I love to make baby quilts. 
First of all they are a great gift and secondly they are smaller and then I have time to make more quilts :)

Last winter I gifted these to quilts to twins. 

The pattern is called Sea Glass BABY Quilt. I bought it on Craftsy and I love it. 
​I have never been a fan of appliqué but I learned a lot making these even if all the shapes are the same :) I think I might try some more of it soon. 
I also loved to choose the colors, these pictures are a little misleading because they were taken in Iceland in December so there was not a lot of light. The colors are much brighter is reality. 

The fabric I used was all something I had in my strach already. I have blogged about it before but I am a subscriber of a monthly fatquarter club. For the two inner circles of each star I used fat quarters and for the two outer circles I used fabric I had at hand. 

Hello again. I have missed my blog but I have been so busy for the last 2 years I have hardly had time to do anything except work and take care of myself and my family. 1st of March I had a baby girl and I will be on maternity leave until November. I am hoping that I will have some time for my blog and my sewing in this time, while I take care of my baby girl. 

So my first sewing project in months will be to make a quilt for my older girls bed. This is curtain in her room and I wanted to match the colors, at least get the theme of colors from it. 

This is what I came up with. I have a monthly subscription of a Batik Fat Quarter Club from the Fat Quarter Shop (not sponcered, just love the shop and want to let you guys know about it) and for this quilt I used fat quarters I have received from them. 

I used the rail fench pattern since it is easy and I wanted to make some this easy and quick for my first projects this year. My grandmother helped me make my first proper quilt many many years ago with this pattern and I love it. I am still not sure about the colors but I am still going to finish the quilt and then make up my mind if I use it for my daughter or not. 

I thought I had done a little tutorial when I did a rail fench quilt when I was in Japan but it appears I did not so maby I will use this quilt to take some pictures and make an tutorial for this easy and goog beginners quilt :)

I know, it's been a year or there about since my last blog.
It's been busy times at a new job, we boyght a new appartment last March ... A lit has happened.
The reason I decided to blog today is that yhis weekend I have been organizing my sewing supplies and I realized I miss this.
Since March I have had a sewing room. It was always a mrss and I have not finished a lot of projects since I hardly ever have time. However now we need that room for other stuff so I went to IKEA, found a bookshelf and got organizing.
This is the result and I love it.

I am goibg to add doors to the two small shelfs but leave the middle open.
Even if I have sew in the diningroom table from now at least I know where everything is and what I own.
​Love it :)

I got a delivery from abroad and thought it was my Swan quilt. But it turned out to be my prize and ohhh my what a prize. 

Feeling very proud and honored. I am thinking about using the fabric I got to make my next winning quilt. I look forward to knowing the theme for next's years show. 

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Swan
Swan in the Moonlight
I won a prize

Are you kidding me? Yesterday my sister called me to let me know I got mail at her place (I lived there this summer) so I asked her to open it and take a picture and send to me. She just did and OMG I won a prize for my Swan in the moonlight quilt at the Open European Quilt Championship !!!!! Who would have thought. I am over the moon about it and right now it is quit large I understand :)

So I won 2nd in Novice. What a great honor this is and what a great start of the day :)

Working on some Christmas presents. Tonight I have a lot of ends to conceal!!!!
​Wish me luck.

This is my project tonight. I don't know (and doubt) if I will finish it tonight.
​But hopefully soon :) Look forward to sharing when I finish. 

Yesterday after work I made this dress for my daughter. She loves dresses and all her dresses were getting too short so I made this one and I am planning on making another :)

This morning I was in front of the University of Iceland at 6:30 am sharp. 
A group of people meet there every week on Wednesdays for a 40 min workout. 
I survived my first time and loved it. Everyone was so nice, encouraging me on and giving me high five all the way :)

When I was on my last lap and totally finished I looked up and the Hallgrím's church was surrounded by purple light is was so beautiful. I finished the workout and from the car when I was leaving I took a picture on my phone, it is not very good, but you can still see a little of the purple.

Today is very windy but was okay, with the right people and the right mindset I can do it and I can't wait to go again at Friday, then we meet at Hallgrim's church.

Just as my Plover cushion returned from a show yesterday. Today was time to send my Swan in the Moonlight off to the Netherlands for a show there.
It has been a long process and I have loved every step. 

Earlier this year I saw an ad for the Open European Quilt Championships 2016. I looked into it and found out everyone can summit a quilt and that there are a few categories. The one I was interested in was this years theme championship and the theme is "20" since this is the 20th Championship. 

So it all started with trying to design a pattern.

After thinking about it a drawing some ideas for a few day I started to set up the picture. One day at the waiting room at the doctors I made this sketch on my iPhone. 

By this point I had decided how it should look. Now it was just a matter of my abilities as a quilter. I am relatively new quilter so I did what I had recently learned. If I was starting now I would make it differently but I am still happy with the result. 

I used my enviroment as inspiration and at a trip to Yamaguchi I saw a Swan I used as a model for my quilted Swan.

At a trip to Hajidamu I took some pictures of trees I had in mind while making the applique for the tree in the quilt.

When I had all the pieces where I wanted them I had to do some quilting. With so many leafs the quilting took its time. I asked my quilting group on Facebook for advice and almost everyone agreed with me. What do you think}

Finally I decided I would finish it off with facing instead of a binding. 
I used my clips from the 100 yen (dollar) shop from Japan :)

So here it is ...

I have had some help on the way, specially from my top helper Margret. 

My Swan in the moonlight.

Now somewhere on its way to the Netherlands. Too bad I can't join it and go to the show myself :)