Post number 200!

Today me and my boys have spent a quiet day at home, watching the seremonies from New York and Washington. I have done some sewing as well, between the TV and cooking. I made this Dresden Plate block that will be the center of my Goodbye Table Cloth.


I will reveal the next step soon - the first frame around the center. I just love those colors!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Choosing fabrics for a new project

I am starting on another Goodbye-quilt. A dear colleague is retiring by the end of this year, and the plan is to make her a table cloth. Well, that is the plan, but I am also playing with the idea of making her a lap quilt.



This is the fabrics I plan to use. If I choose the table cloth the center will be a Dresden Plate. If I end up making a lap quilt there will be several Dresden Plates. What do you think? Table cloth or lap quilt?

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

PS. I am planning a Give Away. I am just waiting for the last prize to arrive in my mailbox :)

My table-runner-top

Man, where did time go?? My Saturday shopping lasted for a very long time (included a lovely lunch and picking up kids). There have been little time for sewing, but I have finished the top for my table runner.



It is quite big, and will look nice on my antique dining room table :)

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Christmas Quilt Along

Today Sue is hosting her special Christmas Quilt Along, and I am joining in as much as I can during the day.


I am starting on the table runner in the same fabrics as those in the quilt I posted about not long ago. I will blog about it during the day and afternoon, so make sure to come back for a peek :)

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Quilts and quilters that makes a difference

I have a child with a sevear epilepsy (Lennox Gastaut Syndrom), and with other diagnoses that normally follows in its footprints. Due to this, we have spent many weeks at the time in a hospital that works only with these types of cases. The people who works there are fenomenal, and much is done to make the environment as homey as possible.

Every time we have been there, I have admired all the beautiful quilts that are displayed all over the place. We are talking about many wall quilts in different sizes. A few weeks ago Lena and I decided to visit a quilting guild in a near by county for inspiration. The guild is Bærum Lappelag. It is fun to see how other guilds do their stuff, we thought. The atmosphere when we entered the room was so nice that we ended up joining the guild as new members!

I later on checked out their homepage, and what did I find? This is the guild that made all those lovely quilts and gave them to "our" hospital! This is not a coincidence, I thought to myself. This is providential - me being a member there :)

They had a fabulous Show and tell, here are some of the things we could admire:

The patience of some, I am in awe!

Gorgeous!

Quilt as you go, a genious method!

I look forward to meeting up with the quild members again soon.

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Give Away

Be sure to visit Michelles great blog It`s Sew Me. She is having a great give away. I hope I am lucky this time, she is giving away some great stuff!

The give away closes on september 15th. Good luck!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege

Starting on an x-mas present

Autumn is here, and it is time to start some serious christmas present sewing. I do worry though, how am I going to manage all my sewing plans?? I have an exam in the late fall, and will have to spend a lot of my free time studying. Rats! Why did I sign up for it?? I am just so very behind with my reading...sigh...

Today I have been a good girl! I read a long chapter, worked on the mandate for my exam paper, and made this quilt top!



I made it from the roll of fat quarters I bought from Quiltefryd when they visited our guild last month. (Notice the doggy butt?) And guess what! I had so many blocks that I am making another quilt and a table runner! That means two christmas presents and somenthing new for my coffe table :) That is just what I need these days - really effective and rapid sewing!

Have fun sewing!

Siv Hege