Orange Crush

I finished OC part 2 on sunday, just in time for part 3 that was postet today. I will start soon.


Mine is very very scrappy. I hope there is a step to bind all my blocks togheter.

Have a nice evning. Hugs from Nancy

Give-Away

Are you curious what might will be in the Give-Away drawing? I have made this small purses to keep make-up, threads, spools or other stuff in. All purses have a beaded "thing" hanging in the zipper. Each purse have two secrets inside.

You still have time to enter the drawing. All you have to do show your thimble collection on your blog, and leave a message about it on my blog. Timelimit is April 30th midnight my time. The drawing will be done May 1st. and blogged same day.

Enjoy!

Hugs from Nancy

Thimbles and Give-Away

Maria also would like to be in my drawing. I love that! The Give-Away drawing will be done May 1. I would love to see more thimbles from collectors. In the meantime I am working on the gifts. If you want to have a peek at the presents, check in later this evning.

I still have not showed you all for my special thimbles in my collection. Below you can see some old silver thimbles. I don't know excactly how old they are. One of them show that it have been used a lot. The top is all warn out.


Hugs from Nancy

Birthdaypresent

DIL (to be) had her birthday last week. I made this Travel toilette/make up set for her. She loved it.

This have been a lazy weekend, but I have finished step 2 of Orange Crush mystery. Also been working on gifts for PIF- participants. Still one spot left!

Also made gifts to bee drawn May 1st. Just have some last finishing touchtes to do. I'll take photos and blog tomorrow.

Hugs from Nancy

More thimbles

Some new bloggers want to be in my drawings for showing their thimble collection. Lorenza shows her thimbles. Also Dagmar at Quiltmoose shows her collection. They are both in the give away drawing.

Today I would like to show you some of my silver thimbles.

Thimble on left side is a regular silver thimble bought at a silversmith shop i Bodø. This one I bought myself. In the middle is a handmade silver thimble from Manilla, Philippines. This one I got from DH some years ago. To the right side is a beautifull thimble from Malta. This one was a gift from DS1.

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Orange Crush and other scrappy quilts

My scap bins are full and I have boxes of precut squares in different sizes and some boxes of strips. I need to do something creativ and put my scraps to good use.

I started with my box of 2 inch squares and made blocks 5 by 5. Looking good? I thought so, but decided to add triangles to make the block on point. I love the result. Now I'm adding some applique. I'am looking forward to show you the result.

My scap bins are still full! What happened? Did I not just make an entire quilt out of scraps?

I need to make another!

Some temptations are hard to resist. This time it is the Orange Crush mystery by Bonnie Hunter. Looking at some of my favorit Norwegian bloggs the temptation got me. In that manner I am in good company! Sølvi did it, Inger did it, so did Oddbjørg, Sigrun, Elisabeth and many many more. I have done 1th step already! On monday I'll start 2nd step.

Hugs from Nancy

Necessity

I make so many plans for new projects. Not all of them get carried out. Sometimes because new ideas pops into my head, somethimes because there is no time. For a long time I have intended to make a set of bags for makeup and stuff I need to bring along when traveling. Eventualy I did it! The set will be tested this weekend.



Hugs from Nancy