My poor abandoned quilt blog

No, I haven't forgotten about my blog or my blogfriends, but life has really gotten away from me latelty, and not much sewing has happened. Thought I'd quickly share a quilt top I pieced on a sew-together with some of the girls in my quilt guild in February (basically the only sewing I've done since New Year)




Hope I can get to spend some time with Bernie during Easter ;-)
Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

New Year's Resolution

For the last few years I have been posting a new years resolution. In 2009 it was "I'll make what I love... and finish what I start", and for that year it worked so well, I continued it for 2010. As it wasn't quite as successful the second year I decided for 2011 it would be "I'll make what I love...but finish a UFO before starting a new quilt" - which I think turned out pretty well for most of the year. But the last few months I haven't really sewn much, so I have a feeling that might have something to do with it. For a couple of days now I have been thinking of what to do for this year - and if I should do a resolution at all, but then again it's kind of nice to have a goal, even if it's a small one. So what I have ended up with is:



At the moment there are 20 items on my WISP list, so if I can cross off 25% or more from the list during 2012 I'll be very happy :-)

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Happy New Year

May it be a healthy, happy and creative year for everyone!
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Merry Christmas/God Jul!!!

Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas!
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Wolverines playing

I haven't had much chance to sew lately, so I don't have much to show that's quilt related. However I really want to share a little video I made when I went to the Nordic Ark with my family in the beginning of this month:

When we were there they had six wolverines, and we got to see two of the cubs playing for a really long time. This was on a Monday morning, and we were more or less the only people in the park at the time, and a couple of the wolverines came up close to the fence - this is my Dad saying hi the one we nicknamed Finn



(there's a whole long story behind the name - if any Norwegians out there have read the Knut Gribb stories, they might figure it out ;-))

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The baby quilt...

...is finally finished and was dropped off yesterday afternoon. I'm very pleased with how it turned out, and I think the lady who ordered it was very happy:



The top is machine pieced and appliquéd. There's Quilter's Dream cotton batting and a soft and cuddly fleece on the back so the little baby boy it's for will have it nice and comfy. I machine quilted it in the same pattern I used on my Chimneys and Cornerstones quilt. Sorry I didn't get too great a photo of it, but lamplight doesn't work well with my camera, but the pic should be clickable for a closer look.

Hope I can catch up on some other sewing this weekend! Have a great and creative couple of days ;-)
Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

What I'm currently working on

I'm on a short break from my Mill Girls quilt to finish a baby quilt for one of the ladies I work with. Think this will be pretty on a little boy's pram or cot ;-)

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Mill Girls - the beginning

Friday was the first day of the Mill Girls Quilt-Along on the SBS-and-other-Elm-Creek-Quilts yahoo group. Assignment for this week is 1) to pick the fabrics you'd like to use (I have chosen a layer cake of Buttercup by FigTree and a white-on-white background), 2) cut the pieces for all the blocks, and 3) if you have the time piece the first 30 hourglass units. I was very tempted to see how the blocks would look, so I pieced together three:



Pretty happy with them :-) And it was so great to find some time to spend with Bernie, too!
Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

Tilda Angel

Not much sewing going on here. During these first weeks of October I've only finish a Tilda Angel for a birthday pressie,



Since finishing this Bernie has pretty much been asleep, but I do have some sewing/quilting lined up, and hope to have something more to share soon. 

Hugs and stitches from Anne Ida

PS! And a quick reminder - if you would like to participate in the Mill Girls quilt-along, it starts tomorrow morning :-)