Archive for June, 2007

Flowers and sewing.. (or rather ironing)

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Sometimes the preparation for sewing takes such a long time it’s hard to imagine when I’ll get there. Now I’m ironing these stripes that I’ll later use when making the celtic knot. It takes forever - I’ve already spent 40 min. ironing… usually I don’t mind ironing when it’s for sewing purposes … Luckily, I […]

It’s my birthday today!

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

My daughters have been counting down for a whole week, Wednesday is your birthday - mom - which day is it tomorrow? Jenny made a card and a wonderful gift for me at school yesterday, she could barely wait to show it to me. Emily also wanted to make me a card, so they both […]

Actually sewing

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

I love sewing - but this one got a bit tedious. Now I got to cut the seam allowance in half, iron and then sew them back on. I’m making the strips for a celtic knot…

Fabric - more fabric

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Ok, Tormod told me that some of my fabric for the sampler looked too “christmasy”. Of course, I wasn’t too sad - I had a whole new reason to go to my favorite quilting store. I was very good and only bought what I needed - at least that’s what I tell Tormod…
Better get back […]

A hundred unique visitors

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I’ve had tracking on my site for a month, and today I got my no. 100 unique visitor.
I’m so thrilled!! And I’m so glad so many of you come back for more!!

A trip to Gothenburg and some more work on our sampler

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I guess you know I love fabric, and to my surprise I didn’t buy any fabric in Gotenburg. I did get some beads, ribbons and a few other things. Thank you so much for excellent tips:
http://strumpstickan.blogspot.com/ and http://strumpstickan.blogspot.com/.
Yesterday, I had Bente over to keep working on our sampler quilt. It’s difficult to get some sewing done […]