Sytreff / Quilting weekend

Denne helga skal jeg på sytreff. Gleder meg til å treffe "gamle" og nye likesinnede. Håper og tror vi greier å holde varmen mens vi syr :-) - her er det minus 16 og sterk vind - i Saltdal viser nok gradestokken enda flere kuldegrader.

I'm almost ready for leaving - I'm going to meet "old" and new quilting friends. We will sew and have fun the whole weekend. I hope we can keep warm. At the moment it's minus 16 and windy. In Saltdal where the meeting is held, it's even colder.

Ha ei god og kreativ helg!
Wish you all a creative and nice weekend!

One old and one new

This tablerunner was a UFO - from a couple of years ago I think- now it's done :-) It's not so often I make something to myself, but this dark brown collar and cap are. I bought the yarn one and a half week ago. It was fun to knit something else than socks. The pattern is from Rauma

Have a nice day/evening!

Award

Tusen takk AnneMette for "awarden" du har gitt meg!
I forbindelse med denne skal jeg linke tilbake til den som ga meg den, si 7 ting om meg selv og sende den til andre som jeg synes fortjener den.
Thank you very much for the award Anne-Mette!
When you get this award you have to send a link back to the person who sent it, tell 7 things about yourself and send the award to someone else.

1. Jeg drikker ikke kaffe
2. Er allergisk mot katter
3. Er livredd hoggorm
4. Bestemte meg allerede som 11-åring for hva jeg skulle bli
5. Synes høsten er den fineste årstida
6. Koser meg skikkelig når jeg kan lytte til musikk av Louis Armstrong og Duke Ellington
7. Skulle gjerne hatt en heil dag i en amerikansk quiltebutikk

1. I don't drink coffee
2. I'm allergic to cats
3. I'm veeery afraid of viper
4. I decided my profession already when I was 11 years old
5. My favourite time of the year is the autumn
6. I really enjoy listening to music by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
7. I wish I could spend a whole day in an American Quilt shop

Hvem skal få denne "awarden"? Det er nesten umulig å plukke ut noen få; det er så utrolig mange flotte blogger som gir masse inspirasjon.
Who am I going to give this award? It's almost impossible to chose a few because there are sooo many great blogs which give me inspiration.
Men denne gang velger jeg å gi den til:

But this time I choose: Anne Ida, Stina, Karen, Leanne,
Lena, Merete, Hellen

Online again

Hurrah! I'm online again after almost a week without Internet. It wasn't nice at all not to get e-mails, not to be able to visit blogs, no activity on my own blog.

Last Saturday and Sunday 6 quilting friends and I met. We had a great time together - sewing , talking, laughing. I prepared some applique for a wallhanging I will make, and made progress on several UFOes. The turquoise pieces will probably turn into table mats one day.

Will be back soon :-)

OPAM 2010

Last year I took part of the OPAM that May Britt and Kris hosted. I thought it was a great idea - it's okay to get a push to finish things - so I signed in again. This year it's hosted by Kris and Peg. Now I have a table runner I started on a couple of years ago done, and I'm working on another one. The green socks are finished too.

Have a creative week!

Quilting plans for 2010

This is what I like to do in 2010.

1. Finish at least 10 UFOes

2. Not create new UFOes ....

3. Reduce my fabric stash

4. Join a quilting class or two

Well, do you think I'll reach my goals? :-)

Årets første UFOer / First UFOes of the year

Har funnet fram noen gamle halvferdige ting som forhåpentligvis kan bli til noe nyttig om ikke alt for lenge. Har alltid som mål å minske antallet UFOer når vi runder et nytt år, men så kommer andre til.
Have found some old unfinished items which hopefully can turn into something nice. At the beginning of a new year, I always intend to reduce the number of UFOes, but you know how it is......... There will be new ones
Strikketøy er alltid tilgjengelig; her er et par som jeg skal få unna.

Some knitting is always available - here is a couple of projects I want to finish quite soon.

A new year

Håper alle har hatt en fin start i det nye året.
Takk for kommentarer på det siste innlegget mitt! Mange har spurt hvor mønteret på spisebrikkene kommer fra. De er å finne i Elisabeth Gjones bok " Den store lappeboken - inspirasjon, fagevalg, blokkmønster. Boken kom ut i 2001. Jeg liker mønsteret godt og har sydd brikker i andre farger tidligere. Det blir nok ikke siste gang jeg benytter meg av det.

I hope you all have had a good start on the new year.
Thanks for all the comments on my last post! Many of you have asked where to find/buy the place mats pattern. The pattern is from a Norwegian book written by Elisabeth Gjone - "Den store lappeboken - inspirasjon, fargevalg, blokkmønster". I like the pattern very much, so this is not the first time I've used it. Definitely not the last time either.

Har startet det nye året med strikking, men nål og tråd er ikke langt unna :-)

Have started the new year with knitting, but needle and tread are not too far away :-)