Have a wonderful day!
A while back I told you about some secret sewing... well, the special someone I was sewing for is our sweet daughter Kristine. For her confirmation I wanted to make her a special quilt, and started finding pictures of her from she was a baby until today. I had so much fun looking through all her photoalbums to find "the perfect" pictures. Under each photo I have stitched the year it was taken. I added a picture of one of her bunnies as well, and a drawing she made last year. I really enjoyed working on her quilt, I used a pattern from Leanne's book "Living the dream ". There is supposed to be stitcheries where I have the photos, and I did add two of the stitcheries as well ("take the time to dream" in one square, and her name in another).
Just thought I'd share a couple of more pictures from her big day... Here she is with her brothers
I love this shot of Kristine and her friend in their national costumes.
Today we celebrated "Quilt in public day" with our quilt guild, and we had a great time in Alvdal showing off 170 quilted bags and a few quilts.
A lot of people came by to see our exhibition, and the day flew by really fast.
We all sat with some kind of quilting project, but I don't think any of us made much progress at all with all the visitors we had, So much fun!
Did any of you do anything for quilt in public day? I would love to hear about it!
Tomorrow is QUIP- Quilt in public day, and our guild- Fjellquilten is having a bag exhibition in Alvdal called "100 bags and a quilt". At our guild meet a month ago one of the very talented ladies brought a couple of new sweet bags to show us, and they were just ADORABLE! She found the tutorial on a new to me Swedish blog, Lappeklipp . And of course the rest of us decided we would give the bag a try at our next meeting, so we found the blog, carefully read the instructions and made this sweet little purse. It was amazing to see how different the purses turned out with different fabrics and quilting. I will get more pictures and show you.
It is such a beautiful day today. The sun is shining and the temperature is pretty good too. I was planning on sitting in the garden stitching on my secret project since it is my day off, but there was a change of plans.... Both Kristine and Sigve are staying home from school sick, so my secret project has to stay hidden, and the morning was spent at the doctors office and at the hospital with Kristine for x rays. They didn't find anything, so I hope she'll get better soon. At least there's nothing major going on. She was sent home from school sick on Friday, so she's getting tired of being sick....
Since my secret sewing has been "in the closet" for the weekend, I decided to make some confirmation gifts for Kristine's friends ( I hope they don't read my blog....). These are called "Annas sminkepung" (Anna's make up bag) and are from a pattern by AnnAKa.
I have made 12 of them, well, there are 10 in the photo, but the last two are just finished now. I just had to get the picture while the sun was out. 
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