Summer and the color festival!

  Summer is here, though the weather says something else. Despite the weather there is a   color festival going on in the nature. Have you discovered all the colors around you, -the flowers in all kind of shades and the greens?

The school is on holiday and I love this time of year when everything goes slowly and there is time for just sitting down and sensing the quietness, the colors, the fragrances and everything around me.  I have even got some time for sewing. I have made a table runner and a small cloth from the latest number of the Norwegian Quiltemagasinet, and 6 mug rugs with materials from my scrap box. Happy colors for summertime! Enjoy life!

Surprised again!

Another month just passed away and summer is just around the corner. It has been exams and marking for some weeks now, and it is only 14 days again before I can tidy up and get totally organized again at work. I always use a week after the pupils have left to clear up and be ready for a new semester.  These days are hectic but with a lot of stressed pupils and teachers there are also a lot of humor and joy. I have learned a lot of new words   when my pupils had oral exam in mathematics .Words put together of well-known words, mixed together by stress and sometimes by little knowledge. To my Norwegian reader: Vet du hva det motsatte av inntekter er ? Etter et 20 min. foredrag vet jeg at det er uttekter.

It is easy to do mistakes, read wrong, put things and fabrics upside down so it’s important to not make it bigger than it is.

I try to use my spare moments to quilt, knit and stitch, so since last I have finished knitting and crocheting a dress from the magazine Made by Me, and finished block 4 in the Vignette BOM.

Search for new words this week and see what you find!

May, the Month of spring

May is here and it`s really spring outside. The birds are making a lot of noices and the spring flowers are blooming. I`ve just been to Mandal, near Kristiansand in the southern part of Norway. There the trees had green leaves and they had more flowers than we have here around Oslo. I was visiting my DD2 and her husband. I made her, sew three trousers, and brought her a knitting top I knitted at Easter, but I didn’t take any photos unfortunately.

I don`t have much time for sewing these days. I made this Easter-runner and another batch cloth after Easter. The table runner pattern is made by Bente Tufte at Kathrines Quiltestue. It was a very good pattern - easy to follow.

When you don’t have much time to spend on quilting and sewing it`s dangerous to do blogging. There are so many skilled people making fantastic patterns! I was tempted to buy one pattern this month with the good excuse that I had all the material I needed to make it. But when to make it? When I have finished all my UFOs, WISPs, and ………. ?  Have a look at this picture. Isn`t it beautiful? The pattern is made by Kim MC Lean and I bought it from Glorious Color, but others also have it.  If you are fond of appliqué and Kaffe Fassette`s fabrics, Kim Mc lean has more patterns to tempt you. Just don`t blame me if you get tempted to buy one or ……..