January 2012 quiltmeeting

Yesterday it was the first quiltmeeting in 2012.  A lot of ladies came, shopped. laughed and had show and tell.

Lappemor from Tynset came with a selection from her shop.  Of course we bought a lot LOL

Anne Heidi showed us how to use Pinmoor to baste our quilts.

And then there was show and tell……..just enjoy

And did I buy something………oh yes.  Really needed some refill with fabric right now.  Long time since I visited a quiltshop. 

Hanne have given me a challenge to buy the fabric my stash is lacking.   I have to many “similar” fabrics and too many fabrics with flowers.  Did I do well this time Hanne?

Because when I opened the bundle of fabric (it was on sale half the price, so I just had to) you can see there are not the kind of flowerfabrics I usually buys LOL

Saying for today:

Friends are those rare people
who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.

- Ed Cunningham

Hoping for a finish in OPAM

 

January is soon gone, and I realized I have no finish for OPAM this month.  Oh yes……..I am joining OPAM this year too.  It makes me keep my goal with at least one finish each month.

Together with Kris, she and I started the One Project A Month in 2009, and never did we believe so many wanted to join us and that SO many finishes should be done.  Now Kris is hosting it together with Peg and I I am so happy they are willing to do it. 

So this evening I glue basted a tablerunner and a small quilt.  Hoping I will manage to finish at least one of them before february comes. 

Saying for today:

Love my new quilt books

I just love my new books.  

Hanne helped me order the Yoko Saito book directly from Japan.  And the two other ones I order myself from capris.no 

So much inspiration, so little time. 

Saying for today:

Forget about all the reasons
why something may not work.
You only need to find
one good reason why it will.

- Dr. Robert Anthony

Creative weekend

Elvis has left the building…..eh I mean Hanne has just left the building.  We have had a creative sewing weekend.

With a good helping claw checking out the progress on our projects.

He is really a great supervisor, and when there is no space on the sewingtable (wonder why, perhaps too much fabrics and rotarycutting), why not go up the shelf to keep an eye on what we was doing.

Hanne is testing on me a new workshop she is going to teach.  And look, I am working with blue fabrics. 

Or perhaps they are not really blue, but more greyblue, and those colours I can accept working with and love. 

Starting a new project makes a lot of mess in my sewing room.  Looking for the perfect backgrounds is not easy, so one by one the light fabrics where pulled out of the drawer.

And finally it got the look I wanted.

Hanne was also working on new models for her workshop.  I recomend everyone in Norway to book her for this workshop,  it was SO fun, and she has a lot of great ideas and tricks to show.

Do you remeber the secret project I started to work on.  I did sew a few blocks, but when looking at them on the design wall, I did not like them at all.  I got angry looking at them.

But thanks to Hannes advice I changed some a lot of fabrics and got a whole new look . Unpicked some pieces of the appliqued blocks and kept some of the fabrics on them. And it works.

Now making pizza and then som relaxing applique while watching tv.  This has been a great weekend filled with vitamin Q.

Saying for today.

There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did,
and who always will.

A quilters brain

Found this on facebook today.  Now I understand it!!!!

Opening of the fabric rolls

Have a cofession to make.  My promise not to start a new project in januar is already broken LOL  on January 4th.  But there is a reason to why I want to start a new quilt, will tell you later.  Remember the rolls of fabric I got for Christmas and my birthday.  It was hard to open them, but I think they are perfect for this new quilt.   I gues you wonder which quilt…..will show you later LOL  It’s kind of a secret at the moment.

Saying for today:

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner

2012 - a new year with new possibilities

 

Woke up this morning to snowcovered trees.  So beautiful.  We have had almost no snow so far this winther, but I had to admit that even though I am not very fond of snow and cold temperatures, I like the look of this.

Now we are waiting for the snow plow to come. 

Rusken came out with me, but he did not like it very much.  So he ran indoors very soon. 

I know that new my years resolutions is to TRY to stay focused on my projects and TRY to finish the WISPs I am having. 

In 2011 I had a total of 42 finishes.  10 less than 2010, but I had quite a few more BIG finishes this year against a lot of small finishes previous year, so I am so happy with the total of 42.

Will not start a new project in january, and try not to buy fabrics until march when I am attending the Norwegian Quilt Associations annualt quilt meeting. Only if it is necessary for BBBB (Border, Binding, Backing and Batting).

I started stitching this project yesterday.  It is a design from AnnAKa called Annas veggteppe.  I did not buy the kit, only the pattern, because I want to use my own fabrics (which I have a lot of)

I have a lot of projects going on right now, so I am not in need for starting a new one.  In my new sewingbag (which I love very much) I store the applique blocks for antique samler. I have prepped almost all the rest of the blocks.  Goal is to have this quilt finished until septemper when Sue comes back to Norway.

In the little box I have all the new fabrics I got for Christmas.  Some of these are going into Annas veggteppe .

And I want to get the quilt hanging on the wall basted so I can machinequilt it.  This was a sewing together project with Hanne and I know she have not finished hers either.  So I challenge you on this one Hanne.

Do I have more on going projects LOL.  Yes quite a lot.  Some alredy ready to be quilted (not decided by hand or by machine yet), and some just lacking a few stitches.  These are the ones I want to have focus on now in the beginning of this new year.

My sewing room drawer (let me call it the WISP drawer) is also filled with projects I am working on. Going to have a clean up in this drawer, and perhaps some of them are going to be either given away (know some ladies who loves takeing over WISPs) or just going to end up in the trash.

But right now I am going to do just like Rusken.  Just relax and enjoy my last day home from work.  A glass of red wine with the turkey dinner, and some stitching on my birds. 

Saying for today:

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest