Christmas wishes

For me, this year turned out quite different from what I first planned and thought, but when one door closes, another door opens, and good things will keep on happening.

The last week of the year is often filled with plans for the new year.
Good things will happen, happy stitches, friendships will grow and good days will be had.

My family is home for Christmas, and I think it is a good time to send you my Christmas wishes:

I wish for all children (of all ages) that no harm will come to you this Christmas. I wish you can feel safe and warm, inside and out!
I wish for all who are in grief that you will be comforted.
I wish for all who are in pain that you will get relief.
I wish for all who need a hand to hold that it will be one there for you.
I wish for all who feel alone that you will have company. I wish you can enjoy a good meal and the flicker of candle lights.

Thank you for being part of my life!

                            Merry Christmas!

Houses, 3" and 6"

I have had many nice feedbacks this autumn about the Tiny Shipshewana House foundation paper piecing pattern - thank you :-)
They are fun to make and you can easily combine the 3" houses with 6" houses.
I promised someone to share the 6" pattern earlier, but lately things has taken time, TTT :-)

I will share my files with you, both the 3" and the 6" houses.

3" -  HERE and HERE

6" -  HERE and HERE

I have draw this house myself, in EQ7

You can make as many houses as you like and turn them into quilts or smaller things,  to keep, to give away or to sell, adjusting the size of the block if you so prefer,
BUT,
I will ask you kindly not to teach from my pattern and
not to copy it to your blog or website.
You are welcome to refer your friends to my blog to print their own pattern :-)
To get the block to print in the right size, make sure you un-check the Fit To Page option on your pdf print page.
If you make house blocks I will be so happy if you show me a photo :-)

Have fun - enjoy Advent :-)

Hanne

Advent - candle light season

Coffee, candle light and stitchery in the mornings are never wrong, and I do enjoy seeing the night turning into daylight now in the darkest time of the winter.

True to our nice Advent tradition, May Britt and I have made Advent Sunday calendars to each other this year too.

I opened my first packet in the afternoon when I lit the first Advent candleMay Britt has prepped a lovely snowman stitchery to me - thank you very much :-)

I do enjoy a little knitting now and then too - and I finished the knitting on this scarf last night. It is nice to sit and watch TV with DH, with the feet up high.

Thank you ever so much for all the lovely comments and personal mails I got after my previous post!
I am so old that I grew up learning to tell no one about my physical limitations and pains,
use as little aiding equipment as possible, and it is embedded in my mind that there are no troubles, only challenges, and all you shall do is to bite your teeth together and go on.

Well, it is good to know that when the challenges lately have grown over my head, there are so much support out there.
I wish I could give you all a hug!
I feel like I have been outing myself as a whole person - I think you know what I mean - and it is very freeing :-)

Tonight we light one candle
we light it for joy
It stands there shining by itself
and for us who are present
Tonight we light one candle
we light it for joy.

Hanne