Melissa Dunworth – Page 54 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Not-So-Wordless Wednesday

8 Comments / Wordless Wednesday / By Melissa Dunworth

Hi Everyone and Happy Wednesday! New content for you today, unlike the last 2 days where I have filled the blog with past finishes for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival! Don’t forget you can go and vote for your favorites, if one of those happens to be one of my quilts that is absolutely awesome!

The last 4 days I have been working on my May ALYoF goal – the updated Flowering Lone Star. I was going to take a progress shot and Anne just had to jump in on the picture taking fun.

In case you are wondering about the project next to the lone star, that is the quilt Anne is working on!

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Applique Quilt

I decided that I wanted to enter two different categories this year in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. You can see my first entry here, my second entry is into the Applique Category. I don’t do much hand work, so my project is machine appliqued.

I made this small wall hanging for the Modern She Made Swap on Flickr. The theme this time is Hexies which are right up my alley. I have over 1500 of them made and waiting for another 300 before I start piecing my quilt.

For this quilt I used hexies ranging in size from 1″ all the way up to 4″ (if measuring along one side). They are appliqued onto a gray Essex Linen Backing and matchstick quilted. Considering how small the quilt is I was shocked at how many bobbins I went through!

I love a good rainbow so I went scrappy rainbow on it and I also wanted it to have a nice flow, hence the spiral design.

I can say, with absolute certainty, that this will be one of the hardest quilts I ever let go of when I mail it to its new owner later this week!

Quilt Stats:
Name: Hexie Spiral Wall Hanging
Size: 26″ x 22″
Machine Pieced, Quilted, & Designed by Melissa Dunworth (me)
Category: Applique

I hope you enjoyed seeing this quilt (again if you are a regular or for the first time if you are new here).

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of the festival!

Blogger’s Quilt Festival – ROYGBIV Quilt

13 Comments / Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Hi everyone! My name is Melissa and welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere! My blog is named after my daughter, her name means Bitter Sweet, hence Sew BitterSweet Designs was born. I am an aspiring pattern designer and have a few patterns for sale in my Craftsy shop. Along with patterns for sale I also have over 60 free tutorials on my tutorials page, please feel free to check them out!

I decided to enter the ROYGBIV Category for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival because I truly do have a thing for rainbows. Here is my quilt:

This quilt was made for the Riley Blake Challenge with the Modern Quit Guild. I have a love for straight line quilting and quilt this on my home machine – a Janome Horizon 7700. I used King Tut thread by Superior Threads.

One of my goals this year was to sew as much out of my stash as possible – I think in the first 4.5 months of the year I have bought fabric for only 2 projects, a hand bag that I finished 2 weeks ago and a quilt I am working on now. The backing for this quilt, utilized 2 of the fabrics from the challenge that did not fit in on the front and a lovely piece of Art Gallery solids that had been hidden in my stash for the last 2 years. I decided to use white thread on the front and back of the quilt and I have to say I love the back almost as much as the front.

Later this summer I plan to enter this into our local county fair, I live in Thurston County in Washington. It will be the first time I enter a quilt into a judged show and I am excited for the professional feedback, I think it will be an interesting experience.

Quilt Stats:
Name: Rainbow Star Burst
Size: 51″ x 51″
Machine Pieced, Quilted, & Designed by Melissa Dunworth (me)
Category: ROYGBIV

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the rest of the festival!

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Winner

1 Comment / Giveaway / By Melissa Dunworth

I am late in posting, seems to be the story of my life this month, I’m sorry!

I am amazed and overwhelmed that I had a stunning 519 entries into my giveaway! I hope if you are new to my blog you will stick around, I promise I am not usually this scatterbrained!

I used the WordPress plugin, “And The Winner Is” to randomly select the winner. The winner is Crystal who follows via Facebook!

Congratulations Crystal! I will be emailing you shortly!

May Participant Feature! A Lovely Year of Finishes

5 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

One of the things that Shanna and I like best about A Lovely Year of Finishes in 2014 is the participant feature post we are doing each month! It has been so much fun to learn more about the amazing quilters and sewists who join up with us every month!

This month our feature comes all the way from Czech Republic, you may know her as Vera @ Negligent Style.

Blog name: Negligent style

Blog address: http://negligentstylee.blogspot.cz/

Name you’re known by throughout quilting world: Vera @ Negligent style

What’s your ALYoF goal this month? My goal is to make a bag out of Echino. I’m not using any specific pattern but I would like to end up with a messenger type of bag.

How do you approach your sewing goals? I need to have a deadline on my goal and I have to put the WiP piece in a visible place. If I’m really into something I need to finish it quick while the interest last.

How do you organize/prioritize your projects? The most important is date. Priority goes to presents for certain occasions/dates and I like to get involved in QALs which also have specific dates for final linky party. I do admit I’m not very organized and procrastinate a lot.

What is your current favorite project that you are working on? Will you share pictures with us?

I love rainbow projects and I wanted to try the Hex N More ruler for a while so I combined those two which resulted in my current favorite WiP called Mini Disco. Hopefully it’ll become full size quilt with the splash of rainbow across. Here’s a peak.

What is your dream project to work on? I sort of had my dream come true and I would like to do it again. My friend, who runs fabric store, sent me her fabrics and I made her a quilt for display in her store and quilt market booth. I got to play with wide range of fabrics and the layout was up to me which I enjoyed very much.

What is your favorite time of day to sew? That would be morning hours or any other with good daylight.

What is your favorite quilting/sewing accessory? I couldn’t possibly live without my ¼” patchwork foot with guide. That thing makes my seams even which is quite handy since I tend to be negligent 🙂

What is your number one quilting/sewing goal for 2014? My number one goal is to keep on having fun with what I do. I hate to feel obligated.

What is one technique you really want to learn? I want to get better and learn more about FMQ. I took the first steps already.

Thank you so much for joining us today Vera! Make sure you hop over to Vera’s blog and check her out, she is truly an inspiring quilter!!!

Author name: Melissa Dunworth