torsdag 3 december 2009

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

söndag 15 november 2009

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

onsdag 4 november 2009

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

tisdag 3 november 2009

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



måndag 2 november 2009

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








tisdag 8 september 2009

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

tisdag 1 september 2009

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

söndag 30 augusti 2009

Christmas

Giveaway!
Where ?
I´ll be back tomorrow
............showing some pictures
of what I´ve been doing.
Hugs to all of you...................Ankie

tisdag 18 augusti 2009

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

onsdag 12 augusti 2009

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


söndag 9 augusti 2009

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





lördag 1 augusti 2009

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

torsdag 30 juli 2009

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


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