Melissa Dunworth – Page 16 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2015 Finale Winners

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Here we are! The very last post of A Lovely Year of Finishes – talk about bitter sweet. I am excited for the future, but I will miss seeing what all of you have been up to. That alone will encourage me to keep up with my bloglovin’ feed and check out as many blogs as I can!

Shanna and I would like to thank our wonderful sponsors one final time. Without our sponsors I know this party wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as it has been. Thank you from the bottom of our quilty little hearts!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow and see my first finish of 2016!

And without further ado, our winners are:

1. $35 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

Moneik – Moneik Quilts

2. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Jennie – Jennie’s Threads

3. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

Jannette – Quilting and Cardmaking

4. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Deb – Life In the Dog House

5. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Susan – Desertsky Quilting

6. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Hayley – Moobird Stitches

7. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Marie – Flickr

8. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Vicki – Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

9. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Susan – Farm Quilter

10. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs

Heather – A Reformed Heath’n

11. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 3 yards plus free shipping anywhere

Kell – Flickr

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December Winners

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Excited to share the winners from the month of December.

Shanna and I are always SO excited to hear all about your finishes!!

Let’s celebrate last month!

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Here’s our amazing prizes for December …and our WINNERS!

1. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Mary – Mary Emmens

2. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

FatQuarterShop - https://www.fatquartershop.com/

Sally – Me ‘n’ Henry Lee

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

Becky – Flickr

4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

The Littlest Thistle - http://www.the-littlest-thistle.com/

Heather – nepeanquilter

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Jenelle – Echinops & Aster

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Bee – Buzzing Around

7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Moneik – Moneik Quilts

8. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Sobana – The Quilt Bug

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Jodie – The Crafty Room

10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Tisha – Quilty Therapy

11. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs

Patty – A Stitch in Time

12. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 3 yards plus free shipping anywhere

Meloney – Mel’s Quilting Blog

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Congrats to our December winners

2016 Word of the Year

10 Comments / Personal Post / By Melissa Dunworth

Many people out there are blogging about their New Year’s resolutions and their “word” for 2016. (Christa from Christa Quilts picked the word Relax and Pat Sloan picked the word “Space”.) I decided that I wanted to focus on a word too. It isn’t going to be a goal or anything like that, more along the lines of taking ownership of that word.

My word for 2016 will be ARTIST.

For some reason I have never considered myself to be an “artist”, which is especially ~~weird~~ interesting given the fact that I actually have a Minor in Studio Art. There are many reasons for this, but mostly because I never felt like I could draw. I mean, my best picture of a person is a stick figure. I have always associated artist with someone who can draw. When I took up Zentangle 11 months ago, I realized that I can draw. In fact, I really love my Zentagle drawings. Learning to Zentangle has made me better at Free Motion Quilting.

I have decided that being able to draw something that looks like a real life replica is no longer how I will define the word “artist”. I cannot draw, but I create beautiful things every day, and that should be included in my definition. In addition to drawing, my love of photography has helped me learn how to put colors together in quilts and it has helped me translate the things I see in every day life into beautiful quilts, which I shall now call “works of art”.

So from here on out I will be thinking of myself not only as Melissa – mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend, quilter, designer, but also as Melissa – Artist.

Taking ownership of that word is a huge step for me.

What word are you taking ownership of this year?

January Goal

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Even though I am no longer hosting A Lovely Year of Finishes, I have some goals each month for myself, and for personal accountability I am going to be sharing them here each month. Besides, even without A Lovely Year of Finishes, I still want to share what I’m working on!

This month I am working on a new pattern that will be coming out in May for Make Modern Magazine. Today I did my test block, it is a paper piecing pattern and I wanted to make sure my measurements were dead on because I am working with very limited fabric to make this quilt. I have only 30″ x WOF for one of my main pieces, which means I am going to be very close on this one!

Since it is coming out in a magazine, I can only post teaser pictures, please forgive me knowing that all will be revealed in due time!

As far as linking my goal up for the world to see…well Heidi from Red Letter Quilts has taken up the torch and started her own linky party for monthly goals! Her party is called OMG – One Monthly Goal. I just love the name! So if you are looking for a new place to declare your goals, head over and visit the OMG tab on Heidi’s blog or click the button below.

I am so excited to start 2016 with a finish and I hope you are too!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2015 Finale Link Up

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How did you do in 2015? Were you able to finish at least 6 of the goals that you posted and linked up in 2015? If so you are in luck! You qualify to enter our finale link up party! We have some awesome prizes.

In order to be eligible you must have finished at least 6 goals that you linked to either Shanna or myself during 2015. In you link up post, please include a mosaic of the finished projects and a link to your goal and finish post to each one.

2015 was a big year of finishes for me. Since I’m not eligible to win prizes I decided to simply show off all of my finishes from the year!

Believe it or not, making this mosaic took me all day on the 31st, I was having some technical difficulties!

We would like to take a moment and thank all of our wonderful sponsors who have stood with us over the years. Their generosity is what has kept this project going all these years!