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Jeweled Geese Pattern

10 Comments / Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I have a new pattern release for you today! Two weeks in a row, I’m on a roll!

I designed this block to be the center of my Crazy & Twisted Quilt for my new online quilting bee. I have a mild obsession with Flying Geese and I wanted something that just showed a beautiful progression and was different than anything I had seen before.

After designing and sewing the quilt block I wanted to see what it would look like as a quilt and check out how gorgeous this layout is!

I have named this quilt “Jeweled Echoes” and I love the effect of changing the location of the background fabric.

This block measures 14.5″ x 16.5″ unfinished. The quilt above measures 56″ x 64″ – a lovely lap size quilt.

This pattern is available for purchase at my Craftsy Store for $2.50.

I hope you enjoy sewing it!

All Framed Up Pattern Launch

Welcome to the launch of my All Framed Up pattern! It is up on Craftsy as a digital download! I am doing a special launch price for only $5.00.

The pattern comes in 2 sizes: lap size and king size.

The great thing about this quilt pattern is that it is designed for the beginning quilter. This pattern features a great use of negative space which is wonderful for people like me who are just starting to learn free motion quilting – it provides a beautiful space to practice. The quilt goes together in a very short period of time – you can easily make a top in one afternoon!

I had some really wonderful quilting friends take the time to test this pattern! They made some truly incredible quilts!

Rachel from Raven Quilts and block fun created this beauty.

Debbe from Pieces to Love created this masterpiece, you can read what Debbe had to say about the pattern here.

The talented Carolyn from Sweet Boater Chick created this beautiful batik version! You can read about her experience sewing the pattern here.

My friend Honnah, from my new Modern Quilt Guild, whipped up this fun version (check out her mad free motion quilting skills!).

Barb from Mountain Quiltworks did a stunning take on the pattern, and with her long arm she did some amazing quilting. You can read about her experience with the pattern here.

One of my wonderful readers, Shiv, was kind enough to test the King Size version of my pattern, in her words “it is HUGE”.

I hope you enjoy this pattern and get ready I will be coming out with a new pattern soon and will be looking for more testers. You can download the All Framed Up pattern over on Craftsy.

Pattern Testers Needed

23 Comments / A Lovely Year of Finishes, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

Hi Everyone! It’s done! I finished my latest pattern yesterday! I am so excited, if you can’t tell from all the exclamation points 🙂

If you are interested in testing the pattern, the lap quilt size finishes at 52″ x 52″ and the king size finishes at 100″ x 100″.

Here are the fabric requirements:

	Lap Quilt (52” x 52”)	King (100” x 100”)
Background & Borders	1.75 yards	6.5 yards
Pink Frames	½ yard	2 yards
Pictures (Main Fabric)	½ Yard (more if fussy cutting)	1.25 yards (more if fussy cutting)
Pictures (Secondary Fabric)	¼ yard (more if fussy cutting)	1/2 yards (more if fussy cutting)
Backing	3.75 yards	108” wide fabric – 3 yards
Binding	½ yard	¾ yards

Please comment here with your email address if you are interested in testing the pattern. I would like 4 people total.

I hope you are having a great week so far!

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!