Twirl Inspiration

20 Comments / EQ7, Giveaway, Me and My Sister, Quilt Patterns, Twirling Around Quilt / By Melissa Dunworth

My first project this year was playing with Twirl. I have never made anything with a layer cake before and I wanted to make sure that I got the most use out the fabric available and that what I ended up with was a large usable quilt. Here’s what I designed and made:

Did I mention it snowed this weekend! I can’t tell you how tickled Anne was to play outside in it 🙂

The top measures 64×72 inches and I have decided to go borderless. This will be a first for me, but I just don’t think the quilt needs it. I am waiting on Twirl yardage to become available (supposed to be this week) and I will buy a backing and the binding – I’m hoping this will be my first BIG finish of 2012.

Have you entered the giveaway yet for the Twirl Layer Cake? What will you make if you win?

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Merry Christmas

5 Comments / Giveaway, Intrepid Thread / By Melissa Dunworth

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Christmas is a special time of year. Since marrying someone in the military and experiencing my first deployment it has come to have so much more meaning to me. It is a time for my family to reflect on our blessings and hold tight to each other. Every holiday that we get to spend together is a small miracle to me and something that I truly cherish.

There are several traditions that we have had for years and I thought I would share them with you. Tonight we will have dinner with my God Parents – we have done this every year since I can remember. This year, however, there will be a first – it will be the first time that I cook dinner for my family. Wish me luck!

After dinner we will exchange our gifts with my God Parents and my mom will give us our Christmas Eve jammies – my favorite tradition growing up. After that we will read the bible to Anne and read “The Night Before Christmas“. My mom has been reading that to me since 1988 when she first bought us the book – and now I get to read it to my daughter. How special is that?!?

Here is a new fun Christmas tradition – giving a present to one of my bloggy friends!

Congratulations Deb A, she said:

“I am a new follower! Thanks”

I will be emailing you shortly to get your information to send on to Julie!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

Fat Quarter Shop Winner

7 Comments / Fat Quarter Shop, Giveaway / By Melissa Dunworth

I love announcing winners on the blog – I love any opportunity to brighten another person’s day – it makes my day brighter! Today I get to announce the winner of the Fat Quarter Shop notion of the month giveaway and two 1/2 yard cuts of fabric.

Author: Lori
Website: http://craftication.blogspot.com
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Love blue lagoon batiks. A fabulous giveaway!

Lori – you have one your choice of Triangle Papers from Fat Quarter Shop

You will get to pick one roll in the size of your choosing – I personally would love a roll of 2.5 inch finished HSTs – they are on my list to buy before the end of the month!

You also get to choose two 1/2 yard cuts of fabric! You can choose from Froggin’ by Sue Zipkin or from Always and Forever by Deb Strain!

I have sent you an email! Congratulations!

SewMamaSew Giveaway Day!

212 Comments / Giveaway, sew mama sew / By Melissa Dunworth

***Don’t forget to head over and enter my Fat Quarter Shop giveaway as part of the Blog Hop Party from Quilting Gallery!***

If this is your first time to my blog, WELCOME! My name is Melissa and I am a mommy, army wife, quilter and I blog about it all. Please take a moment to check out my tutorials page – I spent most of the last 4 months working on 18 blocks for a sampler quilt and all the tutorials are posted. I am mostly a quilter, although I do occasionally do sewing projects as well. When I’m not sewing for family and friends I do a lot of sewing for charity, I like to give back whenever I can! Today I have some special prizes in store for you!

I have three sewing patterns that will go to three separate winners and one fabric prize for the big winner:

For the beginning sewist – I have an apron pattern that is made with fat quarters – so bust out your fat quarter stash (I know you have one of those – I sure as heck do!) and get sewing!

Are you starting to get comfortable with paper piecing? Do you have a favorite little girl in your life whose room needs some sprucing up? How about a paper pieced heart wall hanging?!? With some modern fabrics and colors this could be so stinking cute!

Have you been wanting to learn the Quilt As You Go technique? It has been all over the web, and I even have a tutorial coming your way on this very blog in the new year, but if you want to get a head start, how about a very simple pattern? Again, change out the fabrics and this could be the sweetest baby quilt every!

And for my grand prize winner…I have a 1 lb bag of high quality quilting scraps. Including some Flora, Ruby and all of the Delighted that I have left after making my Delightfully Simple Reversible Purse (and I had a lot of extra fabric!!!) – the sky is the limit with this fun bag of fabric!

How can you enter?!? 2 Possible Entries:

First Entry: Tell me the first project you plan on making in the new year – for example: I plan on making my niece a quilt.

Second Entry: Be a follower, old or new, and tell me which method you use to follow – check my sidebar – there are lots of ways to do it!

That’s it, super simple!

Good luck – this giveaway will run through Friday, December 16th and I will email the winner on the 18th (I will be traveling on the 17th). I will be using the wordpress plugin And the Winner Is… to select the winner.

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention – this is open internationally!

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How can you enter?!? 2 Possible Entries:

Merry Christmas!