So it was a pleasure to put them in two display cases.
So now have a good look at all the beautiful pincushions and perhaps you'll get some ideas for new ones for yourself. I got permission from most of the ladies who owns the pincushions to show it on my blog.

Hope you have enjoyed looking all these georgious pincushions. I know I got a lot of ideas of making new ones. And I still hope to find some antique ones at an auction.

If you come back tomorrow I'll show you photos from all the shops that had stalls at the meeting. They all had so much ideas to show and SO much stuff to buy. Did I buy something........you'll see tomorrow..........perhaps LOL

Saying for today:
I'm addicted to the needle and thread

Kaffe Fassett visit NQF

And then The Norwegian Quilt Associations 20th quilt meeting was over. It has been a very hectic weekend. My feet are sore, my back is hurting and I am so tired. With hard days work during the day to get everything in order, late nights to prepare for next day and a lot of walking from one task to another, no wonder my body hurts right now. But it was a successful meeting. Over 600 registrated members and I can guess over 600 daily visitors. I have a lot to show you but first................

My meeting with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably.

They arrived Oslo thursday and I got the honor of meeting them at the airport. I was a bit nervous, but it was nothing to be afraid of. They were both so easy to talk to. So friendly and warm. Kaffe and Brandon have visited Norway earlier and they were thrilled to be back. And my impression was that they enjoyed this weekend with us. I even told Kaffe about my cat sitting on his quilts at my home. He laughed and said: "Cats always approves the best quilts".

Thursday evening the whole board had dinner with them.

Friday they had their first workshop where the ladies made bowties. It was so interesting to see how the progress on their quilts was.

Saturday Kaffe Fassett had a lecture for about 500 ladies. It was a great lecture and it was fun to hear how he is working on both his quilts and knitting. After the lecture he signed books. And as you see there was a lot of women that had brought their books to be signed.

Here is my friend Elisabeth sitting besides Kaffe to have her book signed. She is a huge fan of his work and have made several quilts inspired from his books.

I visited his workshop on sunday. It looked like the ladies had great fun playing with their fabrics and getting advice from Kaffe . I wish I could have joined the workshops, but since I'm in the board there are no time for us joining workshops. We have to organize the whole event, and believe me there are a lot of work to do.

And of course I had to have a photo of me togheter with Kaffe and Brandon. Behind us is some of the work from sundays workshops.
And of course I got my book signed from both Kaffe and Brandon. Can you see what Brandon wrote in my book. He called me Princess all weekend. I will treasure this book for ever. And start collecting Kaffes fabrics. I am so inspired now.

Saying for today:

A teacher takes a hand,
opens a mind,
and touches a heart.

Busy Busy Busy

I am a bit desserts...........eh I mean stressed (desserts is stressed backwords hehehe). Been preparing for The Norwegian Quilt Associations big event this weekend. It is or annual quilt meeting and our 20th anniversary. And believe me.........there have been a lot of paperwork and planning.


So now I am loading up the car with all the stuff............hope I get room for everything.

The event starts on friday and ends on sunday. A lot of great norwegian quilt teachers and some foreign too. Kaffe Fassett is coming to give workshops and give a lecture. Yesterday his quilts for the exhibition came and I had to measure the size. And of course Frida had to approve them. So Kaffe Fassets quilts are approved by Frida. Sorry Kaffe, hope there will not be so many cathair on your quilts.

I have to have my mobilephone with me all time at the meeting, so I made a little bag to carry it with me.


And this morning before I went to work (woke up by 5 in the morning) I had made one for my friend Nancy too. So I will surprise her with it when we meet at the hotel room. I know she is on the bus right now heading for Oslo so she will not see it before she gets it.

So I hope you all understand I have been a bad blogger and commenter this past weeks. As I say; I have a life before and after the quilt meeting. Promise to take a lot of photos and show you.

Until next time: