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January – A Lovely Year of Finishes Participant Highlight – Katy at Lethargic Lass

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

If you were with Shanna and I last year we did a mid-month check-in. These were fun, but some work for us that wasn’t heavily linked-up.

This year we’re trying something new.

For the middle of the month, we’re going to highlight a person that participates in #ALYoF so we can encourage everyone to visit one another. You all are what makes this link up so exciting.

Okay our fantastic sponsors help a bunch too!

Sew BitterSweet Designs
Quilting Lodge
Persimon Dreams
Aurifil
Green Fairy Quilts
Honey, Bunny and Doll
Sew Sweetness

This will fall in the middle of the month so you don’t forget us and the goal you chose during the beginning of the month.

This month we are going to highlight a long-time participant of A Lovely Year of Finishes

Katy from Lethargic Lass

Blog name: LethargicLass

Blog address: http://lethargiclass.blogspot.com/

Name you’re known by throughout quilting world: LethargicLass (Katy)

What’s your ALYoF goal this month? To finish my project for the Mosaic Tiles blog hop from the Modern Bee book

Mosaic Tiles Blog Hop Pillow - Lethargic Lass — Photo by Katy from Lethargic Lass

How do you approach your sewing goals? I try to make my goals do-able,and as well, I set little progress goals on more than one project at a time so I don’t get bored. One day I might chain-piece HSTs for one project and iron and trim something from another project.

How do you organize/prioritize your projects? I keep the pattern (whether printed or a book) with the fabrics and any templates either in a baggie, or a plastic storage tub depending on size. I keep any hand-sewing or embroidery projects at my computer desk, as well as small things to trim so I can do them while watching tv or checking emails.

Slice of pie by LethargicLass — Photo by Katy of Lethargic Lass

What is your current favorite project that you are working on? Will you share pictures with us? My favourite project right now is my newest and most unplanned one. On the same day that a friend released a great tutorial, another friend announced a pregnancy… it had to be done! The tutorial I am using can be found here http://euphoriajessica.blogspot.com/2014/01/scrappy-slice-o-pie-blocks-tutorial.html

What is your dream project to work on? I have almost all of Jen Kingwell’s patterns. Any one of them would be a dream really… I am just working on convincing myself I can do it 🙂

What is your favorite time of day to sew? Pretty much anytime other than late evening… I go to bed early, and if I am still sewing it tempts me to stay up, so I have to stop myself lol.

What is your favorite quilting/sewing accessory? Hard one… probably my Best Press and seam ripper… with those two I can fix almost anything!

What is your number one quilting/sewing goal for 2014? to actually make more quilts. I normally do so many swaps that I don’t get time to make quilts, and I want to return to more quilts, less smaller items.

What is one technique you really want to learn? I would like to learn FMQ… I figure with making more quilts this year that shouldn’t be a problem!

Thank you so much Katy for joining us today! We loved learning more about you!!!

Don’t forget to link up your finishes during the last 7 days of the month! We can’t wait to see them!

Week 3 Goals

9 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Stripper Quilt / By Melissa Dunworth

So I’m thinking of starting each week by setting a goal for myself. I’m hoping this will help me stay on track with the things I need to get done. Nothing outrageous, just easy and doable.

This week my goal is to get all of my geese pieced and finish my January goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. I know it seems really early in the month to be talking about finishing, but the Riley Blake challenge deadline is creeping up fast and I need lots of time to make that entire quilt (start to finish). I also still have to get my Do. Good Stitches blocks done.

Here is my progress from this weekend. I got my red, pink, orange and yellow geese done. I still need to do green, light blue/aqua, dark blue/navy and purple.

What are you working on this week?

2013 Finale Winners – A Lovely Year of Finishes!

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

Well one last goodbye to 2013.

How about do that with some prizes!

Many thanks for all of you who have, did, will participate in A Lovely Year of Finishes that Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and I co-lead.

Besides you many MANY thanks to our sponsors! They make this all the better.

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2013 finale winners

1. $35.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop

Deb – A Simple Life Quilts

2. & 3. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs($10 value)

Mara – Secretly Stitching

Jess – Quilty Habit

4. A Craftsy Class (winners choice of class)

Tubakk – Den Syende Himmel

5. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

Ella – Throw a Wench in the Works

6. A Paper Piecing Kit from Paper Pieces

Kim – Persimon Dreams

7. Thread Color Chart and Thread Pack from Aurifil

Barbara – Cat Patches

8. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Lyndsey – Sew Many Yarns

9. Gift Certificate from The Intrepid Thread

Andrea – Flickr

Thanks for participating last year.

And the January goal setting post is open til today Jan 10 (next month it reverts back to the 1st 7 days for the goal setting post).

December 2013 – A Lovely Year of Finishes Winner

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

Time to announce our lucky winners from December, though let’s face it, with each finish we are all winners!

We had a great turn out even being the holiday and all.

Let’s see who won our 2013 December prizes from our fantastic sponsors!

December Prizes Include:

1, 2,3, & 4.

3 Thread Packs and one special thread pack from Aurifil Threads

Kell from flickr

Heidi from On the Banks off Frog Creek

Ella from Throw a Wench in the Works

Amy from Cloud Cou Cou Crafts

5. Choice of $15 or 2 charm packs from Stitch n’ Giggles

Mariana from Coser Tejer Crear

6. A Paper Piecing Kit from Paper Pieces

Allison from flickr

7. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

Sharon from Forget Me Not Stitches

8,9. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs

($10 value)

Rachell from Claddaghs Quilts & Stars

Karen from Capitola Quilter

10. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Patty from A Stitch in Time

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Going on NOW!!

January 1-7 {the last day is TODAY} Shanna and I will be holding the 2013 year in review party with additional prizes. For those that finished 6 or more months worth of your goals. Link up your 6 or more Lovely Year of Finishes projects HERE.

Also you can also set your 2014 December goal. This is open for a few more days as we know it’s crazy the first month. But this will resume it’s regular scheduled 7-day open period for the remaining months. You can find your January link up here.

It’s a whole new year of lovely finishes.

January 2014 Goal Party – A Lovely Year of Finishes

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

2014 is here! Time to start setting some sewing goals. If you are new to A Lovely Year of Finishes, we like small, achievable goals. We want to set ourselves up for success. Each month we will set one goal that we want to accomplish. The goal can be anything you like: cut out an entire quilt, piece a top, bind a quilt, sew an outfit, etc. Shanna and I are all about our sewing and quilting adventures, so let’s try to keep the goals on topic.

At the start of each month you will set one goal, post a picture and link up either here with me, or with the wonderfully talent Shanna. During the month you work on your goal and at the end of the month, write a post about your finish and link up to our finishes party. Easy Peasy!

My January goal is a simple one. All of 2013 I was a stripper. I stripped with a wonderful group of ladies and this is my stripper quilt:

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic but it is all I’ve got since I’m traveling for the holidays. (And I’m only lucky enough to have this one because Shanna had it saved on her phone from when I emailed it to her last month – Shanna is a stripper too!)

My goal is to make my in between rows. I want to make small rows of geese to go between each stripper row. I have no real plan yet for the rows but I think that is achievable for me.

1. Link-up {on this post} the first 7-days of the month

and

2. 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 **

For those unsure of how to link up go check out our Q&A Page for A Lovely Year of Finishes – there are instructions on how to link up from a blog and from Flickr.

Grab a button from my sidebar and spread the LOVE!

Oh yeah and there are prizes this month (as always!), here is what our fantastic sponsors are offering.

January Prizes Include:

1, 2. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern
from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)