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Riley Blake 2015 Challenge Quilt

I finished four whole quilts from start to finish this month! Wow! Talk about a busy sewing machine!

Two of the quilts I cannot reveal until later in the year. For now I am going to show my Riley Blake quilt – Top Spin. This was a challenge presented by the Modern Quilt Guild. The requirements were to make something quilted and to try something new. I tried a whole new pattern and template that I designed.

This is my own pattern, I actually made my templates out of file folders. This was a fun quilt to make. There are two large appliques one for the center and one for the larger circle. I used my walking foot to quilt the giant spiral.

I am super happy with the results. I used several solids from my stash paired with the Riley Blake prints. The quilt will make a lovely baby quilt for someone someday.

Secret Project – Sneak Peek

3 Comments / free motion quilting, Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns, Zentangle / By Melissa Dunworth

This project will have a full reveal in September, and I am so excited to show you all of it, in the meantime I am showing you the back. This project is one of the four that had a July 31 deadline. All that’s left is to trim and bind, so it is looking like I will make it!

Before I quilted this one, I printed out a copy of my pattern and zentangled it to figure out exactly how I wanted to quilt it. I am finding that this is the best way for me to plan out my quilting. I will show more pictures when I reveal the front in September. In the meantime make sure you are working hard on those July goals because the link up will open on Saturday!

Mini For Jessica

8 Comments / Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns / By Melissa Dunworth

I LOVE LOVE LOVE rainbow quilts. I think they are bright and cheerful and it is hard not to smile when you see them. I made one last week for a wonderful friend, who happens to share a birthday with me. In fact, I sewed the top on our birthday!

The half square triangles were all made from charms. I mixed low volume prints with saturated color prints. I am very happy with the overall effect. Each square measures 2.5″ finished. I am told that the recipient just loves it, which makes me happy!

I took a picture of it with my mini collection before I sent it off.

It was hard to send it off but given who I was sending it to, I am glad it will be loved!

This was also one of the four goals I spoke of on the July ALYOF link up party! I am actually half way done now because I can’t blog about the second finish until later this year!!! It is a commission quilt and I’m super happy with how it turned out.

Sorry I’ve been so silent. Now that my husband is back home, I am going to make a more concerted effort to be on the blog more.

Have a wonderful and happy Monday!

A Lovely Year of Finishes – June Finishes Party!

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

So…did you finish? I did! And I’m very pleased with how my quilt turned out.

This is my entry to a quilt show in the Pacific Northwest. I don’t know yet if it got in, but it doesn’t really matter because I completely love it!

How did you do this month?

What one item did you choose?

You have two requirements to be entered into the prizes this month.

1. Link-up {on this post} the first 7-days of the month

Please choose ONE project

and

2. Link-up in the last 7-days of the month

Only with a completed, successful project. And yes the same one that you choose earlier in the month.

Add your blog post or flickr photo (with appropriate descriptions) to the linky party below.

Please grab a button or link back to Shanna and I so other people can join in the fun!

And if you are on twitter or Instagram tag #ALYoF

**Please note, the linky party is the same here and over at Shanna, so there is no need to enter twice **

Here’s our amazing prizes this month…thank you sponsors!

1.A Prize from Carrie of Gotcha Covered Quilting

2. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

4. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

5. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

6. One PDF pattern from Honey, Bunny, and Doll Designs

7. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 3 yards plus free shipping anywhere

8. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

9. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

10. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

11. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

12. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

13. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

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Just keep Stitching because you have until June 30 to link up!

Pixelated Butterfly

15 Comments / Sew BitterSweet Designs Patterns, swaps / By Melissa Dunworth

I’m in a birthday swap group and the June birthday girl loves jewel tones and when I asked her what she would like me to make her, she said she would love a pretty wall hanging to look at because she doesn’t have any. I decided I wanted to try to design a pixelated butterfly. So I started to sketch:

After drawing it out, I may have decided I was crazy, after all, those are ONE INCH SQUARES. I don’t work with fabric pieces that small, like ever, but I decided to throw caution to the wind and go for it.

I did not cut 194 squares measuring 1.5″ x 1.5″, instead I strip pieced this quilt. I’m thinking I would like to make this again, in a larger scale (5″ charms maybe) and work on making the proportions perfect but I am very pleased with how this turned out.

Today I am going to baste and quilt this baby. I hope the birthday girl loves it!

Oh and since I didn’t say earlier, this top measures 18.5″ x 18.5″.

Happy Sewing!