Advent again and time to use your senses

Autumn has passed and I’m blessed to live in a part of Norway where the storms have passed by and made no damages. The temperature has been very nice, but we are starting to long for cold weather and a white Christmas. 

Advent is the time of the year when I try to stop in my haste. I remember to sit down and use my senses. The smell of Christmas cakes and oranges, the sound of familiar songs and music on the radio and in concerts, the lights in the windows and in the eyes of the children.

I have become a grandmother this autumn and this is the first year with a small child in the house. She ‘ll only be two and a half month for  Christmas this year, but I bet she’ll get a lot of attention.

I have done little sewing this autumn, but I have knitted my grandchild a dress, myself a jumper and my DD2 a jacket. The size on the finished objects and on the needles varies a bit.

One of my friends came up with the idea to make some linen cover for empty glasses to put candles in. We pulled out some thread, decorated with text¸ crocheted roses, buttons, and different treads. The text on mine is: Take time to be alone and use your senses. Perfect for advent!

Summertime

Just a few words to say I’m alive, not why I haven’t been blogging for a while. You know it ’s just the normal excuses - too much………………………

 

Here it’s hot summer and I sew a very little. I’ve finished a table runner for advent. It’s a pattern from the Norwegian designer AnnAKa

 

When it’s hot here the best thing to do is stitching on the veranda in the shadow.  I’ve been stitching  all the motives from Winter Wonderland from Crab-apple Hill. Snowmen and hot sun,  - maybe a strange combination. I love these snowmen, but the machine sewing has to wait for a cold day.

Have a nice week!

A real Scrap Quilt

My DD1 started about 5 years ago to cut some of her old jeans into log-cabin stripes. She had to use scissors in lack of other equipments and got a lot of fabric. She wanted a picnics blanket and started her log-cabin blocks, but discovered that she should have made her stripes wider. She lost interest and I got the box and it has stayed on my shelf for a couple of years. After reading  Hanne`s blog about charity blankets and with the link to this video on YouTube I tried this on these stripes. After km of thread I finished this picnic quilt with her stripes, log cabin blocks and squares. I supplied with some old curtains and other old fabric pieces so this is a true scrap quilt.

My daughter is looking forward to picnics this summer.
Sorry the pictures aren't top quality, but they give you an idea of the quilt.
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