One more finished!

Finally this little quilt is finished.

I found buttons small enough for the clothes....but my fingers were too big. It took a lot of bumbling
to stitch them in place.

These buttons were much easier.....

Only the pattern making left!

Vacation time!

In less than two hours it´s time to leave for Gothenburg and Landvetter airport. The final destination is Coraya Bay in Egypt. It will be wonderful and very exciting.....

If you want to order patterns from my webshop I will send them to you on the 12th of December when I´m back again.

I have hoped that the instructions for the Crazy Cats quilt should be finished before leaving, but I didn´t have enough time. My own quilt isn´t finished either, there has been too much for me this week.

If you want to start assembling your cats, I can tell you that the squares around the blocks are 2" x "2.
That means that you have to cut the patches 2½" x 2½". I have 35 blue squares, 32 green, 34 pink and 43 offwite in my quilt.

No posts without pictures, here are some from a nearly finished project.....

Just the hanging left, I have special plans for that....

Have a nice week! (I will.....)

We are all very satisfied!

It was defenitely the right decision to change the border. Now I have to hurry up with the quilting, have to be finished before Friday....

And when I´m quilting I will give you a little sneak peek of my new character who will appear hear by me soon.

Peekaboo!

I changed my mind

This is what happened today when I came to see the quilt. The children told me that they wanted more colours around them instead of that boring border that I had chosen.
I followed their advice and ripped the old one of and cut new patches. I think they were right, I will be more satisfied with it now. Maybe the have made the border for me when I´m back tomorrow.....

Crazy Cat #12 has got his blanket stitches too.

Only three faces left to stitch.....

A top day!

The top is finished. Tomorrow I will start to quilt. All machine quilting will be done before Friday. Then it will follow me to Stockholm. I think the hand quilting of the stones on the ground will be perfect for a lot of hours in the car.....

The next question is which colour I will choose for the binding.

My first idea was dark blue, like one of the dresses.

Or is it better to choose one of the bright colours instead?

Or the dark blue.....have to think about it.....

There has also been some cat sewing, two of the kitties has get their blanket stitches.

# 10

# 11

Soon they are finished, only some stitchery left.....

The stitchery is finished!

Now have all the kids got heads and arms and legs. I think they became real cute.

Do they look alike?

May I introduce Ingrid, Tullan, Kerstin....

.....Ingvar and Britt, my mother.

I found that she had written all the names on the backside of the photo.

Now I´m going to add an apricot border to the stitchery and then I will stitch it together with this block. At last I will add a border made of an off white fabric with small flowers on it.

Then it´s quilting time. The wall will be quilted by machine and the stones on the ground will be hand quilted.

I really want to go on with this project know....how fun is it?

A new block is born

I have made a block which I´m going to use in my "Ungarna på gården"-quilt, the one I make from the old photo. More about the Swedish namn later.

I used paper piecing, love that technique, always perfect results.
The stitchery is almost finished, just a couple of legs left to stitch.
Here are some pictures for you:

The rabbit is so cute, isn´t it? And the ducks too

Busy working.....

....but nothing to show. The last couple of weeks I´ve been working on two projects, one secret and one to update my web shop and my patterns. That´s why it hasn´t been so much to share with you.But now those projects are finished and tonight I´m looking forward to stitch on my mother (!) and her friends. Do you remember?

The photo, my mother is to the right.

My mother´s painting

I´m working on my own fabric version of this picture. All the children have got there clothes on now. That means that the applique is finished. Next step is to stitch their heads, arms and legs.

When that´s done I promise you a photo.

Looking forward to play with my reproduction fabrics from the 30s, just right for this project.....how fun!

A stitching day

Back from Denmark. Yesterday I visited Bakken together with my mother and sister. Bakken is an amusement park near Copenhagen. It was our father´s 80th birthday and we celebrated his memory.
He loved trips to Denmark and Bakken.

Today I  have spent a lot of time together with my sewing machine. It´s quite a long time since last time.
I started the day with cutting clothes for "all my children".

Then I ironed them in place and started stitching around all edges using blanket stitches.

Now I just have to go on stitching, and I love to do it....
....but not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a special day, can´t believe it, it´s my 50th birthday.

Back home

Now I´m back home again and can use my ordinary broadband. I don´t like the mobile one, yesterday it was slower than slow. So slow that I couldn´t use it.
But now....here come a lot of pictures from our trip. I will start with stitchery pics to show you that I found some time to do stitch too.

My mother´s face has got colours

I love midsummer.

Flowers

Food

Öland is a windy island and the people use it....

....today....

....and yesterday.

More pictures:

Yes, it was a lot....

Tomorrow I´m going to Denmark.....