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.

Two more finishes

Just finished a pillow, made of the leftovers from a lap quilt (still in progress...)


and a pair of pot-holders - with a cute chicken designed by Wenche Wolff Hatling

First apple picked

Marit just "HAD TO" test the first apple today. Doesn't it look good?

And I finished the last Angle-block yesterday - and has started to put it together today. I FQ is "almost" enough for the borders. ( I managed to get enough by joining three of the strips with one end of the edge-cutoff)

Early Sunday morning

I woke up rather early this morning - so I went down to my sewingroom and had a couple of hours aleone down here.
First I did a little bit more cleaning up on my counter. Next projevt was to finish the black/green pillows - well they alle all done by now.


After that I got back to another UFO - a green stripe quilt. Only a few blocks missing on that one now - I really look forward to start piecing it together.
Didn't bother to heat the iron, so after a few stripes it was stop on that one, well on to the next project - applique on my new bom.


One block almost done, the 3 others on their way - I just have to buy some more medium green silk thread to get further on.

Now it's time for a bike-ride with my youngest.