Are you a QUILTER?

There's more Fabric in the House than Food
"Fat Quarters" are not the heaviest part of your body
Your ironing board is always set up but you never iron clothes
You think of your job as an interruption of your quilting time
You pet Fabric
People are always picking threads off you
You can measure a scant 1/4 by eye
"Featherweight" Doesn't mean Boxer
Your "UFO's" are not from outer space
You clean up your sewing room & they think you are leaving
I AM a quilter:)

Goodies from Kreaktiv, Jærhagen

I'm been fabric-hunting in Klepp, look at this marvellous catch from Kreaktiv at Jærhagen Mall :-)

I collect cows in all forms and shapes, so I had to have this cow-pattern!!!!

I also found two fabrics at half price, I think I am a fabric-shopaholic.....

Goodies from the new quiltshop in Moelven

One of my two disappearing-nine-patch-tabelrunners. Dove-blue linen wreathe the blocks. I really like this color :-)

The fabric stacks are the result from visitting Kari Renolens new quiltshop in Moelven.

She has taken over a quiltshop filled with fabrics because the previous owner moved to another part of the country. She had a great sale with pieces cut in 30cm.

Need I say more; I went totally crazy....

The same fabrics, but piled after colors. Enjoy :-)

Visit to Kari Renolen's new quiltshop

Kari Renolen :-)
Some of the fabrics. Goddies....

You can almost see the rainbow.

Kari has made a lot of patterns for bags and purses.

A tablerunner with buttons. You can deside how long you want it to be by unbutton one or two parts. The flowers are made by paintsticks.

At the window sill some small purses were placed.

Mothers Cupboard - giveaway

Mothers Cupboard is celebrating her 50th blog-entry; so go to her blog for a comment :-)

FREEBIES for CRAFTERS

Great website for you who ever looking for free patterns and tutorials.

Go there and see for yourself.

I promise you; You will not be disappointed!!!

The great Inklingo giveaway

Here is your change to win a kit containing all the fabrics you need to make a small project.

You can;

1) Leave a comment on the post that has the prize you'd like to win and

2) make a post on your blog if you have one

Take care!

Meeting in Vestre Toten Lappelag last Thursday

At our last meeting in Vestre Toten Lappelag Ruth showed us her new pompadour with cute stitchery. Ruth was in a good mood and cheered us up :-)

The stitchery says: "i mårra blir det godvær!" Freely translated: "tomorrow will it be sunshine".

I hope you will have a great weekend with lot of sunshine!

I'm travelling to Stavanger. My sister's twins are going to have their confirmation/civic initiation on Saturday. I'm looking forward to meet my two sisters, my only brother, my mother and of course my nephew and my niece.

My birtday-giveaway-winners are....

Last Wednesday was my birtday. You could add a comment to me to get a Norwegian quilt-pattern. I took two new patterns as my starting point but I had to add another two patterns to my giveaways.

The author of the pattern is AnnAKa, a well-known quilter in Norway.

To all of you who added a happy birtday to me; THANK YOU ALL!!!!

At last; the winners are;

Dreamlake (Laura), Mona, Laila and Mokina

An important message in plain words

Take care!

Goodies from several quiltshop visits

From Husfliden in Tromsø; two half metres of japanese fabrics (left), two metres of Diza-like fabrics with angels (in the middle) and 3 other fabrics. All of them except the japanese fabrics were 70% sale. I pulled off a coup I think :-)

I also manage to get some boat-plastic to sewing projects.....

Close up Tromsø-goodies.

At Kathrines Quilte Stue I was tempted to buy these lovely fabrics, one booklet and one stitchery-pattern. Hmmmmm.

The Kathrines Quilte Stue pile of fabrics. Very springly!

I bought Tildas embroidery-yarn parcel and two new fabrics at "Striestua" in Oslo. I also came over some buttons and embellishments, but I forgot to take them along when I took the photo.

From "Cotton Patch" in England I ordered this late in march. This book is really fantastic!!!!! "Daily Patchwork Bag"; Choose from 45 different bags, ranging in size from small hand held bags to over the shoulder. Several designs have full scaled size patterns, all come with step-by-step diagrams. Written in Japanese.

I have a beautiful wooden-calendarframe bought at Kathrines Quilte Stue for many years ago. I have also many annual volumes of quilt-calendars, but I didn't manage to get one for this year until now.

I also pre-paid 6 issue subscription of Australian Homespun Magazine to start from the issue no.70 vol.10 no.3. I'm a cancer survivor and the charity quilt project (Breast for Friends) started in this issue. But last week I got this message: "Thank you for your reply - we will subscribe you to Homespun with the next available issue. We have had a large increase in orders for this magazine so there may be a delay in sending you your first issue. We have to order many months in advance for each issue from Australia." Perhaps I could get somebody of you blogreaders to help me.....?
At last I bought a winter-theme stitchery.

The monthly patterns in the calendar. Many great projects!