Fiber of All Sorts – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Customer Quilt – Shanna’s Postage Stamp Quilt

2 Comments / Custom Quilting, Customer Quilt, Edge to Edge Quilting, Fiber of All Sorts, free motion quilting, Innova, Spike / By Melissa Dunworth

Sorry I have been so absent lately, family life needs to always come first and Anne is my number one concern. I only have a few minutes to type this while she is busy with a task and I just finished up my latest customer quilt. To see my most recent finishes check out my Facebook Page or my Instagram Account!

Have you ever felt like you’ve been given an extremely special gift? That’s how I felt last month when Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts asked me to quilt her very first quilt top that she made! I felt so incredibly honored and at the same time scared! It had to be perfect because this it this quilt that made her a quilter!

I decided it needed curvy orange peels, and LOTS of them!

Doesn’t the texture just look completely fantastic? For some reason my camera is struggling to take good pictures from far away, I will have my tech guy (also known as my dad) look at it at Christmas, but in the meantime here is a somewhat blurry picture that does not do this quilt any justice at all!

The texture on the back looks pretty darn amazing too!

I just love those curvy orange peels!

Remember I do custom quilting work, I am now offering a very limited selection of extra wide backings and my rates start as low as 1.5 cents per square inch for all over edge-to-edge designs. Please keep me in mind for all of your quilting needs. I can accommodate up to king size quilts on my frame!

Home Sewing Retreat

3 Comments / Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

Sometimes you just need a little makeshift sewing retreat. Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts, my A Lovely Year of Finishes co-host, came up from Oregon this week for a visit. While Anne was at school yesterday, we got to sew!

Shanna borrowed Irene, my trusty featherweight, seriously, if you ever come to my house to sew, no need to bring a machine, I’ve got plenty! Today we are going to install the new red snappers on my long arm after a trip to the grocery store, Anne insists that I have to feed her!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2015 Finale Winners

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

Here we are! The very last post of A Lovely Year of Finishes – talk about bitter sweet. I am excited for the future, but I will miss seeing what all of you have been up to. That alone will encourage me to keep up with my bloglovin’ feed and check out as many blogs as I can!

Shanna and I would like to thank our wonderful sponsors one final time. Without our sponsors I know this party wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as it has been. Thank you from the bottom of our quilty little hearts!

Make sure you stop by tomorrow and see my first finish of 2016!

And without further ado, our winners are:

1. $35 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

Moneik – Moneik Quilts

2. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Jennie – Jennie’s Threads

3. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

Jannette – Quilting and Cardmaking

4. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Deb – Life In the Dog House

5. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Susan – Desertsky Quilting

6. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Hayley – Moobird Stitches

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

Marie – Flickr

8. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Vicki – Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

9. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Susan – Farm Quilter

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

Heather – A Reformed Heath’n

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

Kell – Flickr

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December Winners

1 Comment / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

Excited to share the winners from the month of December.

Shanna and I are always SO excited to hear all about your finishes!!

Let’s celebrate last month!

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Here’s our amazing prizes for December …and our WINNERS!

1. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Mary – Mary Emmens

2. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

FatQuarterShop - https://www.fatquartershop.com/

Sally – Me ‘n’ Henry Lee

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

Becky – Flickr

4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

The Littlest Thistle - http://www.the-littlest-thistle.com/

Heather – nepeanquilter

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Jenelle – Echinops & Aster

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Bee – Buzzing Around

7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Moneik – Moneik Quilts

8. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Sobana – The Quilt Bug

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

Jodie – The Crafty Room

10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

Tisha – Quilty Therapy

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

Patty – A Stitch in Time

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

Meloney – Mel’s Quilting Blog

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Congrats to our December winners

A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2015 Finale Link Up

10 Comments / 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

How did you do in 2015? Were you able to finish at least 6 of the goals that you posted and linked up in 2015? If so you are in luck! You qualify to enter our finale link up party! We have some awesome prizes.

In order to be eligible you must have finished at least 6 goals that you linked to either Shanna or myself during 2015. In you link up post, please include a mosaic of the finished projects and a link to your goal and finish post to each one.

2015 was a big year of finishes for me. Since I’m not eligible to win prizes I decided to simply show off all of my finishes from the year!

Believe it or not, making this mosaic took me all day on the 31st, I was having some technical difficulties!

We would like to take a moment and thank all of our wonderful sponsors who have stood with us over the years. Their generosity is what has kept this project going all these years!