The new sewingroom

This fall has been very wet! It resulted in water damages on the ground floor, and renovation of my sewingroom. New flooring and new paint did the job, I am very pleased with the result. 

Very tidy - for now lol

My own little reading space. I am delighted! I love the new oak floor, it brings warmth to the room.

Have fun sewing! 

Siv Hege

Water!!!

I was shocked last Wednesday when I came home from work and found myself standing in water in the hallway. Extreme rainfalls the last few days resulted in water coming in to several rooms on the ground floor. Including my sewingroom!! So now we live on an airport. Well, that is what it sounds like, with the fans that dries out the rooms.

 

I decided to give the sewingroom a little makeover, and have started painting it in a lighter blue. I have chosed an oak floor to give the room warmth. I just hope the renovation wont take long!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege 

Eureka!!!

Look what I found at the church flea market in Geilo yesterday!!!! 

This stunning retro log cabin quilt! The best part is that the quilt is dated, it is sewn by a woman named Kari back in 1979. I was ten years old when this quilt was made! It is beautiful made, you can tell that Kari was an accomplished quiltmaker. 

The quilt was chucked away in a shelf together with other fabrics, easy to miss. But I spotted it straight away :)

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Holiday projects

My darling J and I are busy painting and carpenting this vacation. In between I still manage to do some sewing . 

This table was dark pine tree, and did not fit in with the grey walls in our garden room. So now I am painting it in a very light grey. In need of some colors I made this table runner top. Not too happy with the layout of the blocks, but very satisfied when all the blocks turned out square and all in same size.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Color Explosion part one

Today I finished sewing together the blocks for the Color Explosion Quilt. I never stop wondering how it is that even though I am as thorough as can be, the sizes of the blocks always varies a bit. Hm!!

( I need a better camera, time to upgrade my phone I guess). Well, the top is off to meet the magic hands of LeKaQuilt, I can't wait for part two of this project! 

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Color Explosion

This is a project I am sewing together with my sister in spirit, LeKa Quilt. The quilt is a gift to handicaped children living at Austjord (a institution in our community). 

The quilt is a explosion of colors and contrasts. Finally I found a use for my old Jinny Beyer fabrics.

The accent fabric is black. This is a rehearsel in using fabrics way out of my comfort zone, I need to sew something really cute and pretty after this quilt lol.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Twin table runner

My darling J and myself enjoy making our new home together, and painting old pine furniture is one of many tasks on our agenda. 

It is amazing what paint can do, don't you think? J asked me the other day "wouldn't it be nice if you made some table runners?" Who am I to say no??? 

I don't have much time to quilt these days, but I managed to make two small tablerunners using a very simple pattern. And now that I have learned not to hose down the fabric I am getting really into glue basting.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege