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

my Australian quilt is done

Finally I puttet the last stitches to my Australian quilt today. All made of scraps - and my quiltbuddy made a simliar one, also from my scraps. We only bougth backing, borders and bindings. Had this one professionally quilted by Anita at AKD - she does pretty work.



So for a week now I have been working on the binding, and have also added some more embroidery around the scarecrow, after the picture was taken - had to do that earlier today - when there was enough ligt outsides.

Jippi - 2 pillows finished

Autumn colors

We are just back from a trip to my parents cabin. Had to show you the nice autumn colors, and all the mushrooms we got this time.

Inspiration is back

After a lot of thinking about what to do with these stitcheries - I saw a picture of a pillow - and that made me do something about mine too. These two will be pillows, so the last few days I have been cutting and sewing small squares to the sides of the stitchery-panels.


The blue one even got a piced backing - made me use up all the cutted blue squares, and made a 30cm enough fabric for the back.

Angels in October

The Angel-BOM Angels for all seasons are finally done! (started last August)The red one is the last one.







And Solveig tried the nap-quilt yesterday - with pins along one of the long sides of binding, hope to finish that one tonight

Autumn is here

Autumn is here. This lovely flowers were bougth in Molde last weekend,
and are still shining up my living-room.





This weekend we had a lot of fog in the mornings, but saturday we agreed
on going on a trip into the deep forests of Skaun anyway. Found a lot of
different mushrooms, the pictures show a lot of the ones we did not pick
- because I do not know wheter they are good to eat or will poison us.

We also got some Kantareller of two different sorts - the yellow ones
are already in the freezer, the darker ones are on my counter waiting to
dry. When we came home we also made a good soup with some mushrooms and
bacon in it. mmmmmmmm.

Saturday evening we tried to make springrolls - and my parents and son
came over for dinner.
I also did a little sewing, and came one step forward, and two steps
backward on my green quilts. Had to undo the quilting on the tablecloth
- it went bulky.

A very nice weekend

Last weekend my youngest daugther and I had a nice trip down to Bergen by plane, and back home by the costal steamer Trollfjord. After a nice warm afternoon of sigthseeing in Bergen, we boarded the costal steamer in the evening.

Next day in Ålesund - a very white town, with a
lot of Jugend-style houses, since the whole town burned down in 1912. We
had three hours in good company with three quilt-ladies there. Did some
sigthseeing, and had a very nice lunch in a cafe.




Further north, the city of Molde - with Seilet - the new hotel.
And the next morning back in hometown Trondheim,
the boat was in at 6.a.m but did'n leave until 12., so we had a nice
long breakfast before we went home.