The Trip

Hi folks, I'm still here! This is going to be a looooong entry!

The last days I have tried to recover both from a cold and a trip with my quilting quild! It was a fun, but very busy trip!

We started saturday morning at 06.00 am from the bus station, and made two more stops on our way, to pick up more ladies before we were complete. 21 ladies and a busdriver! Our first real stop was in Sandefjord where we should take the ferry from Sandefjord to Strømstad, Sweden.

From Strømstad we drove up to Lapp-Elisa. It is so funny to think of, because during this trip we crossed the border four times!

We arrived Lapp-Elisa a few minutes past three. (This is not how her house looks like in september!!)

LAPP-ELISA She had prepared a nice, late lunch for us, and when we were eating she told us a little about herself, why and how she started her shop. It is an internetshop, but she has groups to visit, mostly in the week-ends. The shop is located in an old, renovated pig-barn! No bad smell!

She told us how she is quilting and showed us some of her things.

The lunchtable....

While she was working on a project, she never had a plan, and if she did, she usually fell off the plan!
A lot of interesting books...
Fabrics....
Elisabeth is a very active and funny lady.....

Fabrics to be cut....

Goodies to be payed.....
A couple of the ladies waiting outside for the rest of us to be finished.....
After the shopping we drove to the hotel where we had a nice dinner.

At the dinner table the ladies got some homework to do till next morning..... They had to cut the squares and prepare for paperpiecing. They didnt't have a clue of what this was going to be!
Some of them are doing their homework.....
Next morning, after a good nights sleep and a nice breakfast, we was heading for Norway and Oslo, and crossed the border the fourth time on this trip!

We arrived Oslo to early for our lunch, so we had time to go for a walk in Vigelandsparken which is a famous and beautiful park in the middle of Oslo, full of sculptures. The weather was beautiful. Monolitten....

Sinnataggen.....(angry little boy)
The fountain.....
Waiting for italian lasagne.....
After lunch we headed for KATHRINES QUILTESTUE.....




Sorry I cut Kathrine in half.....





We had a good time in this beautiful shop. Tired and full of impressions, we found our seats in the bus.
You can see some of the ladies working on "thethingthattheydon'tknowwhatisgoingtobe"!

Not everyone was sewing all the time, there was plenty of time to enjoy what you had bought....
And here is "the thing"! Thank you May Britt for letting me use your pincushion tutorial! Most of the ladies managed to finish their pincushion! Clever girls!
Thank you all girls for a nice trip!