2012 – Page 24 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Log Cabins

14 Comments / Bee Blocks, Charity / By Melissa Dunworth

Last night I finished my bee blocks for the Trust Circle of do.Good Stitches. I enjoyed these blocks, we were asked to use blue, turquoise and aqua for the blocks with jewel tones in the centers.

I hope these work, I am excited to see the finished quilts from the Trust Circle. The past couple of days have been a nightmare in Toddlerland. Anne has been throwing lots of temper tantrums, I am working on helping her deal with her emotions and trying to equip her with the words to tell me what is bothering her. I will keep working with her on that.

Make sure you drop by tomorrow – you won’t be sorry!

Charity Quilt

19 Comments / Charity / By Melissa Dunworth

This weekend I needed a break from bee blocks and I decided to work on something for someone I had never met. At the beginning of the month I went to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild meeting and I picked up a charity quilt kit. It had everything I needed, pre-made binding, backing, batting and 16 already constructed quilt blocks. The instructions were to do as much of the quilt as I felt comfortable with and bring it to the next meeting I attend. I got the whole quilt done.

Here’s a close up of the quilting – all straight line quilting.

I love how cute it turned out and I hope whoever receives it truly enjoys it.

Did you make anything this weekend?

Baby Doll Sleep Sack Tutorial

16 Comments / Berenstain Bears, Fat Quarter Shop, Hopeful Threads, Pellon Fusible Fleece, superior threads, tutorial / By Melissa Dunworth

Back in the early 80s, when I was little, I absolutely LOVED the Berenstain Bears. They were my favorite books and I had them all memorized. Needless to say, as soon as I found out I was pregnant I started a collection for my baby. Anne has a fairly decent sized collection and they are her FAVORITE books, just like mommy. We went to the fabric shop last week for a little pick me up and this is what she picked out:

Welcome to Bear Country

This is what I made for her:

I got my inspiration from something I had when I was a little girl that my mom had given to me, probably about Anne’s age.

You will need:

14″ zipper
6 rectangles (6.5″ x 8″)
1 panel print (13″5 x 18.5″)
Pellon Fusible Fleece ( 26.5″ x 18″)
Inside fabric (27″ x 18.5″
Quilting Thread
Basic Sewing Supplies

Use 1/4″ seams throughout

Outside of the Sleep Sack Layout:

Sew your outside sections together:

Sew outside sections to the center panel:

Following the Pellon Fusible Fleece directions – center the PFF to the back of the piece you just assembled. You want to make sure that the PFF is 1/4″ smaller on all sides. You may have to trim it a little.

Next, quilt the panel however you would like to. I quilted in the side panels only and left the center print without any quilting. I also used NiteLite Thread by Superior Threads when I quilted. I couldn’t get a picture in the dark, but it glows so beautifully and Anne loves going to sleep with it in her room glowing away!

Next, place the inside fabric right sides together with the quilted panel. Pin 3 sides, leaving bottom open.

Sew the 3 pinned sides with a 1/4″ seam. Clip the corners.

Turn right side out, pin one side of zipper into place and sew down.

Unzip the zipper and pin to the other side, be careful when sewing the zipper down that you don’t sew through the back of the sleep sack. You should now have a tube when the zipper is zipped.

Turn sleep sack inside out, pin across the bottom and sew bottom closed, if you would like to add an “I love you” tag, this is the point to pin it in. You will want to sew this final seam close to the stopper on the zipper.

Turn right side out and you’re done!

Toddler Approved!

This is my project for the Hopeful Threads June Project. I hope you enjoy, if you make one, I would love to see it!

Lookie Lookie!

12 Comments / Quick Curve Ruler / By Melissa Dunworth

This weekend I got a squishy package, a really special squishy, from Jenny at Sew Kind of Wonderful

I won a giveaway from Jenny, a custom purse made in the colors of my choosing! I picked Teal, Purple, White and Gray. You can’t see it in the photo by the lining is a beautiful purple!

(Side note: it is really hard to take a picture of yourself!!!)

I am just so in love with this bag, it is made with Jenny’s Quick Curve Ruler (which I have and can’t wait to do a project with). If you haven’t checked out her website you really should!

What are you up to today? I will be writing a tutorial for the special project I made for Anne last weekend!

More Mountains

15 Comments / Bee Blocks / By Melissa Dunworth

I finished all of my bee blocks for one of the two hives I am in for the 3×6 bee.

I am really happy with how they turned out. I hope all of my bee mates like them. I still have 8 more blocks to make this month, here’s hoping I can get them all done!

Today I am going hopping with my bee mate Krista. I am really excited to meet her in person and the coolest part is that I get to deliver her block to her in person. Krista, my friend Dawn, and a friend of Krista’s are all meeting up in Kent, WA for the Western Washington Quilt Shop Hop! I’m not going to be taking my big camera with me because Anne is joining us too and I don’t think that managing camera and toddler will be a good scene. I will have my camera phone though, so hopefully I will have a few pictures for you.

Wish us some shopping hop luck!