Rainy days are great sewing days :o)

Today is another rainy day, and I have been
spending the day inside, in my sewing room :o)
Finished this sweet purse for a young girl, who is having her birthday soon. Her mom asked me if I could make her this, and she picked out the fabrics for it. She likes butterflies, so I hope she'll like it :o)
The pattern is "Gla' veska" by AnnAKa, with a few changes from my own head.

I am working on one in black and turquoise too, and hope to finish it today. A college of mine asked me to make that one.
These are fun projects to make, and they are not as time consuming as a lot of the other projects I have going on. It feel so good to finish something now and then too :o)

Yesterday I had such a great day with Sølvi at her place. I was there to pick up a few quilts I am going to help her finish quilting. I got to try her Megaquilter, It was the first time I quilted this way, but it was so fun!!! Now I am even more anxious to buy a mid arm quilting machine!!! I quilted a quilt top one of the ladies made for the Care quilt project.
Several ladies in our quilt guild are making these for kids with long term diseases, and I am happy to do my share. It's based on charity, and there are a lot of beautiful quilts made, and most of them have been delivered to Sølvi, and quilted by her. She has quilted a lot of quilts, and is such a talented quilter. She has a blog with this projects, go check it out :o)

I'll have to return to my sewing room, so:

A finish :o)

Yesterday i finished the table runner I've been working on for some days now. I didn't get time to post it then, but finally... a finish again!
I love these fabrics so much, and I've already planned some more with them ;o)

I've made a similar one earlier, but that is so long ago! It was quite a treasure hunt to find these fabrics, I can tell you. It started when I found the first pieces at Quiltegården more than 4 years ago. I also bought the book "True Friends" by Art to Heart, and I fell in love with them right away. But to sad to say, they where nowhere to be found, they where sold out! Typical me, to fall in love with an old line of fabric...
I started searching Google. I don't know how many hours, and how many months I searched, but i finally found them. In so many different places! I got in touch with a lovely lady, Bobbie, and she helped me to get in touch with a store that didn't have an internet connection, but had some of the fabrics in stock. So I got some of the ones I wanted. I also got some great help from Elisabeth at Lapp-Elisa in Sweden, and bought most of the blue and green fabrics from her quilt shop. Of corse I bought several yards of those I could, and I am now happily using them in quilts and stuff as I like. The one fabric I liked the most, the blue one with the tiny flowers, I couldn't find anywhere, and I had just a little piece of it, which I got from Siw at Quiltegården. But a while ago I got it from Mona. She saw the "WANTED" add on my blog, and sent me an e-mail. Thanks again Mona:o) She had two 30 cm (about 1/4 yard) pieces for me, so we traded fabrics :o) And I also got one from Hanne, one of my "classmates" here in Trondheim, so now I can finish the quilt I started in 2007, wich is almost finished:o) Just have to add a couple of rows around to get it big enough. I'm not going to do that soon, because I have planned to finish some other things first, there will be a time for that one too :o)
This is so typical me, not giving up until I've tried to find what I'm looking for. I bet you can relate to this too:o) Once you've got some special things on your mind, you just can't forget it, and try your best to get it:o) It's worse than itching sometimes!!! LOL! But the satisfaction when it gets real, and the fun... It's definetely worth it! But I guess this is some of the reasons the words "crazy" and "addicted" is in our vocabulary...?
But I'm one happy crazy fabric addict!!! :o)

Happy sewing,
Laila

Soon a finish :oD

Whoo hoo! I'm almost finished with the table runner now. I finished the quilting yesterday, and the applique today. Did the applique with the buttonhole stitch on my machine and quilting thread that matches the appliqued pieces.
The quilting is done with Yli silk thread, so it kind of blends in to all the different fabric colors.


I didn't do any intricate quilting pattern, and since I like this one, it was an easy choice to make :o) And no need to mark the quilt ;o)
I've already attached the binding to the quilt, and the rest of the evening I will enjoy hand piecing some of it.
Have a great evening,
Laila

My goals for June

I have not been able to have as many finishes for the OPAM 2009 as I planned. Isn't it funny, how life just happens, and things just have to be reorganized a bit...Even if we're quilt maniacs, and prioritize to do some sewing?
I have only one goal for this month, and that is to finish the table runner I just started working on. I have ironed on the tulips, and I have not made up my mind about to hand stitch the tulips, or using the sewing machine. I'll check on my threads before I make up my mind about that...
I like the look of the hand stitches the best, but if I'm ever gonna finish it, it will take less time to use the machine...
Well, I'll make that choice tomorrow. It's far behind bedtime, so I'll just wish you all a great Friday, and hope you all will have a splendid weekend ;o)
Happy sewing,
Laila

A new table runner

I had a day off work today, and digged out some scraps from my scrap bin. It was a bunch of precut squares from the fabric line I love the most, "True Friends" by Benartex. I cut these two years ago, and now they are finally pieced together, to make a summer table runner. I'm not finished with it yet, but just the outer border with more scraps is left. And i am going to make some tulips in the white border. If any of you have the book "True Friends" from Nancy Halvorsen/Art to Heart, you know what tulips I'm talking about.
Aren't these fabrics beautiful?I'll continue work with this tomorrow, so I hope to get the tulips finished for the borders :o)

Happy sewing to you all :o)
Laila

Back in Blogland again :O)

I'm finally back in Blogland again, after a loooooong break because of computer trouble. I've lost almost all of my pictures, but I'm glad I have some of it on a backup cd. But all my e-mails are gone, so I'm not able to answer back to you that left me a message before 14th of March:O( Please send me a new mail, and I'll respond to you.

I have'nt been sewing much the last 14 days. I've had a lot of migraine again, and my neck is not cooperating at all. But that's how it is with me, so I just wait for better days:O) They will come, I know:O)

I managed to finish one project this month, not much, but still... a finish. I finished the baby quilt I started with a while ago. I'm satisfied with the result, so I guess I'll be making more of these:O)
I'm thinking about making a baby quilt for a boy next time, since I have a lot of lovely blue fabrics that fits for a project like that.
I have so many projects going on, but it works best for me to do it this way, and I know they will be finished sometime, it just takes some time:O)
I look forward to the Easter Holidays, I've planned to do a lot of sewing then:O)

It has been so busy this month, so I have not had time to sew much... But that is ok, this time:-) We move into our new home on Friday this week. We are so excited!! We have waiting so long for this, and now it's time. I look forward to have a bigger room for my sewing machine and me, so I know it will be a hole lot of sewing when the Easter Holidays are over:-)

I made this piece a time ago, but I really love this Angel:-)


This is one of the quilts I hope to finish this year. I planned to have this one my self. I love the fabrics I did use, and I had such a job collecting the fabrics. But it was worth it! It is the True friends collection by Benartex/Nancy Halvorsen. If anyone have the blue one, with flowers on, and want to trade with me, I would be really happy! Just let me know:-)