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I borrowed these lovely pictures from my daughter. Her grand mother, my mother in law, learned to make Castelo Branco embroidery as a littl...

I spent the last weekend at my parent’s. I had a great happy and relaxing time. My mother’s garden was blooming and one of the cats gave bir...

Last weekend I was not in the classical pieced blocks mood and I felt like making something different. Spring is announcing itself all arou...

I don’t have a strict ritual about planning a quilt but most of the times I think first about the color scheme . If it is a monochromatic qu...

I love to make small things . Take my time, think carefully each detail, and create new solutions. That’s what happened with these small nee...

When I review the quilts shown in this blog I realize most of them are made from scraps . You may think I only make scrap quilts but that is...

The winter quilt safely arrived to its home in Norway. May Kristin took it for a weekend and shoot some photos on the splendor of the snow ...

I had to make three similar handworks for three blogger friends. They are different in age and country and I tried to create something diffe...

This weekend, after sewing hundreds of tiny little bits of scraps for a quilt, I found several reasons to take so much time doing this. Each...

The February TIF made me look back into my childhood. How much different the world was on that time? I fixed the late sixties and listed som...

The January take it further challenge is finished. I accomplished what I had in mind, to embroider a paisley shape with the color combinati...

From time to time I took a glance at the flickr group wondering which winter quilt could be mine but I never imagine something like that. To...

Finally done and mailed. Each quilt for the four-season swap has been a challenge. Not only because I have to think about what means to me ...

I just finished these cushions to match this quilt. I wanted to make them now because I didn’t want to lose the leftovers scraps. I know if...

I really don´t know if slow craft , a recent movement and concept, will grow on the craft world. At least this is something interesting to t...