Goodies!

The last few days a lot of quilting goodies has arrived in my sewing room. I need some vitamin Q after a long summer with very little sewing. I have gone a bit bananas twice this week, leaving my bank account a bit empty. Nothing but flies there now. Last night Quiltefryd came with their shop to our guild, and I spent more money than I had planned. I think you`ll understand when you see what I bought.



The dark roll of fabric contains 25 fat quarters in brown, blue, white and rusty red. The blue and greens are for a "goodbye-dear-colleague"-project I am starting on soon.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Tidy up!

A few days ago me and my friend Leka went on our traditional autumn trip to Lille Stasjon, a wonderful quilt shop. I will show you my purcases later. I bought a smart little plastic boks for some of my embroidery thread.



This is not it. Look at this mess! Like color spaghetti tangled up in eachother. This does not encourage me to sew, just to put the lid back on.




Here you see the result after several hours of labour, so tidy and nice! And a lot more room for new thread. Maybe I will buy some tonight at the first autumn meeting in my guild. Quiltefryd is visiting with their shop, and they are giving a lecture in sewing machine maintenance. I hope to take a lot of pictures so I can show you tomorrow.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Oops I did it again - part two

Yesterday Mr. Pfaff left my sewingroom. It has been a nice year, but we never really hit it on. I know, I am just as bad as those men who are always changing cars, and yesterday I brought home a new cutie.

Meet Daisy!

This one is going to stay with me for a long time, I can feel it! Everytime I have visited my local quiltshop (no blog or homepage) she has blinked her little led eye to me, and whispered: take me home! I am so happy, and look forward to many happy hours of sewing.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

I`m back again!

Oh my, it is so long since I`ve posted :( I am ashamed! So what have I been doing these months?

LOSING WEIGHT!!

I have been and still work out hard, five times a week, and so far I have lost 17 kg :) My big goal is to lose a total og 45 kg, and soon I am halfway.

I haven`t forgot to sew, and I mostly work on my many WISPs and UFOs. However, I plan to make two new quilts for two of my sons.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Summer is coming...

...and summer means lots of houses for sale, which again means a lot to do at work. And sadly that means less time for quilting.

We don`t have any close up neighbours here, so I don`t have curtains in all of the windows. However, I finally decided that I had to do something in the living room, as the sun makes it impossible to watch TV. Being a shabby girl, I didn`t want to buy lift curtains, so I made them from a old restaurant table cloth. It worked really well! No sun is getting through :)

I hade some leftover scraps from the table cloth, and I am thinking of making a table runner or something.



The fabric is really thick, so I had to improvise the pattern myself.



I use the lovely Cosmo embroidery thread. What this project will result in I don`t know, but I`m thinking of making different stichery motifs and put it all together.



One evening as I walked pass my window I stopped and gazed at this beautiful sunset. Too bad my camera can`t reproduce the real thing, it was breathtaking.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

New additions to the library

All though I haven`t been blogging much lately, I have been adding new books and magazines to my quilting library.



Which by the way cries for a new bookshelf!



Lovely books if I some day want to test my sewing skills and patience :)




This Norwegian book has the cutest little stitcheries. I must make something from this one, I may even start tomorrow.




Presenting the finished top for my Gardner quilt. I plan to ship it off to a proffesional for the basting (but have made too many purchases lately and must wait for next salary), and I plan to hand quilt it. Max is looking forward to curl up in a brand new quilt. Sorry puppy, this one is mums!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Award

I got this award from Zew Nice today. It is always nice to get awards, so thank you!! I have to pass on the award to bloggers that has less than 100 followers, so here we go;

Rag, Tags and Bobtail
Grandma`s Red Needle
Bears Patch
Britts Hobbygleder
Annes Quilteri

The next step is to answes the following questions;

1. Why did I start blogging?

When I finally found the world of quiltblogs (I am a bit slow), reading other blogs became a huge inspiration to me. The three blogs that by far got me going was Leannes House, Abyquilt and Hannes Quilt Corner.

2. Which blogs do you follow?

Mostly quiltblogs, but also interior blogs. I like shabby chic! My house is decorated in that style, allthough I fear that it is more shabby than chic......

3. My favourite movie?

Any Jane Austen film will do!

4. My favourite color?

I do find myself getting more "pinkish" as I get older, which is funny since I hated that color before.

5. Which country would I like to visit and why?

My dream is to go to the USA, to visit the Amish communities and "go banana" at the Houston Quilt Festival!!!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege