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.

Armband till symässan/ Fabric bracelets for the textile festival

I helgen skall det vara symässa i Malmö. Då kommer jag tillsammans med några medlemmar i Kviltföreningen Rikstäcket stå i en monter och berätta  om vår förening. Vi kommer också att ha workshop, där vi visar hur man syr textilarmband och säljer kit.
Om ni har vägarna förbi är ni välkomna att besöka vår monter. Här är bilder på mina armband, som jag sytt av sådant material, som kommer att finnas i förpackningarna.

In the weekend our Swedish Quilt Guild is going to have booth in a local Textile Festival. We are going to have a workshop in making fabric bracelets.
They are so fun to make and decorative too.

Craftsy BOM 2012 klar / Craftsy BOM 2012 done

Nu har jag kviltat, sytt ihop blocken och tvättat täcket som jag sytt enligt två internetkurser på
Craftsy , dels gratis kursen BOM 2012 och sedan kurs i frihandskviltning, där vi lärde oss olika tekniker av den fantastiska Leah Day. Den sista kursen kostade ca 300 kronor, men den var värd varenda krona.
I have now finished my quilt according to two classes on Craftsy , the first one BOM 2012 which is free and the quilting of the BOM in a class where Leah Day is the teacher, and this class is worth every penny. I have loved to sew according to both classes and I have learned so much, especially FMQ.

Färdig / Finished

Närbild / Close

Närbild/ Close

Baksida/ Backing

It´s all about me - Finally my day

It´s all about me - Finally my day

I will first of all give a  thank you  to madame Samm, the lovely cheer leader Marlene and the pattern designer Amy Bradley for making all this come through .

My name is Britt-Inger. I live in the south of Sweden and have been retired in one year now. Oh what time flies.

After   I have received the pattern from Amy Bradley I got many thoughts of how to personalize the pattern to  be a woman   like me. I had  the pattern  enlarged with 50 %  to get a size I wanted. 

I had to changed  the figure  and choose a hair style  with curls, as I have been lucky to have natural curls in my hair. 

As I seldom use sun glasses, I decided to have my normal glasses and let me look down.

My favorite colors are purple and green, mostly lime green, so that´s why I have a lime green dress and with a background in purple color.

My favorite fabric is designed Kaffe Fasset and so is the fabric  that I have choosen to use in my small quilt.

I love birds and I have two pet birds, two  male cockatiels, named Knut and Sixten. The grey is Knut, he is the old one, 16 years and Sixten is five years old. And it is not hard to guess who is the boss in the cage.

Sixten and Knut

And here is the picture of me, with curly hair and Sixten and Knut on my shoulders. I love birds as you could see on my picture. 

And as I love brooches I have also made me  a flower brooch.

Me and my birds

And here is a picture of me IR

Now when you have seen me, don´t forget to visit all the wonderful women today

Cherry Blossom 

Hill Valley Quilter Thats me

Dachsies with Moxie

I like to Quilt

Quilt Smiles

More Stars in Comanche

Tea Times Creations

Shedding the Wolf

Life Cats and Quilts too

Judy at That Other Blog

Madame Samm

I wish you a nice day  and hope to see you soon again at my blog

Britt-Inger

Craftsy BOM 2012

Nu har jag kviltat alla blocken med mellanremsor och det är totalt 20 block
Här är först bild på nio av blocken, där man kan se kvltningen av mellanremsorna.
I have finished all the quilting including the sashings of the 20 blocks. Here are nine of the blocks,where you could see the sashings.

Nedan är högen med kviltade block. De skall sys samman med remsor och det blir ett jobb när jag skall vara papegoj och hundvakt.
Here is the heap with quilted blocks. Next step is to sew them together with black strips. A job when I am dog and parrot sitting for my brothers animals.