Christmas – Sew Bittersweet Designs

More Christmas Sewing

5 Comments / 2015 Finishes, Christmas, Embroidery / By Melissa Dunworth

Well, I never got my picture with Santa Claus in our shirts, but we did wear them on Christmas Day! Here is a picture of us with my sweet nephew.

Next year I will have to make that little man a shirt so we can all match for the picture! This was a free design from Urban Threads. They are such a generous company, every month they give away free designs and I have to say, that it is really what got me started using the embroidery function of my machine. Now I buy from them all the time… probably too often!

And because I am a mom to a ridiculously cute little girl, I thought I would show you how adorable she looked on Christmas Eve! That tree skirt in the background is a log cabin tree skirt that is hand tied and dates back to the 80s. I have very fond memories of it coming out each year to decorate our home (see there are quilts in this post!).

Santa must know that Anne is a quilter because he brought her this awesome mini tangram puzzle, Anne shouldn’t be at all surprised if mommy ~~steals~~ (*ahem*) borrows it.

From my little family to yours, I hope you had a wonderful holiday and we all wish you a very Happy New Year!

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

Merry Disney Vacation Part 2

1 Comment / Christmas, Personal Post / By Melissa Dunworth

We had so much fun in Disneyland. One of the special Christmas things they do is they make handmade candy canes. Each day it switches from California Adventures to Disneyland. You have to stand in line in the morning and get a wrist band, they only hand out a certain number for each day. We were able to get 5! One for each us and one extra for my dad.

It was super fun to watch them make the candy canes. They candy makers at Disneyland are just so talented!

We took Anne to the Frozen princess salon that they have at Downtown Disney. She had such a good time getting all dolled up. It is always fun to get to spoil her just a little bit with something special like this. I wasn’t sure at first if we should do it, but my hubby reminded me that this isn’t an every day occurrence and it would make life long memories.

I think one of the coolest (literally) parts of our vacation was discovering that it now snows at California Adventures! Olaf, from the movie Frozen, has his own little winter wonderland. Anne got to make snow angels and play indoors while it actually snowed on her. We all loved the magic of it! We even went on a short toboggan ride!

Anne loves the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and we got to meet Jack Skellington. She was so excited! We also got the chance to go on the Haunted Mansion ride when it was transformed into the Nightmare Before Christmas movie. It was so exciting to see it set up differently.

We had so much fun!

Only a few more days left until Christmas and then I will be back to sewing my heart out. I have some exciting projects coming up in 2016 and I am looking forward to sharing them with you as the year unfolds!

Merry Disney Vacation

3 Comments / Christmas / By Melissa Dunworth

Last week I was out of touch with the real world and lost in the beautiful world of Disneyland and California Adventures. We took my mom with us and had an amazing time! Dad was invited too but sadly, he couldn’t make it work (hopefully next time he can join us). Here are a couple of my favorite pictures from our trip.

We got to watch them light the big Christmas tree on Main Street in Disneyland, there is just something so magical about Disney, it doesn’t seem to matter what age you are, everyone feels that magic.

And Anne got to meet some of her favorite characters. All of the princesses plus a few Pixar characters too! We met Buzz Lightyear and learned something interesting, he does pictures but doesn’t do autographs.

I will share a few more pictures this week and also my finish for December, I was short on sewing time but was able to finish up a few sewn Christmas gifts before we left.

Happy Holidays!

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?