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A Lovely Year of Finishes – August Winners

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Melissa Dunworth

Gotta love winners..as so many of you are!

Let’s celebrate our sponsors and tell you about the winners from last month.

Shanna and I are excited to announce that the August winners are:

1. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

Katie – Katie Mae Quilts

2. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

Lucy – Lucy Made

3. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

Heather – Peachy Pages

4. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

Anita – Quilt in a Not-Shell

5. One pdf pattern from Sew Sweetness

Kell – Flickr

6. 1 Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

Katie – Good Golly Ginger

7. Thread Prize from Aurifil

Allison – Allison Sews

8. 9. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern
from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)

Pauline – Quilt-n-Queen
and
Sharon – Forget-Me-Not-Stitche

10. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 4 yards (worth $20) plus free shipping

Cathy – Winter Wanderings

11. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

Julie – That’s Sew Julie

12. 13. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

Jessica – Quilty Habit
and
Leanne – She Can Quilt

14. $30.00 credit towards Long Arm Quilting Services
from by Orchid Owl Quilts

Kim – Lily Patch Quilts

Thank you again to all our sponsors and for all of you being amazing.

Keep it up … there are more prizes this month.

Posted in A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts | 8 Comments

Sewing Therapy Tuesday

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Melissa Dunworth

This weekend and yesterday I took some time for sewing therapy. It is cheaper than the traditional kind of therapy and I can do it in the comfort of my jammies! I worked on blocks 2 and 3 from the Curve It Up Challenge. I have to say I am really enjoying the mental break from designing, though quite soon here I will likely need to take a break from this and start the dreaded Elsa Dress.

I was originally going to do all American Made Brand solids, but I didn’t have enough and I wanted more variety in my blues, greens, grays, so I have gone ahead and added some Konas and Northcotts to the mix.

I am very happy with how it is turning out so far and really looking forward to block 4. Stay tuned for more curvy blocks!

Posted in Quick Curve Ruler, quilt along | 9 Comments

Curve It Up Challenge

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Melissa Dunworth

I have decided that I need a bit of a mental break. I still want to sew, I just don’t want to have to fuss with math and design and all the jazz that comes with designing patterns. So for the next little bit here I am going to work on the Curve It Up Challenge that Sew Kind of Wonderful is hosting right now.

I picked out some American Made Brand solids that I bought from my LQS this summer and whipped up the first block today. It is a curved version of a Churn Dash block. It measure 16.5″ x 16.5″ and I was able to do it in less than an hour.

So be looking for more of these curvy blocks from me soon!

PS. If I complete this, it will be my first successful QAL (that I didn’t run)!

Posted in Quick Curve Ruler, Sew King of Wonderful | 12 Comments

Email and Blocks

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Melissa Dunworth

Have you ever just felt so behind you don’t know if you can dig out of the chasm that has been created. That is how I feel. The first 2.5 weeks of this deployment have been so difficult, much more so than I anticipated. Largely because Anne is so much older this time and it is taking a deeper emotional toll on her than the last two. Age really does matter. I am dreadfully behind on email. I’m going to try and catch up this week. If I haven’t replied to a comment, please know I am reading all of them, I’m just not really finding the time to sit down and respond to each one.

As terrible as it sounds, while I am behind on email, I am not behind on sewing, mainly because when Anne is napping it is exceptionally therapeutic for me to sit behind my machine and sew my heart out. It makes all the pain and exhaustion go away.

Here are my bee blocks from August for Do Good Stitches, I am happy to report they were even mailed on time!

Have a happy hump day everyone!

Posted in Do.Good Stitches, Personal Post | 13 Comments

A Lovely Year of Finishes – September Goal Party

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Melissa Dunworth

With my husband having deployed again, I pulled out a project I started during his last deployment. In fact I started it exactly two years ago, September 2012. The top is now sewn and it needs some borders. I want to do a solid border and then a scrappy border. My goal is to get the borders for this made. It is my design and most of the blocks were made by some pretty incredible friends, including the lovely Shanna. This quilt will be for him when he gets home, though considering the time of year he will be getting home I’m not sure how much use he will get out of it at first.