Gone fishin'

I haven't really fallen off the end of the world, though I have been there a couple of times:) Life has just been ... different.... I have had a few job interviews lately, the first ones in a year. It is amazing how much time and how much energy! those things take! But I have been slowly working on stuff.

Lately I have given Fisherman Fred his fishing poles:) Embroidered in satin stitches
Some got one fish,

and a few lucky ones got two!

This one kept the second one in the bucket.
And I have started a quilt for a dear friend of mine back in the US. It's called Charleston, and it will look good!

Not quite done

It occurred to me that I haven't really shown anything I have been working on this summer! I have decided to start decreasing my overabundant stash! I am no good at using left overs, never have been. But now the whole thing is threatening to overflow, and I can't really add to it before I have used some of it. So I am challenging myself by making baby quilts from my stash.
So here is my pinkish japanese fabric quilt.

Sunbonnet Sue

Fisherman Fred - the fishing rods will be stitched on later.

Dolls.

A version of one of the DJ blocks.

There will be more, and there will be pictures of these in their doneness:) It is a challenge for me to start with an empty page, but I am starting to enjoy the process. Yet another step on the path of learning to quilt. Good thing we are never quite done with the learning process:)

And who are you, then?

Last end of summer

Summer is... ..blue sky, blue water, white sails,

... nature making her own stilleben...
.... quiet, quiet sunsets ...

... and the danger of bad weather....

... and a million things more. Another summer, more memories.

Mitt äventyr i blåbärsskogen

I am dog and house sitting for my aunt and uncle, in a house far into the woods in Sweden, next to one of the largest freshwater lakes in this country. And soooo much forest... Suffice to say I can exhaust even two big puppies by walking around there for hours and hours.
We are having a blueberry year, they are everywhere! Walking around yesterday seeing the sun shine on the blue and green, I started to think of one of my childhood story books: Puttes äventyr i blåbärskogen, which is swedish for Putte (typical swedish nickname) and his adventure in the blueberry forest. The official booktranslation is: Peter in Blueberry Land.

The story is about Putte one day walking into the forest to pick blueberries for his mom for her birthday, but he can not find any! Then suddenly someone taps him on the foot, and adventure ensues. He gets shrunk down to minisize, where bluberries becomes big as trees. He would definintly not have had trouble finding blueberries this year!

Fascinated!

I can't help it, I am so fascinated by these... flowers? I think they are thistles with a slight infection of spiders... because there is only one plant with these marvels:) The plant thrives though, so I guess they are not a danger to it. But what wonderful creations.

I went back there yesterday to see if they were still there. The other thistles were starting to die down (I can't believe it is that time of year again!!) but these were still looking quite lovely.

And the bees were still at it. In fact very much so! I guess they are starting to feel the oncoming cold season and want to get as much pollen in as possible. No playing around any more. Winter is coming. Sigh... it is melancholic.

I really like how the sky turned out overhead. Like a painting with broad strokes.

Fly me to the moon...

... with Dreamland Air, 2010! Just finished and delivered a little quilt for my mom's latest step-greatgrandchild (don't you love the new familystructures....) - the first boy among the current four step-greatgrandchildren. Joy all over.
I kept a flying motive through the quilt: airplanes, pinwheels and flying geese. Should bring him softly into dreamland. Oh, and by the way, the quilt is the wrong way around, the plane on the lower left side is NOT supposed to go down, but just go a different way than the others:) We all need a little 'not-like-all-the-others' in our lives:)

And though Ol' Blue Eyes isn't one of my favourites, I just looooove gliding across a dancefloor to the that particular song.....