Author name: Melissa Dunworth

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Put Your Sewing Where Your Mouth Is!

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For the longest time I was afraid/intimidated/totally freaked out by some of the projects over at Hopeful Threads. I always wanted to participate but I thought my “sewing” skills weren’t quite up to snuff. I am beginning to realize that those were just my own little fears. You see, I consider myself a quilter, not a sewist, but I am working on changing that. I have made a handful of dresses now (5 to be exact), a couple pairs of shorts and now I have made my second ever stuffie. I am doing my best to put my sewing where my mouth is!

This month the project at Hopeful Threads is to fill Kristy’s car with FLUFF!  I am excited about this project as it benefits foster children, and it is my belief that every child needs someone to love. Here is the adorable owl I sewed up using a wonderful pattern by MyFunnyBuddy. I used some of my all time favorite Alexander Henry fabrics (they are leftovers from a dress I made Anne last spring).

Owl Squishy

You can see all the adorable items that have been sewn here in the flickr group. Are you sewing fluff this month?

Linking up to Let’s Get Acquainted.

April Bee Blocks

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Happy Friday! Today I’m excited! My hubby has the day off, so he and an army buddy will be working on my garden 🙂 They are getting the soil for my raised planter beds! One step closer to planting!  I wanted to show off my Trust Circle, Do Good Stitches bee blocks from this month to you.

This month we are working on a quilt for a little girl, I believe she is 7. We were asked to think “Spring”. One of the suggested blocks was a hexie flower. I also did some thread painting of the stem and the sun. The butterfly is embroidered (I got the design from the Clover and Violet Embroidery 101 QAL, it is from Block 2). We were also asked not to use white fabric for our backgrounds, cheerful colors were requested. I just LOVE this blue.

 

For my second block I did a Circle of Geese (pattern found here). This was also a suggested block. I was thinking I might do a sun, but I think 2 of those had already been made by the time I started my blocks. I used some of my favorite fabrics for this block and I love how it turned out.

Next month I am the quilter and I am planning a boy quilt with a spacey theme. I was going to design a block for the other ladies to make but knowing the level of creativity in the group I have decided to give color and theme guidelines and ask them to put that creativity to work, I know they will come up with amazing designs!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Bordering Up

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This week I have diligently working away at adding borders to my purple and gray bee block quilt for my mom as my finish for April, A Lovely Year of Finishes. It is amazing how easily I get distracted when I am doing simple straight line sewing!!! It has literally taken me a day per border. Where I stand right now, is I have one border left to add, I guess that means I will make my goal this month! Hooray! I was thinking I might quilt this one next month, but I am also leaning towards quilting the chemo quilt – blogged about here. I know I won’t be able to finish it by mother’s day but I would love to give it to my mom in the month of May. I already have an awesome backing for both quilts so I’m ready to go…decision decisions!

Anyhoo! Here is a pick of me pinning away on my purple and gray quilt.

Don’t forget you can link up your progress on April’s A Lovely Year of Finishes here!

Tutorial – String Blocks in Multiple Sizes

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Today I’m moving up in the world…well, not really, but my day in the My Favorite Quilt Block Quilt Along over with Persimon Dreams has moved up a week. If this is your first time here, welcome! I hope you will take some time to look around my little corner of the web.

Project QUILTING Season 4

Today I am showing you how I made my stripper strings from last week.

I have made the tutorial available via pdf download. In order to view it you will need a pdf reader. Here is my lovely Stripper String tutorial .

Make sure that you head over to Persimon Dreams to see all the rest of the blocks for the Quilt Along, and while are there be sure to check out my interview from today, I included a sneak peak of my sewing room make over.

Also be sure to check in on Thursday to see the block made by Sara of Army Quilting with a Yankee Puzzle Block.

Have a great day!!!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – April Mid-Month Check In

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Oh Geez! I may be in trouble this month…I haven’t even started my goal yet! I know hard to believe. The thing is, my hubs has been on vacation. We have been enjoying our time together as a family. We went to California, we worked on our fledgling garden, he organized my entire sewing room, we played with Anne. We have just been being a family. Well, vacation time is over, hubs went back to work this morning. I guess that means it is time for me to go back to work to, so to speak. Time to put some borders on this borderless quilt!

How are your goals coming along this month? I know Shanna has been on fire with her goal. Make sure you head over and check it out!

Remember this party is not mandatory, just an opportunity to show off what you have been up to and get some encouragement if you need it! Please make sure you grab a button from my side bar so everyone can participate. The party will be open until April 21st.



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