Completion, summer and evil eyes....

I have a dear friend in the USA. We have known each other for over 20 years now. She knows me very well:) So when I was unemployed, living on the meager earnings you get from the government - and thereby could not splurge a lot on fabric, she did a wonderful thoughtful thing. She sent me her quiltkit for the Charleston quilt! She allowed me to make the quilt for her, so that I would have something to fill the long empty days! That is what I call a sacrifice. She is a very good friend, indeed:)

Yesterday the rain stopped long enough to dry out the ground and give me time and opportunity to take the pictures. It was meant to be done by Christmas, but because my shoulder went out, she will get it for her birthday instead! Sorry, friend:)

I did wait for sunshine to take the pictures, but now I am not sure that is the best time to take pictures? Shadows are not nice to pictures, and the sunshine also made the fabric look a little weak. It is reproduction, but still...

So even though I loooove the Norwegian summerness:) of this picture (it brings me straight back to my childhood summers, and all the work with the hay drying), the whiteness in this one is just overwhelming in the sun. Cute pattern, though, isn't it?
On my quilt-photographic journey I came across this fellow. Did you see more evil eyes than this? They do say their brains are a little bit mad....

Binding!

Aren't they lovely? One set of binding for the Charleston quilt, and then slightly less binding for a baby quilt. They look so nice, all wound up like that:)
It seems like summer suddenly have arrived. Just from one day to the other. However, as a true Norwegian, I never take summer for granted. It has to ... marinate... for a week or two before I actually believe it is here:) However, the flowers are out in full bloom.

Strangest thing you see while going for a walk. Funny how the pink mirrors the pink in the flowers:)

Hideaway!

How lucky am I? :) I received this gorgeous bunch of fabrics from my dear friend in Colorado. What a great gift to get while I am waiting for my physio's go-ahead to craft again. Something to dream over while waiting. What to do with it... hmh... Oh, I got plans!
The fabric is called Hideaway, from Moda, and it has all these wonderful forestscenes, flowers, birds and cucko clocks. The colours are so bright and cheery, it just made me smile the minute I saw it. You got to love fabric that does that!

Maybe it is the name of it, but I started thinking about this old little house I sometimes go by when visiting my aunt and uncle in the deep forests. I don't know what it says about me, being obsessed (slightly) by a run down little house.

I have no idea about the story behind it, but it fascinates me. I passed it earlier this winter, looking sad and lonely with the untouched snow in the front yard.

Last summer, it had a totally different vibe, but still haunting. Unfortunately there is a fence around the house, and I don't feel comfortable going closer, but I really, really want to....

Looking at this picture, though... makes me wonder if we will ever have summer again.... This has been a long, cold and snowy winter. I hereby give winter permission to leave!

Duckies!

There is a little lake on my biketrail. The little ducklings are so cute!

One...

two,

many!
It is a wonder a mom gets time to take care of her own feathers!