Granny Gone Wild

This is my contribution to the Modern Mini Quilt Challenge over at Ellison Lane Quilts.

My mini measures approx. 6" x 9", and is based on a Granny block, but with a little twist. Granny let her hair down and leaped out in the wild nature and turned a little wild herself loosing a square on the way.

This was a fun project to complete. The idea popped into my head at work today, a quick sketch was made, and Voilà!, a new mini quilt is born.


I have also linked this one up to

Quilting the Sunny Skies

I blogged about my version of the Sunny Skies Quilt earlier. It is twin size, and will keep DS2 warm when returning to college in the fall. Now I have started the quilting process. Straight line quilting using my walking foot fits this design well, in my mind. The size of the quilt is max. of what I can struggle through my domestic sewing machine. (I want a new machine with a bigger sewing space!)

It will take a few more evenings before this one is one is finished. Even though it is a tough struggle, I enjoy the process.

Speaking about Sunny Skies, when I was at Svalbard (Spitsbergen) at 78 degrees North, last October. I bought a calendar with beautiful pictures of the scenery and the wildlife. Now in June they have Midnight Sun where the sun never goes below the horizon.

My favorite picture from this calendar is this one; I have to smile at it every time I look at it where it hangs in the kitchen:

It is an arctic tern attacking an arctic fox. The bird is just protecting its chicks, and you can actually feel the pain of the fox through this amazing picture! A great job of the photographer!

2013 Aurifil June block done

Here is my version of the 2013 Aurifil Designer of the Month June block, by the Norwegian designer Wenche Wolff Hatling from Northern Quilts .

This is the first time I have added another fabric to my chosen palette, but the fuzzy-cut star sky block in the center is very appropriate since the name of the block is 'Magic Star Block'.


A great block to make!

May's last finish

My version of  Lori Holt's Quilty Barn Along was finished late last week. Here my wall hanging is on display outside on my fence.

Three barns are just perfect for my wall. The first barn is a traditional red barn, but with a plaid roof. A smiling sun in the attic window gives it a spark.

Number two is made of green/gold wood-fabric. The corn fabric in the pinwheel and the black cat in the attic window gives this barn a touch of Halloween. I hand-quilted the "straw"-roof of this one.

The third barn has vines growing all over it, and the roof is machine quilted to look like shingles. The attic is full of butterflies!

The outer frame is quilted with loops and swirls, and the binding is orange with multi-colored stripes.

Then another one of my UFO's are done!

UFO busting!

Last October I attended a class with Mrs. Moen , it was a so called mixed media quilting class. It was a speedy weekend with no rotary cutter or rulers, just a lot of fun and inspiration. I produced quite a lot of UFOs, and they have been stashed away until I was forced to do something about them.

Here are the two small wall hangings I finished a couple of days ago: Paper Flowers and Traffic Light.

The one to the left consists of a thin curtain-like fabric, a layer of different colored thin paper torn in pieces, thin batting and backing fabric. It was quilted with multi-colored parallel lines, and finished with a scrappy green binding.

The traffic light is made of thin paper cut with a dull scissor, organza and tulle on a white background. Different types of yarn are attached as decorations. Also this one is quilted with parallel multi-colored lines, and it got a scrappy purple binding.

Detailed picture of Paper Flowers:

Traffic Light:

This was a very fun class to attend. All of the participants were speed-sewing, and we challenged our way of thinking and sewing. It was very relieving to just "throw away" the concept of straight lines and thorough measurement, and just use the inspiration and live in the moment.

I have a few more of these projects to complete, and they will also be displayed on my blog.

Until then: Stay inspired!

2012 Aurifil quilt top completed!

It took me a few months to assemble the quilt top for the 2012 Aurifil designer of the month , stitcheries from 12 different designers; one block released each month last year.

I really enjoyed making these blocks, and I am very pleased with the resulting quilt top. Here are some pictures showing off detailed stitcheries, and the complete quilt top. The final assembling and quilting is standing next in line.

Here the top is in all its glory, with a kind of wild "wooden" fabric as the surrounding frame.

Happy Birthday, Norway!

Today, May 17, it is 199 years since the Norwegian Constitution was signed. We celebrate this as our National Day.