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

Visiting Lise

At the moment I'm visiting Lise - and we have spent most of the day sewing in her large new sewing room (jealous!!! ). What we have been working on is not yet ready to be shown to the publig, but here is a small sneak peek:




I promise to share more soon ;o)


And she has gotten the long arm up and (almost) running. We had a bit of experimenting on a test piece - here she is in action.




Having a wonderful time!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

Late night sewing

For well over a year there have been road work outside my flat - these days they are doing the finishing touches, which means night work. They have not been too much of a bother for me, except for the last couple of nights. Coming home from the cinema last night there was a lot of noice, and not much chance of sleep, and I figured why not get some work done on my Sister's Choice quilt - border sewing galore till way into the night:

It still needs a good press, but aside from that it's ready to be layered and quilted - yey!!!

Hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

DJ prep'ing

Not much time and energy for quilting these days, but I do have one new DJ block to share:



And I took a bit of time this morning to prep eight more DJ blocks, so I have something ready when I do have a few minutes to sit with a needle:



As you might remember I have a goal of doing the whole DJ by hand - it is a SLOW process! My initial deadline was 2020, not so sure I will be able to meet it ;o) My tally at the moment is 27 blocks, 301 pieces, so there is a long way to go.

Wishing everyone a good and creative weekend!

Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

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Slow progress

It has been a few busy weeks, and I haven't had time to sew as much as I would have liked. But at least I can show a little progress on my Sister's Choice quilt:



The JR gave me 16 blocks that finish at 10" (I could probably have gotten a few more, but the contrast wouldn't be as good, better to use those strips in the border) - that does not add up to a very large quilt, so I have used some of the extra yardage I had for lattice, and some of the leftover squares from the block centers for cornerstones. I do have some ideas for borders, just need to find the time to execute them :o)

Take care and be creative!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida

Sacrilege?

I have (finally?) put my rotary cutter to my oldest jelly roll - Canoe Country by Holly Taylor.



Honestly, it kind of felt like sacrilege! This JR has been part of my stash for such a long time, and I have thought long and hard about what I want to do with it, and not come up with a good answer... So an evening last week I figured why not make some Sister's Choice blocks - I have been looking at this quilt on Quiltville for a long time, loving it! This is how far I have gotten:



They are coming together smoothly, and it looks kind of cute so far :o)

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend!
Hugs and stitches from
Anne Ida