A few more pics from Frederikshavn

Just thought I'd share some of the things we noticed on our walk through Frederikshavn on a quiet Sunday morning. Enjoy the show! (...or skip to the next blog on your blogroll and come back for a quilty post in a day or two *lol*)

(This girl actually sells nuts and bolts (among other things))

...a shame there wasn't water in this pool, it must be great with the water feature!

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Whitsun trip to Denmark

What to do over the Whitsun weekend? Go on a trip to Denmark with a good friend! There and back again in 23 hours ;-)

(yes, I have cut my hair short again - and happy with the decision!) We left rainy Oslo early Saturday evening

and spent a good part of the evening at the boat's SPA - I could live in there, no problem!!!

  

Afterwards we went for a yummy meal - I had the guinea fowl and Leisha had the brown trout - it was sooo delicious!

The evening was finished in the shop - stacking up on snacks and figuring out what we were going to buy on our way home. After a restless night due to unfamiliar beds and lots of noise from party-people and the engine we woke to a lovely morning in Frederikshavn, the sun was out but there was a slight chill in the air. But of course we had to go exploring.

Being Sunday morning, and Whitsun weekend, there wasn't much life around, so we missed some of the city's atmosphere, but we walked around for a good hour and a half enjoying the architecture, and we actually managed to spend a little money *lol*

We had a good run getting back to the boat in time, but we made it

Once we had watched Denmark disappear in the horizon, had a quick breakfast, we actually had a looooong nap *lol* Getting up we did our last shopping, and while watching the coast of Norway appear along the boat side

we had a quick pasta meal - it tasted better than it looked

and figured out how to play "Pillars of the Earth: Builder's Duel" - I enjoyed it, but for now I prefer the board game - might be more fun once we get into the rules a bit more

Hope everyone has enjoyed their Whitsun weekend!

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Look who's home

I've missed him so much! Glad to have him back!

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

This month's BOM block

Bernie being out of action, this was the perfect month for Connie to pick an appliqué block for our BOM - the Christmas Cactus block. I'm not a strong appliquéer so I knew I would need time on this block, so I cheated and started it in early May.

Tonight I finished stitching down the last of the red buds. Now, i used the same template for all of them except the four in the middle, and none of them turned out the same - but I guess there aren't two exactly similar buds on a live Christmas cactus either *lol*. Luckily next month's block is EASY!! *lol* My blocks so far look like this:

A little certain someone is just too curious about what two-legs is doing

and it doesn't alway go well being nosy

Luckily he didn't have far to fall *lol*. Oh, and I had a call from the shop this afternoon; I can pick up Bernie tomorrow - woohooo!
Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Wedding gift

An acquaintance got married on Saturday - congratulations to the lovely Tanumine and her handsome B!!! (pic of the happy couple is lifted from Leisha's blog). Since I heard they had wedding plans I've wanted to make them a table runner - just to let them know I thought about them on their big day. I was hoping Bernie would be back home so I could get it done fairly quickly, but no such luck. So for the first time in my quilting life I have finished a project completely by hand:

Three LeMoyne stars in a row. The light background is the same in all three blocks and also used in the outer border; the dark blue is the same in all the blocks and in the binding, but I have chosen three different light blues.

It is not very heavily quilted, a squiggly line in the inner border, a half LeMoyne star at either end, and an "echo" just inside the seam on the light blades on each star - hopefully it will hold up well

I am really pleased to see how much my hand quilting has improved.

Even the binding was attached by hand - need I say "sore fingers?" *lol* But it was finished in plenty of time and handed over to the maid of honor to bring along. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and I hope the recipients will enjoy having it on their table :o)

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida