Ullas Fiber Blog

February 2

2012-02-01T22:53:00.000-08:00

A new day and we have just now ,07.52,have - 28.8 .

A day with two letters and a skein of sock yarn.

2012-02-01T10:38:00.000-08:00

A day without a sock knitting in wintertime is not a good day.This pair is going to be for charity and I really want to do them in happy colours.Hopefully the colours are going to be even more beautiful when I take a photo of them in daylight,maybe ready to show them next week.Wellcome back.

Yesterday was a very happy day when I got 2 letters,one from Japan and one from Sweden.Now it's very common with no real stamps.Stamps can give you information of something in the country,you can get so much beauty and so much inspiration.Both the letters was so so wellcome.

A cold winterday but the socks are ready

2012-01-30T01:59:00.000-08:00

Happy to show you the January socks.It has been a nice time doing them.Hopefully I find another pattern for the February socks.Outside we have -17.3C and small white snowflakes are coming down.Beautiful.

Knitting new socks and learning hiragana

2012-01-28T09:10:00.001-08:00

Started to knit new socks and this time it's in Regia colour 5270.I'm participating in knitting 1 pair a month.http://webstrik.blogspot.com/Really a relaxing knitting in a lovely yarn.

It's wintertime and a weekend morning when you have no work you really can enjoy it.I'm also learning to write and read hiragana.http://video.about.com/japanese/Learn-Japanese--What-Are-Hiragana-Characters-.htmA very hard work is waiting for me.Enjoy the weekend.

one more on the theme Christmas round decorations

2012-01-21T02:35:00.001-08:00

The applications are made by wool and in the middle from cotton and the background is linen fabric.Now a new picture in daylight. better one.

Wish you a lovely weekend

Monday morning

2012-01-15T23:23:00.000-08:00

A new week and I already have been working for a while.A little time for a cup of tea and a little blogging.The Christmas time is over and the real winter with a lot of snow is here.The tulips are giving me a lot of hope and inspiration.I did this decoration a week ago and now the green flower,a white flower and the star cloth still are on my table.Tomorrow evening I have a little time for knitting and maybe I make a little embroidery this evening.Wish you all a lovely day.

Quilting

2012-01-15T04:26:00.001-08:00

The brain of a quilter found on internet says a little about what I have in my mind today.After a workshop we were doing something to put small or big things in.This little "bag" is a perfekt one for example your little knitting,crochet or embroifery or...Made by recycled ,handdyed fabric and small ball applications.Our inspiration is a thing we have in our mind just now.As the Christmas is ending now and our Christmas tree is leaving our house and all the beaufiful decoration too.Well then I choosed the round form and in the scrap bag I found repro fabrics,only small scraps but enough for the pattern.

2012-01-05T07:43:00.000-08:00

A shawl made for charity.I'm in a group where we are knitting for people in need of warm clothes somewhere in the country.

Knitting leaves for a border on a shawl

A little quilt Mystery I'm working on.

2012-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

http://temeculaquiltco.blogspot.com/We only have 4 blocks until we are ready to solv the mystery.The fabrics are mostly Civil War reproductions.I don't know,not yet, if I need to have other "red" fabrics.This is a perfect work for me now.

Happy New Year

2011-12-31T04:29:00.001-08:00

Just take 2-Maybe omething for you too?

2011-12-28T06:20:00.001-08:00

Gifts from Secret Santa

2011-12-28T03:06:00.000-08:00

My dear Secret Santa ishttp://bettsylyn.blogspot.com/and as you see we really live a long way from each other but we have the same interests.She sent me some items for knitting,a special knitting bag,needles,a scissor and a knitter gauge and a just fantastic bag with lovely embroideries and applications on .In this Secret Santa swap we try to do things we love but we laos think our friend like.Thank you so much.I have been a member of this swap for many years and I love it.http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/The members are from different countries so it's really nice to do and to get gifts.Always something unexpected and so lovely.You can see on chockyblue differnt gifts to and from.Enjoy!

A tribute to my youngest son who is 24 today

2011-12-27T11:39:00.001-08:00

We have been waiting for colder days so we could get ice lantern and today it happened,on our youngest son's birthday.Wish you all a good luck with the last days of 2011

The second Sunday of Christmas

2011-12-26T02:21:00.000-08:00

A cup of tea or coffee and a newly done cake "pepparkaka"

Silent night Holy night

2011-12-24T18:51:00.001-08:00

The Christmas day wellcome

Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T02:43:00.000-08:00

I wish you all a lovely paceful Christmas/Holiday

Secret Santa Christmas swap

2011-12-10T18:59:00.001-08:00

I have got your lovely package and the ornaments are just so sweet.Thank you so much.Arn't they Sweet?

A new month

2011-11-30T22:36:00.001-08:00

Today a new little mystery starts on

http://mreteveian.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON_5xDgYy0
A favourite song just now.

A lovely gift from a dear friend and pictures this morning

2011-10-30T00:22:00.000-07:00

It's Sunday morning and I started with a relaxing morning.My DH is hunting elks and I have been reading and I have been doing some preparations for the Christmas gifts I'm going to do in November.We are not celebrating Haloween but we have some candles brighting up the day.

On Wednesday afternoon a package from a very dear friend was in the postbox.She has been a penpal of mine for some years.Real letters in the postbox.I love to get and write letters.Every time I also enjoy the stamps ,a great interest I have.Small arts .Sometimes every year we make gifts for each other too.When you see this gift you can understand the efforts she has made for me and so much love and friendship she has "put" in it.My favourite colours and my favourite motif, flowers.And the feeling,she wanted to brighten up the darker days we have.She really succeded.I'm totally overwhelmed.Thank you dear M.

Fabrics,an old button under and embroidery mostly with french knots

2011-10-16T00:23:00.000-07:00

What's a garden without flowers?

Cotton fabrics with machine embroidery and handmade french knots.

Handdyed fabrics with embroidery with "gold and bronze threads"

A piece of embroidery from an old tablecloth and some french knots

Button with hand dyed linen fabrics and embroidery in Pearl cotton from DMC

Patterns for more blocks if you need something to do

2011-10-04T18:12:00.000-07:00

http://bluenickelstudios.com/?p=3183

and a flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bloggersquiltuberfest/

I like this block
http://www.quiltdad.com/2011/10/quilt-uber-fest-block-1.html

New blocks from 2 different Quilt alongs, 2 different Boms

2011-10-03T05:34:00.000-07:00

http://cvquiltworks.blogspot.com/2011/09/bloggers-bom-quilt-along.html
Once a month,(25)a famous quildesigner give us a block to do.I made it in fabrics by Kaffe Fassett.

http://milo-designs.blogspot.com
Here you find new blocks,one traditional and one modern,and I choose the modern one where I feel free to play with the pattern.

Both the QAL I make blocks who are about 8".

October 1 early morning

2011-09-30T22:20:00.000-07:00

Knitting and quilting for the weekend.

2011-09-30T00:39:00.001-07:00

During the weekend I want to do the block for the month.My fabric choice mostly consists of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.The background is from quiltersbasics.It seems the block is not so difficult to do.

http://www.aquiltinglife.com/

The newist knitting project I started on our knitting café at work is a scarf.A simple pattern k 2 purl 2.For an hour we were sitting knitting and chatting.Very nice and very relaxing .The scarf I started is going to be a Christmas gift for a friend.You know it's not more than 3 months and I want to give a little small home made gift to each of them,mostly a "warm gift" to friend here in the north of Europe..

http://www.aquiltinglife.com/

More in blue

2011-09-24T12:01:00.001-07:00

The course we had last weekend was about dying and printing on recycled fabrics.The item we did was a book cover to our "book" for notes, ideas,drawings.....
The autumn is here and some bluebells can be found in the garden.But the nights are cold so they have hard times.Are they still fresh tomorrow?

Secret Santa Christmas swap

2011-09-24T11:44:00.000-07:00

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Someone gets gift from me
Someone gives me

A new Boom quilt along starts September 25

2011-09-24T11:38:00.001-07:00

The designer for the first block is
http://www.aquiltinglife.com/
Looking forward it.

198-yds-of-heaven a shawl I'm knitting

2011-09-12T06:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/198-yds-of-heaven

a free pattern on www.ravelry.com

The yarn is handdyed on Tunagarn.It's going to be a warm shawl in the winter but maybe not a shawl for a party.I know I have not knitted the patterns 100% right but it's going to be ready until the weekend and maybe beautiful.Maybe we could call it "art-knitting".

A new little bag

2011-08-02T09:35:00.000-07:00

The bag is knittted in the icelandic yarn LettiLoopi on needles 5mm and then feltid.It's going to be knitted roses on knitted in Einband in needles 3mm.I just wonder if I put 2 big and 2 smalls or only 1 small on it.The roses are not felted or arranged.LettiLoopi and Einband are lovely to knit of and the felted LettiLoopi is so soft.
The kit was bought from
http://islandsgarn.se/default.aspx

Congratulations to Japan.Gold in football

2011-07-17T15:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58j899VUYpQ&feature=related

Wristwarmers

2011-07-14T23:38:00.000-07:00

http://sheeptoshawl.com/lithuanian-wristers-twitter-kal-pattern/

I followed the pattern until the last rows but then I couldn´t figure out what I'm going to do.

And the last rows like this:

row 1 " k2tog,k2,yo,k1,yo,k2,k2tog"
row 2 k
row 3 knit row 1
and so on until you feel it's perfect for you.

I found out I had one stitch to much so I made a double k2tog in the end of the first knittting of row 1.

God luck with your knitting.

Flowers in our garden

2011-07-11T02:31:00.000-07:00

The garden is full of flowers but the period of roses is ending now.Soon the strawberries are ready and later the potatoes and the vegetabilies .We are going to have a special period of fresh food.

A summer bag from M

2011-07-10T01:22:00.000-07:00

This bag has really a smart construction as it's so small when you don't use it.My friend is a very good designer of bags,both in crochet and knitting and she makes them so perfect.Thank you dear M
http://miyukisfactory.blogspot.com/
Just now we have roses in the garden but it's a short time so I choosed to use them as a background to the bag.We also have + 25.8 C.A very warm day ....here in the north of Sweden

A new bag of the rest of the blocks

2011-07-08T01:00:00.000-07:00

My Friday started with stick walking at 06.00 in the morning as I know the day is going to be very warm,at least +25C.Then 2 cups of tea,an early breakfast and some houres of sewing.A perfect start of a day.
Some blocks were not used for the tablerunner so I made a new little bag of it.For the handles I used other scraps from my stash.

I wish you all a lovely day.

Tablerunner and a potholder

2011-07-07T07:39:00.000-07:00

A tablerunner made by blocks made by someone and they were in a scrap bowl when we had the last workshop.Beautiful colours and a nice pattern.Not 100% perfect but so so nice.Really something perfect in our kitchen.

A quilt friend of mine made such a beautiful potholder and I got the pattern from her.
It's made by hand dyed fabric .We have sunny summer days now so this is a celebration to the summer.

www.lappatoklart.blogspot.com

Happy Midsummer

2011-06-23T14:49:00.000-07:00

I wish you all a Happy Midsummer.
Maybe you are picking seven sorts of flowers and put them under your cushion,during the night between the Midsummer eve and the Midsummer day, and you are going to dream about the one who is going to be your wife or husband.

A quilting weekend

2011-06-20T01:37:00.000-07:00

I went on doing blocks in reprofabrics from the Civil War area.
http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/
On this blog you can get a new block pattern every week.Hopefully I get more time to do more of the blocks.Until now I have done the easiest blocks and I really love them.

A little memory from this weekend I took small small fabric sraps from a paper basket and made this little pincushion. Every little piece reminds me of people in the quilting group I was in this weekend.And you wonder why I did this?!?
I had no pincushion with me this weekend and had some troubles with the small needles and this also reminds me of the lovely group of people we were this weekend.

We were in Luleå in a quiltshop called Quilterian,The lovely owner of this shop has a blog

www.quilttopmaker.blogspot.com

Her shop is full of fabrics in in many patterns and colours.A little fabric heaven.And books,laces,buttons....................

New socks made by yarn I'v got for my birthday a month ago

2011-06-06T09:26:00.000-07:00

Two pair of socks are ready,made by yarn I'v got on my birthday exactly a month ago.The blue pair is made in wool and he purple is made in a mixture of wool and other fibers.One more pair in purple is on the way.What I found out was that the way of doing the cuff Imade on the purple pair is a very good idea.The socks are very comfortable to wear.

Friday ,sunshine and a letter

2011-06-03T01:48:00.000-07:00

It's a day when we have holidays,we can enjoy the beautiful sunshine ,the songs from the birds and a very green landscape.The postman came very early and what made me so happy is a letter from a pen friend in Japan,from a place nearer Fukushima than I knew before.To get a letter from M and the things she wrote about reminds me of the short distance between paradise and hell.They live with the earthquakes and the radiations so near.In this situation they have to go on and dear M I feel so happy you can start painting and quilting even if it's hard.

For me Japan is so near connected with handicraft made with a great perfection and beauty and they have stamps I really admire.Every letter with their stamps give me a special feeling.After the last catastrophy I really feel the paradox between the reality and the art.The last month I have got lovely small cranes in paper from a friend that gives me so much hope,they never give up.

Recycling

2011-06-01T10:34:00.000-07:00

To use old curtains in a good quality and make eco bags and maybe also something necessary for a weekend is a very good idea.The bag to the left is made by the fabric which was handdyed by the fabric you can see in the "purse"up to the right.A great difference between the two fabrics.I really recommend handdying and you maybee get very fresh fabric.

The little "rug" is hooked by strings of cotton fabric.Hard to do as the cotton was not so easy to work with.A friend of mine made one in an old fabric but a fabric used many many times more than mine.

The Happy Easter Socks are ready

2011-04-24T23:03:00.000-07:00

The socks in Regia World Circus Color 03751 are ready.It has been a great joy knitting them.Well there are too much colours for a every-day-life pair of socks but for an extra happy day they are perfect.
I wish you a nice Easter day/Spring day.

It would be great to get a comment from you too.Please send one!

Happy Easter/Happy Spring

2011-04-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

I want to send all my friends a Happy Easter or a Happy Spring.started a new pair of socks in very bright colours.I need a lot of colours just now to brighten up the days when we have not so much snow and absoloteky no flowers or leaves in the trees.

Awards to following bloggers

2011-04-11T19:43:00.000-07:00

Awards to

This week I want to give an award to following bloggers for their inspiring blogs:

http://chi-jp.net
http://asalmanakk.blogspot.com/
http://hideko-windfromtheeast.blogspot.com/
http://barockbloggen.blogg.se/
http://bearspatch.blogspot.com/

An award from Metta

2011-04-10T04:17:00.000-07:00

From a lovely blog friend I'v got a lovely lovely award.So honoured.
Please visit her blog
http://mettasblogg.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much dear Metta.

Tomorrow I give 5 awards to........

An ATC for a swap on Facebook

2011-04-02T01:03:00.000-07:00

The ATC card is a small card about 6.9 centimeters x 7.9 centimeters.I used matallic thread(tenntråd) and beads on a piece of thin red wool fabric(more or less an egg form) and 2 dots with beads on,also in red,on a fabric in white with patterns in black.Finally some cross stitch with gold thread(DMC).

Workshop with Angela Madden

2011-03-27T05:26:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we had a workshop with Angela Madden.
http://www.angelamadden.com/
We were working with flowers in different ways.First she learnt a way of doing a pattern of a flower and the tulip I have done is about 85% from a pattern she gave us.The fabrics are handdyed exceot of the fabric for the petals

The second is a fantasy flower made on handdyed fabric with different parts of different "silkflowers".This was so funny to do.The quality we got is for cards or a small decoration,not anything to wash in the washing machine.

Crazy block

2011-03-27T02:59:00.001-07:00

I have started doing a crazy quilt block I'm going to do a lot of stitches on and I'm also going to use beads ,lace and ribbons.If you want to see what the participants already have don you can go to

http://doyourownblock.blogspot.com/

"Våffla"

2011-03-26T03:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday evening,March 25,we had this lovely dessert as a celebration of Maria,the mother of Jesus.9 months until Christmas.The time goes very fast.

A very good friend of mine has done a very nice article about Maria,only in Swedish,but the painters are wellknown and you can there also see differnt interpretations of Maria.

http://barockbloggen.blogg.se/

The new wristwarmers made by left over yarn from a sock knitting

2011-03-11T07:26:00.000-08:00

A ball of left over yarn from a sock knitting and white yarn made me feel I want to do wristwarmers,something I can wear later this season.And the white paterns are the ones made them a pair.The pattern I used is
http://www.studiostrategos.com/blog/2010/11/24/kis-mitts.html
They are just lovely to wear.

Send my best wishes to my friends in Japan

2011-03-10T23:29:00.000-08:00

I send my best wishes to my friends in Japan

I hope everything is well with you all.

3 more blocks

2011-03-07T02:18:00.000-08:00

These 3 blocks i have made in the SAL on http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/
Lincoln's Platform and North Star are the 2 blocks below.

Most of all I love thw north star.

The single block is a Cotton Boll,very easy to do but also very cute and open for different fabric choose.

Birds in the air

2011-02-28T08:48:00.001-08:00

The Birds in the air is an easy block to do and I really love easy ones.The fabrics get the opportunity to show their beauty.The fabrics from the Civil War time mostly have not the bright colours .

Log cabin blocks

2011-02-27T22:41:00.000-08:00

Log cabin blocks made in reproduction fabrics with patterns from the Civil War period.
I'm going to follow a sew along.There are both easy and more advanced blocks to use. Every block has a short story too.For me the patterns on the fabrics are very interesting.

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

A new shawl is ready.

2011-02-25T07:42:00.000-08:00

The shawl in Fame trend(656) and needles 4.A very nice knitting is ready to wear or to put in my Christmas box for gifts.The pattern is perfect for a shawl in varigates yarn.I used a crochet hook when I made the edge of the shawl.

This weekend I want to knit the second sock I started to knit for a while.And maybee I do some blocks in a Civil War fabric inspired by

http://chi-jp.net/archives/2011/02/24-1120.php

who participate in a SAL

http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/

A little" toilet bag" made by stripes

2011-02-19T23:18:00.000-08:00

The little "toilet bag" is made by stripes from something striped for a log cabin quilt.It's a fabric from the past,something used before in a bed.A very nice pattern on it too.It reminds me of the childhood.Nice memories.My mother often used it when she was weaving rugs and you could as a child look at the and sometimes find a stripe of something you have had.My father often found something from a shirt.My mother told him that he had been using the shirt too much and she needed that patter/colour.And it's very good for the environment to recycle.The theme in the work shop this weekend is recycling.Very very good.
I wish you a nice Sunday

Happy Valentine

2011-02-13T21:08:00.000-08:00

We have had a sewing together on a yahoo-group I'm a member of and we got the possibility to use a pattern from www.lappedesign.no called Julehjerter.this has been very nice to do and I'm so impressed of all the different variations this pattern give.
The size
6"x 11 1/2"

I wish you all a lovely Valentine day.

A Christmas quilt-along 2011

2011-02-13T05:41:00.001-08:00

http://shakerwoodquilts.blogspot.com/p/2011-christmas-quiltalong.html

The quilt-along fascinates me as the theme is "stars".The first star is the one you can see above.When I made the first one of two I observed that the solid fabric is not in a good quality so I have to change it.What I also found out is that the pattern is not so easy to make so the blocks take time to do.The printed fabrics are "Tilda fabrics" .

Broken needles

2011-02-07T20:49:00.000-08:00

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Here you can read about the celebration of the broken needles.

"In the Hari-Kuyo ceremony, Japanese women gather once a year on Febuary 8th at Shinto shrines or Buddhist temples to thank their worn out needles and pins for good service."

http://stitchtress.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/hari-kuyo/

A new fabric bowl

2011-02-06T05:47:00.001-08:00

With 2 pieces of fabric in off-white, 2 small squares of rose fabrics and a heavy weight fusible interfacing I made this bowl.For what?Well just now it's only an eye candy.
Enjoy.

PS.We learnt how to do bowls on the workshop we had on Folkhögskolan(Textile Art).DS

Weekend knitting-a new shawl

2011-01-29T07:07:00.001-08:00

A favourite pattern for a shawl.

Start with 5 stitches
Increase 1 after the 2 first stitches and before and after the middle stitch and one before the 2 last stitches.
Next row stitch all the stitches
You go on until your shawl has the right size.

Yarn :Fame trend 100 g about 420 m
Needles :4 mm

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Wristwarmers and 2 UFOs are ready

2011-01-23T23:19:00.000-08:00

It has been a weekend and we have had our handicraft meeting.First I started to sew together the wristwarmers and they seems to be a soft and warm pair with a little glamour.
After our coffee brake I made handles to a little purse I started to do a year ago.The batic fabric pieces are from the stash at "school".Someone made some printings and I made machine stitching on them.As a decor I put some buttons on.2011 seems to be a good year.....until now.

The small "UFO" had a fabric,also from the stash,painted with silk colours.I made some bead embroidery and machine embroidery on.Now I'm satisfied with it but not the picture.The angels on the bottom seems to be....crazy but in reality not."A bad photographer."

What I'm knitting

2011-01-20T21:49:00.000-08:00

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This is going to be wristlets.Made in black wool/angora yarn and with beads.
Maybee a Christmas gift for Christmas 2011.
The first one is ready.Or do I do something more on it?

A birthday card made for a swap friend

2011-01-19T12:35:00.000-08:00

I'm so blessed.More Christmas gifts.

2011-01-02T03:37:00.000-08:00

I'm so blessed.My penpal from Japan sent me these gifts.First a little sweet Christmas square in patchwork,then she has done a crochet gift for my feet really wearable during our cold period and at last a just georgious quilt in japaneese fabrics and patterns choosed with a great love. What a handicraft.Thank you so so much.

A Christmas gift from my penfriend M

2011-01-01T04:08:00.000-08:00

My friend M made me a crochet purse with beads.She makes so wonderful bags,purses...some are designed by her too.Look in the window her lovely bags
http://miyukisfactory.blogspot.com/search/label/DownTown%20Knits
And the crochet/knitting is just so perfect.Thank you dear M.

The first morning 2011

2010-12-31T22:44:00.000-08:00

I wish you all a Happy New Year with LOVE and PEACE!

The tulips in lunchtime.
I have been knitting on my scarf and i have had a relaxng time during the first houres of 2011.

Happy New Year

2010-12-31T11:19:00.000-08:00

A picture from my garden in the evening 20.15.I wish you all a Happy New Year.

A white winter day-a Christmas gift and a new knitting

2010-12-30T04:07:00.000-08:00

Today I changed a little and the white and off-white are the colours I prefer today.

First a picture of a beatiful flower arrangement in white we have got from our dear M ,an arrangement she did for us as a Christmas gift.We love it very much.
Yesterday our son and his lovely M left Sweden after about 10 days of holidays and I had to focus on something new.On http://kammebo.blogspot.com/2010/11/halsduksmonstret.html

row 7..... must end with yo,k1,yo,k2,p2,k3

you can find the pattern.I 'm knitting in Peer Gynt with needles 4.It's going to have a tiny width ,maybe a little bit too small but...
I wish you a nice day

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

2010-12-29T04:32:00.000-08:00

The Christmas days are over and I have got time to enjoy my Christmas presents.From my secret Santa I have go the most wonderful gifts.
http://www.dragonfly-crafts.blogspot.com/

1. 2 "bags",one for the scissor,a second one I think I have embroidery yarn and needles in and a sweet little cross stitch embroidery.She lives in Australia where they have spring/summer.
The swap was arranged by the owner of the blog
http://www.chookyblue.blogspot.com/

2.A lovely redwork embroidery with a nice scene when you get Christmas gifts.Could you be anything but so happy when you see this?!?

3.A beautiful bag full of summer feelings in patchwork and embroideries,on the back I found a little cat and in the front a flower and a butterfly.And we have between -30C and -20C.

Thank you so so much.You sent an air of summer in our cold white winter landscape.

Silent night

2010-12-25T23:33:00.000-08:00

M and his father were doing "icebottles" for the candles and this picture I took at the end of Christmas Eve when all our celerations ended and we were going to bed after a lovely day.
A link to one of my favourite songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUZ_twxVwY&feature=related

Merry Christmas from me to you.I wish you a lovely weekend.

2010-12-23T20:52:00.000-08:00

Early morning and all is calm ,all is bright......
We are going to celebrate the Christmas with our family and we really enjoy being together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON_5xDgYy0&feature=related

SSCS Christmas gifts from Fiona in Australia

2010-12-04T00:55:00.000-08:00

The first little gift I have got is something for the Christmas tree and until we have it inside I have it in our dining room brightening up our days.The 2 big packages are waiting for the opening day.So so happy.
What can it be inside?No, let it be a secret.
I want to open it on the Christmas Eve when we open the other gifts.

Thank you dear Fiona

3 blocks from the mystery

2010-11-21T01:06:00.000-08:00

The mystery blocks are done and this is a minimalistic version of it with red,whith and black.Now I have to choose what to do of it.Merete give examples as cushions ,a tablerunner or small squares for the table.My background fabric is white with some grey dots.Or do I choose black for the frame?Or do I something without a fram?

Here you find the blog of the designer and if you don't understand swedish she aslo has links in english for the different clues and you can find 3 examples of what she has done.
http://www.mreteveian.blogspot.com/

Link to mystery part 2

2010-11-19T00:41:00.001-08:00

http://www.quilt-design.no/gaate/2010_julegaate.htm

Wednesday morning and links to a quilt mystery from Friday to Sunday.

2010-11-16T21:45:00.000-08:00

Flowers in daylight.

- 21.8 at 06.40 in the morning.It seems to be a clear cold day.The flower arrangements,made by our students,make our morning so good.The candle brighten up our breakfast time.
Enjoy the new day you too.

From Friday to Sunday I'm going to follow a quilt mystery on
www.quilt-design.no/gaate/2010_julegaate.htm

And a link to the designer where you also can see some fabric combinations,
http://mreteveian.blogspot.com

A new book page on the theme forest and animals

2010-11-09T20:48:00.000-08:00

The book page is made for a swap friend and I really had a great joy making it.As you see I started with the background "twisting" 2 different green fabrics.Sewing the "twists" on the background.Then I made a triangle with fiber fill in as a tree and and application of a tree in gold printed fabrics.Some embroidery with threads and beads.A type of 3 D.
(My english is not so good but I hope you understand what I mean)

Sewing blocks for swap friends

2010-11-07T05:02:00.000-08:00

This weekend it has been an adventure to do blocks for different swap friends and try to find out what green,brown,red,pink or whatever they wished.I'm very fond of blue but this weekend when I did blocks with green fabrics I really found out this is a colour I seldom use but it's a lovely calm one.I think I really love the blocks with green fabrics(made in Japan) in combination with the red roses on white(Tilda fabric) and the green once in 3 different green colours.And maybee you all know I love flowes and red roses symbolize love.

We have got a lot of snow and more or less it looks like a Christmas landscape.I hope there are not going to be car accidents today,

A trip to Luleå

2010-11-04T23:30:00.000-07:00

A new day and I feel so happy for the trip to Luleå.We were visiting an exhibition on Norrbottens museum,Krona och krans,an exhibition about wedding traditions now and from the past.
http://majapiraja.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/krona-och-krans-smycka-till-fest-och-brollop/
On internet I found a blogger showing some of the things I also l...oved to see.In the past you had for example flowers made of paper,really a long time ago,but I think we now have some brides using paper flowers or flowers in other materials.And the crowns made in different materials.So so creative and so beautiful.What fascinated me very much were the lovely mittens for the celebration.Most of them very decorated and made in wool or...no in silk yarn.

My sister and I we also were haveing a nice lunch,lovely "fika" with cakes and many lovely chats.We were walking a lot and we had rain,snow and sunshine.A long lovely day.
What a day!

Japaneese blocks.

2010-10-17T22:52:00.000-07:00

All the day ,from early morning to late evening we were learning how to do blocks in a japaneese way.I did it all by hand.Very relaxing.Some also used sewing machine.This way of doing blocks give you the opportunity to use small squares of fabrics or small embroideries or maybe fabric flowers I have seen in japaneese books.
I used a square ,4",that gives the size of the block.You also have a circle of fabric,bigger than the square and the batting,for the background and the "frame".

Sunday morning

2010-10-02T22:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had an exciting day to do this block for a sewing friend.Really a challenge to get the right size ,12.5".What was the nicest was to figure out how to use the different fabrics she sent me.
I made some changes.Here you find the the tutorial I used.

http://haniesquilts.blogspot.com/2010/01/sampler-blocks-and-tutorial.html

This is the newest angel in our home.In orange reminding of the fish festival we had on Saturday.
A link to a blog showing the way to "Kalix löjrom",a very tasteful thing.
http://lenaskalixbilder.weebly.com/kalix-lojrom.html

Still some flowers in our garden.

My Sunday walk along the river and Elsa Beskow

2010-09-26T22:56:00.001-07:00

During the weekend I took a walk along the river and suddenly I saw a "mushroom",a non eatable one,but one I was so fond of in my childhood.Elsa Beskow(1874-1953) made many lovely paintings in books for children.When I started reading we had a book full of her paintings and especially the small "people" with a hat in red with white dots were/are my favourites.It also reminded of different stories about Santa.The pictures are from "Vill du läsa? 11 by Besow-Siegwald.(Stockholm 1950.)It seemed to be a kind and beautiful world we were living in.Now we also have stamps with a part of her paining on.

Wishing you a nice new week

2010-09-26T06:40:00.000-07:00

When the sun is shining...

2010-09-25T10:26:00.000-07:00

A fabric book page from Monika

2010-09-20T09:09:00.000-07:00

After a long day at work I had a little package in the postbox.I'm in a swap where we do book pages in fabrics/mixed materials.I wish pages with the theme "flowers and beads" and Monika has done a card with a flower in wool/silk? and a lovely bead embroidery.Around the flower in one of my favourite colour, she made machine quilting in silver thread on a fabric with dots in blue/silver.A page with a nice contrast.

Workshop in printing and dying .

2010-09-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

For this little fabric page I used handdyed fabric and the little picture in the middle is made of fabric used when you tried the different colours and I also printed some wheels on it.Then I have made embroidery both with yarn and beads.

Here we used both paintsticks and ordinary printing colours

We also made a form and used lovely Markal paintsticks ,iridicerande bought on www.canvasshop.se

My first printing is made on a recycled fabric and I'm really happy for theese patterns.Now I just wonder what to do of it.

A friend in the group dyed linen fabrics in blue and printed with a part of a crochet doily these lovely flowers.

The workshop started with dying fabrics,yarn and lace.I tried to use different fabrics with different surface för projects later on.As you can see I have a favour for certan colours.I love them really.

Chimera-design Laris

2010-09-07T23:50:00.000-07:00

Mittens made by Noro silk garden(varigated),Peer Gynt(dark grey) and Létt-Lopi(blue)
Lovely pattern but small changes.

http://www.laris-designs.com/

We have been swapping buttons

2010-09-04T01:31:00.000-07:00

The swap of buttons on
www.stickamera.se
I'v got lovely lovely blue button I think I can use to a cardigan an d 2 solitaire of
pearl buttons from a very nice knitter and designer www.tantkofta.blogspot.com

Sashiko

2010-08-08T02:56:00.000-07:00

Started a new embroidery this morning,a gift from our Mitsue and Mattiaz.It really reminds me of all the peonies we saw when I was in Tokyo last year.

Anna,mittens made in wool and afterwards felted

2010-08-07T06:59:00.000-07:00

http://vackravantar.blogspot.com/2010/08/monster-augusti-2010-anna.html
You can find the pattern both in swedish and english.
Made in 2 threads of Peer Gynt(5252) on 7mm.The cuff is longer than on the pattern.As we have rather cold in autumn and winter it's good to have them warming up not only the hand.It goes fast to knit a mitten but with the yarn I used I got too big holes so I had to put the in the washing machine on 40 gr.Perfect mittens now.

Mittens in Noro Silver thaw

2010-07-30T11:08:00.000-07:00

The mittens are maid in Noro Silver thaw color 19 and I used needled size 3.5mm.A perfect knitting when you need something easy and hopefully soft to do.Soon we have autumn and these thin ones are going to be perfect to wear.

Today my eldest son and his lovley M are going to be married.

2010-07-23T21:56:00.000-07:00

July 24 and the day we have been preparing for a long time.
I made the ring cushion in silk fabrics and bead embroidery.The circle reminds us of the the country they are
living in now but also the north of Sweden where we live and summer days with nearly no darkness.Today the sun is really shining here both in the sky but also in our hearts.We wish the young couple a happy life together.

Ribbon embroidery

2010-07-15T02:19:00.000-07:00

On a blog
http://lolly13.zoomin.se/blogg/bandbroderifornyborjare.html
I found the SAL in ribbon embroidery and I decided to follow her instruktions.All is in swedish but you can see the pictures showing different steps.What was really new for me was the japanese stich for the leaves.I used silk fabric and the ribbons in the kit are azlon ribbons ,really nice to use.The roses are in spiderstitches and the knots are french knots made with 3 strands of varigated DMC.

What a great start of a new day to do ribbon embroidery.

And the winner is..........................................

2010-07-11T14:34:00.001-07:00

Congratulations to the winner in my give-away is Ati.

I wish you good luck .
Ulla

A give-away

2010-07-09T07:22:00.000-07:00

Sign in for the give-away.

During the weekend I'm going to have a give away of three skeins of Eco Baby wool, enough for a pair of mittens and some scraps from my mittens..It's going to be between July 9 and July 11 ending when the final match Spain-Netherlands is over.

So nice if you want to be a member of this .

Japaneese Symbols in Cross-stitch

2010-07-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

During the weekend I couldn't resist doing a little embroidery I got from my friend M (http://miyukisfactory.blogspot.com/)in USA.I choosed to do it on aida in an egg shell colour and I really love the colour and the symbols.As many of you know I have a special connection to Japan.

New mittens för the autumn days and a give away during the weekend

2010-07-08T06:03:00.000-07:00

I have been knitting 2 things under WM in football.The first was a shawl and now the mittens.The last days before the final meeting between Spain and Netherland on Sunday I'm going to do some homework and I'm also is going to enjoy the summerdays.

The mittens are knitted in M&K Baby ull and I love this yarn because I get soft,beautiful and warm mittens lovely to wear.During the weekend I'm going to have a give away of the skeins of Baby wool enough for a pair of mittens.It's going to be between July 9 to July 11 ending when the final is over.Come back tomorrow.

Roses from Ati

2010-07-02T03:32:00.000-07:00

The mixed media card is done by Ati http://malinaplass.blogspot.com/
and I couldn't resist taking the photo in our garden,among the pink roses .We have been in a swap of Mixed media/fabric pages in a yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fibre_fever/join

She sent me these wisdom words

You cannot all do great things
but you can do small things with great love.
(mother Theresa)

A little shawl in wool and cashmere

2010-06-27T23:13:00.000-07:00

The first little soft shawl this summer is ready to wear.It's knitted in double Rustic Tranquility(85 Superfine Wool and 15%Cashmere,500 meters/50gram))in the colour horizon.I choosed a simple lace so it was possible to knit for me.I want to go on knitting more complex lace later on.

The yarn I used is a gift(RAK) from "yayayarn" in England.Thank you so so much.

Happy Midsummer

2010-06-25T03:25:00.000-07:00

This lovely flower behind our sauna is really magic.

2010-06-25T03:03:00.000-07:00

I wish you a sunny day.In our garden we have got some flowers and we really enjoy them all.