Re: quilts for a library

Hi Eldrid and welcome :-)

Your quilts are absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing your work. Unfortunately I don't have any info for you about library quilts but perhaps someone here does.

Shawn

-- mslibra

Welcome, Eldrid!

It's so hot right now that we are keeping the chocolate in the fridge... ;)

I haven't hear of your quilt project, but it sounds good. My son's school did a similar thing with toys: they had a bag with the book and a toy in it that went with the story.

Can't help with your library project, but it sounds like a great idea! Welcome to the group, Eldrid!

Hullo Eldrid and welcome I have never heard of such a library scheme, sorry. My only comment would be that it would require an awful lot of quilts! I have just spent a few minutes at your site - not as long as I would like. The work there is wonderful, unique and meaningful. Congratulations. I hope you stay around, you could probably help many of us with learning new things; or you have probably experienced most of the difficulties we come up with on a daily basis!! Thanks for popping in, but do come back. . In article , Eldrid writes

Hi Julia Thank you for your kind words. Went to your site and looked, you do absolutely beautiful work, liturgical and all. I admire everyone who has the patience to hand quilt. My liturgical pieces are all specially commissioned work. I would love to do something along this path just to express my own ideas too, with no interference or approval needed from committees, but so far there has not been enough time.

Eldrid in Norway

Hi Eldrid If you are referrring to the "Pairing quilts with stories" article about the Tri-County Quilters Guild that was on page 12 of the June 2003 issue of Quilter's Newsletter, well, I can answer your questions. (that's ME front & center in the picture! LOL)

For those of you that don't know about this, this is an on-going project of our guild. We purchase books writen for children that feature stories based on quilts. Guild members volunteer to make the quilt that is in the book. The bags were made from discarded upholstery sample books, just plain zippered totes with handles and a clear vinyl envelope - the book goes in the envelope and the quilt in the bag - (a couple pics are at

go to ofoto.com plug in my email addy password is my name) These "sets" are then given to the local library in Zelienople, PA for use and circulation there and throughout the state. They are only circulated among libraries and schools. I don't think individual children are permitted to borrow them as they would a regular book, but if it is your program, surely your daughter and her library can make their own rules?

Please feel free to email me if you have other questions. And welcome to the group! Mickie

Howdy! That's marvelous, Mickie; thanks for the show&tell.

Welcome, Eldrid!

Ragmop/Sandy--handquilting in north Texas ;-D

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Hej Eldrid! welcome! I see that Mickie has already answered your question, so i will just comment on your beautiful quilts and let you know that you have made the first bargello quilt that i have ever liked! the snake is beautiful!

good luck with the library quilts! Mickie is a great lady! so ask her all the questions you'd like to and she, i'm certain, will answer everyone she can!

Kellie

Mickie - thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! This is the one I read! And thank you for the photo show, the pictures in your album are much clearer than the one in the magazine. You have already answered some of the things I wondered about. I did not get from the article that the books themselves had quilts in them which were reproduced, so I was thinking more along the lines of illustrating the content of the book, -maybe because when I read the article I had recently attended the Nordic Quilt Meeting in Oslo and seen the beautiful quilts that members from the Swedish Quilters' Guild had made to illustrate one of Selma Lagerlof's famous children's books (the one about Nils Holgersons wonderful journey on gooseback all over Sweden, it was used as a reader in Swedish schools earlier, and made into a radio play when I was a child - wonderful memories). We do not have any children's books with quilts in them in Norwegian yet, not as far as I know, anyway, so the illustration of books may still be what we do, if I can get someone hooked on this idea. Did you have to get permission from the publishers to reproduce the quilts? I suppose that would not be an issue if we freely illustrate (use our own designs), but better safe than sorry, as they say. Also, did the quilters who took it on them to make the quilts provide all the materials themselves, or was there donations of some sort?

By the way, I was impressed by the likeness you managed to get to the quilts. How did you get all the white spots on Grandma's quilt? I didn't see them in the picture of the quilt in progress, so I take it they have been added afterwards. Applique? Paint? What struck me when I saw this quilt and book was that my DD2 would have loved to have something like this when she was a child, - she always "played", or acted, the content of books and TV films, - for a period her cousins always had to play Tom and Jerry with her when they came to visit. What a lovely thing it would be to have the real quilt from the book to play with, or a toy, as Kate mentioned earlier.

I understood from the article that the guild does not retain the ownership of the quilts and books, but give them away to the library. I also take it that the quilts will need cleaning from time to time, do you know anything about how the library deals with this?

Oh my, this was a lot of jumbled questions, hope you don't mind :-)

Eldrid in Norway

ps Thanks for the nice welcome

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After reading all Mickie's replies, I remembered something that may help. A Norwegian quilter, Grete Moe, has a website that may be of some interest to you.

She is a lovely lady. I had the goodfortune to take a class with her last year.

Eldrid - I can't help with the library project - sorry :-(. But I did look at your site - at everything on it. All I can say is FABULOUS! Your work is stunning. Will you have anything entered at the Pacific International Quilt Show 2003? It is local for me so I will be going. I am most interested in your kameleon quilts. What an amazing concept! Thanks for sharing.

Laurie G. > Hi

Eldrid - I am stunned and speechless (a rarity these days!) - your kameleon quilts are just out of this world! I may just have to persuade hubby to let me use the credit card (its had a recent battering on the quilting front and has gone into hibernation...)

I also love your stained glass quilts - Kala lily 2 is my favourite - and as for The Long Serpent...

...(thats it I'm giving up quilting and selling my stash - and my books... and my Bernina...)

I'm always interested in things from Norway, as my Mum & Dad took me on holiday there when I was 12 (in fact, my 12th birthday was spent in Geilo). We also spent time in Leikanger and a few days in Bergan. My one regret is, that when you are 12 you don't really appreciate the exquisite beauty of the countryside around you, you just want to know where your next ice-cream is coming from... I have only tiny memories of the cruise down the Songefjord, and the trip onto the Fjaerland glacier, and the bus trip to what we thought was Vik, but ended up in Voss, and the Flam railway...

One day I will take my husband there, and a video camera.. and plenty of videotape... and THIS TIME I WILL USE IT!!! (3 weeks in the USA and

1hr 17 m of videotape, of which 25 mins was the American football game between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos...)

Welcome to this madcap group Eldrid - please hang around with us and tell us more about yourself, your chocolate tastes and whether you have any QI's (quilt inspectors of the furry & four-legged variety that is!)

Suzie B

-- "From the internet connection under the pier" Southend, UK

At last, a confession! I'd begun to think Eldrid just dreamed it all.

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See, folks? Why RCTQ is part of my ongoing education program--and not just in quilting?

Not a dream, Ruth, in fact, we are not the only guild doing these. Our leader was inspired by an article in the same magazine several years prior! See some examples below:

'm sure there are many other groups across the country that makequilts to go with books. Our leader mailed our picture to QNM inthe hopes of inspiring even more guilds to get involved. Of course,we never deamed it could go international, but isn't it GREAT?!?!Mickie

Wow Mickie, thanks for all the answers and suggestions.

I am not sure what you mean by optional second-language, but English is the first foreign language all the pupils have to learn at school, starting at age 6 with a few spoken words, rhymes and poems and such, but they are not expected to deal with written material till a couple of years later, and then it is very simple texts. I have tried to buy "real" English books for our pupils to read on their own, but it is difficult to find books that have both a suitable (low) language level and a content which matches the age of the pupils. (So we have ended up with the socalled Easy Readers, classics, fairy tales, and other stories in a simplified language)

Believe it or not, mostly from reading books LOL - and watching TV, - foreign language programs are never dubbed here, - but there are subtexts.

And... there is a website devoted to listing books with

Yes, it is a good idea, and it has crossed my mind, but based on previous experience (see above) I am not sure this will work. I will go and have a look at the books on Bethany Reynold's site though, - it is some time since since my last visit there and I didn't study the children's books then.

This is definitely a good idea, - I might even offer to translate LOL... Seriously, I will give this a lot of thought

This is one of the things I will have to discuss with the library in question before I try to persuade my fellow quilters. With grants and budgets constantly cut and being understaffed I am not sure they will appreciate the extra work of laundering... but I am sure we can work it out somehow. But it will have to wait till DD2 comes back from her holiday.

And proud you should be!!! Thank you very much for taking time to answer all my questions, - I really appreciate it.

Eldrid in Norway

Hi Suzie I am blushing.... - thank you, - and also the rest of you, for all the kind comments on my quilts.

Next time you come to Norway you come and visit me, bring your husband too. I live only a 2,5 hours drive and one ferry away from Fjaerland, look up Floroe and Maaloy on the map, I live on an island between those two towns.

As for QI do not have any that I know of. The only four legged hairy things I can think of live in my attic during wintertime, and then we try to catch them using cheese or bacon as a bait. Luckily, none of them have been near my quilts!! On second thought, the quilts in my basement may have been inspected by hairy spiders, but then again, they have eight feet, so they do not count.

Chocolates?? Has to be Firkløver, (Four Leafed Clover), milk chocolate with hazelnuts mmmmmmmm

Have a nice evening

Eldrid in Norway

Hi Laurie As I said to Suzie, I am constantly blushing when reading all your posts :-)

I am sorry to disappoint you, but I do not have anything in the PIQS this year, and I have actually never been to the show itself. Consider yourself lucky to be able to go there and watch all the beauties which I am certain are there this year as well. I am looking forward to the pictures when they start arriving in various photo albums :-)

Eldrid in Norway