Damsel in distress

It’s not me who are in distress but this nice little lady, who seems to be missing her hair….

I think its cold to be that bald; I better make her some hair

She’s a gift to my niece for her first birthday; I used the pattern from

Alicia Paulson’s “stitched in time”. It’s the first time I tried to make a rag doll,

it was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I got so many girls in my life

that can be gifted with this type of toy.

I also got to “try out” another book from my birthday.

If you are new at embroidery (like me) I highly recommend the doodle stitching book.
It explains the different type of stitches really well,
and have some great “how to” graphics.

My coaster swap buddy Sara has received my parcel and seems pleased with it.

I’m glad she is, I’m always a bit more nervous

when sending stuff to another craftster,

am I the only one who feels that way?

And to round this week up (…) I finished the on the spot quilt top.

I like the idea a lot, but not so much the execution.
I think I’m gonna try another method for the next circle quilt.

Maybe Anna Maria Horner's super circles.

Have a good day, I’ll be back tomorrow with Sunday stash fabric.

Isa

On the spot

I wish I didn’t like circles…

I wish that when I saw a circle quilt, I would do a little nod and say “Nice, but I’m more a square kinda girl” Or log cabin, or even triangles…..Sigh… But I don’t.

I love circle quilts in every shape and form, and when I see one I always want

to do something similar

But curved piecing is such a pain in the … It’s no fun, well not for me anyway….

But practise makes perfect right?

I’m halfway through this circle quilt (inspired by this one)

now I only need the counterpart with white circles.

I’m using this tutorial for the six minute circle.

Boy am I glad I signed up for kindred crafters coaster swap.

Look what my swap buddy Sara sent me.

A package filled with goodies, a magazine, a tea wallet tutorial with fabric and tea,

a picture frame, a nice card and 4 lovely coasters.

Needles to say I love it. Thank you so much Sara!!
You can go to this flickr group to see what

other participants sent and received

Have a great day

Isa

drum roll please

Thank you for every one who came by my blog, and thank you for all the comments. There were 160.
I used the random number generator.
And the winner is:
Number 6,
Winter tree who said:
“what a lovely giveaway - and so nice to see sites from other non english speaking places - lovely blog :)”

Congratulations.

an apple a day

Thank you for all the nice comments and wishes in the give away post.
I had a really good birthday.

I got to pull out my fancy shoes and fancy purse and went to a movie and dinner with Kristoffer, while my sister looked after the children.

And because we had such splendid weather I even got to wear a new summer dress.


Among many things, Kristoffer gave me these books that I’ve been wanting for quite some time. I think the “Doodle-stitching” can be the beginning of a new addiction… erh hobby.



The past week has also been quite busy. I finished some more nine-patches for the one a day quilt along.


I’m up to 37 now

I started a new quilt inspired by this one

I sent of a package to Sara from kindred crafters, filled with goodies as part of the coaster swap… Sorry no pictures it’s a surprise

And I’ve decided to join old red barns quilt along, where you can win a sewing machine!

And to finish this post, I got some Sunday stash apples for you.

Two from Jeniffer Moore, one from Sandi Henderson, and one from timeless treasures

Have a good day.

Isa

P.s don't forget to leave a comment in the SMS give away day post before midnight CET.

I will draw a winner tomorow .Thank you.

Another little give-away.

Have you heard about sew mama sew’s may give away day? Doesn’t it sound great?

I looove give aways, I already got one going on for the Sewn blog launch party. But my birthday is coming up (this Saturday I'm 32 ) and I really love the sew mama sew blog.

I learned and got so much inspiration from that blog, and who can resist a give-away day, it’s such a good idea.

...So I’m in….

This is what you can win on my blog:

Two pocket sized moleskin journals 3.5 × 5.5 inch,

and approximately 3 yards black trim and 3 yards bias tape

To be entered in the give away just leave a comment in this post.
The winner will be drawn randomly on May 31,

so be sure to leave a comment before then.

Thank you

Isa

Awe-summm

Donna and Sara from Kindred Crafters awarded me with the awe-summm blog award. Thank you so much, I’m so happy with this award. You girls are truly awe-summm!!! And if I could I would send it right back at you, but the rules for this award is that I have to list 7 things that make me awe-summm, and then name 7 other awe-summm blogs.
Well here goes;
1) I’m not afraid to try something new and exciting e.g. I’m going back to school in September where I hopefully will become a handicraft teacher.
2) I love to give presents away. ( I love to receive them as well)
3) I make lovely children
4) I easily become enthusiastic about something
5) I’m kind to animals
6) I’m considerate
7) I’m not afraid of buying new fabric

That was the hard part of this award.

And now the easy part where I have to name seven really awe-summ blogs.

1) Amy over at badskirt always makes me smile. And she makes some really cute stuff too

2) Malka from a stitch in dye makes the most beautiful quilts, she is very inspiring.

3) I just wanna copy all of Ashley’s quilts, they are gorgeous.

4) And if you don’t know Rita and Tokki from free falling, you should visit and see the lovely pictures

5) And I have to mention Katie from willy nilly, I looove her pictures and her amazing quilts.

6) Kajsa from syko, makes such lovely little art quilts, and you should swing by her etsy shop to se her art print

7) And then there is appliqué artist L.Jane.E She always leaves such encouraging comments.

And if someone else hadn’t already mentioned them I would have pointed out that Rita from redpepperquilts makes the most wonderful and amazing quilts and always leave the nicest comments.

That Christina from the sometime crafter has some great tutorials.

And that I love to read Amy’s diary.
I could go on and on, there are so many great blogs out there….Thank you again Donna and Sara, this was so great.

And for a grand finale (or at least a finale) there are five more nine-patches.

Have a good day
Isa

Retro cabin

I received this cute fabric from timeless treasure a couple a days ago. I bought it at Etsy seller “afabricoutlet”.

I just wanted to cut it up right away. It’s going to be another baby blanket.

I like the quick gratification of small quilt projects.

There where practically no wastage with this fabric bundle.

I love when it’s like that.

I also cut some extra 2.5” squares that I intended to use for the one-a-day nine patch.

But I didn't think the fabric matched the other blocks in the nine-patch very well

So inspired by this quilt, I made four patches to use with the sashing.
I’m planning on using brown sashing and maybe orange binding…?

On a totally different matter I have a question for you all; When I comment on someone else’s blog I sometime get a response on that particularly comment in my email, I like that feature very much but I can’t figure out how this is done… Do any of you know how to do this?

Have a good day
Isa

Geese in the forest

Well I’ve decided to take the plunge into the paper piecing pool. I made six more geese’s.

I spent most of Sunday working with them, on and off in between lunch, dinner, nap times and so on.

I’m only going to use liberty fabrics in this one, because I think it will go well with the pattern, and give the quilt an antique look.

I’ve never done paper piecing before so it’s going to be a good learner

I’m not planning on being finished in August, instead I’ll make a bunch of blocks once in a while. So it’s going to be a long term project

(I guess it is no different than a lot of my other projects since I’m still having a hard time getting around to actually finishing them)

Have a good day

Isa

Sunday stash # 3

This week I’ve chosen some blue Liberty fabric.
I love the feel of this fabric

I’ve been thinking about joining Twiddletails Geese in the forest project.

I made a trial block to see how it looks:

I like it… But paper piecing takes a long time… I thought that with a little effort I could catch up and finish with thee others in august,

I don’t know what I was thinking, I must have gone mad.

Maybe I can still finish in august.... 2010 that is.

Thank you for all the nice comments on Marie’s teething. She’s doing much better, and have returned to her normal happy self.

I hope you have a good day.

Isa

playing catch

Just a quick post.
I’m trying to catch up on the one-a-day quilt-along

Greens:

Yellows

Orange

My favourite is the one with flowers and rockets.

I will go play some more

Have a good day

Isa