Advent swap

I have been away for more than a week.

First of all ,

a sewingweekend in Falun

and then to Österby joining the quiltcamp.

A lot of laughs.............

I will tell you more about it later.

Now when December has arrived

I have a lot of packages to open yippi :)))

The first was a lovely Christmas ornament,

I know the place for it.

The second one was a calender with great photos of flowers and plants from Australia.

In todays package there were 3 DMC threads,

my colours and sparkling which doesn´t show on the picture

Thank you, Arlene for these lovely gifts

Tomorrow is a new day with a new opening

Hugs..........................Ankie

The postman/woman have been busy

Another week has passed

Half november is almost gone

it´s dark and rainy outside

but indoors it´s warm and cozy.

Last Saturday it was time for

Quiltkramarna to have our monthly meeting

On Sunday.............

it was time to celebrate Dad

on Father´s day.

All the children were home

Perfect day with lot of cakes

.............sorry no picture

We ate it all up before I remember to take some pictures

Our son Joachim

The youngest daughter Jennie and her BF Patrik



and here is our oldest daughter Johanna with her BF Daniel

I decided to take a picture every Monday

from the same spot in our garden

to see how it changes during the year

so here is the first one
the first snow this winter

My sewing buddy Honken

he is 10 years old

and a fan of my quilt with a fleeceback

The postman manage to squeeze down this parcel

from Arlene in Australia,

on Tuesday

I hardly manage to get it out of the mailbox

And inside it looked like this

a cute snow-bear

It´s containing 25 Advent Swap parcels

I have to wait until 1st of December to open the first one

It´s tough but..................

Wednesday

A new Fat Quarter arrived

with a lot of "to do" projects

This is the only swedish quiltmagazine

I did my homework on Thursday

meening.....

my japanese handbag is almost finished

I just have to figure out how I want to have the handles

but it have to wait until 1st of december when the next meeting is

the same day I got a new exciting envelope

this time from Quiltbiten

this one contained

2 new patterns,

this time from Lizzan.

You can´t have to many can you? :)))

I wonder what the postman thinks

Friday did a new parcel arrived this time from Jane in USA

My blocks from the Disappearing 9-path swap

100 of them

looking forward to put them together

but how???

I don´t know yet

Thank you all who joined this swap

and

a big THANKS to Jane who organized it
Jane I´m waiting for the next swap 2010!!! :)))

Getting closer to Christmas

it´s time for this

I love having glögg with almond no raisin

and som gingerbread with blue cheese

Hugs..............................Ankie

A little peek

- of what I´m doing

This is the fabric that I´ve chosen for my japanese bag

2:nd meeting is next Tuesday

...............have to do my homework soon

let´s hope for the weekend

but I have a meeting with my quiltgroup Saturday and in the evening

it´s PARTYTIME

Then on Sunday it´s Father´s day

Here comes a picture of my first Christmas project

you will se more of it when it´s finished

I hope :)

Hugs...............................Ankie

Oink,Oink....

No I haven´t got the flu

and I don´t want it

I´m just working 3 more weeks, then I´m off to Quiltcamp at Österby

a whole week,

just sewing and having a lot of fun with old and new friends

so you understand why I had my shot of vaccin today,

I sure don´t wanna risk anything

Hugs......................................Ankie

Try to remember......................

the days of september............... and october

I can´t believe it´s november already

I haven´t had the energy to update my blog

But now I am on to it with loaded battery.

A summary....................

I´ve celebrated my birthday,

it still keeps coming once a year

I got some money...lucky me

which came in handy when I went to Stockholm to visit the Sew-festival

with some friends from my quilting-guild "Quiltkramarna"

I bought a new sewingmachine,

to use when I´m off to different kinds of quiltmeetings

It is much lighter than my other one, but the same brand

But if you think that was all I bought

you are wrong

I came home with some fabrics and some good to have things

those you know all about...or??????????

I have also been at 2 meetings with my guild

I finished my "Rainbow" quilt

(sorry no picture)

and started with some smaller christmas projects,

the photo shows the result of Nina´s christmas mystery

I have been to Quiltbiten once (4 lessons all together)

trying to figure out how to make Japanes bags

we are all making bags of our own choice

I found one in this book

and it looks like this



I joined the swap "A stitchers angel" and
last week I received my package from my secret angel.
It came from Germany and contained such lovely things
and a piece of a tasty chocolatebar





Thank you so much Katrin
and I know that the package I sent to Janet in Canada has arrived

Tomorrow I´m off to the postoffice again
I´m wellknown there.
Posting a package to Arlene, my partner in the "Advent swap"

Oh, I almost forgot!!!
I have also received my blocks in the Halloween swap
thank you all for the gorgeous blocks
(picture is coming)

That´s all folks.......
Now back to one of my favorite shows
Two and a half men





Hugs ............................Ankie

New home for a rabbit

Yesterday I got mail!!

a package from Tanja :-)

I won her giveaway which was

an adorable "Tilda rabbit"

Thank you so much Tanja

she was worth waiting for.

Here she is sitting in my bedroom window.

This weekend my quilting-group

Quiltkramarna ("The quilt hugs")

started with it´s meeting after the summerbreak.

I manage to quilt an old UFO I found in a box.

.............something for my kitchen table

A couple of month ago

I joined a Rainbow swap organized by Jane

-Thank you Jane!!!-

and here is a peak off some of the blocks put together

now I just have to figure out how to quilt it

I have some ideas...............

Hugs to all of you......................Ankie

This, that and tatoo

what have I been doing lately?????

no posts on my blog , bad bad

I and my DH have been talking about doing something creative

by that I don´t mean anything hobby-ish (a new word?)

no no no............

we decided to get a tatoo!!!!

below you see mine

a cute little dragonfly on my leg.

(I try to sign everything I make with a dragonfly)

However I´ve been doing some sewing today

here is a sneakpeak

of what I´m doing for my partner in the Advent swap´

thought a lot about this 25 parcels I´m going to send her

but now I think I have a finished plan

and most of the parcels are ready

I bought some bagframes from the UK

just grabbed some fabric

and made myself a new handbag

quite handy

You can make several bags use the same frame

and change from day to day

very practical...............

The pattern comes from U-handbag

Hugs............................Ankie

Christmas

Giveaway!

Where ?

At Mama Spark´s

I´ll be back tomorrow

............showing some pictures

of what I´ve been doing.

Hugs to all of you...................Ankie

A new giveaway

I want to tell you about a great giveaway I have found

And who is generous this time ?

Ta dam, ta dam !!!!! :)

It´s Karen at Sew Many Ways

Hugs............................Ankie

Just a short post

I´m so glad :))))
why???

I have won Tanja´s giveaway

A very cute Tilda rabbit

has found a new home.

Thank you Tanja :)

I have no photos to show you

But I have done some sewing,

to my swap-mate in the Adventswap

so sorry no picture

maybee a sneek-peek later

Now back to work

Hugs.....................Ankie

And washa, washa, washa!!!

I have a lot of unwashed fabric

and decided I have to do something about it

as I told you before

I started to wash and wash

and wash..............

The weather was very nice and warm last week

so the fabric dried outside

After that

a lot of ironing

Oh I really love this -

ha, ha ............

maybe not!

Then I have finished one of my pillowcases
I think it turned out quite well

decided to use a zipper for closing

The first photo shows the back

And here is the front

with the finished meshwork


Hugs............................Ankie

Going Japanese

Yesterday it was time for a meeting

with my quilting guild "Kviltkramarna".

We invited Janet from Falun to teach us how to do japanese mesh-work.

This was really fun to make.

But you really had to use your brain.

Janet, Margareta and Mona

And here we have Siv very focused

And below you see my 2 meshworks-star.

This will be 2 cushions when they are finished.

It´s something wrong with the colours they are green not blue

Thank you very much Janet !!!

Remember
2 under, 1 over, 2 under, 1 over.................

Hugs..............................Ankie

What´s in the envelope?

Hallo everybody....
Yesterday I mailed the package to USA
Stamps: 40Skr ????????????
I think it´s much to cheap
But they insisted at the postoffice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybee it comes back to me...............

However
Here you see a photo of the content
13 9-patch-blocks (1 4-you Jane)

13 cat-blocks (also 1 4-you J) in 5 different patterns

Today I am going to wash some new fabrics
that I have bought in different stores

This first photo shows
the fabrics from "Gittes tygkälla"
a wonderful shop with lots of bolts
sorted by colour

Next one............
these ones come from "Ohlssons tyger" in Gävle

And the last photo shows fabrics that I bought
at "Stoff & Stil" in Malmö

You can´t have to much fabric..................
or?????????????????

Hugs................................Ankie

Knitting and wedding

I have been thinking...

Oh yes!!!!

Believe it or not

I must have something to do when I watch TV

So I decided to start knitting

I bought some yarn, 2 big skeins

new needles

Pattern???????

Google..............

I found DROPS design

I decided to go for this cardigan

I joined Jane´s halloweenswap a couple of months ago

All 24 blocks are now of to USA.

Tomorrow you´ll see the content

of the parcel...............

Last but not least

some pictures from the wedding I told you about

Here are the happy family outside the church

Time to open the gifts

Below you see

the merrymarried couple with

the quilt I made

That´s all folks

Hugs..........................Ankie