A give away and more.....

Today I found a give away on Anna´s blog, beautiful pink fabrics, perfect for my Hearts of Love quilt. I hope I´m the lucky girl.....

Here is a picture of the hidden project from my last post. It´s an easy one, only squares. I really love the fabrics, Midwest Modern by Amy Butler. This quilt will be quite big and mine.
(A secret: There is no quilt so far that´s mine, only small wall hangers and bags, but no one that I can wrap around me....only made gifts so far....)

The Baby Boy quilt from last post couldn´t be finished this month. My only piece of batting which was too small for my mother´s quilt (10 cm) was too small for this quilt too (5 cm).
That means that my only finish for February is my mother´s cat quilt. I still have no photo of it when finished, but I hope it´s ok anyway....

I used my batting for another smaller project, my pinwheels, but no pictures so far....

Take care

Helena

I did it today!

I finished my baby boy quilt top. The photo is not the best but I will try to get better ones after it has been quilted. This evening I prewashed the back fabric and tomorrow I will sandwich the quilt. Can I add it to my February finishes? Maybe....

As you can see there is another project hidden behind the top. It´s a quilt I started to work on a couple of weeks ago.

This beautiful fabrics were staring at me from my cupbord and asked to be cut....

And of course I couldn´t resist and there it was, a stack of squares, ready to be pieced together.
Next time I will show you how it looks so far.

Take care,

Helena

Hearts of Love

On Valentines day I cut the first strip for my Hearts of Love quilt. I just had to do it that day, maybe it will bring some luck.....
Today I went on with the cutting, squares and stripes......

I don´t exactly know what the quilt will like when finished, but I have a picture in my head.
There will be some stitcheries and applique, a lot of angels and hearts.

I will make 16 big blocks, like a sort of BOM, that together will be a king size quilt. Each block will measure 18" x 21" and can be used as a little wall hanger or a few of them together can make a baby quilt.

Todays work. The triangles will be stars and pinwheels.

This angel is transfered to fabric and ready to be stitched.

Longing for tomorrow, then I will do some applique, and finish a quilt top, and add a border to my pinwheel quilt and......of course work on the dresses.....pictures will come soon.

Take care,

Helena

Busy, busy, busy!

Cats, cats, cats, wonder how many there are?

Finally I finished this top, two days before my mothers birthday, and it was time for some quilting. That was what I thought, but no, sometimes nothing goes my way.....
I ironed the back fabric, lay it out flat and then the batting....too small....about 10 cm were missing....xxxxxxx (too awful words).
About 1 hour by car to the nearest quiltshop, but no car. And no birthday present for my mum.... (Yes, I could have started earlier, I know, but that´s not me. I create the best under pressure...)

A closer look

Next day, Wednesday, I´ve got an idea. A couple of years ago I purchased a piece of fleece for a robe, but never made it. There were 3 meters and the right colour....I don´t know if I like to put fleece on a quilt, but what should I´ve done instead...? It became very cozy and she really loved it....because of that it was the right choice.

Betsy, look what I did! It was very helpful this time, thank you for the idea!

Worked all day and almost all night, 2.30 am I cut of the last thread.....5 1/2 hours later I had to leave for Copenhagen.... We went there to celebrate my mothers 75th birthday, I and my daugther and my sister.....and mum, of course. We had a wonderful day, but when it was time to drive home again it was very snowy. 4 hours instead of 2 on the road, and we came home about 2.30 am.......Guess who was tired and what I did on Friday....

There was no time to take pictures of the finished quilt, I will do that next time I visit mum.

Take care,

Helena

Cats, cats, cats....

Do you remember Alfons? It´s my son´s little cat. Now he is about 1/2 year old and has grown a lot (but still the cutest...except that day he chewed on my new bag....).
On this pictures he´s just a very small kitten, but the most wonderful little creature I´ve ever seen....


My mother also loves cats, she has one herself, a big, grey and white boy called Ylle. I think we are a cat family, all of us love cats. Sorry that no one can stay with us, that´s because I´m allergic.

Next week it´s my mother´s birthday, and I decided to make her a quilt. I purchased beautiful cat fabrics a while ago, and now I got use for them.

I cut out the cats and made them to blocks.

Then I put them together like this.

Today I will add a lot of squares and borders to finish the top. Hope she will like it!
But first of all I will take a walk, the sun is shining and that doesn´t happen every day......

Have a nice day/evening/night/morning.....wherever you are!

Helena

I´ve been thinking....

....about blogging and awards and challenges and other things that figures in Blogland. What´s my opinion about all this?
I love blogging and Blogland and all inspiration and friends and all that part of it. But when it comes to awards and challenges I feel a bit split.
Of course it´s a worderful thing both to give and to recieve nice words about a blog and I love challenges. I willingly tell you things about myself and other things if you ask me.
So, what´s the problem?
After turning my brain inside out I realized that it is when it comes to the nominating part that I don´t feel comfortable. I don´t want to choose a few blogs from all wonderful ones I read. I will feel free to give my friends, new or old, my own "awards" spontaneously when I visit a blog that makes me feel like that.
And I don´t want to nominate people that have the same feelings like me about it, I want them to feel comfortable.
Don´t misunderstand me, I feel happy when you tell me you like my blog, I feel proud when I get compliments. But I will get them and give them without obligation.
There are so many blogs in Blogland that I love to read and I hope you will like to visit mine.
And about challenges, I think it´s fun. I´m not afraid of telling you things about myself or whatever the challenge is about, so I think it´s the nominating thing that is the problem here to.
But don´t be afraid of asking me things, that´s ok, if I´ve got an answer you will get it. And I´m more than happy to read things about you and your life.
That´s that! All this are written directly from my heart and as you know English isn´t "my" language, I sometimes think it´s difficult to describe feelings. I hope you understand me anyway, and I will be happy to hear your opinion. Please leave a comment!

Now I´ll show you something I would have showed you quite a long time ago.


Nanabarb tagged me and of course I will do what she told me to do. First I will tell you 10 things about myself that I´ve never told before. I will try, not sure everything are news.

1. I´m left handed.
2. I´m afraid of dogs but love cats. (Dogs are cute on pictures)
3. I love watching documentaires about medicine, especially deliveries.
4. I´m trying to learn HTML, how fun!
5. I love to make tables, lists and diagrams.
6. I walk about 2 hours every day.
7. I have one sister, but I have always wanted a big brother. (Sorry Johanna, love you!) Maybe too late for that wish?
8. I hate watching sports, especially if there are balls included.
9. I can´t count to 10.....lol

5 things that I´m addicted to:

1. My fabrics and all that stuff
2. My computer
3. Dark chocolate, there is a bar filled with lemon and ginger, that´s my favorite!
4. My pedometer
5. That thing that helps you get rid of the curls in your hair and make it straigth, what is it called in English?

Then I got an award from Laila.

Thank you very much, I´m proud you have chosen me.

The meaning of this award:

This blog invests and believes in Proximity - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming ... These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement!
Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Pass the award on to 6 fellow bloggers, to include the above text in their blog. So ... please visit and give more attention to these writers ...


I will pass this award to all nice bloggers out there, you all have wonderful blogs, love them!

At last another thing that I promised to show you. I´ve found time. Tid is the Swedish word for time and you can find it on a square in Kristianstad in the south of Sweden. The bad thing is that I had to leave it there, too big to fit in our car. But if you are in a hurry you know where to find it!

Now I have to stop before my keyboard is overheated. Many words this time. But I hope you understand what I mean....if you managed read all.

I´ll soon be back with pictures of what has happened in Syverkstan the last days...
See you!

Helena

Happy Birthday Josefin!

Once upon a time this little wonderful, sweet and crazy little girl was born. I feel like it was yesterday, but today it´s her birthday and believe it or not:

Josefin 19

Happy Birthday!!!

(and yes, I have taken the picture from her blog, hope she´s not angry with me....)

Take care,

Helena

A challenge!

A while ago Noémia gave me this challenge and today the time has come for answering it:
Here are the rules:

1. You must link to the one who nominated you.
2. Write the roules in your blog.
3. Tell us 6 things about you (what ever you want: fun things, dreams, your life, etc.)
4. Nominate 6 people more to ansewer to this challenge.
5. Warn everyone that you have nominated her

OK, #1 and #2 are already done, then to #3.

1. I´ve never been in the attic of our house (we have lived there for more than 20 years), maybe it has something to do with my relationship to ladders.
2. I love "Friskis & Svettis (aerobics and fitness training), visit that place three times a week.
3. I have one younger sister (6 years), she was perfect as a pupil or a patient when I played with my friends.
4. I think that the fat edge is the best part of a pork chop, yes I´m a little bit special, or....?
5. I love cats, but I´m allergic to them....

Pooh, now I´ve turned myself outside in, I´ll be back later with #4 and #5.

It has been some busy days working on the dresses, but of course I can´t resist working on my quilting projects too.

This is my Calendar quilt, not the world´s best picture but a very funny project. I´ve started with February but no pictures yet. There are some small stitcheries on their way that I will add to this block.

Some pinwheels have also been made, today there are 13, going to be 16 and then I will put them together.

Can somebody hide my rotary cutter for me? Couldn´t resist to start cutting squares for a simple quilt. Easy to make, but I´m in love with the fabrics....

There will be two awards to tell you about and some more pics when I´m back....
And I´ve found "time" (!), will show you in my next post....

Happy Stitching!

Helena

I haven´t disappeared from earth.....

....but my computer nearly did! Some days ago I made quite a big post with all challenges answered and a lot of pictures downloaded and a lot of work done and a lot of time spent....and a lot of not so kind words coming out of my mouth and a computer on its way through the window.....

Blogger was not my friend, not willing to save my work, and after a long time I decided to publish my post a little bit later and left the computer. When I came back that stupid thing had decided to restart itself, without asking me, and all my work was gone.....
I decided to go back to only using paper and pen and snail mail and stay in my little corner of the world, alone......

But no, I have regretted that decission, I miss you and everything in blogland too much, I´m back, giving it a new try....

This time I will do this little post first and then other small posts, publishing them one by one....hoping it will work my way.....

I´ll be back telling you about the nice awards I´ve got and show pics of what has happening since my last post.....

See you,

Helena