Advent - preparing for Christmas

Life have been hectic lately. So many gifts to make, packets to send, cookies to make, cleaning to do. It was not my intention to leave you out from the Advent fun. My camera memorycard is blocked (for ever I think) so I had to buy a new one. I love sharing photos with you.

This is one lazy cat resting. For some reason he found my Advent tablerunner the best spot to lay down.

I've told about my mom and I exchanging Advent calender gifts. This is my Advent calender befor I started opening. Some of the gifts are soft and some are hard SMILE

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Advent - preparing for Christmas

Remember the Advent gifts in previous post? Last weekend I opend first gift from May Britt and Hanne. From May Britt I got some beautiful lime green buttons. From Hanne a cute Tilda stitchery with thread.


My camera is acting up on me! I am no great photographer and my camera is Canon Ixux 500 TI. For no reason I know of the memory card will not delever photos to my laptop, nor show photos on the camera. The display say memory card is locked. What is going on?? Anybody who can give me a clue?

Lucky I had an old memory card laying around, but it's very limited. We had our Christmas meeting in our local quiltgroup on Wednesday. A lot of nice food, chat and , of cause, show and tell. I fiddled a lot to get my camera working so I just took a few photos.

This is a beautifull soft colourd quilt one of the ladies had made for her daughter. I guess as a Cristmas present.

This is a Christmas quilt made from red and green squares combined with redwork stitcheries. The quilt is a lot nicer in real life.

Not all had made big quilts, Thank goodness! Anne had made this Christmas postcard. Very nice. Look at the quilting detales.

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Advent fun

Giving is as much fun as receiving. I had great fun preparing calender gifts for my mom. She gets one each day.



Yesterday I got two fat envelopes in my mailbox. I am a lucky girl. May Britt and Hanne sent me gifts.


Advent gifts for every saturday and sunday. As you can see, henging ready to be opend one by one.

I have already opened one from May Britt, but I'm not allowed to tell yet.

Have a great week end.

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Advent Callender

I have some playfull quilting friends. May Britt and Hanne is two of my friends who also love Advent. This year I am exchanging gifts for every sunday (saturday) in Advent with them. Today I sent off this four gifts for May Britt.

This is the four gifts I sent off to Hanne.

Comming sunday is first sunday in Advent. I hope the gifts get there in time.

My mom can't start opening her Advent callender sunday. She have to wait for Desember 1. (monday). Her gifts will be sent off tomorrow.

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Baby blanket for a girl

My next door neighbour gave birth to a girl 10 days ago. I made this baby blanket for her. The Teddy Bear is a stitchery witch I put colours on by using paint sticks and different brushes.

I think the result looks good.

Time to prepare for Advent. Mom and I have a tradition to make small gifts for each other for every day from December 1. through December 24. like an Advent callender. This is actualy a kid thing, but is fun to be playfull as grown up too.

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Teddy Bears

I love Teddy Bears! Some time ago I bought theese books with Teddy Bears applique and stitcheries. The books are by Lynette Anderson. Today I received a letter from Lynette with stitcherypattern for the Norwegian flag for the "All my Bears" quilt. This quilt is to be one of ny next projects. Thank you so much, Lynette.

My sewingmachine is at the repaire shop. No fuzz, I have another one if I get the urge to do some machine sewing. I am working on Bea's BOM. Made 3, 10 to go.

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Visit at my mom's.

This week I have spent some time at my mom's. On Monday her local quiltgroup had a meeting and I went as a visitor. It is allways fun to visit other quilting groups.

My mom is the white haired lady in front. Study the glasses! This is just to creepy! I have bought accactly same frame for my glasses as my mom.

For this meeting we all got a paperbag with precuts to make this felt heart.

Show and Tell is my favorit part of a meeting. This ladies had a lot of beautiful things to show. This is a quilt with applique of flowers put together with squares of earth colours. The quilt is quiltet in six parts and put together after quilting. Kind of Quilt as you go metod.

One of the ladies had made this Advent calender from a pattert made by a Norwegian designer called AnnaKa.An other lady had used the same pattern to make "Blånisser" for her grandchild. As you can see, wip. This is a beautifull book cover for a bindfolder. I love this one.

Several ladies had made bags, but this one was just beautiful. All handmade from a japaneese magazine. I asked if she knew japaneese language!! Hi hi hi. I have made a bag from a japaneese magazine too. The illustrations are really good!!

Baby quilts in half square triangles with a center heart. Beautiful colour combinations for boy and girl.

The primary golds for my stay at my mom's was this: Make rugs for DS1 and DIL.

This blue one is made to match the quilt I gave them a few years ago. The quilt will be used for the guest bed and this is the rug to go with it.

Hugs from Nancy