Litt av hvert.......

Jeg har blitt tagget av Rita ( for en god stund tilbake...!) og skal svare på følgende:

Oppfordringen er å ta den nærmeste boken, slå opp på side 123, finne den 5. setningen, og blogge de tre neste setningene; Jeg leser " The Vineyard" av Barbara Delinsky: "In his years at the helm, he had produced one remarkable vintage after another. Carl would know what to do now. He was definitely the one to call."

I have been tagged by Rita (some time ago...!) and am supposed to do the following:

Pick up the nearest book, in my case: "The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky.
Open on page 123.- Find the fifth sentence.- Post the next three sentences: "In his years at the helm, he had produced one remarkable vintage after another. Carl would know what to do now. He was definitely the one to call."


Her er mitt seneste sømarbeide, pute med det amerikanske flagget - kunne jo ikke la være...... Jeg har sydd den på bestilling - som det meste jeg syr, når jeg tenker meg om :o) På tide å lage et par til meg selv også!!!

This is my latest creation, a stars and stripes pillow, I just had to make one.....
As almost everything I sew, this one is made for someone else..... I think it's about time I make a couple of these for me too :o)



I dag ble jeg gjenforenet med mine joggesko, fantastisk!! Etter to ukers ufrivillig avhold kunne jeg legge ut på nye asfalteventyr!! Jeg får tidvis kink i ryggen og da bare stopper livet brått opp og jeg ser ut som jeg er 90 år og trenger stokk......
Er det flere som kjenner til dette??? Fryktelig smertefult!!!

Today I got reunited with my running shoes. We have had an involentary separation for a forthnight due to a herniated disc in my back...... Life just stops when that happens and I look like I'm 90 years old and in desperately need of a cane..... This happens to me on occasion ;-D Ever had the pleasure???? Awfully painful!!!



Litt brått og uventet befant jeg meg på kundesalg hos NOA NOA i går kveld. Jeg klarte selvfølgelig å plukke med meg både det ene og det andre ;-D Favoritten er nok toppen og jakken jeg kjøpet til minime2, hun elsker alt som kan tas for å være lilla!! En annen ting er merkelappene deres - jeg kan streng tatt kjøpe hva som helst bare de følger med......


Yesterday evening I was at a customer sale at NOA NOA....
Like a spur of the moment kind of thing..... I went home with a few new items, but my favourite is the top and cardigan I bought for mini me 2 she adores purple...
Another thing is the tags they have on the clothes (above), I can buy anything just to get one of them....



For å sikre meg sømprogresjon i sommer har jeg meldt meg på dette.
Peg fra Happy in Quilting har startet en utfordring som går på at man skal gjøre ferdig fem tepper innen 31 juli. Jeg har jo et par uferdige ting å ta av.... så her kommer det mer!! Bildet nedenfor er stoffer jeg leker med og håper at de engang blir noe stort ;-D

To ensure seam progression this summer I have joined Peg's " Finish five (quilts) by the end of July" challenge. I have a few items to work on - hopefully I get to finish some of them....Stay tuned!! The fabric belov is what I play with and look at these days, hoping they will, at some point, develop into something great ;-D



Søndags klemmer fra meg til dere :o)

Sunday hugs from me to you :o)

January Challenge - Three more done.....

This morning I did the last stitches on this pillow - which means I have completed three more WISPs. This is so cool!!! I plan to make a list on February 1st to sum up the rest of my WISPs and what to do with them...


Now this blue pillow has a pink companion.....
I think they go very well together :o)



The Advent Calendars are also finished. This is the Winnie the Pooh version for my youngest, with Tigger and lots of gifts. One of the trees has red berries on its branches, the other one has a pearl star on top.....


The point of making Calendars for Advent instead Christmas, is that they (the Pygmees) get more than enough stuff as it is. I also try to advocate the lesson to wait and wish for something, and then maybe..... So my DDs gets one present each of the Advent Sundays before Christmas - it also makes the whole calendar thing a lot more easy - for me.......

This is the completed Advent Calendar with appliqué from Tilda for my oldest. The reindeer has red berries and twigs in its antler. There are bells on his collar.



So here they are, my latest accomplishments on the WISP side.

Happy sewing, and wish you all a sunny week!!

January Challenge Update

This has gone a little slower than I anticipated.... Migraine is clearly to blame!!!
Well, I've sewn together all the blocks of my "Disappering Ninepatch" Quilt, and are now ready for the border. I'm very pleased with the fabric I got, it was the last of it - just enough for me....


Even though I'm not finished with this one, I will show you the next projects I plan to finish.


Remember this??
I split up this UFO,well - there were actually two of them, and turned them from Christmas Calendars into Advent Calendars.


They turned out like this, but I didn't manage to finish it before Christmas. They did work though.... Every Advent Sunday before Christmas a gift appeard in the girls' Calendars - imagine that.... They now need quilting and binding!!


I had to cut off the patchwork part, and it turned into a tablerunner. Yet another WIPS, but I want it ready for next Christmas, so I thought I'd finish it now :o)
It needs cutting, quilting and binding!!



This is a tablerunner I made two years ago, suppose it has merged into an UFO...
I made a Turning Twenty Quilt, which still isn't finished, and made the tablerunner from the leftovers.... It needs quilting and binding!!

Seems like I will be spending a lot of time sewing this week.....
Happy sewing to you all!!! :o)

Taking on a challenge

I'm kind of leaping into the New Year, pretending to be courageous ;-D

I never make new year resolutions on bare principle!
That's just someting I don't do!
I just do my best, hopefully a bit better each time. The process, not the goal is my path - one step at the time. Apparently I'm ready to go outside my comfortzone, just peaking around the corner...



I'm taking on May Britt's WISP (work in slow progression) challenge to finish as many WISP before January 31st. My first WISP project is the last one I started on in 2007 - The disappering Ninepatch.


I will list my finshed WISP's in the right colum, and post about them as we progress in January. This is very encouraging - so many of us working to finish old projects in order to begin new ones in February!! The satisfaction of decluttering :o)

Here's to us all, for tying up loose ends and exploring our possibilities!