Mug Rug Swap adventure 3.

I joined this swap for the second time, and this round there was a holiday themed swap. The twist was that our swap partners could choose their holiday!

My partner had chosen Thanksgiving as her holiday, so that gave me a challenge. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Norway, but I did my best and came up with this!

Maybe it's not exactly Thanksgiving, but at least it's autumn themed, and as my swap partner said that she likes rich, warm autumn colors, I think this will be ok.

I added some cute little details, buttons, crochet leaves and rick rack. I'm happy with the mug rug, and I hope the recipient will be too. It was sent on a long journey yesterday!

Have a nice sunday!

Swaps... Again!

First, I would like to take the opportunity to tell my readers that today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. This is a cause that needs more attention.

I will light candles this evening, and I hope you will too.

Now, to something completely different!

I had a great mail day yesterday:-) 

My Pretty Little Pouch arrived!

It came all the way from Florida, USA, and it is the most gorgeous project pouch. 

I love the details, stitchery, YoYo's, the zipper pull... Beautiful!

The green text fabric is great.

There were extras in the pouch too.

Beautiful, hand dyed yarn from Chile, and a crochet pattern.

This yarn is gorgeous, soft, and it has a great color. 

And another pretty little pouch!

Lovely green fabric, and with pockets inside.

I love all of my presents, thank you from the bottom of my heart to Jeannie in Florida! 

She is such a great swap partner.

F-R-I-E-N-D-S swap.

I had lots of fun making and shopping the items for this swap! It is going all the way to Sue in Australia. I really hope she will like her swap!

These are sneak peeks, I don't want to ruin all of the surprise.

Sue likes rich autumn colors.

Something for sewing.

Something to wear.

Something to write ideas in.

Something for sewing and something for personal use.

I put a couple of surprises in the package as well, a last minute gift...

Hope you like this, Sue! I had a great time with this.

Doll Quilt Swap 11 recieved!

I got my quilt a few days ago, all the way from Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

Thank you so much, Amy!

She made me a very nice little quilt, with some of my favorite colors.

I love it!

Amy also included a charmpack of "terrain" fabrics by Kate Spain.

I will have to figure out what to sew from it, because the fabrics are just lovely!

Love the backing of the quilt as well, cute fabric with cherries on it:-)

2011 F-R-I-E-N-D-S swap

I signed up for this swap, and I'm very excited to find out who my partner is! 

Swapping is so much fun:-)

Doll Quilt Swap 11.

This was the most exciting swap for me ever, and I was VERY nervous when I signed up! There are sooo many talented ladies in this swap, could I make something that would be good enough for it?

All I can say is that I tried my very best, and that I hope my partner likes it!

This tiny little quilt was a real pain in my b*** to sew, I have never used the seam ripper more. But I love the way it turned out.

It measures 13.5" square, so you can imagine how tiny the half square triangles are.

There are 9 "Lady Of The Lake" blocks, all made from scraps.

I know the points in the HST's are not perfect, but it's so small that this was the best I could do. After all, this is my very first mini quilt. Ever!

I had a hard time deciding how to quilt it, but I landed on some random lines and in the ditch around the borders. I hope my partner likes it:-)

The back of the quilt.

I thought this fabric was perfect for the backing, and the binding just HAD to be red.

I sent it today, to someone far away from here;-)

Swapping -Again!

I got my Pretty little pouch from the swap at Flickr!

I'm so happy about it, my partner have been reading my likes very well. She made me the most gorgeous pouch, and lots of extras, too!

Here is one side of the pouch, lovely patchwork with fabrics and colors I adore!

Combined with linen, which is great. 

She even embroidered a little heart in one of the linen squares, perfect... 

 The other side, these circles are perfect:-)

A nice touch with the hand embroidered details.

And the extras, take a look!

A beautiful pincushion, a coin pouch, zipper, buttons, fabric scraps, rick rack, ribbon and snap buttons. I love it all so much! 

 This is a photo of the lovely pincushion, Its gorgeous. Way too pretty for putting pins in. I will have it on display in my sewing room.

 

 Thank you so much, Emily!

Comments.

Just a note to say that I have been changing the settings in my blogs!

Some of my readers have been sending emails saying that they could not leave comments.

I hope it's ok now!

I have a new blog.

I just started another blog, a very personal and serious one.

It will be mostly about life and the loss of our son, Henning.

If you want to take a look, you can go here.

Thank you!

Some more swapping!

I was so lucky to have a partner that sent my "Make Mine Modern" swap very early!

Well, I'm not that fast, I'm afraid, but I am now finished with the swap, and it's going in the mail today!

I made a project pouch, wich my partner wished for. I hope she likes this, I know it's made in colors she loves.

This is the back of the pouch,with a pocket and a cute frog button.

Here is the front, I made a wonky log cabin block and added some hand stitching details.

The pouch has two interior pockets as well.

I also made this mini quilt, and I hope she likes it.

It was great fun to sew the tumblers and to add the little quote...

And as you may have noticed, I really love buttons! So the flower had to be there:-)

Here are the whole package, minus the mini quilt.

I hope my swap partner will enjoy it.

(There are a couple of surprises that didn't make it into the photo)