The creative and generous Kristin La Flamme sent me a beautiful gift! Amazing, don't you think, to receive a handmade creation from a near stranger. I actually feel like I know her fairly well as I have been lurking on her blog near daily since spotting it, but she has only a couple of months worth of my blog to get to know me.
Anyway, her kids are adorable and her art quilts most inspiring. (Actually so far for me they are likely more intimidating than anything, but I am working on getting over my intimidation.) If you haven't yet seen her work then you are defintely missing out.
I even passed this postcard mini-quilt around at last night's local quilting meeting! Most of the women attending had never seen it before and thought it a splendid idea.
I thought you might like to see what Norwegian quilters are up to!
Gingerbread quilt by Elsa Nyseth. The pattern is from Brandywine Design.
This mouse embellished quilt was made by Gudrun Lindberg.
Kirsten Westvik Hverven shared one of her tumbler quilts with us.
Else Middelthon brought in a couple of pretty Holiday potholders. Great gift idea. My kids would sure love using these!
Quilted Christmas cards has been an annual tradition for Ebbe Aarsheim.
Anne Katrine made this cute-as-can be zippered bag.
This quilt by Berit Mejlbo won the awe of everyone in the room. It is made up of 7006 hexagons. I believe it took two years to complete.
Astri Mørkved had not one but two beautiful quilts to show off. You can see the blue one being held up and the red one was tucked under her arm.
It took awhile to get to sleep last night after all the stimulous of the beautiful quilts. I wish I could show all the quilts that were there. I have pictures of a few others that didn't turn out well enough to show and a few quilts I didn't get photos of - like the Manchester United soccer quilt, made and designed by Hege Gundersen. That was a great idea. Her son had asked her to throw away his old Manchester United curtains. Hege saw her opportunity to put these to good use and designed a stunning quilt integrating them.
I didn't see any art quilts like Kristin makes but wonder if her postcard might be the catalyst to a new trend in Norway. I will keep you posted!
Her var det mye fint å se. Takk for titten!
Posted by: Gudveig HN | November 21, 2007 at 12:14 AM
Such talent! Thank you for sharing these beautiful quilts!
Posted by: Carrie | November 21, 2007 at 03:22 AM
Wow, those are really beautiful crafts. I especially like the hexagon quilt. With four kids 6 and younger that type of time-intensive quilt is on my list of things to make when I have grandchildren.
Posted by: Joanna | November 29, 2007 at 07:57 PM
Hello from Virginia
What a wonderful Blog. You are amazingly creative. I am looking hard for Japenese fabric to slipcover my chairs ... or just Japenese fabric to look at! Any thoughts.
Planning a trip to Norway. would you tell me what not to miss. I am a design addict as well. Enjoyed your photos of the Christmas market
Mary
Posted by: Mary Liz | February 07, 2010 at 03:13 PM
Hi Mary Liz!
Wow, it was wonderful to have you drop by! What lovely words you wrote, thank you!
How is it going in Virginia? I heard you were to get a lot of snow last weekend. I hope you arent snowed in? My uncle lives in Palmyra, VA. What a beautiful state!
I love this site for Japanese fabrics: http://www.pinwheels.com/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi
Etsy is also a great place to search for Japanese fabrics. Simply type japanese fabric into the supplies category for a search.
How nice that you will be traveling to Norway. You should visit Norway Designs which is right downtown. http://www.norwaydesigns.no/
http://maps.google.no/maps?oe=utf-8rls=org.mozilla:nb-NO:officialclient=firefox-aum=1ie=UTF-8q=norway+designfb=1gl=nohq=norway+designhnear=Oslocid=0,0,13008773837735717059ei=_-JvS47EHJHh-QbTvID_Awsa=Xoi=local_resultct=imageresnum=1ved=0CAwQnwIwAA
My favorite fabric shop is just a short ways away from Norway Designs: Kathrines Quiltestue: http://kathrinesquiltestue.blogspot.com/
http://www.gulesider.no/kart/#lat%3D6643540.16667%26lon%3D595575.99598%26zoom%3D16%26layers%3DB0000%26id%3Da_1835724%26offset%3D0%26tab%3Daddress
I hope this was helpful! Have a wonderful trip. Drop by my blog again! I love to have visitors!
Warmly, Emily
Posted by: Emily Moss | February 08, 2010 at 11:12 AM