Let’s Get Acquainted – Sew Bittersweet Designs

Goings on in blogland

7 Comments / Blog Hop, Hopeful Threads, Let's Get Acquainted, Plum and June, Quilting Gallery / By Melissa Dunworth

A couple of my blogging friends have some pretty exciting things going on right now.

First, Jennie and Clara from Clover and Violet have A Season By Hand going on. For the next two months they will have inspirational projects handmade projects on their blog from some of your favorite bloggers (including me!). There will also be contests and prizes! Go check it out!

Beth from Plum and June is holding her second annual Let’s Get Acquainted New Blogger Blog hop. I participated last year and had a blast getting to “meet” new bloggers from all over the world. Go check it out!

Michele from Quilting Gallery is holding her second QAL called “Aiming for Accuracy”. The blocks and over all quilt design look fantastic and she is offering some great prizes for those who quilt along with her, you will want to check out the sponsors page, you might just find someone you know on there (wink wink).

And last, but certainly not least, Kristy from Hopeful Threads just announced her first ever ongoing project. I am so very excited for her and for those that will be on the receiving end of this wonderful project. The ongoing project is called the Fluff Project – go check it out, I know you are going to want to sew some fluff too!

I know there are tons of other things going on too, but I wanted to draw your attention to these projects, as I think they are going to be lots of fun!

Let’s Get Acquainted Link Up

19 Comments / 3x6 Bee, Let's Get Acquainted / By Melissa Dunworth

I’m so excited to be hosting the Let’s Get Acquainted Monday Link Up Party this week! Thank you so much Beth for asking me to host! If you haven’t been to Plum and June before, you need to visit! Beth is incredibly talented and she was the mind behind last year’s incredibly fun and successful Let’s Get Acquainted Blog Hop.

I wasn’t quite sure what to write about when I sat down to write this post. I found Beth’s hop along when it was about a month into it last year, I quickly joined and had so much fun visiting all of the other newbie bloggers out there. I’ve now been blogging for just over 2 years and designing for about the same amount of time. One of the things I have been focused on this year is FINISHES! Last year I was talking to my friend Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and we both realized that we were always talking about Works in Progress but never about Finishes, we decided to change that! This year Shanna and I have been hosting A Lovely Year of Finishes and I can proudly say I have had one finish for each month this year!

Since I blogged about my big finish for May yesterday, I thought I would show what I have been working on all week, bee blocks for my sampler hive in the 3×6 hive. The block design is an original and there will be a tutorial for it later this week. If you like it, I hope you will come back!

I love doing bees as it forces me to work with color combo’s I would have never previously considered and I generally fall in love with the new combinations. Are you the same way?

Now it is your turn! Show us what you have been working on this week!

1. Link up any recent sewing/quilting post.
2. In your post or on your blog, please include either a text link or a button letting people know about this link up and link it back to this post.
3. Visit at least the two bloggers who link up before you and everyone who visits you from this post.
4. When the link tool asks for your name, enter your favorite color to use in a quilt. I lean towards blues.