A Lovely Year of Finishes – Page 19 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

March 2014 Winners – A Lovely Year of Finishes

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

March was a fantastic month with so many amazing finishes. We would like to give a shout out to our wonderful sponsors who continue to make finishing our projects that much more fun! Shanna and I hope you are all making good progress on your April finishes – I have about 100 more lines of quilting to do on mine (matchstick quilting, what was I thinking!).

1. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Cheryl – Paisley Quilts

2. Thread Prize from Aurifil

Barbara – Cat Patches

3, 4. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)

Heather – A Reformed Heath’n
Blue.Ridge.Girl – Shadow of the Blue Ridge

5. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Beatrice – Une aiguille dans une botte de foin

6. Sew Sweetness – 1 pdf Pattern

Karen – Squirrel Focus
7. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 4 yards (worth $20) plus free shipping

Lucy – Lucymade
8. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Pauline – Quilt n Queen

9. 1 Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Linda – The Pieceful Kingdom

Congratulations!

April Goals! A Lovely Year of Finishes

7 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Hexies, swaps / By Melissa Dunworth

April Showers bring May Flowers…right? Gosh I hope so since I will be starting to work on my garden this month! I will also be working on the Modern She Made Swap on Flickr that I am in. This time the project has to include hexies, and thanks to the wonderful Shanna, I found out and was accepted into the swap.

These are my EPP templates and my layout – the background is going to be a surprise for now…

My partner likes scrappy and rainbows so these are my fabric pulls.

Shanna already gave me an amazing idea for how to quilt it and I am excited to get started!!! A little bit of handwork ahead but I’m looking forward to see this all done!

What about you? What’s your April goal?

What one item will you choose?

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

1. Link-up {on this post} the first 7-days of the monthand2. Link-up in the last 7-days of 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!

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

Here’s what we have for April prizes:

1. Thread Prize from Aurifil

2. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

3. $15.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop

4, 5. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

7. Sew Sweetness – 1 pdf Pattern

8. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 4 yards (worth $20) plus free shipping

9. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

10. 1 Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

11. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

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As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask Shanna or myself!

Flowering Lone Star – ALYoF March Reveal

21 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Here is my March finish for A Lovely Year of Finishes!

I have to say that I am so proud of this quilt! I haven’t been able to find another lone star quilt like this on Pinterest so I have named it “Flowering Lone Star” and I will be making a pattern for it!

I did some free motion quilting in the center “flower” of the star. A different design in light blues from the dark blues. Straight line quilting around the outer star and more straight line quilting in the background.

On the back I made a small lone star block with my leftover diamonds from the outer star on the front.

I really do love the back of this quilt. I hope the recipient likes it too!

I am going to make a second one of these quilts in more modern fabrics and use that to write the pattern. I am so excited!

If you finished your March goal, go link up here and if not yet you have until March 31st so get busy!

This was one of my goals for the Finish-A-Long Q1 with Katy from The Littlest Thistle. You can see my goals here.

March – A Lovely Year of Finishes – Finishes Party!

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

Did you have a lot of March showers? Spring is definitely coming in like a lion in Washington. We have had all kinds of rain, though the last 4 days have been just lovely! I even managed to finish my goal – if you will remember it was to quilt and bind this lovely top and back below.

It is all done and I will be doing a reveal post later in the week! I will also be writing a pattern for this quilt, so if you are interested in testing please feel free to send me a note!

What about you? Did you finish you March goal?

Remember there are only two requirements to be entered into the prizes this month.

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

and

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

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

Here’s what we have for March prizes:

1. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

2. Thread Prize from Aurifil

3, 4. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)

5. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

6. Sew Sweetness – 1 pdf Pattern

7. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 4 yards (worth $20) plus free shipping

8. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

9. 1 Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

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As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask Shanna or myself!

Make sure to visit each other and comment! We all LOVE comments!!!

Week 13 Goals

6 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Cross Stitch, Goals / By Melissa Dunworth

This week I need to get some work done on my March Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes – all that is left is thread burying, washing and photographing. That should be a fairly quick project. At least that is my hope.

My other goal this week is to finish up the month of March for the Once Upon A Time Sampler through Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. I haven’t posted about this little cross stitch project on the blog before but I have posted progress on Facebook and on Instagram (click on those links to follow me!).

The finishes party for A Lovely Year of Finishes will be live tomorrow, I hope you have been chugging away at your March Finish! I can’t wait to see what you have made!