WOW

I just say WOW!! I'm so happy that so many have visited, left comments and want to be in the drawing for giveaway. Three of you will be lucky winners!!

I will not respond on entery in prewious post or confirm that you are in the drawing. If you see the message you left listed, you are in :-)

Some of you are having giveaway too. How fun!!
Pop over to Barbs creations, another Barb at Bejeweled Quilts and Khris to enter.

Today the wether have not been the best. Shattered showers but now in the evening the sun is shining through. Hopefully tomorrow will be fit for a new day of recyceling jeans work.

I'll tell your a little secret!! Today is my 51 birthday :-) :-) Nothing to make a fuss about. I have enjoyd the day by relaxing and creating artwork for a new tablecloth.

Life is god!

Hugs from Nancy

Blogaversary and Giveaway

Yes, to day is the day. May Britt got med started two years ago. I am having a wonderfull time writing and showing photos from my spot on earth. It's hard to belive that my blog to this day have had more than 55000 visits. Most of all I'm having a tonn of fun visiting bloggers all over the world. I have made some wonderfull new friends, been part of swaps, won giveaways and received gifts and greatings that I never could dream about.

I love giveaways! More than receiving I love to give away. All you have to do for this giveaway is to leave a message to this post before July 25th, midnight my time. It would be fun if you stated your town and country in the post.

So, what can you win? I'm not sure yet :-) I promise it will be nice prizes. One main prize and two extras. Winners will be announced July 26th.

Please tell your friends to visit.

Take care and have a nice day.

Hugs from Nancy

Recyceling old jeans

Some of my sewingrelated work need to be done outdoor. Recyceling old jeans is a messy and dusty work. Lucky I have the perfect spot in the shadow for this. I even bring my sewingmachine outside when I need to.

About a week ago we did a big "spring cleaning" of the attic. You would not belive what we have managed to put into the attic over the years. Mostly junk that should have gone to the dumpster right away. Well I found some stuff that I could not throw away. Toys from our kids, blankets, rugs and 5 bags of old jeans. Yes, 5 big bags! As I looked inside I found DS2 old Turtle jeans from he was about 6 years old. Now he is 22. Anyway, I could not get myself to throw all those jeans away. This is jeans from the first bag.

Last year I made pillows and cover for outdoor use. It turned out nice, so I have desided to make cover for my sunbed, some tablecloths and more pillows. I cut squares in different sizes from the best parts of the legs, normaly the back side.

My mom have made rugs using old jeans. I want to try it too. I use the June Tailor Shape Cutter ruler to make 1 inch wide strips. It worked really fast and well. Later I'll sew strips together.

My plan was to bring the sewingmachine outdoor today, but I don't think it is such a good idea.
The rain is pooring down and I hear thunder rolling close by. I have other projects for indoor. I'll tell you more about that another time.

By the way, my 2 year blogaversary is comming up. I'll post a give away.

Hugs from Nancy

New Patterns

I'm so happy I managed to komplet my latest patterns last week. First pattern is of placemats. A basic pattern that can be used for several seasons. I have made models for Autumn, Christmas, spring and summer.

My secon pattern is suitcasetags for a Quilter. I had a lot of fun making this tags. Sorry, only Norwegian text.

Lyst til å kjøpe noen av mønstrene mine? Spør i din lokale quiltebutikk eller sjekk nettbutikker. Nå jobber jeg med en BOM og litt jul.

Hugs from Nancy

Hot summer days

Summer is my favorit time of the year. The wether has been really nice lately. No rain at all so the garden have needed extra wather. The other day I went for a walk in my garden with my camera. So many beautifull flowers. The colors are just beatifull. Gives me great inspiration.


I love Peonys. This red one have lost its glory allready. It's the first one to bloom in the spring.





This soft pink one is in full bloom. I have several variations of pink Peonys. I bought a selection of 6 this sping, but I don't think there will bee any flowers this year.

Roses are another garden favorite. Sorry, but I don't remember names on the different kinds. This one have petals like velvet.

This is rose hip.

This is a pale yellow rose with a devine fregrence.

Tall bush roses.

But hey, who have gone for a nap in the shadow? Yes, right, Gizmo too likes to relax on the veranda.

Take care.

Hugs from Nancy

Busy week

This week have been a busy but fun week. On Tuesday I had the TSV-ladies for lunch at my house. The sun was shining and temperature was nice. We had a long and lovely lunch with chatting, laughter, sewing and eating. I'm not in the picture because I had work to do, photographing :-)

This is my local TSV-group. We get togheter once a month during daytime to make quilts for TSV. TSV is "Tepper som varmer" (Quilts for kids with canser or long term diseases). A charity I support.



On Wednesday I went to Kristiandsand to the hospital. No, no, no. I'm not sick! I went to the childrens ward to deliver quilts from TSV. One of the few times my hospitalvisits are of pleasent character. Thursday I made the same round to the hospitale in Arendal.

I also managed to squeeze in a visit to DS1 and some quiltshops on Thursday and Friday. Stops in quiltshops and quiltsupplier made my bankaccount gasping for air!! That's what happens when you buy bolts of supplies.

This weekend I need to do some photographing of a quilt that I'll give to another charity, Pink Ribbon (Rosa sløyfeaksjonen) in October. The quilt is to be sold for a donation to the Norwegian Pink Ribbon.

Since DH and I will be off for recration next weekend I have some appointments to keep on Monday. The hairdresser is ok and I'm looking forward to that appointment. I also have an appointment for waxing of those parts of my body that surely need it. I'll tell you, I have put this off for too long. Need I say more....

The rest of the week I'll be dedicated to making patterns for sale. It takes a lot of work to get to the finished product. I am a kind of newbie and are doing all parts myself.

Take care.

Hugs from Nancy

A little report

Just a little report to tell you I'm working on new patterns. In between I need something that not demanding for my brain or lims. That is where the log cabin blocks come in handy. I have made some more blocks for the quilt I started early May. I layed all the blocks out and look what happende! That cat! Making a mess of all my neetly layed out blocks! Clearly Gizmo want some attention!

Before Gizmo stepped into the picture I figured that I need 23 more blocks to make a suitable size lapquilt. I'll make those blocks in my next "clear my brain" brake from models and patternmaking.

I'm long due my bedtime. Not very smart since I have invited guests for lunsj tomorrow.

More about that later.

Hugs from Nancy