Halloween week!

The weather is beautiful and will hopefully stay like this for the whole Halloween week! Nice to open the windows and let some fresh air in.


I have been travelling this week, flying for nearly 10 hrs. I brought this sweater, Klaralund, that I just had started and it was a perfect travel knit. I finished it on the plane. I used nearly 6 skeins of Noro, Silk Garden Lite and needles nr. 5.


I also made this scarf, it will be a Christmas present for a young man. It is very nice and soft, made of Misti Alpaca, hand dyed, 4 ply.


Finally, the wall hanging is done and ready to go to my "quilting lady" to be machine quilted!

More knitting and Renaissance Festival

We have been to the Renaissance festival again this year, it is fun. We spent Sunday there and the weather was wonderful. www.texrenfest.com
The girls got their hair braided.



Now I wonder how many knitting projects I have going. I took a trip to my favorit yarn store, and ofcourse a new project came home with me. It is a very simple one, and since I am going away for a week, I can work on it on the plane. The sweater is called Klaralund and I am using the yarn Noro for the first time.





It is flowering in my garden, the bananaplant that my son gave my for mothersday is growing fast. He ordered it on internet, and it was only a few inches when I got it.

On my knitting needles

I cannot believe I started this project. The great American aran afghan, also called the GAAA is very hard, it is not recommended as TV knitting. I have used my last skein of wool, so now it is put aside.

I needed something easy to knit last week when I was working in the box office at school selling tickets for my daughers play. She is aunt Jenny in "I remember mama". I knitted a "my so called scarf" I found the instructions on "you tube". I knitted it in some wool that I had dyed with kool aid.
Then I got out the sweater I am working on, needed something easy after all the concentration on the GAAA.

Other family members have hobbies too

Daddy loves fly fishing (and fly tying when he has time). This 15 lb salmon was caught during our 2007 summer vacation in Norway.



Nice 16 lb salmon caught by our oldest son (also in Norway).

Knitting and Quilting

I started a new knitting project this week end. I am out of wool for my other projects, they have to wait until the end of the month when I get a new load from Norway. I started The Great American Aran Afghan, it consists of different blocks that in the end will be a blanket. All blocks are supposed to be the same size, here is my two first ones, no way they will be the same size, well, that beats me....


I finally got back to my sewing room today, four months since I have visited my sewingmachine! It was dusty!! I started this quilt, it will be a wallhanging and it will end up at a craft fair this fall. I have not decided if I will use the red or yellow as the sashing, what do you think?





As a treat for my family I baked Norwegian boller today, do you want to join us, weather is beautiful.....

Have a nice week!

It is another new week and I have baked bread! We all love homebaked bread with brown cheese!
Stella loves when I take the camera out, the rest of the family are running away....

Quilting

People have asked to see the quilts I have made. These are some of the quilts in my house:


This is a king size bed quilt.


This is on the wall in our dining room.


A couple of quilts over the stairs...


On the wall in our guest room...


Our daughter's bed quilt...


This cowboy quilt is fun to make and I am making it on request!


The quilt storage cabinet is handy when you run out of wall spaces. :-)


Some quilts displayed in a Norwegian rose-painted cradle.


Another wall hanging...


In the family room...


Entrance / stairs...


Another up the stairs...

Before I started quilting 15 years ago, I made porcelain dolls - more than 50 I believe. This is a sample I have kept!


I hope you enjoyed my little quilt show today!

Busy week end!

I finished my week end projects, here is my fall wreath at the door and how I did the kool aid dying.


First I choose four different colors,


then I divide the yarn into four lengths.


I boil water in my kettle, take 2 packages of kool aid in each jar together with 2 cups of boiling water. Put one piece of yarn in each jar and woops, the color is now in the yarn.


Then I rinse and hang it out to dry.



Now I have 465 yards of yarn in different colors, any suggestion what to use it for?

Hummingbirds!

The weather is getting cooler. Hopefully it will stay like this for a while.


We now have a lot of hummingbirds in the garden.


Hummingbirds kan stay "absolutely still" in the air while frantically flapping their wings. We love to watch them stop by our hummingbird feeder!

Week end projects!

I visited the biggest yarnstore in Houston yesterday, bought a big skein of yarn that I will dye with kool aid. Do not know what I will make from it yet. Also went to a spice store and ended up buying more than I need.
Another week end project is a fall wreath for the entrance door, as you can see, I have alot of help!

Guestroom!

I have made new pillows for the guestroom.

Quilting!

I have not been quilting for months. It was too much to work in a quiltstore and then go home and make samplers for the store. Quilting is my hobby and it should be fun, not alot of work. So I quit working, rest from quilting for a while, maybe one day I will enjoy it again?
This summer I went on a hot air balloon trip in New Mexico, in a quilt store in Santa Fe I found this wonderful fabric, it will be nice to make a memory from the trip. On the drive back to Houston, we had to visit all the quiltstores, in Kerrville they have a wonderful store, here I found alot of fabric from my favorit designer Amy Butler. Some cat fabric was a must!
If you go to the quilt festival in Houston this fall you will find that the hit of the year is the "one block wonder" I have two of them started, I did not like it!

What I am working on right now!

My easy knit is the colorful blanket that will be felted after it is done. The yarn is pt2.
I also just started "the great american aran afghan", I had planned to use cascade yarn, but then I found that I had some "sportsgarn", perfect for this project.
I love the book "dikt i masker", will I ever make anything from that book? Tusen takk Tone!
I have finished another "toothbrush" rug, this time from Mona's leftover Thimbleberries fabrics!
The jacket in black and red is another ongoing project.

Another finished project!

This is a jacket I finished this summer, thanks to Garndilla who mailed me the yarn I missed.

Next project!

This is Gudbrandsdalen festdrakt, as a kit! I ordered it years ago, now I think it will get started! It will probably take me a couple of years.....