Progress and a mile stone

Can't believe it's been more than a week since my last post. I don't have too much to show, but I have made a little progress on the flannel star quilt:



The sashing and cornerstones are all sewn, and I have started piecing the border.
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Not really sure how this border is going to turn out, but I'm an optimist :o)

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I have reached the 50 block milestone on my DJ - counting the three blocks of this week, my tally is now 51:


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Wohoo!! Have a great weekend!!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

DJ Update

My box of DJ blocks is slowly filling. This is one of those quilts that will take me a very long time to complete, especially since I have limited myself to hand work only, so I'm savouring each and every block as a little projects of it's own. But now and again I update my spreadsheet and calculate my pieces, just to see how it's coming along. This is how it looks after the latest update:



Tally at the moment is 48 blocks, 647 pieces. These are the latest ones I finished:



I mucked up the colours on the star (supposed to be a light star on a dark background), but I'm not going to be bothered to change it. Three more blocks are cut and ready to be pieced; and more are traced onto freezer paper to cut whenever I have the time and feel like it.

Wishing everyone a great and creative weekend!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

Stars

Wow, two posts in one day! Perhaps writing a post saying I'm not sewing is just the thing to get me sewing? Anyway, I finished the last 10 stars for my flannel quilt tonight, and thought I'd share:



Now I just have to finally decide how to set them! At the moment I'm thinking of keeping the layout I have now, and do a narrow sashing and corner stones. And I want to do some sort of pieced border since I don't have any large cuts of flannel... I need to sleep on it ;o)

Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

Autumn

Not much is happening on the quilting front here. I have stitched and prepared some more DJ blocks, but haven't gotten around to taking pictures of them yet. But I thought I'd share some pics from a walk I took with my sister along the river a few days ago

- isn't autumn beautiful?

On my way home I ran across a few of these little guys - and this one was good enough to hold still for me to take a picture :o)

Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

This and that - a long post

Internet has been out/unstable over the last week, and I haven't been able to upload anything to this blog (grrrr!!!), or to reply to any of your comment - please bare with me. Anyway, here you have everything I had planned to share since my last post in a loooong one (I'll try keeping it short).

I promised to share what Lise and I were working on last week and this is it:

If you are a follower of May Britt's blog, you might have seen a picture of it already :o) We had lots of fun playing with blocks from all over blogland (and from some no-bloggers):

We pieced the top, then Merete did some wonderful long-arm quilting, and Lise finished the binding on Friday night.

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When Butterfly visited a couple of weeks ago we had a little peek into my WISP cupboard:

And inspired by our talk I started piecing some blocks I cut well over a year ago in a frenzy of clearing out some flannels:
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Back then I got to the cutting stage, but no further. I still have 10 more blocks cut ready to piece. I have a lot of flannel to finish it, but it's only smaller cuts, though, so it will come out scrappy. Hopefully I'll get back to them soon!

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Remember I had a bit of a cutting session of Dear Jane blocks? I have done some piecing in the evenings, and my tally is now 37 blocks!!!



I have also done a bit more cutting, so I now have something to pick up when I have some time to relax in front of the tv, or take along when poping out to quilt guild meeting, visiting the parents or so on :o)
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Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida