More new things!

Like a library card!
And strawberries:

(I'm pretty sure the missing ones fell off my bike, definitely were not eaten before I got home!)


Fabric and pattern:

And, most excitingly, something to make that shirt with!

New sewing machine came in the mail!  Well, new to us.  We had to pick it up at Bussgods, and the best/cheapest subsequent transportation is:

(you can see Eriks vanity cykel in foreground right, vilken cykel!)


Lots of packaging, but love that the seller left the handle out for easy transportation.  Looking good here:

And even better here! It's the shape of a home machine but made of the satisfying grey metal of an industrial.  Comes with a removable work-surface extension and a poorly-wound bobbin of blue thread.

Lots of exciting and somewhat mystifying feet as well...afforded me an afternoon of exploration.  Thank the great Burda gods for the internet.

We bragged to each other about sewing skills.

Friday we had a big party to go to--Farfar Gösta's 85th birthday party in Falun!  He had a two-week birthday celebration, visiting family in Falun and on the West Coast, swimming to his heart's content.  I had a rather satisfying and ego-boosting time with him, as he doesn't speak any English but we still got on famously--I made full Swedish sentences!  Sometimes even without thinking too hard!

Soon I will do a post about really kind of awesome Swedish things Americans never would have thought of, and that little green milk container on my English-Swedish dictionary will be one of them.  Why is it shaped like that?  Why do they have single-serve milk packaging that doles out only little blips of milk at a time?  Is it genius?  Spill-proof?  Probably both.

Next up: single-use ice-making plastic bags.  Definitely genius.