Summer days...

Emma was at home in Oslo for a while,untill she and her mother came back to spent sometime with us here. It has been realy hot .... When they left Oslo it was +40 degrees in their apartment.Jacob has been waiting for Emma to return, he sat on her baby carriage and waited ... I don't know how to make him understand that she are not here all the time...
But now we all enjoy to spend some time with her again. Learning her to read the newpaper and so on...
I have done a lot of stitching these last weeks--- I got my first july project ready. The first kit from Stitchery of the Month Club. Rosalie Quinlans Grandma's House. It was ment to be framed, but I made it as a cushion. It looks great I think. I got my second kit and has started on it too... This is a great club ;-)
Last week was realy hot her in Trysil , so it was difficult to get to bed in the nigths.This is how it looks at one o'clock in the middle of the nigth- The sun has problems to go to bed as well.
Jacob are a bit jealous on Cyan...She can walk where ever she wants all the day,while he have to stay in his cage sometimes. So he tryes to chase her sometimes, but Cyan got a brigth idea and went to sleep in my leftovers. Under the table in my sewing area. Guess who are going to sneeze the next time I'm going to search in this box ;-)
When I was in Oslo visiting Emma and her mother we went for a lot of walking in the town, here we are on Akerbrygge, there was a lovely ligth breeze from the sea.
We also took a walk up to Katrines Quiltestue...And I got some new patterns, new DMC floss and some blue fabrics....witch I realy need... Yes I have found a new pattern I just HAVE to do...
Look at this wonderfull quilt on the front of Homespun...I'm not clever to use blue fabrics- but great to buy them, so now I will have this quilt as a slow goal. I will make it by hand and have no pressure. Wonder if I got pressure on all my other ufo's ???? Hm It don't looks so.

Hope you all are having a great stitching days...I know I will ;-)

Summer at last...

My days has been busy, but I have manage to do a lot stitchey while there are vistiors in our home. At last Two brown Chickens are done... Just in time, I have seen another great stitchery from Leanne in the next Homespun....Realy somthing I have to do...
I have also dona a little Angel stitchery..I found a great blog where it was coloured stitcherys... So I have to try that way.. LOL And my two little houses from NQT in Gøteborg are done..
And at last I have done a little bear stitchery.. PUH... I feel clever this month..
A few weeks ago we celebrate Emmas baptism . Aren't she cute in her dress? My mother made it from her mothers bridal veil.She must be Emmas great great grandmother... The dress was made for Nemo, 28 years ago,but the Bridal veil was used in 1930... Emma was born 105 years after her g-g-grandmother.. 31 Mars... ;-)
I have been a part of Pincushions Summer Swap.... thanks Sandra for hosting this swap... Look what I got.. A beautiful hen , great needels ,ribbon and a thimble fron Tasmania. Thank you Jo for all the great items- I love them all...



Jacob has enjoyed all our visitors...I don't know if everybody enjoy him so mutch- but anyway my brother and his two boys was staying for a week.. Jacob wanted to stay with my brother all the time, so her he are on top of his head..
Jacob has also been visiting my parents at their cabbin...Here he are looking out on the sea wondering if there are any swan to see.....
I have been taking a walk to Lapphøna begging for some coffe.. LOL Her you can see some of her luckey hens - Two brown ( and one black) Chickens in her garden...
I have got a new Camera... It is sooooo fun to play with, but I have a lot to learn. I think it takes great photos -particular impressed of this close up photos..This bumblebee almost looks sweet...
And these blue flowers are realy tiny... I think I have to play a lot more with the camera learning how to use it...
Before I say good nigth I must show you how it is outside just now... It is one o'clock in the middle of the nigth and it is almost dayligth...
Have a great weekend ,I will be back soon... I hope..
Hugs.

Friendship Star

This winter I got a mail from a friend asking if I want to be a part of a little swap. Eigth girls of us made Friendship stars,and send to each other. We had to make somthing of the stars and have a "show and tell" in May. Seven of us got together... and here are the what we made.....





Fun to see what we made. Great result. We decide to make a new swap next winter.... wonder what we are going to make then..
Thanks for the fun Brita, Kjerstin,Vigdis,Randi, Tone,Unni and Grethe. I wish you all a great summer and a happy stitching ...

More from NQT....

If you remember last post I was so anthusiastic after being in a class with Mirjam Hakala.. So here you can see some of the kits we got for our pincushions.On the photo you can see all the fun I have in front of me...
I also did some buying, not mutch, but just what I needed :-) Take notis of the fabrics in front, It is the new fabrics from Lynette Anderson Designs.I don't know what to make of my new fabrics jet, but they will be a great memory from Gøteborg and NQT.
I got some kits as well, from the Danish shop My Quilt Design.I'm looking forward to make them.
I have great traveling companions - We all had a need to get to all the shops for looking and buying, and meeting all the other quiltin ladies and shops owners. We all had a fine time.
It was a wonderful road who lead us to all the shops. The trees was decorated with fabrics . Fun and a great idea.
I got my selv some yummy cake and a latte.... Realy something to get my mind in a good mood... and guess where I got this ....
Yes of course at Jacob's cafe. Clever guy that bird LOL
I got my self some great thimbles from Gøteborg and Sweeden. This time I was lucky to find thimbles, I didn't got any from Helsinki, and it took me 3 years before I found one at "Vikingskipet"
The last weeks I have been stitching after Bronwyn Hayes pattern... Block 1 of the Gingham Girls ...
And block 2 of Breast Of Friends. The BOM in Homespun.I think all the girls in these girls are relative. ;-)

This week I will be keeping a close eye on my mailbox... I'm expecting great mail from Australia... Block 2 of the Gingham Girls, a mailing from Giggle Buttons and.... The first kit from "The stitchery of the month" club from Under the Mulberry Tree.
A lot of more to do.;-)
I can't wait to start stitching.....

A lot to tell....

My May Challenge are finish... Puh, I manage to do one this month too. Some ladies of us have been stitching this great BOM from Little quilt, started in May 2008. This is how mine turned out. I have used more of my old Debbie Mumm fabrics.I love the colours and the look of it. I have changed the months name to Norwegian.If you look close you can see they are almost the same.
I have been in Gøteborg on NQT, and just befor leaving I got this great little quilt in mail.It is from Miniature Booty Swap, hosted by Toni. The maker of this wonderful little sunny quilt are Marlene. Thank you Marlene. I love it. I have seen it before on her blog , thinking it was sooooo great and now it is mine. ;-) It took a long way before I got it, and I can not blame it--- It has been to Bermuda.May be it was to cold to get her earlier.... Lovely colours to put on my kitchen wall.
As I toød I have been in Gøteborg.. So I will show some photos from my trip. Three girls of us from Norway went to a class..... THE greates class I have ever been a part of... More photos later- but this is the view from our class rooom. Diffren from what I see here in Trysil..
We went to dinner with SOME more ladies... LOL This is the start of the line to get in side... 664 ladies had a great time eating a great meal ,talking,laughing and watching show and tell.You can see a lot more photos on Abyquilts blog .
There were a lot of Norwegian ladies in Gøteborg.. Here are my travelling companions. We all had a great time and spend a lot of money on items we realt need... LoL. I will show what I got with me next time. Soon I hope... I have so much to tell..
We had a great walk from where wee spend the nights and to the shops... It looks like summer..
But we had hardly time to look---- Hurrying to do all the fun things we want to do...
Nemo and Lisbeth are ready for the class.We were taken a class making quilt accessories... It seemed funny, but we got a lot more then we expected... It was a great class with the most prepare teatcher I have ever seen... So if any of you are offred a class with Mirjam Hakala cross your finger and hope to be able to take it. We had sutch a great time, and all the kits she had made for us... WOW. We got kits for 10 diffrent items. Everything we needed, even precut hexagons and pearls. I will enjoy to make all the items home by my self. I got 4 done... The first object was small mousees to put on or fingers...
Are they not cute... We had to let them stay at the window sill in our room.
I will show you more of the fun thing we did next time...
Untill then... Have a great time...

Treasures

I have got a lot of new and a little not quite new treasures.... Emma is one of the precious one. Here she are 6 weeks old on her new crab-quilt. It is fun to make a little quilt and hope it not will last for ever- so I can make some new one. I got at last two on my mind....


I have got the first pattern of The Gingham Girls BOM. The new one from Red Brolly... I cant stop making her great pattern. Or more correct - starting on project after pattern from her. It seems a little more difficult to finish them. But I'm working on Polka Dot Girls- only two more month to make..... Slow but steady progress.... I have not started on this yet- but I have to look if there where some DMC thread on my must get list.......
I got the first block on A Kittens Tale done, only missing the Yoyo's. It is a BOM from Lynette Andreson. A lovely quilt with lot of cat's and dog's.... I got my kits from Quiltegården.I have done a lot on block two, so I'm still working on this BOM. I love to collect BOM's...... In fact I don't dare
to count all my started BOM's. I wonder if I'm the only one who collect BOM's...
Speaking abouth treasures.... Lapphøna and I went to Vikingskipet to collector marked some week ago- we where looking for thimbles. These are my new treasures...Some just for fun,some because I liked them and some fore old and not so old memories....Finland because I didn't know I was collecting thimbles when I was there on NQT three years ago. Diana in memory of her - and Elvis for all his great songs.... and so on...
I have seeb these Scrap bags on other blogs- and as I love small fabrics I realy NEEDED some of them. So now all I have to do are to find out what to do with them.....They are filled with great Moda scrap....Some of the pattern I know and some are all new to me. Fun ;-)
Cyan and Jacob are keeping us quite busy with all theirs ideas... Here in a quiet moment, sometimes Jacob are chasing Cyan , and sometimes it is the other way round... They realy know how to keep us busy... Luckily no one has been hurt, only some flowers who suddenly need new flowerpot....

I have been a lazy blogger the last months..... And I won't promice you a new report for a week or so.. I'm going to Sweden and Gøteborg on NQT. Wonder if I will meet some from blogland... I you see a Norwegian lady with her hands deep in her pockets,trying to convincing her self NOT to buy somthing , it may be me...So please say Hello and help me keep my purse closed...
Just kidding- of course I'm going to shop, but hopefully only items I belive i need.

Untill next time - Have fun ;-)

Lost april

I have lost April, but it has been a great month.... I have been traveling a lot and had a lot of great visits..Emma and her mother has been her... It is so great getting to know her. The most beautiful girl in my world... So this April I have forgot almost all of the stitching world and the blog world as well... That's almost...
The poor girl have share table with some fabrics...They are going to be a quilt for her...
Cyan has found a relaxing spot to sleep on... She find it exciting in my sew area...Lot of fabrics to sleep on ...
One evening she agree with me.. The time runs to fast, so she jumps up on the shelf and tryed to catch the second hand... And she did not push any thing to the floor.. Not bad, but no success-the time still run to fast..
I have been in Oslo and on the Opera... Not In but as I say ON..You can go to the top on the roof.
We did it with Emma in her carriage. Almost as a walk on a montain in snow... Fun ;-)
Emma or I got great mail from Joy. Two lovely bibs and her lovely pattern Pandamonium.I'm going to do it in pink after the mothers wish. It is the fabrics for this quilt next to Emma on the photo above..Thank you Joy... It will soo fun to make this quilt...
I have not manage to do nothing but prepare a lot of stitchery this month... That is almost. Block one of the Breast Of Friends are done, and two more are almost done...But I'm so happy you cant see my UFO pile... It is growing fast... But HEY it is spring .... Everything come into leaf...
Have a great weekend. Se you in May...
I start with sharp needels and a happy smile... Emma comes... Hugs..