Fiber of All Sorts – Page 23 – Sew Bittersweet Designs

A Lovely Year of Finishes – Quickie Fun Giveaway!

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

Hello! We’re 6 months in.

A Lovely Year of Finisheshas been amazing!!

There is some lovely #ALYoF on twitter and instagram

665 goals have already been completed by our amazing participants!!

Adding to the fun, Shanna and I have sent out 37 prizes!

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We wanted to clarify a few items for everyone (NEW and OLD):

To be eligible for the end of the year round-up – you’ll have to have finished 6 months of link-in’s (6-goal settings and in the same month finished it up).

That’s right you must have 6 completed projects that were linked-in with Shanna and I.

That means that if you haven’t joined us yet – you still have time!

We love all of our generous sponsors, and let’s face it, without them, it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun!

Shanna and I would love for YOU to spread the word about ‘A Lovely Year of Finishes‘

Let’s have a giveaway!

This is a quick giveaway to encourage everyone to enter into our July goal setting party.

If you spread the word you can be entered into this giveaway.

If you are new, WELCOME, you can be entered into the giveaway too.

Grab a button from my sidebar and spread the love!

You could win 2 charm packs of Riley Blake – Kensington

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Let Shanna or me know if you have any questions.

Dear Flickr

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

Dear Flickr (and Google too for that matter!),

Why do you insist on forcing all of these changes on us?

We liked you the way you were! Truly!

I guess since you insist on changing, we have no choice but to follow suit…

For all of you wonderful quilters and sewists out there joining Shanna and I for A Lovely Year of Finishes who may be struggling with the changes over on Flickr, don’t fret, you are not alone. The amazing Shanna has done an updated tutorial on how to share your photos on the “new Flickr”. She totally has your back!

Go on over and check it out! Once you have done that…link up to our July Goal Party for A Lovely Year of Finishes! You have until July 7th to link up.

Don’t forget I also have a fun giveaway going on right now to celebrate my birthday yesterday, check it out here!

Have a happy Wednesday!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – July Goal Setting Party

17 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Do.Good Stitches, Fiber of All Sorts / By Melissa Dunworth

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

A Lovely Year of Finishes – June Finishes Party

8 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Ok, I’m going to say it…the year is half over! I can’t even believe that. How did we get here. Technically we still have 7 full days left until the end of the month, and can I just say thank goodness?!? I am only 2/3 of the way done with my goal for the month. For some reason I have a mental block to pattern writing, but I am working on it!

Here’s my progress to date, a fully finished quilt. Sorry about the crummy indoor pictures, but it decided to rain yesterday, go figure, living in Washington and all!

And because I love my rocking chair, I decided my quilt needed its picture taken there!

And I also love a great rolled up binding 🙂

I have my pattern about 40% written and I have 7 days to finish it…I think I can, I think I can!

Now it’s your turn! Show us what you finished this month! You can link up here or with Shanna, you don’t have to link up twice.

Don’t forget our wonderful prizes this month! Make sure you head on over and check out our amazing sponsors, they add such a fun element to this year of finishes!

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

2. Loving Pieces donated from Paper Pieces

3. $20.00 Gift Certificate from the Quilting Lodge

4. A Fat Quarter Bundle from Moda United Notions

5. $15.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop

6. $25.00 Gift Certificate to Superior Threads

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

7 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

It is the middle of June already, I’m not quite sure how we got here and I am actually beginning to think that this project might be making time move even faster – funny how deadlines can do that! So I am halfway finished with my goal for the month. I wanted to have my quilt finished and my pattern written. Well, the quilt is done, I will give you a couple sneaky peeks here but the pattern…let’s just say I am having trouble sitting at the computer.

I did a machine binding, for no other reason that hand bindings hurt my hands, but I decided to jazz it up with a fun wavy stitch on my machine. I love the added pop of color and fun it adds.

I did almost entirely swirls for the quilting, in the actual “pictures” I did some free motion quilting around the birds and the butterflies in the prints, but I will show those when I reveal the whole quilt at the end of the month. Here are some of my swirls.

Now it is your turn! Show us your progress! Don’t forget you can link up here with me or with Shanna, you don’t have to link with both of us, we have worked out the computer magic that your entry appears on both our blogs.

And also, don’t forget to check out our awesome sponsors and show them some love too! A Lovely Year of Finishes would not be nearly as much fun without them!