RABBITS

I made a rabbit couple this week, they are bigger than these little rabbits that we bought back home this summer, here Stella is borrowing them.

They are a Danish design called Maileg. I mailed the company and asked for their catalog and they sent me a beautiful catalog together with a cute little fellow

The twins love their little rabbits and they come along everywhere,

Here at museum, visiting the exhibition "Terracotta warriors" . The twins still get a lot of attention, we were joking that they should have had t-shirts saying "we are not a part of the exhibition".

Finally done handsewing the binding on to the big quilt, it took a while since it is huge.. now it is in my Etsy store..

SUNDAY MORNING

Beautiful morning, little ones had a swim and the garden work is done.

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Every year in November I open my home for everyone and have a "Fall market", I have quilts and knitted items for sale. This year I have invited creative friends to bring their things because I have not had time to make so much this year, been too busy... but still have time to make some more of my small santas I will sit outside this afternoon and sew the binding on my big quilt

Another week end

I finally finished my sweater, Elizabeth I, this week end. Unfortunately, it is too big for me, so it is for sale on my Etsy store. Well, that was another UFO done and I started the new week with a little pink dress. It will probably be a quicker project than the sweater that took me nearly two year to finish....

Nice sushi dinner again this week end, our favorite!

HAVE A NICE WEEK!!

CAT HAT

I knitted this cat hat for my oldest daughter this week end, it was fun and quick to knit and I used some leftover wool yarn that I had in my basket. The pattern I bought on Ravelry. I will like to knit more cat hats, do you want one too?

Another week end has past and we got some rain and storm and we pretended that it was cold outside!

BABIES AND KNITTING

Twins are 8 months now and they are keeping everyone busy! First thing we got when we came back to Houston was a playbin.

Little brother is jumping quickly around the floor, not much crawling, but more jumping like a frog.


Not much time for knitting this summer, but I managed to finish little sister's babyjacket, thanks to Jorunn, she gave me the yarn I lacked to finish it.
I have worked a bit on my squares too, got some leftover "Baby ull" from friends, like with my quilts, I like the scrappy look!
Had time to crochet a little top that I will make into a dress when I finally get to the sewing machine!
Finally, how happy can we be for 10 minutes of rain, I had to go outside and take some pictures!


Have a nice weekend, we are hoping for cooler weather and rain here!

BACK IN THE HEAT

After 5 weeks away we are back in the heat. It is the hottest summer ever recorded in Houston!
We are glad we have been away for a while.


Here are the twins just of the plane in Oslo where we spent a few days in beautiful weather

Then home to Stavanger where we had a busy time trying to get the house and garden back in shape after being rented for three years. We had a lot to do, the garden was a jungle overgrown with weeds and the house looked ok by the first sight, but then we realized that things were broken and we had not been told. Well, that is the disadvantage of being away....

The house got painted, and thanks to the oldest son we got the new fence and gate up the last minute before we had to leave again.

The harbor had a lot of visitors, cruiseships and a beautiful swedish tall ship.



The twins discovered real grass and went for long walks in their stroller.


It was nice to be tourists in our own city.

Traveling twins

We are ready for our first flight! We have two passports each!

Leaving the sizzling heat in Texas for a month of nice weather in Norway. It is nice there now and we hope it will last for a while.

A lot of luggage this time, but I have made room for my knitting and crocheting too. Two babyjackets and my granny square blanket is coming with me. Wonder if I will find time to work on them.

Hoping for a baby friendly flight! Next posting from Norway next week!

RED WORK PILLOWS AND MORE

I have to show my redwork pillows and here, also our Maine coon cat Redwork stitchery was very popular a couple of years ago, now it seems like everyone is knitting, quilting or crocheting "granny squares", a lot of blogs have pictures of their version of the squares.

Here is mine, now I am out of yarn. Have to wait until I am back home in Norway or ask friends if they have some leftover yarn. I am using "baby wool".

Our swallows had 4 babies, one day they all left the nest!

WEATHER

I read somewhere that it is typically Norwegian to talk about the weather, and yes, that is very true. Weather comes up in most conversations, and esspecially in May, when we have our independence day and we're hoping for nice weather for the parade.

When the weather is nice in Norway, everyone is out, either for a walk in nature or at an outdoor restaurant enjoying a cold beer.
Here it's getting hotter each and every day. Nobody is outside... It is way too hot!
This is from a week ago, when we had some rather nice mornings... I enjoyed my breakfast outside!

I bought a birdhouse, maybe some birds will move in?

Our swallows now have 4 babies and they keep their parents busy, I think they are ready to fly in just a few days.

I've noticed in many blogs that it is popular to crochet "granny" blankets, so I had to start one too. I do one piece each day, that is managable along with all my other ufo's.

Here is how far I got on my babyjacket before I was out of yarn, but a nice lady back home has some for me so that I can finish it when I'm home.

We are nearly 6 months now!!