In Østerled

Last Sunday in January is always Østerled Sunday – a gathering for quilters south east of Oslo, the capital of Norway.
Østerled is an expression from the vikings, going east (øst) on their quests.

This year I had the privilege of teaching, other years I am a participant.

In my class the topic was hand piecing, both traditional hand piecing and English paper piecing. Through the day 16 wonderful women made all these stars.
If we had joined forces we could have made a full quilt easily :-)

Since I was teaching I must admit I was not thinking to much about taking photos, and I forgot to take photos in the shop present, Kathrines Quilte Stue, but you all know already I love her shop!

We all enjoyed lunch together around noon, and after the day was over, we had a show & tell from all the classes.
Since a lot of the ladies are travelling quite a distance, everyone was not present at the show & tell, so I am so glad I had a photo taken of all the beautiful stars in my class.

Merethe’s class played with black, white + another colour

Bente’s class enjoyed different embroidery stitches.
All the photos are taken from a distance, so please bear with the slightly blurry photos.

My star class :-)
May Britt's heart class

May-Lisbeth’s Winding Ways class

A small show & tell of quilts finished from last year.

Before we started driving home, Kitty gave us a workout on stiff quilter’s muscles.
Thanks Kitty :-)

Thanks to May-Lisbeth and everyone,
for making this day so nice!
Vitamin Q in big dose!

Hanne