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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!

And if you are on twitter or Instagram tag #ALYoF

**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?

A Lovely Year of Finishes – November Winners

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

Congratulations to all of our winners from November! Shanna and I just love sending emails out and getting excited replies! A big thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors!

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

Moneik – Moneik Quilts

2. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Yanicka – Finding myself as an artist

3. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

Deb – newcreativestate

4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

Ella – Throw a Wench in the Works

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Susan – Desertsky Quilting

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Pauline – Quilt-N-Queen

7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Lisa – Quilts by Lisa

8. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Karen – KaHolly

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Anita – Quilt in a not-Shell

10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Kell – Kell

11. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs

Cynthia – Quilting is more fun than Housework

Congratulations to all of our winners and good luck with your December goals!!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December Goal Party

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

Hello December! That wonderful time of year, filled with cheery lights and manic sewing. Deadlines to hit and not a single extra minute to spare. Those homemade gifts are always well loved and received because people know you went the extra mile.

My goal is to finish up a couple of gifts for family and teacher gifts too. No pictures to show other than to say, I will be spending some quality time with the embroidery unit on my machine!

How about you?

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 month

Please choose ONE project

and

2. Link-up 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!

And if you are on twitter or Instagram tag #ALYoF

**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

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.