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A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2014 Edition

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

That’s right the fantastic Shanna and I have teamed up again! I love working with her, she is AMAZING!

We are so happy to be doing this again this year. And make sure to check out our sponsors.

There are some ground rules.

This is a sewing and crafting link-up. Although it would be awesome for cooking or millionaire making. . that’s just not who we are. 🙂

Be nice. We love the encouragement that is in this community. Just keep it going.

To win a prize you’ll choose one month to work in. Add in a photo or a blog post during the goal setting linky. Work on that project & finish it to where you stated you would get to. Add a new photo or blog post during the finishes party linky.

For your goal post, if you could pick one project that as your ALYoF goal. That makes it easier on us. And if it’s easier on us, it’s easier for us to give you a prize if you’ve been chosen. And to that end if you can help by linking back to your goal setting post as well.

What is a project? There is no shame in not meeting a goal. You just aren’t in the running for a prize that month. But hey, try again another month!

A finish is whatever YOU choose. Seriously it could be cutting out all the pieces for a fantastic quilt-top. Getting the last 2 blocks done for a quilt top. Your goal could be getting your lingering bee blocks into a quilt top. Binding, quilting, or something else crafty. This isn’t a finish a quilt a month club this is a you’re awesome and you can do it club. One piece at a time baby! Celebrate you’re small finishes and I bet you’ll finish more.

We want to encourage you to visit one another and leave comments. This is what makes us all so much better.

Please grab our button over to the right

to keep the love going

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or the specific blog post to show off the month you’re working on.

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Remember there is a flickr group

A facebook group

& A hashtag #ALYoF for instagram or twitter

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I’m planning on making 2014 my year of sewing from my stash. I already have 3 big quilts planned for family plus I need to finish my hubby’s king sized quilt (we’ll see if this actually happens!).

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As always if you have any questions drop a comment or an email. Between Shanna and I we usually have some ideas or suggestions.

Can’t wait to start off 2014, oh wait I need to go pick a January goal.

See you all soon!

December Finishes Party – ALYoF

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

We did it! We made it a full 12 months! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it! My goal this month was a beautiful quilt for a very special person.

This is the Dizzying Diamonds quilt. You can read all about it here and the pattern is available for purchase too! I am so excited to see the reaction of the recipient of this quilt. How did you end 2013? Did you finish your final goal? Shanna and I want to see!

Shanna and I want to thank our wonderful sponsors for adding such a fun element to A Lovely Year of Finishes!

December Prizes Include:

1, 2,3, & 4.

3 Thread Packs and one special thread pack from Aurifil Threads

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

6. A Paper Piecing Kit from Paper Pieces

7. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

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

from Sew BitterSweet Designs

($10 value)

10. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Make sure to go visit 2 other people who have linked up before you so that we can cheer each other on!

This is the last of the “regular” link-up’s.

January 1-7 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.

December Mid-Month Check In – A Lovely Year of Finishes

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

Well we are in the home stretch of 2013! This is our last mid-month check-in for 2013. I have no pictures to show you of my finish – but I can tell you that it is…finished!

Here are the prizes that are up for grabs in December!

1, 2,3, & 4) Thread Packs and one special thread pack from Aurifil Threads

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

6. A Paper Piecing Kit from Paper Pieces

7. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

8,9. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern from Sew BitterSweet Designs

10. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Make sure to go visit 2 other people who have linked up before you so that we can cheer each other on!

Don’t forget:

January 1-7 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.

A Lovely Year of Finishes 2014 – A Whole New Year!

22 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts, Modjeska Designs / By Melissa Dunworth

Shanna and I are happy to announce that A Lovely Year of Finishes is coming back again next year! That’s right! 12 new months, 12 more finishes!

The response this year was overwhelming! You all were amazing! I can’t believe just how many incredible creations were finished during the first 11 months of this year! I am really looking forward to next year to see what everyone comes up with.

There will be a few changes in 2014 – we are excited about them!

Next year we will continue with our monthly goal parties – live from the 1st to the 7th of each month.
We will also continue our finishes parties – live during the last 7 days of each month.
We are discontinuing the mid-month check-in party. We have decided to go with something fun and exciting that will bring attention (and hopefully lots of traffic!) to all of you crazy talented people! We are going to do monthly features of the most clicked on finishes from the previous month. We want to drive some traffic to YOU!
We’ll have a minimum of 6 months of successful participation to be eligible for the big finale in 2015.
We have a new facebook group. That’s right we’re here for all your social media finishes. Okay not all just another one. This page is a closed group, anyone can see this but you can only post (your finishes, blog posts, make comments) with an ‘invite’ or permission to join the group. We want to prevent as many trolls as possible.
We’ll still love to see your twitter or Instagram posts use #ALYoF to show off your stuff.

Here is our awesome new button, designed by the incredibly talented Kristin from Modjeska Designs.

If you are interested in sponsoring any month in 2014 for A Lovely Year of Finishes – we would love to have you! Big or small we love all of our sponsors, you make A Lovely Year of Finishes so much more FUN! Email Melissa at melissa (at) sewbittersweetdesigns dot com or Shanna at fiberofallsorts (at) gmail dot com.

Sponsorship Benefits Include:

Permanent button and link on A Lovely Year of Finishes Pages
Permanent links in our Flickr Group
You can post sales in our Facebook Page
Featured on 2 link up posts during month of sponsorship

So there you have it! The party will continue on in 2014! We are so excited.

Grab a button and help us spread the word!!!

November Winners – A Lovely Year of Finishes

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

Winners! Who doesn’t love winners?!? I’m sorry this post is so late, life has gotten in the way of my blogging habits these days.

Thank you again to our sponsors. Remember, if you are interested in sponsoring next year please contact either Shanna or myself, we would love to work with you! Look back tomorrow for a big announcement concerning 2014! I think you will be excited!

1.A Prize from The Intrepid Thread