Oh! I forgot I have another two finishes!

I fotgot to blog these two finishes. I finished the two pairs of knitted socks early this month. I made them for my two youngest boys. A pair of grey/white ones for Thomas, and a pair of dark blue/white ones for Mats. I guess they will not get used this winter, since it's no longer so cold anymore, but they are ready for next season:O)












Outside it's snowing a little bit. But we shure feel the Spring temperatures, and when the sun rises it feels really warm. I look forward to Easter, and hope there will be some sunny days too:O) I have not prepared any Easter projects, but I will do some this weekend. Some Easter eggs in fabric stuffed, and maybe some pearls... We'll see:O)

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)

Blogging without pictures :O(

Ahwww! I'm not able to blog with any pictures these days:O( My new lap top just crashed the other day, and all my stuff is gone. Pictures, e-mails, ideas and worst of all... my new pattern is lost! The hard drive is totally ruined, and now I'm waiting for a new one from the dealer. I can honestly say I did swear out loud when I did find out it's nothing I can do to save my stuff. I got the pc in December last year, and it's already dead! GRRRRR! I did get the new one because the old one crashed so many times, so the dealer sent me a brand new one. I cannot figure out how it's possible for a new one to crash like this, but these pc's are not to depend on!!! Make backup's out there!!!
I was just making some more copies of my Easter pattern, when it went black, so now I have to redo all of it. I never made a back up....
Well, lesson learned...
Now I'm using my kids pc, and no quilting pictures here, strange... :O) But I'll just use the time waiting to be back "on net", on sewing, so I'll go back to my sewing room again now :O)

I wish you all a great weekend, and happy sewing!
Laila

Some Kaleidoscope blocks

When I woke up this mornig, we had no power. It have been quite stormy outside for days now, but last night it really got windy! The power came back about half past nine this morning, so it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Phew!!! The storm continued till this morning, and it haven't stopped blowing yet. It's not that bad outside now, but no weather to spend the day outside...
I have been handquilting a little bit today, and I made some new Kaleidoscope blocks for the light/blue quilt I am working on. I saw a quilt on the internet with this star in the middle, so I decided to try that.I have no idea how big this quilt will be, I'm just sewing blocks at this point :O)
I should add more of the dark fabric somewhere, but I haven't figured out where yet.

Wish you all a great week, and happy sewing:O)
Laila

The winners are....

I had help from my two youngest boys to pick two of you girls, that left me a comment on the Give away.... And the winners are: Satu (Quilttales) and Laila (Jacob's Quilt)Congratulations :O) Please send me an e-mail with your adresses, and I'll ship the patterns to you:O)

Thanks to everyone that left a comment! I'm so grateful for your nice words.

I've had so much fun designing this pattern, and guess I'll be doing more of this:O)

Happy sewing,
Laila

A give away of course!

I wanna celebrate the release of my Easter pattern, so I will have a giveaway of course!
If you would like to win a pattern, I have 2 to give away. Leave a comment and I will draw the winners on Sunday.....good luck:o)
Laila

My secret project :o)

This is how my table runner for Easter looks like:o) Designing this one, was such fun, and I am already thinking about a new project:o)
But got a lot of other things to finish first, so I'll work on it between everything else.

The projects I am going to list for March finishes are: The Easter table runner in light colors, the knittet socks; have to get them done this month... I didn't have time to do that last month... Then I am going to finish the Kaleidoscope quilt I started on.

Outside the sun is shining, but it's blowing too much to sit outside. But the days are longer each day now, and we have a wonderful spring to look forward to.

Wish you all a great day, and happy sewing:o)
Laila

FINALLY!!!

Now I am able to breath out after a hard working day! I finally managed to finish my Easter pattern, and it will be released tomorrow:o) I'm soooo excited!!!
A little sneakpeak:o)
I will deliver it to Siw at Quiltegården tonight, and she will have for sale at her quilt shop tomorrow:o)
Happy sewing,
Laila

Busy days...

Have been so busy these days. Not even time for some blogging. I also forgot to blog my finished project on the Challenge, but sometimes time is not easy to control:o) I did the list though...
Siw, the owner of Quiltegården, was busy cutting fabrics for one the BOM's she is having in her store:o) She is always a big smile, and I love her store!

Right picture: Siw, Hanne (our teacher) and Hanne-Kristine.

I had such a wonderful time both Saturday and Sunday down at Quiltegården. Hanne is such a great teacher, and both the hand quilting class and Kaleidoscope class was such a great experience! I've already planned to do a Kaleidoscope quilt, just got to have some other things done first. I got to finish the blocks for the little quilt I started this weekend, and I'm pretty satisfied with the result. I am going to make a little table runner of it. Just have to add a border first.
I love the effects of these blocks, don't you?
I am going to list this one in the Challange as a finish for March, and I will list some other things too, in a later post. Just have to use one more day to figure out the rest of them. I'll post them tomorrow:o)

Happy sewing,
Laila

Hand quilting

I've learned some of the secrets about hand quilting today, and it's so much fun!
This is what I did today, on the class Hanne teached. It's a bit tricky to get the control of the tiny needles, but once you've managed to do, you just wanna go on and on and on... Addictive!!!
I am quilting with a silk thread in silver with a touch of blue. Look forward to wash the quilt when I'm done quilting, to see the result.

Happy sewing:o)
Laila

Happy Birthday to my two Hearties:o)

My two youngest boys are 12 years today! Wow! The time really flies!
I've been busy baking the chocolate cake they asked for today, and decorated with some baloons inside the house, and some outside of the house before they return from school.
So no sewing for me today:o)
But that's ok, I'm gonna be busy sewing the rest of the week end;o) I'll share that with you tomorrow and on Sunday, when I get back from Hanne's classes.
We are having our family over for dinner and cakes later today, and I hope the kids will have a great day!
Outside it's snowing soooo much, just had to catch a pic of it! Winter Wonderland... I like the snow, and don't mind it's a lot of it coming, but I hope it will be some sunny days too, soon:o)

Wish you all a great week end, and happy sewing:o)

Laila

Finally the DJ top is done!

Got to sew this block (D-9)this morning, and now I've finally made my goal on making the top for the hand quilting class next week. This is how the top turned out:
I regret making the sashing so wide between the blocks, but no way I'm redoing this one! I'll just have to figure out some quilting pattern now, and I think I'll be using my scallop template to make scallops on the border. That is why I made the outher border so wide.
I've really enjoyed making these blocks, even if it takes a lot of time and is a lot of work.
But I've learned my lesson about heat and ironing... I ironed some of the blocks too much, and it shows... And I did use two different shades of the background fabric... Guess that's not so smart... But it is so difficult to see when it's a bit bad light in the evening (and nights hi-hi).

I've also managed to do some embrodery this week end. Yesterday the postman brought me a package with an embrodery kit I ordered. It's a small one, but oh so small stitches... But I just fell in love with it when I saw it, and you bet I'll frame it and put it up on the wall :o)
Isn't it sweet? It mesures 5" x 7".

Another DJ-block done:o)

Even with a migraine, it is possible to do some sewing. I was so tired of the headache today, I just continued stitching on another DJ block. I'm not the type that can sit still and doing nothing... I did this block, and it did'nt take such a long time like the others, so now it's only one block to finish for my top. I'm not going to do that tonight, but hope the day tomorrow will be a more productive day when it comes to sewing...
(Ps! I forgot to check the book for the coloring of the pieces, and did it wrong, but I'll keep it this way)
Happy sewing:o)
Laila

Some Dear Jane again

Today we had a lot of snow again, so it's really nice with all the white snow. Cannot help it, I like snow! It all looks so clean then.
I went with my two youngest boys and a friend of them, outside today, and it's so great to see them having fun in the snow with snowboard and snow racers. We are so lucky to have a great place so close to our home, with a great hill where they can have a lot of fun. It's also lights surrounding the place, so we can go there after dark too.
After spending some time outside, we went home and made hot chocolate and salty biscuits with cream cheese and grapes. So cozy!
I got to do some sewing earlier today, before we went out. But later tonight, I got to piece together the Dear Jane block nr C-5. It was a bit tricky to get it even, but I'm pretty satisfied with the result. Now I only have two more to do for the little wallhanging I am going to do. I'm going to hand quilt it when I'm going to Hanne's class next week end, so I just have to hurry up a bit, to get the top ready. I like the hand quilting so much, because it looks more antique then. Cannot wait to start learning how to do that!

Some projects finished:o)

Awesome MySpace Graphics & Myspace Layouts

Finally I got some projects finished! I finished the red and light baby quilt. It mesures about 221/2" x 291/2". I also finished the little toiletry bag. I did some changes on the toiletry bag,

because I didn't have a zipper that fitted the original size... I also used the scallops template, and changed the top. Since I had alredy cut the corners, it is a bit wide in the bottom, but lessoned learned:o)
I did finish knitting the socks for my boys too, but I have to tie up the threads before I can call it a finish:o) So I'll post them later.

A couple of days ago I got the first pattern from Giggle Button,
and it is a sweet little bag with a beautiful stitchery. I am going to trace the stitchery and start on it tonight. In my neighbourhood, we ladies meet once every other week, and I usually have some hand stitching or knitting with me. I actually I do that no matter where I go... :o)

Finished the quilting

I finally got to quilt this one, and I ended up just quilting some tiny swirls/loops on it. Not the most advanced quilting, and a bit difficult to see when I quilted white on white, and red on red... Well, better finished than perfect as they say:o)
I am going to do another one, and I will try to come up with some more exciting quilting on that one. I did get a bit tired of all the small loops to be honest...
Now it's only the binding that's left, and I'll get to that one tomorrow I guess:o)

A challenge

I have recieved a challenge from Hanne and Laila.
The challenge goes like this:
Pick out picture nr. 6 from folder nr. 6 on you pc.

My picture is one I actually forgot about. It is taken with my camera outside the house we moved from (a year ago). It is a pic of the sunrise at 08.48 in the morning 31.10.2007
I really like this photo, but I'm glad I have an even lovlier wiew where I live today:o) Where we live now, we are having the most wonderful scenes of sunrises, sundowns, wiewing the thunderstorms in the summer and a lot of other things that goes on in the sky.

I will send this challenge forward to Darcie, Hannequilt,Abyquilt, Gro and Julie.

This last week have been a looong week, with not much sewing. But I look forward to get some sewing done after a lovely dinner today, and I am going to continue on some of the projects i want to finish for the challenge I joined, and maybe some quilting on the little quilt with stars I am soon finished with.
I have some new ideas on the quilting, and I am going to make a practice piece to try it on.

Quilting...

Finally I got to quilt a little bit on my little quilt. I did some tiny meandering on the stars, and now I'll have to figure out how to quilt the blocks, around the stars. I'm not shure I want to do meandering here, and how much I want to quilt it. if I quilt a pattern that fills all the space between the stars, i am afraid the quilt will look a bit boring... and maybe flat. Don't you think? Anyway, i did cut for 18 more blocks of these. I want to do a larger quilt using this red and lights. I really like them a lot! It would look nice with a scrappy border surrounding the star blocks.
The next days will be filled with a lot of other things than sewing and quilting, because we are having arrangements at work that will keep me busy Wednesday and Thursday. But I'm off work on Friday, and that will be a looong sewing day for me:o) Look forward to that!

Some red and white with a scrappy look :o)

I've never used much red fabrics in my projects, but this week end I used
only red and white in a little baby quilt. I have been buying some red fabrics now and then, to get to use them in a quilt. I want to to a quilt in red and light fabrics, with the four patches, I really like those tiny ones:o) I bought the Buggy Barn book "Gone Crazy", at Quiltegården in November last year, but haven't had time to use it before now. I love the crazy looking stars, and started cutting yesterday. I finished piecing the bocks today, and joined them into this little quilt.
The only trouble is, I cannot figure out how to quilt it. It's been too long since I did practise freemotion quilting, and I gave up after I tried two times... Guess I'll have to practise som more before I get any further on this.

Playing around

I have been playing both with Picasa, and with fabrics today:o)
I got to finish a block from one of Judy Martin's books. A scrappy star of course!
This was a really tricky block, but now that I've made this first one, I know how to do it. The tricky part was to find out which way to iron the seems. I love this block! Even if it's a tricky one, and the cutting is a lot different than I usually do it.
Just because i played with it in Picasa, I did add two pics of my baby quilt as well:o)
Hope to finish that one by the end of February!