Working on the Goodbye Quilt

I am spending a few days at home, trying to teach Max not to chew on everything in the house and finishing the Goodbye Quilt. Our colleague is leaving the 12th, so the quilt is to be presented one week from today. No time to lose!



Today I sewed together the middlesection. I have to add some borders to lengthen the quilt, and I am thinking stars. Could add hearts, but we don`t want to give his wife the wrong idea, lol. So, I am thinking stars.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Meet wonderful Max!

Let me introduce you all to the latest family member, Max. Is he not the cutest?? He is a Norwich terrier, 11 weeks old, and impossible to get a clear picture of, lol



I brought him home yesterday, and he immediately started chasing the cats!! He gets really frustrated when they don`t want to play with him.



Having a puppy is a lot of work as well, so we both tumbled into bed last night, exhausted. He slept like an angel next to my bed :)

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

A finish

This table runner has been laying around my sewingroom for years, and at last I have finished it. I love the floral fabrics, infact I love all floral fabrics :)




In a couple of hours I am going to get the wonderful "thing" I mentioned in my last blog. Stay tuned :)

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Slowly getting there

Oh, this has been a long, cold winter. How I long for spring!! Time flies, and my deadline for the Goodbye quilt is getting closer. Last week was pretty hectic, and I didn`t manage to sew much. However, I have managed to sew a few of the ninepatch blocks for the quilt.




Hm, still a lot to do, I see.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

PS. Come back on Saturday, and I will show you something wonderful............

The Goodbye Quilt

I am sorry for not blogging much this week. I blame it on internet, or lack of access that is. I hate when my gadgets doesn`t work, and me not knowing how to fix it!

This weekend I have been working like a mad woman on a new project. A dear colleague of mine is retiering, and I have persuaded my other colleagues to make a quilt for him as a goodbye present. We all thought his last working day would be in May, but now we find he is leaving 12. March!!! This means we are in a hurry!!!!!!



Kjell, that is his name, lives i the west of Norway, and every weekend he drives 6-7 hours (one way!!!) to get home and back again. What a guy!! I just had to make a stitchery of him driving over the mountains. Everybody is writing a personal greeting, whitch then is stitched onto fabric. I have displayed some of the fabrics I am planning to use. The colors will be brown and black. My fellow colleagues was afraid the quilt would be way to sweet and romantic (my style). I had to promise them to make a more masculine quilt. After some negotiation we have now agreed that I can use a little bit of flowers as well LOL.


Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Purchases

I promised you I would show the purchases I made when Lille Stasjon visited our guild a couple of weeks ago. Sorry it has taken so long, it has been a loooong week.

I found some lovely blue fabrics that I just had to buy. I also bought paper templets. The 3" hexagons I plan to use making a scrap quilt from left over fabrics from the newest BOM I have joined - En gartner. This means that I am actually making two quilts at the same time. Cool!



A good thing I have learned if I want to save some bucks, is to only visit the shop once. This prooved to be difficult this time, since the shop was situated next to my table ;)



So this book also went in my bag! Well, I hope I get around to actually sew something from it sometimes.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Award

I have received this award from Anna , and I am thrilled. It is nice to think of that other people find my blogging to be a source of inspiration.





This award comes with a few simple rules:

• put a link to the generous person you received the award from on your blog.
• tell 7 things about yourself
• give the award to 7 bloggers that inspires you

So, here are 7 more or less well kept secrets about myself:

• I am a sugarholic, looove chocolate
• I am two exams away from finishing a bachelor in law and management
• I work within the national land registry
• I dream of getting a Norfolk terrier
• I was a singer in several bands in my younger days
  
• I dream of taking a quilting trip to the states, to visit the Amish people, and attend the quilt expo in Houston
• someday I hope to publish a quilt book

And the 7 blogger I choose to pass this award to is:

• Oh sew busy
• Grandma`s Red Needle
• Quilt Hollow
• Kviltstina
• Happy in Quilting
• May-Britt
• Hanne

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege