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:)

On and on

Block 4 is done, sans legs... I am not sure I am doing myself a favour by putting the legs on hold... Would it not be fun to have a finished quilt without any birds feet? hehe. No, sooner or later. I am not sure, but I think this is supposed to be a bird of paradise? Since we don't have that kind of birds here, I can't be quite sure.
Other than that, I am trying to finish quilting the Charlestone quilt. My poor friend should have received this for Christmas.... Good things comes to those who wait? Hopefully she will get it for her birthday in July:)

Flimsies!!

I like that word - flimsies:)

I have finished the Charleston flimsy!
And the Zenquility flimsy.

Now for the quilting....

Getting there

I realise I haven't shared a lot of my quilting lately. Mostly because I have been working again! Though I love to have a job again, after 23 months of unemployment, I feel it is encroaching into my creative time at home. Add to that the fact that we only have daylight from 10 am until 3 pm every day... I find it is harder for me to sit down by the sewing machine when I get home at 6 pm and it is pitch dark outside. So machine sewing is delegated to weekends and knitting and handsewing done on weekdays.

Biggest problem - get done before Christmas!!!

This weekend I worked on Charleston, a quilt I am sewing for a friend. She bought the fabric and my gift is to make it for her. It will not reach her in time for Christmas, but hopefully not too far into the new year.
Only the border missing now. And the quilting of course..... Sigh.

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!