2015 Finishes – Page 2 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December 2015 Finishes Party

7 Comments / 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes, Christmas / By Melissa Dunworth

Merry Christmas! We made it to the very last link up of the year. Come back in the next few days for a very important announcement about 2016. In the meantime, I was able to finish up some Christmas sewing. I made a few of my embroidered scarves, all the designs were purchased from Urban Threads. The scarves were finished on my wonderful serger. Now that I know how to use that little machine I’m really beginning to enjoy it!

How about you?

What one item did you choose?

You have two requirements to be entered into the prizes this month.

1. Link-up the first 7-days of the month

Please choose ONE project

and

2. Link-up {on this post} in the last 7-days of the month

Only with a completed, successful project. And yes the same one that you choose earlier in the month.

Add your blog post or flickr photo (with appropriate descriptions) to the linky party below.

Please grab a button or link back to Shanna and I so other people can join in the fun!

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**Please note, the linky party is the same here and over at Shanna, so there is no need to enter twice **

Here’s our amazing prizes this month…thank you sponsors!

1. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

2. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

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

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

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

9 Comments / 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes, Christmas, Embroidery / By Melissa Dunworth

Today I wanted to share with you a couple recent finishes for this month. They are all related to my Christmas Present sewing goal for this month.

I found this fun design over on the Urban Threads website. It is the first time I have embroidered t-shirts and I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. I actually ended up making three of these because I thought it might be cute for my mom, Anne and I to wear them and have our picture taken together with Santa.

This link for the design can be found here. I had a lot of fun making these!

Have you been making any holiday gifts? How are your December goals coming along?

Because everyone needs giraffe pants…

9 Comments / 2015 Finishes, Christmas, Clothes / By Melissa Dunworth

This week I made Anne a pair of giraffe pants. You may remember her giraffe hoodie I made last year.

Holy cuteness batman! I mean seriously!

Well, this weekend we were going through her pants drawer looking for sweats, only to discover that none of her pairs fit anymore. Not surprising since she has grown about 4″ from last winter. Happily I had just barely enough giraffe fabric left over to make her a lovely pair of pants!

If you ask me, she is still pretty darn cute!

I made my own pattern using a pair of her jeans and I serged them together on the Pfaff serger that I never use. Then I hemmed them and put in the waistband on my Janome 15000. I love that I’ve gotten to the point in my sewing where I am quite content to sew without patterns. It’s a nice morale booster for this lady!

So here is the first of my Christmas sewing, these are an early present to her so she doesn’t freeze during our Pacific Northwest winter.

Happy Holiday Sewing!

Hazel 5

8 Comments / 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes / By Melissa Dunworth

I finished my November goal the day before Thanksgiving, if you remember, my goal was to not only finish it, but to finish it before Thanksgiving. Woohoo for getting in just under the wire.

This special Hazel is for a dear friend who had her first grand baby earlier this year. She is a huge Seahawks football fan, so the colors she picked out were theirs.

My favorite thing about this pattern is how easy it goes together. It is quick and while it looks like there are tons of triangles, Elizabeth has a unique way of assembling things and this is definitely what I would call a beginner level pattern. You can purchase the pattern in pdf format from her shop.

Tomorrow we will have our December goal party open. I personally have a couple sewing projects I want to finish before we start celebrating Christmas.

Did you finish your November goal? Don’t forget to link up, you have until midnight tonight.

Quilt Market Sewing

5 Comments / 2015 Finishes, Camelot Fabrics, Clothes, Quilt Market / By Melissa Dunworth

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!