Do.Good Stitches

Space Quilt Reveal

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If you follow me on Flickr, you may have already seen the whole Space Quilt, but I wanted to share the quilt with everyone in its entirety.

The blocks for this quilt were generously made by the incredibly talented ladies of the Trust Circle for Do. Good Stitches. I feel so blessed to count myself as part of this group. I asked them to each make a star block and one related space block. We had paper pieced blocks, appliqued blocks, and even embroidered blocks. The talent of these ladies just blows me away.

Our circle for Do Good Stitches supports children in foster care. To find my child I got in touch with my favorite foster mom and friend, Kristy from Hopeful Threads, she provided me with all kinds of fun information on the boy that I would be donating the quilt too. He loves space, his favorite colors are red, blue and black. I’m pretty sure we hit the nail on the head! From the pictures I received I would say that we got it just right. I can’t show you any of the pictures that show his face, I want to help protect his anonymity, but I do have one super special picture to share.

I have it on good authority from Kristy that the quilt is well loved!

Have you finished your project yet for July – A Lovely Year of Finishes? You have until Wednesday night to link up!

July Mid Month Check In – A Lovely Year of Finishes

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Welcome to the middle of July! This month has flown by for my family, we are saying good-bye to Mr. SBD for a month this coming Sunday, so we have been squeezing in as much together time as possible when he is off duty. Happily I have managed to sneak in some work on my project this month. Here are a few pictures I thought you might enjoy.

I feel so blessed to have gotten to work on this quilt. The ladies in the Trust Circle of Do Good Stitches are truly talented. This quilt is actually completed but I won’t be revealing it until the end of the month link up party. I am washing it up today and mailing it tomorrow.

Now it is your turn! Show us your progress! Remember, this is not a mandatory link up, just for fun. You can link up here or with Shanna.

Take a few minutes to check each other out, leave some comment love and also swing by our sponsors and show them some love too, after all, this wouldn’t be near as much fun without them!

1. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

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

3. Paper piecing prize donated from Paper Pieces

4, 5, 6, 7 Will get one thread pack of Auriful Thread donated from Aurifil

8. $20.00 Gift Certificate from the Quilting Lodge



Sewing Stars

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Well, really I’ve been quilting them! For about 4 hours yesterday. Mr. SBD entertained Anne in the yard and garage and I got to quilt. For 4 GLORIOUS hours straight! I can’t remember the last time that happened!

(sorry for the crappy cell phone pic, it is late now and this is all I have to show)

I was going to follow a tutorial at first, but the star ones I found were a bit too complicated for the simple, fun design I had in my mind’s eye, so these are my take on FMQ Twinkle Stars. What do you think?

I will hopefully finish the quilting on this before Wednesday because I want to show this baby off at the next meeting of the South Sound Modern Quilt Guild on Wednesday night. Details for the meeting can be found in our Facebook Group.

Did you get any quilting done this weekend?

A Lovely Year of Finishes – July Goal Setting Party

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Well, we made it to July, 2013 is officially half over. I’m not quite sure how we got here. The past month has been one of the most difficult in recent memory for me personally. I kept my mind busy with sewing and got significantly more accomplished that I anticipated. This month is probably going to be a bit different. I may or may not be traveling home to my parents which means I will have limited time to sew.  I have one project that I want to get done. It is for a special little boy who is going through a special life changing event right now. I’ve never met him, but I know he is going to love what I have been working on with the ladies from the Trust Circle from Do. Good Sittches.

So how are you spending the first month of the second half of 2013? Working on Christmas Presents for Christmas in July? Summer projects?  It is time to set your goals and put it out there into the universe that you will do your best to get it done!

You can link up here or with Shanna. Make sure you join the fun over on Flickr too!  Please grab a button for your blog post to share the fun with everyone.

Don’t forget to show some love to our fabulous sponsors who make this whole party so much more fun!

1. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

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

3. Paper piecing prize donated from Paper Pieces

4, 5, 6, 7 Will get one thread pack of Auriful Thread donated from Aurifil

8. $20.00 Gift Certificate from the Quilting Lodge



May Bee Blocks – Do. Good Stitches

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I bet you thought I didn’t do any blocks for Do. Good Stitches this month, huh? I didn’t I am just late in posting them. This month I am the quilter and I asked my group to make space related blocks. Each person makes 2 blocks a month, so I asked that one block from each person be a star and to make sure we weren’t doubling on up on star blocks.  The second block could be anything space related. Here are the 2 blocks that I came up with:

This is the cute little alien guy that I designed. He is machine appliqued onto a Kona Black background. I asked Anne to name him and she said he should be “Sweet Alien”. I love 3 year olds!

This was my star block. I decided to do a Hexi Star block following a tutorial I wrote last November.

I am really looking forward to putting this quit together!

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