More stars

After making my previous post I couldn't resist digging into the goodie bag I brought home from Lapp-Elisa. The roll of yummy greys on top of the bag called out to me along with the lovely 0.5 meter cuts of Rosie's Love Letter fabrics.

Since I don't have a proper plan for the repro stars (other than making more of them in a few more sizes) and I knew more or less what I wanted to do with these fabrics the minute I spoted them in the shop I decided to start cutting and piecing. The roll of greys were cut at 2.5" which is perfect for the 9" star. Over the weekend I only got a couple of stars together:

But being home from work today enabled me and Bernie to play and I guess the picture speaks for itself regarding my plans ahead:

It's a classic setting, and it's turning out exactliy how I want it. Of course my little four legged friend had to come out and "help" me with the blocks:

He is such a cutie, but he has a bit of a morbid curiosity towards the rotary cutter, and I get really worried when he is moving around out of my contoll.

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Vitamin Q

This blog has been quiet, I have been busy doing other things, and since haven't sewn much I haven't had a lot to share. But last weekend a group of us went away to Lapp-Elisa's in Sweden for a few days of sewing fun.

Inger Lise gave us a crash course for a few new rulers. I had brought along a stack of repro FQs I bought last summer  to play with hoping they would turn into something pretty and usable. I have alwas had a soft spot for the Lemoyne Star, and the Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star ruler enabled me to make all of thse pretties in just a couple of days:

Of course you can't go away to a place that has an in-house quilt shop and not come back with a bag of goodies.

After such a long time of sewing draught it was nice to get a shot of vitamin Q! Fingers are itching to make more star blocks and play with pretty fabrics ;-)
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Godt nytt år! Happy new year!

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Hacked e-mail account!!! Please delete any messages from me!

Hello, everyone

Unfortunately it looks like someone has hacked my e-mail account, so if you have received an e-mail from me in the last cople of days please delete this as soon as possibe as I don't know if this might be infected by some type of virus!

Thank you to all who left a message on my previous post!
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GOD JUL

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Opening today

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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 ;-)
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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 :-)

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Happy New Year

May it be a healthy, happy and creative year for everyone!
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