Too many flowers

I discovered the other day that my Lilac (Syrin in Norwegian) had far too many flowers on each stem, so it is bending over. But pretty and nice smell anyhow.






The rest of the pictures shown some things i have been working on this weekend. A smal purse for my daugthers friend, a red/cream leader/ender project, a small circular "bag" for storing circular knitting needles - pattern from Jordbærstedet
And the heart was on the sidewalk after a rain shower a few days ago.

Just a small taste of quilting

A small purse I made as a birthday-gift for younges dauthers friend.

It has been so hot the latest days, so I have spendt most of the time outdoors, in the garden. Wednesday my quilt-guild Trondheim Quiltelag had it's last meeting before summer. 103 ladies went by bus (2 hrs drive) north to Gjørv farm in Inderøy.
Today we can read about the trip in the newspapers here around


We had dinner, and got to se the farm, and our own exibition which is to be opened the 16.th of June together with a kimono-exibition in the same buliging at the farm

A lot of gardening lately

Først - Løyntnantshjerter fra min mormors hage i Vesterålen. Ja rabarbraen min kommer derfra også. Den står nå i full blomst, men jeg har ikke beæret den med ett bilde enda.
Så "pynterips" - vet ikke helt hva planten heter
Garasjebedet på tirsdag denne uka
Og samme bed to dager seinere
Can you ever say "finished" when you have a garden to take care of? I don't think so. The last photo shows the flowerbed I got from DH for my birthday, before-picture to the left.

Kan man noen gang si at man er ferdig når man har hage - tror ikke det. Nederst her ser du det nye blomsterbedet jeg fikk av min kjære i bursdagsgave, det gamle lå alt for lavt i terrenger, så plena grodde inn i bedet rett som det var. Men for å få bedet ferdig før han reiste på jobb, måtte jeg ta meg en dag fri fra jobb for å berge planter. Vi har hatt ca 25 grader hver dag i det siste, og da sier det seg selv at de iek tåler å stå så lenge i en trillebåre.

Drawstring-bag

A small finish today - a drawstring-bag from the norvegian quilt assosiations (NQF)meeting in Hell in april this year. The banner says "Angel from Hell" /"Engel fra Hell"

Hidden treasures

While looking for something else - I found a box full of 2.5" squares and hst's
And since I am easy to lead into something new - i started sewing blocks of these pieces. I soon recognized I had very few ligth squares/strips in that width , so I also cutted some scraps from my ligth box of scraps. What it is going to end up as ? maybe a new UFO?
Also got a step further on the batic-quilt


Mens jeg lette etter noe annet fant jeg en boks full med 2.5" store kvadrater, og ferdigsydde trekanter. Og siden jeg ikke er så vanskelig å avspore, ble det en del blokker av disse bitene. Hva det skal bli til - nei si det - en ny UFO kanskje?
Jeg fikk også sydd litt mere på batikk-quilten min.

Nothing new today

So instead I will show an oldie I am a bit proud of.
Think I made this one in 2002. It is all hand quiltet. The smallest parts is 1" finished.
I wonder if somebody knows where the pattern is from, I can't find it.

First batic-blocks finished

And almost all the fabrics come from Barbara at Quilt-design

Pillow finished

A never ending story

All three together for the last time. They are now labeled, wrapped and given to nieces and nephews.

Seems I newer get finished with those red and cream pre-cuts.

Well now I have finished one of the items I started the mysteri-weekend a couple of weeks ago.

And the pillow only needs its binding now. The white tablecloth needs to get into a sandwich - so I can handquilt it.


Also finished the quilt from the mysteri-weekend in february

To be focused on

These are the projects I want to focus on in May

First the red products from the mysteri-weekend
and the new project with only batics - all in colors between yellow and purple












And a small stitchery