Last week I finished up and mailed off my Do Good Stitches blocks for October. This quilt will be for a very special young lady who is graduating from high school in June. I used the Circle of Geese free pattern.
Have you been doing any charity sewing recently?
Hello All! I don’t know if you remember the free pattern I published two years for a fun Christmas Table Runner but I recently updated the pattern to include directions on how I make my Half Square Triangles.
This pattern has been downloaded thousands of times on Craftsy, and it is still available for free download. Please feel free to head over to my Craftsy Pattern Store and download it today, Christmas is heading towards us at the speed of light and this is a lightning fast pattern to make!
Happy Monday!
Hello November! It’s time to work on those Christmas projects! I will be working on Hazel number 5!
I really want this done by Thanksgiving, so we will see if I can make it happen!
How about you?
What one item will you choose?
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Here’s our amazing prizes this month…thank you sponsors!
1. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 3 yards plus free shipping anywhere
2. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns
3. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop
4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle
5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs
6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams
7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet
8. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)
9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern
10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness
11. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs
This month I had the honor and pleasure of sewing some adorable dress samples for Camelot Fabrics and their Mickey Mouse and Friends booth at Quilt Market.
The first outfit I got to make was this adorable Kimono Style Romper.
This dress Anne wanted to keep! It is the Hummingbird Dress and is just lovely.
This is the Sweet Comfy Romper by Puperita. It is fully lined and completely adorable!
This is the Teeny Tiny Tunic and is a free pattern from Camelot Fabrics. I wish this came in Anne’s size (heck! I wish it came in mine!). It is hands down my favorite outfit that I got to make.
Everything looked amazing in the booth, check out this great picture from quilt market:
Camelot Fabrics wrote a great blog post about the booth yesterday and you can read about it here and they have some fabulous new lines coming out that Anne and I really excited about. This new Mickey line, but also the new Disney Princess Collection. Can’t imagine why Anne is so excited 🙂
This was part of the reason for my silence during the month of October, I had to keep these projects under wraps until they were revealed at Quilt Market, but I hope you will agree with me that they were will worth the wait!
Have a happy Friday!
Hello! If you are new to my blog, welcome! My name is Melissa and I am an aspiring quilt designer with a small shop over on Craftsy. I am a mom to a beautiful and amazing almost 6 year old little girl and a wife to my very own personal hero (he’s a US Army Soldier). If you are a regular here, thank you for sticking with me over the years. I have recently taken a break on regular blogging but I am trying to make an effort, especially now that my daughter is in full-time kindergarten, to make more time to blogging.
My entry into the Blogger’s Quilt Festival is my Hypnotic Eye Quilt. I’ve decided to enter it into the original design category. I designed this block in EQ7 as a challenge for the Quilt Design a Day group over on Facebook. It is an outstanding group and if you want to further your design skills, I highly recommend joining! The inspiration photo for the day was a seaside landscape and we were given the colors below.
At about the same time that I designed the block, a black and white challenge was announced for the Pacific Northwest Modern Quilt Guilds. The challenge was to make black to white quilts with a pop of color. Black to white meaning that you could use shades of gray as well. I interpreted this challenge using all solids, and this is what I came up with.
To date, this is one of my favorite quilts that I have made.
Quilt Stats:
Designed, Pieced & Quilted by: Melissa Dunworth (me)
Batting: Warm & Natural
Fabrics: Kona Solids and American Made Brand Solids
Free Motion Zentangle Inspired Quilting
You can read more about this quilt in this post. You can also read more about my quilting process on this quilt in this post.
I hope you will consider visiting the festival and voting for my quilt for Original Design!
And please keep coming back! I promise to be blogging more regularly!
