Norwegian Quilt association annual meet

This past weekend was the annual meet of the Norwegian Quilt Association.  This year it was held in Trondheim, which is only a 2.5hr drive from here- Nice!  We have been super busy at the shop getting everything ready for our booth there.

 New models were made- these two quilts are from patterns by Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life, The one on the left is " Dreamcatcher" and the one on the right is "Hope Chest" I just love both quilts!  They were both quilted by Merete Ellingsen.

Another view of the booth.  The quilt on the back wall was made by Karin who co owns the shop with me, and the pattern is "Refresh" by Deb Mulder of Anka's treasures (also quilted by Merete Ellingsen)

We had such a great time in Trondheim, always fun to meet fellow quilters!  Thank you to all of you who visited us there!

Yeey for retreats and birthdays!

A few weeks ago our quilt guild had a weekend retreat, and we had such a fun weekend sewing, eating, laughing and spending time together.  I managed to get two mini quilt tops finished, our guild leader showed us how to make cute little baskets, so of course I made one of those ( she had even cut the batting pieces ready for us :-) And I finally started on "Smitten"  ( yeah I know I am like a year behind everyone else....LOL I am machine piecing, and so far this is the only block I have made- no quick progress here I am afraid....

The Norwegian Quilt Guild has it's annual meet in just two weeks, and since december I have been working on new models for our booth there.  I have made two quilts from patterns by Sherri at a Quilting Life and here are some blocks for the Dream Catcher quilt.  The quilt is finished- I just need to take a god picture of it....

A lot of non quilting stuff has been happening as well. My sweet daughter turned 22 two weeks ago, and I went to visit her in Oslo where she studies, and we went to see the Mary Poppins musical.  Mary Poppins was one of the kid's favorite movies when they were younger ( and it might still be), so we were really excited to see it on stage.

We had front row seats, and got a great view!  "Mary Poppins- Practically perfect in every way"

Mary and Bert. The actors were really good!  

On top of the roof with the chimney sweep

This is Sigve's favorite dance scene ever form any movie- the Chimney sweeps dancing on the rooftops.  They did a great job on stage as well!

The bird woman portrayed by Mari Maurstad- a great actor!

Such a great show, and in September we're going to see Singing' in the rain- Can't wait for that!

I really need to catch up on my blog reading, Maybe I need to set a specific time each day to blog and read blogs... I seem to never have time for blogging anymore, any suggestions out there?

Hope you all have a great day!  It looks like I have to do a few laundry loads before heading outside for a walk/run- then I can go to my sewing room and play, yeeey!

My sewing folder is finished!

Yeey, I finally finished my hand sewing folder!  I managed to finish it on the weekend in my previous post.  Now I need a new project to fill it with....

Here is the other side. It has pockets on the front and back ( the Dresden block is a pocket)

The inside... Lots of places to put my scissors, needles, thread etc.

And the outside, with three pockets for patterns and other fun stuff!

This was a really fun project to make, with lots of details that took a while to sew ( some of them I left out....)

Thank you for stopping by my blog!

A great quilting weekend!

This weekend was the best!  The shop arranged a weekend class with super awesome AnnAKa!  She is such a wonderful designer, and a super teacher!  The class was all sewing/stitching by hand, so no sewing machines required!  The first two pictures shows her model that we learned to sew.  Lots of different hand sewing techniques makes it a lot of fun to make!

This is the inside of the folder.  Lots of pockets to keep our projects and stuff in!

16 ladies ( including my business partner Karin and me) enjoyed the weekend at "Telstad" which is an old farm turned into a great course location!

Lots of smiles and laughter during the class!  Ann is standing between my mom (on the left) and my aunt ( my moms' sister).  I love having both my mom and aunt share the passion for quilting with me!

8 ladies stayed at Telstad from Friday- Sunday, and we had a lot of fun in the evenings after dinner....

Sunday afternoon was the end of class, here are all the very talented and lovely ladies with some of the pieces they had worked on.  I really look forward to seeing all the stitchery folders finished!

I guess I should get off the computer and work on mine....

Thanks for stopping by!

The Norwegian Quilt Festival

The first Norwegiamn Quilt Festival took place just outside Oslo this past weekend.  We've been so busy the last couple of months getting everything ready for our booth there, it was almost unreal when the day arrived when we loaded two BIG cars with all our stuff and headed south.

We were pretty busy the whole weekend, so I am sorry I don't have a lot of pictures to show you, but I've seen a few other Norwegian bloggers have lots to show!

Our booth was small but we did get a LOT of fabrics and patterns in there... And samples of course.  We are very lucky to have some talented ladies that help us make samples. 

We had a corner booth, which is really nice, here is the view from the other side.

And a different view again....

A little close up.... Some fresh fabric there!

And look who stopped by our booth.....Camille Roskelley! She spotted my Swoon quilt and came in to take pictures.  We had two other samples from her patterns as well, so it was really nice to meet her, she is so sweet!  She taught four classes at the festival so she was pretty busy.  There were a lot of great teachers there, so I would have loved to take a class or two!

My daughter Kristine studies at the University of Oslo, so she came and helped us out as well.  It was really nice to spend a couple of days with her :-)

Well, that was just a little peak at what I've been up to, tonight I've actually been sewing a bit again- Yeey!

Take care, and thanks for stopping by!

Our booth at the NQF Quiltweekend

Today I would like to show you some pictures from our booth at the Norwegian Quilt Association's meeting in Kristiansand this past weekend.

The past weeks I have been busy getting ready for this annual event- sewing samples ( and borrowing from designers and local quilters)

I was able to finish my Swoon quilt,(to the left in the picture), and I am really happy with how it turned out.  Merete Ellingsen quilted it for me, and as always she did a wonderful job!

It takes us a day to put the booth together, but it only took 90 minutes to pack it back down on Sunday.  We had a long drive home to Tynset, so we really wanted to get going.  We drove straight home, only stopping for gas and a drive-through burger.... 

We had a great time in Kristiansand, now we're looking forward to the Norwegian Quilt Festival in September where we will have a booth as well :-)

A lovely quilt weekend!

The last weekend in September our quiltguild had a retreat at a lovly place called "Telstad".  Ten ladies spent the weekend here quilting and having lots of fun!

We took turns in the kitchen, and Saturday evening we had a lovely dinner!

Here are some of the guildmembers admiring a christmas quilt top made over the weekend

For our retreat LAST year, I had brought this bundle to make a winter wallhanging- but I didn't even open it then.... Guess I brought too many things to work on... So this time I started on the blocks BEFORE the retreat... LOL

Pretty 4" blocks.... 

Sorry I don't have more pictures of my progress, guess I was too busy sewing to take pictures....

Tomorrow I am heading to Molde with my car filled with fabrics and other fun quilty stuff.  I  am setting up a booth at the "Vestlandstreffet" ( West coast meeting) quilt festival.  So today I will be busy cutting more fabrics and getting ready.  I really with I had more hours in the day....

Hello April....

It sure has been a while since I've posted anything here... It's not that I haven't been sewing- I've just been very busy....  

In March we brought the shop (or at least a little part of our shop) to the annual Quilt Meet in the Norwegian Quilt Association.  To prepare for a weekend like this takes a Looong time, especially sewing new samples....

This quilt is the BOM club we are doing this year at the shop.  The pattern is called "Barbara Jean's Sampler quilt", and is by Lori Smith of "From my heart to your hands".  I LOVED making this quilt, the fabrics are from Sue Daley's new fabric line.  Merete Ellingsen quilted it, and she did a wonderful job!  (We have kits for this at the shop if anyone is interested....)

Here is another view of our booth.  You may see my Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt in the middle of the picture... Finished just in time!

It was lovely to go to the cabin for Easter this year.  Lots of snow meant we got to ski every day!  Sigve carried his snowboard and boots on his back while cross country skiing to one of the biggest mountains in the area, and had a blast snowboarding down all the way back to the cabin.  

Our cabin is not in an aerea with prepared skislopes or even prepared tracks, but we are able to ski anywhere we want to which is wonderful!

My dad and Kristine is way ahead of my mom and me....

Such a beautiful day!

And after a day of skiing it was nice to relax by the cabin!

I hope your Easter was nice and relaxing as well.