Drumrolls please .......

First some flowers to all of you participating in this little contest.

And as you can se - there were some...

Two of the three drawings have been done - the last one for the quilters from TQL will be done after the weekend sometime.
First for the blogjubileum-III comments - 19 all together:



Mary - can you please send me your adress



Then to the blogjubileum-II comments - 60 all together:
Laila - can you please send me your adress
Congratulations to you both!

I had my two daugthers draw one winner each - flom this lovely little bucket - which my grandmother used to carry home milk from the farmer. And maybe she used it when she went into the forest to pick berries in the autumn - who knows.

Quiltere i Trondheim

Har dere ikke sett at jeg har lagt ut en hilsen til dere - se i innlegget om bloggjubileum-I under her. Den trekni ngen blir ikke nå på torsdag, men på bursdagen min om noen få dager

Blogg-jubileum- III

This drawing in done! Winner will be published in app 12 hours from now, have to be home from work first.

To all my english-speaking friends. In three days my blog will be three years old. To celebrate I will make a little giveaway. So if you leave a comment on this post before Thursdag 28.th (norw.time) you will have a chance to win a small gift from me. Won't tell you what it is yet.

Blogg-jubileum - II

Hei - Trekningen her er nå foretatt, vinner vil bli annonsert om ca 12 timer.
Quiltere fra Trondheim quiltelag har fortsattmulighet å legge igjen kommentar på innlegg nr I - den blir trekt om noen dager, på bursdagen min.

For alle bloggevenner som leser norsk - her kan dere legge igjen en hilsen og bli med i trekningen om en liten premie. Trekningen kommer til å bli gjort på torsdag den 28.mai

Blogg-jubileum - I

Ups - om tre dager har jeg treårsjubileum her på bloggen. I den anledning blir det ett lite gavedryss her. Nå ønsker jeg meg en hilsen fra alle dere som er innom og leser, men som aldri legger igjen en hilsen. Vet blant annet at det er mange fra Trondheim quiltelag som er innom, det hører jeg stadig på møtene. Fint om dere kan legge igjen en hilsen. Om du har problemer med det, så send meg en mail på sa krøllalfa deneb.no så kan jeg sikkert hjelpe deg å finne ut av det. har du ingen gmail-konto,blog eller yahoo-konto selv, så går det an å legge inn melding som anonym, men da må du huske å skrive navn under så jeg vet hvem du er.

Alle som legger igjen en hilsen her før bursdagen min blir med i trekningen av en liten gave.



For alle dere andre - følg med i neste innlegg.

To my english-speaking friends - in three days my blog is three years - please pay attention to the next posts.

Forresten - Marit Johanne har også jubileum - sjekk bloggen hennes her:
Det har Heidi også:

Pot-holders and gardening

One more pair of pot-holders



All the trees we have to get rid of

This is the project we have been doing this weekend.

Weekend inside and outside

On the inside (of my house) there have been a little sewing.

Inpired by Pink Penguins blog I have been making potholders.
Yesterday I went to a new fabric-shop (most clothing and interior fabrics), and bought some backings for the potholders, and some thermore insulation for the inside.
I går var jeg hos Stoff og Stil og handla litt - blir nok ingen fast gjest der oppe, det var mest beklednings og interiørstoffer å finne. Men litt ble det da med i kurven.

And this morning I had to go grocery-shopping - too bad the shop is next door to my favorite quilt shop - I was only supposed to pick up the green at the lover rigth - all the orher goodies jumped into my shopping bag. Anyway - lots of money and time saved, since I did not go to the Scandinavian quilt meeting in Gotenburg this weekend.

I morges måtte jeg ut etter litt mere mat til arbeidslaget, synd quiltebutikken / Syskrinet ligger like i nærheten. Jeg skulle bare ha den grønne nederst til høyre, så jeg fikk litt mere farvespill på gryteklutene mine. Uff da - se hva som havna i handleposen! Men med tanke på alt jeg "sparer" på ikke å dra på NQT i Gøteborg denne helga, så er det vel helt greit. Sparer jo både tid og penger. Tiden har blitt brukt til anleggsarbeid og maling for det meste. Mer om det i neste post.



On the outsides - we have been doing a lot of work in the garden, and lucky DH had the possibility to play with a really boys toy!

Endelig fikk min kjære lov å kjøre gravemaskin som han har snakka om lenge. Så nå har han "rasert" hele hagen. Flere bilder kommer i morgen.

Lot's of plans for new projects

Some weeks ago I got a question about making a quilt for a little boy - well - yesterday I digged out ome fabrics - don't know which color-chose to use no 1 or 2?







Today I got up to early. While hearing a book on the cd-player - I did som cleaning up in my sewing room, collected fabrics for å few projects, and started cutting
First I found a bag full of fabrics - for potholders. Wonder how many I can make of this amount. Cutted into 2.5 inch wide strips --- follow the blog to se what's next. Inspiration from this blog:
And some other pot-holders on their way

Then I found the norwegian Quilt assosiations magazine from february this year. They had an article about mysteri-quilts - and of cause the start of a new mysteri. So i did some cutting and sewing on that one too.

I have to make 80 og this units before I can take a look in the next magazine.

Sunflower quilt and mailbox surprise

Finally - the sunflower quilt is DONE!. Started back in september 2005 - pattern form this magazine's september number
Seems it's still available as a back-issue

Endelig ble solsikkequilten ferdig. Håndapplikert etter mønster i ovennevnte blad - septembernr. Den ble pågeynt i september 2005 og har vært en skikkelig "seig en" å få has på.

I won! Wow - look what I got in the mail today - a giweaway at LEKAquilt a few days ago. Thank you so much Lena!

Jeg vant! Se på de nydelige stoffene jeg fikk i posten fra Lena på LEKA-quilt i dag. Hun hadde en giweaway for noen få dager siden. Tusen takk Lena!
And some goodies I ordered fraom Desiree's Lappeteknikk a few days ago.
Og så litt godteri som jeg bestilte med fra Desiree's Lappeteknikk for ett par dager siden.

What I have been doing lately

I have quilted an oldie, and done some sewing on the angel's basket BOM
and washed some fabrics.

And - OBS: - this fabric wouldn't stop bleeding -take a look at the waters color - the fabric is black!


By the way - Julie is having a nice giveavay - so pop over and say hello to her.

Inspiration?

Can you get some inspiration of a picture and a few napkins'? I belive so.
Kan man få inspirasjon av ett bilde og noen servietter? Jeg tror det.

Angel sewing basket - planning

After stitching two of the blocks - I found out it was time to start planning which fabrics to use. I digged out all my japanese fabrics , and came out with these color suggestions

Mail-surprise

In my mailboks a few days ago I found this lovely little goodies. Thanks a lot Wenche.

I posten for ett par dager siden fant jeg denne flotte UFOpremien. Tusen takk Wenche. Vi har hatt UFO'sying på Quiltskandinavia i årest fire første måneder, og her er premien min. Gleder meg til å lage noe med den flotte "gule" damen - må bare få ferdig ett par UFO'er til først.

Pot-holders

I made these potholders for my brothers new kitchen. It is in "caffe latte" and red. He was very pleased with the result.

Jeg lagde disse gryteklutene til min brors nye kjøkken. Det er malt rødt og caffe latte. Han ble veldig fornøyd med resultatet.

Time to do some clean up - på tide å rydde litt?
I appliqued these flowers on a really old ufo yesterday. Now it's ready for quilting.

Jeg applikerte disse to blomstene i går - frysepapirmetoden. Jeg synes det gir mye mere liv til arbeidene med slik applikasjon enn med knapphullsapplikasjon, selv om det er den siste metoden jeg har brukt mest de seneste årene. Nå er denne eldgamle ufo'en klar for quilting

Huge "stitching" project

Think I will have to slow down on my patchworking for a while - if i shall be able to finish this huge stitching project before february next year.


After three hours of sewing...

after three long evenings - all done at the cabin during easter time.

Uff da!

I was only supposed to buy some snap fasternes( trykk-knapper) and some hooks (hekter) for my dd2's bunad. And wops - a lot of fabrics jumped into my shopping basket!

A small one

After all this finishes lately, and a lof of quilting on other peoples quilts, it's time to do something else. So yesterday I cleaned up my sewing-room, stacked a lot of "homemade" kits into my cupboard and found a bag of 1.5" strips.




So today - log cabin....

Last finishes for April

After reading May-Britts blog i remembered I had to show the last finishes for april
well here they are - two of them finished last nigth the other one a few days ago. Both quilts are for charity -
The pillow i finished quilting during easter.

Left over blocks from a another quilt goes into this charity quilt. Pattern from norw. quilter Lise Bergene.

And I quilted and binded this charityquilt for a friend.