Slow progress

Oh well..... if there is insufficient time to sew, you can always order fabrics .. right?

And dream about future projects.

So do I! :)

 I got these great Kaffe Fassett fabrics in the mail this week. 

Lovely ones!

Still....there is some work done:)

I have taken the last handmade stitch on my Sixth triangle quilt.....now to be bounded.

Just need to buy some more fabric!!!!!

Saga's quilt will be embroidered with her name and birthday...sooon finished!

Hi....look at this! A very cool picture! 

This is one of the things that inspire me :)

  Look at the pattern the chairs forms, the surface between the chairs, colors .... fun right?

Happy Quilting!

Margreth

Happy...!

A new year is approaching and it's exciting to think about what it will bring :)

Hopefully a lot of joy with family and friends....:)

I dream about...

......some amazing quilts to sew and one or two UFO:s to finish.

Finding lots of fun colorful fabrics ... 

 Be inspired by exciting things and experiences around me..... and all that you, my friends,
 share with me through your blogs:)

 Your fabulous quilts and thoughts about sewing and how you, in my eyes, creat works of art.

...

Thanks to all of you who share my world of quilting!

Love to you and see you around next year!

Margreth

Cool!

Check out the cool chairs!

 Twenty artists have decorated the famous chair Ant by Arne Jacobsen. 

For me who like chairs, it's really a fun creative ide.

You can read about the project and loook at the fabulous chairs at

 The Big Chair Project

Well, how is it going with my "designer" chairs then?

 Very slooooow!

A few chairs are stitched but I have very brief moments to be in the studio.

 But ..... you have to be happy for the little sometimes :) 

So be patient .... the quilt will surely be ready.

Happy Quilting!

Margreth

Four days!

I looked forward to four days off with a lovely time in the studio

 but a lot of other things showed up instead. 

Cleaning the house ... surprising what a lot of dust to be found! Family to be cared for ... exercise .. .and the our daughter came home to cuddle....and..and..

Well, in other words... it has been great!

Late on Sunday afternoon I had a session in the studio. 

I ironed my dyed fabrics and sewed a chair. 

But the result was not so good .. bad flow :(

...but my fabrics are ok! :)

                      Soo..I had to do something else .... up with a lot of interior design magazines.

 I began to study different models of chairs instead. 

What amazing... sometimes completely unreal models there are!

Very fun and a lot of inspiration!

I make a fresh effort in the studio another day!

Happy Quilting!

Margreth

....first chair!

There have been a few moments in the studio this weekend. 
The Glam Garland quilt top is finished and laid in the pile of all UFOs. A stack that is getting a bit too high ..... must do something about this!

Well...this is the quilt made in colors that I usually don't use. 
Brown, turquoise blue and  purple....a bit ugly-nice! 
But it is certainly a very fun pattern to sew! :)

For some time, I put a lot of work to paint and color the fabric for my new project with wooden chairs .... and the first block is made.
 Very funny!
Good thing I have two days off next week so that the project can continue to develop.


I use my simple sketches of chairs and cut pieces by hand.
Measuring roughly and find where the seams should be.
 An approach that suits me so well ...:)

And this is the first broken wooden chair dreaming of ....?

Happy quilting!

and while sewing...my thoughts are with my daugter in New York...take care!
Love and hugs!

Margreth

Wreath..dig and quilt!

What do you do a bleak fall day when the first snowflakes falling

 and a cold west wind tears down the leaves from the trees?

Well....... off and pick leaves and fine seed heads for a wreath ... it is a proposal....

......then it's just to get started creating.

This years wreath!

Well...my supplier of garden materials called and said that my bushes are on the way ...

 so out and dig. It must be good groundwork and

  soil.

Hard work...and a lot of stones!

phui!

After all, digging in the biting wind, it feels good to go in and sew.

The Quilt for my niece's newborn daughter is to be finished.

......a sixht triangle quilt in warm coosy colours!

I thought the quilt  needed something cold that chilled the impression .. it had to be some flowers in blue tones.

......a closer look at the flowers!

... and the quilt  do well in the conservatory too

.

Happy Quilting!

Margreth

..a short one!

A trip to Mora this weekend to visit our daugter and on the way home..... Stop! 

...a quiltshop.....

 And of course......I  filled the fabric stock with some lovely fabrics.

 It can still dry in the pale fall sun.

  Yes...fall is here ..... 

but a few flowers are still struggling to catch blossom and show its magnificence :)

Happy Quilting!

Margreth

New projekts!

Last Friday I had a journalist in my studio. Pretty exciting!

Emma Rodling from our local newspaper Östersundsposten 

wanted to do an interview, among other things, on the occasion of the exhibition in Birmingham.

It's always a bit scary to see how the article will be.  

..... and whoops it was bigger than I could imagine.

You can see for yourself at:  De bästa ideerna får jag när jag springer.

........... now it's nice to just be and enjoy the beautiful days.

The garden takes care of itself now that it's moving towards autumn ... 

.........it will be a more relaxed pace.

And when I relax and run .....creativity flows!

My brothers daughter is having a baby..so I started up with a sixth triangle quilt .

Sunny warm colors!

....and a Glam Garland quilt. I saw it at

Oh, Fransson! 

I sort of like Elisabeth Hartmans modern style.

All this fun stuff while my project with chairs matures

and fabrics to be dyed .... it requires some thinking to be done.

Happy Quilting!

Margreth