Soon It´s for the birds

Fåglarna är rusiga av vår känslor och inspirerande av det kommer det en blog hop igen på Sew We Quilt. Denna blog hop startar på tisdag och min dag är den 10 maj. Det kommer att bli jättekul att följa den och titta på alla fantastiska projekt som de kreativa damerna från när och fjärran, dock mest från USA har sytt med fågelinspiration.

The birds are nesting and singing. Yes it is spring at last and Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt has a new blog hop with theme birds. The blog hop will start on Tuesday and my day is Friday 10th.

Follow the fun and be surprised over all the creativity from the participating ladies.

And have fun. I will surely have great breakfast times enjoying the fun.

Splitterkvilt / Sliver Quilt

I lördags var jag på kurs hos Quiltmeva i Malmö. Det var Birgitta Hortin som inspirerats av en bok som heter Sliver Quilts av Lisa O´ Neill. Det var så kul och så enkelt att få fram den tredimensionella tekniken, att jag var tvungen att fortsätta när jag kom hem efter kursen.
Jag valde tyger från mina favoriter bland Laurel Burch och det blev en liten quilt, som jag kommer att använda som duk. Boken kommer jag att beställa, för där fanns mycket inspiration och teknik att hämta.

Som vanligt har jag lekt lite med flerfärgade trådar och mönstersömmar när jag kviltat. Jag har använt tunn polyestervadd som mellanlägg.Boken kommer jag att köpa snart tror jag.

I have taken a class in the local quilt shop last Saturday. The teacher had bought Lisa O ´Neill´s book
Sliver Quilt and has been inspired to make a class project using her technique. It was so fun that I couldn´t stop finishing the top on Saturday and then quilting it yesterday. It is a small quilt top 18x18 inches and I will use it on my sofa table. I love it how it turned out and the book is on my wish list.
The fabric is of course from Laurel Burch, one of my favorite designers.

Smala böjda Kaffe remsor / Narrow bowed Kaffe strips

Nu har jag äntligen fått fota min senaste lek med böjda smala remsor. Det var verkligen jättekul och det kommer säkert att bli mer lek med det mönstret. Tekniken har jag lärt mig av Karin Persson, som gick på kurs för Yvonne Kervinen på Rikstäckets årsmöte i fjor.
Remsorna har jag först skurit 2,5 cm breda och sedan skurit till dem efterhand som jag sytt.
Löparen skall jag ha på mitt soffbord och är också en hyllning till den ljusa årstiden, nämligen våren.

I have at last taken a picture of my latest projekt, a table runner with narrow strips from different Kaffe Fasset fabric. This technique is so fun to use, just starting with one inch strips and then cut them more as you have sewn one seam. I have learned it from my friend Karin, who has been on a class for a Swedish teacher Yvonne Kervinen,
I just love the way to make it and there will surely be more from me with narrow strips.

April Shower My day

It is at last Spring time in Malmö in the south of Sweden. 

The wonderful time in April  with birds starting to nest and the buds swells and will soon burst. 
It is a lovely time of the year, even if there will be some unexpected showers. 
I love this time of the year.

A romantic feeling of April 

I thought  that it was  a lovely theme to work with when I started to imagine what images  to make.

 I began first of all to sketch a branch with flowers and leaves  and then transfer it to a piece of fabric.
I think that it imagines  my idea of April showers, even if we this year don´t have any flowers on the bushes yet.

My lovely mug from Marimekko Finland

My second idea was to make something with an umbrella. 

Why not together with a bird, as I love birds.

 And it became very whimsical and funny.

 Don´t you think, it is  so  funny with the  cute bird seeking shelter under the umbrella?

Sometimes it is good with a feather light umbrella

You have no seen my imaginations of April showers. You must now hop over to all the creative ladies that share my  blog hop April Showers  day.

Jen @Quilter in the Closet

Marjorie@Marjories Busy Corner

Elita@Pieceful Perspective

Green @So Sew Green

Mara@Greco Mara

Wendy@Why Not Kwilt

Gmama Jane @Grand Mama´s Stories

Debbie@Debbie Kratovil Quilts

Britt-Inger@Hill Valley Quilter (me)

Connie@Freemotion by the River

Beth@Words and Stitches

Cathy@I heart Squishy

For more inspirations go over to Madame Samm´s Pinterest page

The inspirations  there are like a waterfall it flows and flows

Thanks to Madame Samm at Sew we Quilt for her lovely work 

putting it all together and gathering creative women from

all over the world.

And last, but not least,

thank you very much  to our charming cheer leader 

Erin

at Sew at Home Mummy

Many, many spring feelings from Britt-Inger in Malmö Sweden

My day in Stitch Me Up

I started to love embroidery when I was a small girl and since then I have embroidered now and then.
Until ten years ago you could find small shops with embroidery as their specialty in the towns, but nowadays they are really hard to find. My home town is the third town in Sweden, but I think there is not a single embroidery shop left. I haven´t found any, maybe some yarn shop that has a small area with embroidery and embroidery yarns. It is so sad, as it is so comforting to sit down and stitch and contemplate. Time and thoughts fly away and you so relaxed. I think that embroidering is one of the things modern working women should try in order to relax.

But first of all I like to thank lovely  Madame Samm to make up this adventure with embroidery blog hop and Jane for being a wonderful cheer leader for us all.
And what should we have done with out the pattern designers Debbie Martinez from Busy as Can Be Cyndi from Bee Tree Designs and Madam Samm, who all have contributed with fantastic patterns.

There were so many patterns to choose among , so it was a difficult task. It was not so difficult to figure out what to sew, as I am a bag lady, LOL.
I have made several purses for my sewing notions, but a sewing girl couln´t get enough of these things, don´t you think.
I had decided to make an old fashioned sewing purse with four out side pockets covered with the cute flower patterns made by Debbie.
And to make it more old fashioned I thought that  some ribbons wouldn´t hurt at all. But as I like bright and bold colors I choose a strong orange, not old fashioned at all. I love the contrasts.

And why not present my purse with my dear Henrietta, a lovely  lady from 1952. And isn´t she cute together with the sewing purse and the needle case. By the way Henrietta came to me five years ago and she was a find, only 50 dollars, bought on the Swedish Ebay, Tradera. I gave her the name after my mother´s grandmother. She is so neat to use and I love the humming sound from her, when she is working.
 I had first taken some pictures in side my apartment, but as they didn´t turned out good, we take a tour out in the front of the house to take better shots . It is cold outside, but clear weather and the snow has begun to melt. I hope it will soon be Spring.

Henrietta with company

I have also personalized one of the pockets with my name and year.

 I made a simple but cute needle case to be a companion to the purse.

I hope that you have enjoyed looking at my projects, and maybe I should make a pattern of the purse with some embroideries and embellishments of my own. I have never used Craftsy to publish my patterns, but it could be a good idea to try.
It is sadly the last day of this wonderful blog hop session, but there is time to hurry over to find out what the other creative ladies have been up to.
Here are my companions for today

Patricia@the other blog

Blessings from our nest

Liberty Threads

Caribou Crossing Chronicles

Creating the Sticks

Melinda Quilts etc

Ga´s House

Dachsies With Moxie

Hill Valley Quilter ( That´s Me)

Quilt´n Queen

Madame Samm

As it soon is Easter I will cheer you up with this picture from a small town in the south of Sweden. I got it yesterday from a friend to my Iphone .

I wonder what a giant egg has  hidden this chicken. LOL

Have a great Easter

Britt-Inger

I kamp med Kung Bore / Fighting with snow

I går var jag tillsammans med ca 50 tygtokiga kviltare på Quiltrally i Danmark. Det var ett gäng förvantansfyllda damer som äntrade utflyktsbussen tidigt i går morse.
Det var Quiltrally i Danmark som lockade oss dit. Men vi som hade förväntat oss strålande sol med mild luft kom ut i det värsta snöoväder  senare på dagen.
Vi besökte först  Kastanja, som hade ett väldigt stort urval på tyger. Det är en av de finaste tygbutiker som jag sett på länge. Och inte minst var det härligt med så många Kaffe Fasset tyger.
Efter besöket där åkte vi till Odense för att äta lunch. Visst var det vinter men vintervädret blev värre och vid det tredje butikbesöket kunde bussen inte köra ända fram, utan de som ville fick gå i snöstormen och kämpa sig fram ca 1 km.

I was  yesterday participating in a Shop Hop to some quiltshops i Denmark with bus. When I signed for the tour I had a wonderful Spring tour in mind.But it is winter in Sweden and Denmark and what a winter it is. This is a life of a quilter, not even a snow storm could prevent a shop hopper for quilting fabric to fight with the snowy winds in order ot get some more fabric. 

Symässan i Malmö/ Sewing expo in Malmö Sweden

Nu är jag en erfarenhet rikare efter vår förening Kviltföreningen Rikstäcket deltagit i Symässan i Malmö. Det har varit jobbiga men roliga dagar där vi har presenterat vår hobby och visat vad vi kan erbjuda i föreningen. Alla besökare var väldigt positiva och de flesta av våra kit till workshopen gick åt.
Vi fick några nya direkt betalande medlemmar också, vilket var bra, eftersom vår förening inte är så bekant här nere i södra Sverige också för kviltare.
Alla våra alster blev mycket uppskattade, mest uppmärksamhet och beundran drog nog Ingrid Gammelsaeters Trip Around the World i grå nyanser med inslag av rött.
Det var många som kunde tänka sig det hemma i soffan att mysa med.

Our Swedish Quilt Guild  exhibition in the Sewing Expo in Malmö is now over. It has been so fun but I must say that I am tired today after three intensive days with lots of interested people in our quilts and our guild. Our kits to bracelets were popular among our visitors and we also got some more members to our guild.
 The most popular of our exposed quilts was Ingrid´s Trip Around the World in grey and red.
There were several people who wanted this quilt in their own sofa.