mandag 8. mars 2010

Woohoo! I have a finish! Finally!

And yes,

it’s about time!

This is The Hurtigruten Bag, specially designed by Leanne Beasley for those of us

who joined her class on Hurtigruten, back in

october 2009.

The stitching took some time, and when you add

some high sea with heavy waves and seasickness…

…you get the picture?

It’s not perfect, I could fix it here and there, but I don’t want to, I’ll leave it as it is, because of the special occasion!

The bag was nearly finished when we left the ship, but nearly finished isn’t completely finished!

I didn’t have time to finish the bag before I went on vacation,

so it’s been hidden in a bag since then.

Until I picked it up and finished it, and made a zippered

pouch from the leftovers fabrics, a couple weeks ago!




About the fabrics…

…in the welcome basket we got on Hurtigruten, Siw so generously had added fabrics for the bag.

When I went to a quilt-shop in Florida I found the same fabric Leanne used in her bag…

…so I came home with enough fabric for Anita and me to

make our special bags!

Since I nearly finished one bag on the ship,

and actually made a new one at home,

I still have one unfinished bag!

Oh dear, I thought I had been soooo good!

Thank you for taking the time and have a wonderful week!

May Kristin

mandag 1. mars 2010

bitnbytheknittingbug...

It has been a while since I posted,

I'm sorry for that,

and all I can come up with is some knitting!

I’ve had some fun knitting hats and mittens, I guess I’ve been inspired

by the wonderful, cold winterweather we’ve had

since christmas.

Even the sea was covered by ice for a week,

and that hasn’t happened in more than 40 years or so!



Here is my beautiful daughter posing with the knitted hats…

very fun and very fast to knit!

(She was happy to take them all with her back to school after the winterbreak,

and I don’t care, because I look awful with any knitted hat on my head!!!)



Felted mittens, hats and more yummy yarn…


Now it is back to normal after two weeks with the Olympic Games!

Norway did great, but so did Canada, USA and Sweden!

Congrats to all the winners, winners

in many ways!

Take care everyone,

and have a wonderful monday!

May Kristin