A surprice!

I received a parcel in the mail a while back. And boy, was I surpriced!

It was from the wonderful Naomi, who's behind the sewalong on Instagram called #fussycuttingsewalong

I was honored to meet her in Birmingham last year, at The Festival of Quilt. We'd originally planned to meet up again at this year's festival, but it was cancelled back in April..

Anyway!

She knew my birthday was in April, and she made this wonderful project bag and sent it to me, with the most gorgeous butterfly card and fabric with animal prints!



I've moved one of my newest projects into this bag - my very first pair of knitted socks in adult size. I'm not entirely happy with the way my knitting goes, but as these are my first pair ever (and I'm keepng them) I think they're pretty good for my first attempt. Will post about them at a later time - the first sock is getting close to finished, and then there's the second sock to be knitted.

This is my house block for week 25 of the #fussycuttingsewalong hosted by @naomialicec 🍄 When all this is over, I’d like to travel and visit again. Although many of the restrictions here in Norway have been eased, there are still many things that will have to wait.

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Handdyed finnish wool spins up nicely! Wool from @spincityuk - drop spindle from @spinnvilt

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Week 3 of The Story of My Day sewalong

Week 3 and this lovely little block is finished. Not quite sure when I'll be having lunch with friends again, but until then I'll be having lunch with hubby. He's spending a few days a week in his office or at the storage, but on the days when we're both working from home, we'll try to eat together.



Block 4 (already?!?!?!?) is ready for stitching!

Week 2 of the sewalong

Well, week 2 finished a week ago - and I had uploaded the picture as a draft, but I seemingly forgot or got distracted before I was able to write the text and press publish.

Oh well.. These things happen when you're working from home, trying to do quite a few things at the same time (my home office is at my sewing desk, so you can just imagine the level of distratction that happens on a daily basis *giggle*).



Week 3 is already stitched, and it's post is waiting to be published.

How are you doing these days? Do you have a project you're working on? Have you learned something new?

This is my house block for week 24 of the #fussycuttingsewalong hosted by @naomialicec 🎥 When all this is over, I’m looking forward to going to the movies again. When the lockdown begun, I had planned a movie trip with P - which had to be postponned.. the movie we were going to see, is available on DVD next week.. but we’ll find something else. 🍿

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One stitch/bead at a time

My mom and I went to The Knitting and Stitching Show in London back in October 2018. While walking around the gorgeous Alexandra Palace, we stumbled upon a boot where they sold - amongst other tings - these adorable kits of cross stitching and beading.

I think we ended up going past the same boot at least 3-4 times before we caved in and bought a small kit each for Halloween.

I finished mine last year, and I believe I posted it here on the blog.

This spring mom asked me if I wanted to complete hers too - and after a short week (with quite a few "listening in"-meetings via TEAMS) it was finished.



The glass beads really gives the finished ornament a shine!

If I ever get to go back to The Knitting and Stitching Show, I'm currently in the mood to find a new project/kit from this shop, perhaps a bigger project. It was fun - and frustrating (I don't like it when I make mistakes..) - and I love the results from both of these kits!

A little sewalong

My mom and I talked a couple of weeks ago about sewalongs and doing something together. We both had the book "The story of my day" by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched (published in 2015). 25 small stitcheries (about 4,5") sewn together in a quilt. And, well, now we're off!

We decided to follow the book, and start on the first stitchery pattern featured in the book (opposed to doing it in the order of the stitcheries in the quilt). I'm not sure why the stitceries aren't in the same order as they are sewn together, but, well, it's not big deal.

This is my first block - "Sew the day away".



I'm using background fabric from my stash, so there will be quite a few different prints and shades, but it'll give the quilt a nice scrappy feeling (or so I hope). And the floss.. well, it's DMC. Where I had the floss number Anni used in her pattern, I will use those - but I've had to replace a few colours with different ones (so, it's a from the stash-kind of project).

This is my house block for week 22 of the #fussycuttingsewalong hosted by @naomialicec 🏠When all this is over I’d love to travel again. To my mom, to friends and family, to inspiration and to discover. 🚙🚌🚂✈️ All our plans for travel have been put on hold - or cancelled - this summer. No trip to Göteborg nor another visit to the #festivalofquiltsbirmingham 😔 But, as they say, this too shall pass - and they will still be there.

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Noen som kan anbefale en grei aktivitetsklokke som ikke koster skjorta - og har enkelt byttbar reim? ⌚️

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