A Lovely Year of Finishes – Page 5 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

A Lovely Year of Finishes – September Goal Party

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

Welcome to September! School is starting and Autumn is almost here, I can feel it in the air and the raindrops falling from the sky are also a sure sign of the changing seasons.

This month I am going to make another Hazel quilt, this one for a dear friend who is having a baby. I probably won’t be finished by the time the darling baby arrives but at least I won’t be super late!

Hazel won’t be pink, but I felt like I needed a cute picture on this post. 🙂

How about you?

What one item did 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. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

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

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

4. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

5. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

6. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

7. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

8. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

9. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

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

11. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Anne’s Back to School Dress

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

I am so excited to report that I finished Anne’s Back to School dress last Friday morning. This was my August goal and I was worried I wouldn’t finish in time. If you are just finishing up your goal today, you can enter until midnight tonight!

The dress turned out super cute! The fabric on top is a Michael Miller print and the fabric on the bottom is by Robert Kaufman. The piping I got from JoAnn’s. I had no idea you could buy pre-made piping, and let me tell you that has sort of changed my world! Now that I have successfully done piping in a purse (made it myself and hated every step) and a dress I feel like I can pretty much conquer any project with piping – piping that I will BUY!

I am so tickled with how it turned out. The piping just gives it so much pizzazz!

And just look at the pockets!

The pattern is Simplicity 1379A – I made it a size 7 which is a little roomy, but I think it looks good on her. Her first official day of school is September 14th. Yes, mommy will be balling her eyes out and Anne will be skipping into the classroom beyond excited!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – August Finishes Party

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

I have been derailed on my progress for Anne’s dress. I have all my supplies, including PIPING (give me strength!). But as soon as I mail out my secret project, this dress will be my top priority, if I don’t finish by August 31st, it won’t be the end of the world because the first day of kindergarten isn’t until September 14th, so I still have lots of time!

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 in {on this post} 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. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

2. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

3. A Prize from Carrie of Gotcha Covered Quilting

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

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

6. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

7. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

8. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

9. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

10. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

11. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

12. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

13. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

A Lovely Year of Finishes – July Winners

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

Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and I are so excited to celebrate with ya.

Here is a list of our amazing sponsors & winners for July

1. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Karen – Moose Bay Muses

2. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Jannette – Quilting and Cardmaking

3. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Anita – Quilt in a not-Shell

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

Julie – That’s Sew Julie

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

Susan – Desertsky Quilting

6. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Heidi – On the Banks of Frog Creek

7. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

Sally – Me ‘n’ Henry Lee

8. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

Sandy – Sew….This is my blog

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Heather – A Reformed Heath’n

10. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Gina – Happy Go Lizzie

11. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Sandra – Musings of a Menopausal Melon – mmm quilts

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Just keep Stitching

A Lovely Year of Finishes – August Goals Party

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

Hi Everyone! I am coming to you live from my new desktop computer. Talk about a learning curve…geez! My goal for this month is to make Anne a back to school dress. She will be starting Kindergarten and that is sort of a big deal in our lives. I know one of us will be crying on the first day of school and I also know that it won’t be her! She’s so ready and I just want to hold tight so badly…

This is her dress from last year, which coincidentally just won a blue ribbon at my local county fair this week! This week we will be picking out fabrics and a pattern, then later this month I will be sewing my heart out (and probably crying my heart out too).

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

2. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

3. A Prize from Carrie of Gotcha Covered Quilting

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

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

6. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

7. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

8. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

9. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

10. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

11. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

12. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

13. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy