This journal will mainly be used to post pictures of the Harry Potter quilt I am currently making, using patterns made by ofenjen and posted on hp_paperpiecing. I got the idea to post the progress on my quilt from owlsea.

If I get the inspiration I might also show some other craft projects I am working on here, or maybe use this place for any rambling I might feel like doing in English... Only time will show!

We have ordered flight tickets for our summer vacations this year - and we'll be going to Scotland!

Together with 3 other friends, my boyfriend and I will stay for 8 days, and do some sight-seeing in Edinburg, do some hiking in the Highlands and visit Isle of Islay (where we'll be going to a Whisky destillery or two...)  I am really excited about this, we have been talking about making a trip like this for years, but when you are 5 people, some working and some studying, it's hard to find a time that fits everybody. But we managed this year :-)

If anyone has recommandations for things to do and see or stay, please let me know ;-)

I was planning on mailing the bushfire quilt project block I made last week, but I forgot to bring it to work the day I was planning on stopping at the post office at the way home. But that might have been a good thing, because now I have made another block to mail as well... So I'll be mailing the two blocks tomorrow, and post a picture of the new block when I stop being lazy ;-)

I do however have some pictures to show today. I have had these pictures at my computer since the weekend, but not gotten around to post them. I am making a quilt for the baby of my boyfriend's sister, which will be born in early July. I am using some patterns from the book Spellbinding Quilts (the ones below) and one or two of the patterns from sewhooked.

ofenjen wrote about the Bushfire Quilt project on the hp_paperpiecing site last week, and this weekend I made a star that is ready to be mailed :-) Since I have almost only done paperpiecing before I decided to try something new, and made wonky star. It was quite easy, so I think it was a nice block for me to make. And here is the result: 



So now it's ready to mail - and it will be very fun to see it together with the blocks the others make in a finished quilt at some point :-)

I was too busy before Christmas to post anything, but I have some pictures of Christmas presents I made that I wanted to post. So here they are - better late then never ;-)
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I spend some time crafting this weekend. I wanted to make something for the TLC craft-along, and thought it would be a good idea to send it a bit earlier than they required, since the mail might be a bit slow before the holiday season. And here are some pictures.
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Just a small question, because my boyfriend and I started discussing this at breakfast today, and I thought some of you might know... Is it only with Harry Potter that there are differences between the text in the US and UK edition, or is this common for other books as well? Is there for example a difference between a British and an US edition of "Lord of the Rings" or "His Dark Material" or "Twilight"?

Just wondering, since we usually order books from the UK amazon when we want books in English, because the postage is much cheaper. But would we get different books if ordered from the US amazon (other than different cover and maybe some different illustrations)?

Halloween is not a big holiday here in Norway, however it has been getting more popular over the last couple of years. 5 or 10 years ago there were no kids going trick-or-treating - but now there are some. Last year one group of kids came by our apartment, and this year there were 4 groups - with better costumes as well :-)
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After I finished knitting the dishcloths for the swap, I couldn't stop :-)
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I have now received all the dishcloths from the swap I was in,

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Finally a new block!




The colours are a bit of in the picture unfortunately, but I did not bother to get out my camera again...

My cousin became a dad a couple of weeks ago, so I knit these baby shoes to give to them - and decided to post a picture here before mailing them.

Finally I had time to make a new block for my Harry Potter quilt :-)

Finally I am having time for my own life, and not just work... But the conference I went to was great - it took place in Rome, Italy (a place where I had never been before) and although I spent most of the time there at the conference center I did have a couple of hours to walk around one day, so I got to see the Colosseum, the Vatican and the Trevi Fountain. And have a lot of really great italian food!

But now I want to have some time for sewing - fortunately I don't have a lot of things planned for this weekend! I've been away from my sewing machine for too long, I didn't know when I started that quilting could be addictive! Maybe they should start putting a warning on sewing machines ;-)

Last week I made another block for my quilt, but I did not post it here at the time. But here it is...

I had quite a hard time choosing the fabric for this block - how to use muggle fabric to make an invisibility cloak? This is the result:

Some time and energy for sewing this weekend - fortunately ;-) - and the result is a new block:

I have had a cold these past few days, and spent most of the time after work on the sofa. So I needed a small project to do that was sofa-friendly - for when my eyes hurt too much from watching the screen on my laptop ;-) I've been online more than usual as well, which is why there is another update here...

So since my boyfriend is a huge Terry Pratchett fan, I decided to make him a bookmark that goes well with the Discworld books. But I think it will work for other books as well ;-)

I started paper-piecing in December last year, after having bought my first sewing machine in October. Using the patterns from
hp_paperpiecing I have so far completed 18 blocks:



 This week I have made two new blocks - The time-turner and the Knight Bus, the knight bus is still missing some wheels, I have to get some nice buttons for that I think...



Before I end this first real post in my new journal I have to send a huge "Thank You!" to ofenjen, for the great patterns, inspiration and for learning me how to paper piece!