Quilt Camp Norway - prepping for class

In a few days I am going to Quilt Camp Norway for a weekend filled with fun and inspiration. So looking forward to meet old and new friends.  I know there will be A LOT of quilters from both Norway and other nearby countries. There will be a lot of wonderful teachers, and I have signed up for class with Jen Kingwell and Annie Downs.  Both handsewing. I did not want to travel with my sewingmachine this time, although I could really enjoyed a class with Tula Pink, Anni Unrain or Jenny Pedigo.

For my class "Design your own applique adventure" with Jen Kingwell I have prepped some backrounds (optional) and my sewingroom is now a mess. I love needleturn applique, but looking forward go learn about back basting applique and broderie perse.

My second class will be with Annie Downs making The Little Things Pencil Case.

Looking forward to meet both ladies again.



Rainy weekend

Lots of rain this weekend. But very perfect weather to stay inside sewing with good friends at the cabin.

Seven women and six sewingmachines. Not much space, but we manage well to sew.

I worked on my Round We Go blocks. 

And made a good progress on my shoofly blocks.

I've read all the comments on my previous blog post. Thank you all :)  But I do not get them in my mail box as before.  So I am not able to comment back to you.  Have to figure out how to solve that problem.  Anyone else had this problem and can help me?

Just poppin' in to say Hello

I have not been blogging for almost a year now.  Have mostly been on instagram because its fast and easy, like a postcard.  But lately I have several times needed to searched up on old blogpost to see what happend when.  So after a little bit thinking I have decided to post on my blog as a diary to myself, and of course if you want to follow me, as inspiration for you too.

This summer has gone so fast.  4 weeks summer vacation went so fast. Lots of sewing on the shadow side.  I was lucky to have beatiful warm weather when I had my vacation. Svimming. Cabin trips with friends. Sewing. And just relaxing.

 I followed this quiltalong this summer and manage to sew all the trees for this quilt. Still have a lot of snowball blocks to sew.  And I will bring them to the cabin this weekend.

Saying for today:



Love my stitching

I have traced a new project.  It's the tablerunner from Kathy Schmitz new book Stitches from the Yuletide.

Yesterday I started to stitch on it..............at least that was what I had planned.  But as you see someone else had other plans in mind.

He's the boss.

Design by me Norway

Several months since I made my last blogpost (shame on me). But for you who follow me on instagram, you know I have active there.  But now it is time to start (at least try) to blog more often.  Hope I can manage that.  But at the computer all day at work, I am not that keen on sitting in front of my computer when I'm home.  I rather spend my time sewing.

Last weekend I visited the Design By Me exhibition at Lillestrøm twice.  They had one section with sewing and one section with knitting.  I took the day off from work on friday and spendt the day there with three of my quilt buddies in the sewing section.  Lots of inspiration and things to buy. 



Saturday my daughter and I drove Lillestrøm and spendt the day at the exhibition, this time mostly in the knitting section.  A lovely mother - daughter day we had.  She is more into knitting, but have started to sew a little bit too.  

Both day I met a lot of quilting friends I had not seen for a while.  Always fun to catch up with you all. 

Did I buy something......oh yes !!

Looking forward to start this applique by Irene Blanck.  Just have to find the perfect background first.

And I needed this Catch all Caddy pattern design By Annie. Hope to sew it soon.

Saying for today:



Quilting with rulers

This weekend I took a class with Merete Ellingsen in how to machinequilt with rulers.  I had bought a starter kit and during the weekend several other rulers came home with me.  Because this was so fun.

We started with simple lines to figure out how to use the rulers.  And then we got a sampler she had prepared for us.  We were now going to play with the rulers to fill in the open spaces.  And how fun was that.  I manage to do something, other rulers I have to practice more.

Back home I found this sample that I made in a class with Camille Roskeylly in 2014.  It has been put away in a box ever since.  Had no ide what to do with it until now.  This was perfect for playing with my rulers.

And this is how it turned out. Not perfect, but it is a start.  I need to find another testing project. Because there is one thing I learned this weekend, practice practice practice !!!

Saying for today:

Sewing weekend at Klækken

The weekend 20-22 april I was together with about 170 other quilters at a sewing weekend hosted by Kathrines Quitestue at Klækken hotel.  So fun to meet old and new quilt friends for a weekend full of chatting, inspiration, shopping, workshops, show and tells, delicious food, wine and a little bit of sewing.

Some photos from the workshop show and tell friday evening:

I went to some of the workshops and learned a few tricks:

And now some photos from Show and Tell saturday evening:

And then some inspiration from around the sewing area:

Kathrine had brought almost the whole shop to the hotel:

A wonderful weekend and I am already looking forward to next year.