Still advent?

Today i finished my advent-table-runner - got it back from the quiltshop yesterday.

Christmas-time

Last weekend we started celebrating christmas, and we vill continue tomorrow. Just wanted to share some photos before we start the last x-mas-stressing around.

Merry Christmas to all my readers

Vil bare dele noen julebilder med dere, vi startet feiringen sist søndag , siden det var en som skulel reise på jobb og bli borte hele jula. Resten av julemiddagne spises i morgne kveld, så nå legger jeg bare ut noen bilder, før jeg går opp og får ferdig de siste juleforberedelsene.

GOD JUL til alle sammen

Finally finished the angel-table-runner designed by AnnAKa



an a small purse from Lise Bergene's book

a table runner - "stolen" from May-Britt




and a pillow from Trine-Bakke's new book

Another finish

Fikk ferdig en veske i dag - mønster fra hatched and patched

Two days - Two table-runners finished

Finished my sheeps today
and a closeup on next picture

Knitting lessons

Little sister teaching bigger sister to knit



Mysteri-quilt finished , and closeup of the quilting

Quiltig weekend

My mysteriquilt-top is finished


And yesterday I took a stitchery-class

mysteri-quilt-part two

and part two - it just opened

mysteri-quilt

This years mysteriquilt at quilt-design has started.

And I have already made part one






By the way - I also finished the batic-table-runner yesterday

Tør jeg dette da?

Nå sitter jeg her - klokka har nettopp passert midnatt - og i dag skal årest julegåte fra Merete legges ut her:

Så nå har jeg plukket fram stoffene, og lurer på om jeg skal tørre å bruke disse batikkene. Har samlet på batikkstoffer i en tre-fire år , men nesten aldri brukt noe av dem . Men siden boksene sto framme fra forrige dagen , tror jeg at jeg tar sjangsen. Julegåtene er uansett gøy å sy - så heng deg på.


Ellers så ser designveggen min slik ut i dag, nå har jeg sydd rundt nesten alle blokkene i ytterkanten - blomstene mangler , for de syr jeg for hånd. Og midtparitet er fortsatt bare limt opp

On my design wall this week

Found this quilt in a Deutch magazine - Lea patchwork #361 - on display now.
I want to make it, and digged my batic-boxes to see what i had of yellow, orange, red and pink - seems I'm almost there - ready to start sewing.

It's done done done!!!!

Finally - it's all done. Got some good help from my friend Hanne - and my new friend the mega-quilter.This bag is almost all made of oldies - except from the zipper. Handles and bottom made form an old leather jacket bougth at a flea-marked for 40 NOK, two old buttons, an old rope and scraps for blocks.

And in case anybody still wonders if they should prewash fabrics or not, I will show you the water from two red pices of fabric.

On my design wall

First of all a picture of my youngest (rigth), after she and her team won 2.price in a lego-robot-competition yesterday

This is what's on my design wall this week - some old and some new work,below is the table-runner made of blue batic-scraps



and today I have been making angels, and have also started quilting my sheep's

Meet my new companion

Just wanted you all to meet my new friend. Just unpacked and ready to start sewing.
I have also ordered the quilting frame for it, but it hasn't arriwed yet. Maybe smart to get to know the sewing-machine a little bit first.
I have sewn together a lot of strips no - and it's fun to have the opportunity to speed up the sewing.

Just a small reminder about Christmas. Solveig has already started the countdown and made thos postcard today. Thank you Sigrun for the "postcard-kit"

It will soon be here

Who , What ? My new sewing machine - a Husquarna/Viking mega quilter. I got a phonecall for the shop today, the machine will be here on monday.
I really look forward to speed up my seving - this one had 1600 stitches pr minute, the old one app 600.

Back home

Finally back home sunday evening - just wanted to share what meet me.
And it is still snowing

Sunday morning in Oslo

Last night I took some snapshots of the cat, 
playing around "on the table" which it is not allowed to do. 


This morning I also finished applique on my new tablerunner  
- what is left now is a little bit of embroidery and some quilting.

some travelling, and 2 new bags

I am now near Oslo, 560 km south of where I live. I have been here for almost a week now, taking a computer-class at IBM's. I lived with a quilt-friend the first 5 days, and she surprised me with a new bag. I started it many years ago - but it never got finished. This last evenings have been mostly UFO-finishing, but unfornately not for me.

The other bag Hanne - another quiltfriend of mine, almost finshed for me - I just have to make and put on some handels.


I also started a new table-runner - still have some applique to do on this one.
So now I am going to spend the rest of the weekend at Hanne's before I return to Trondheim tomorrow evening.





I also promised some pictures from the charity-quilt-evening