May Participant Feature! A Lovely Year of Finishes

ALYoF2014One of the things that Shanna and I like best about A Lovely Year of Finishes in 2014 is the participant feature post we are doing each month! It has been so much fun to learn more about the amazing quilters and sewists who join up with us every month!

This month our feature comes all the way from Czech Republic, you may know her as Vera @ Negligent Style.

Blog name: Negligent style

Blog address: http://negligentstylee.blogspot.cz/

Name you’re known by throughout quilting world: Vera @ Negligent style

What’s your ALYoF goal this month? My goal is to make a bag out of Echino. I’m not using any specific pattern but I would like to end up with a messenger type of bag.

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How do you approach your sewing goals? I need to have a deadline on my goal and I have to put the WiP piece in a visible place. If I’m really into something I need to finish it quick while the interest last.

How do you organize/prioritize your projects? The most important is date. Priority goes to presents for certain occasions/dates and I like to get involved in QALs which also have specific dates for final linky party. I do admit I’m not very organized and procrastinate a lot.

What is your current favorite project that you are working on? Will you share pictures with us?

I love rainbow projects and I wanted to try the Hex N More ruler for a while so I combined those two which resulted in my current favorite WiP called Mini Disco. Hopefully it’ll become full size quilt with the splash of rainbow across. Here’s a peak.

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What is your dream project to work on? I sort of had my dream come true and I would like to do it again. My friend, who runs fabric store, sent me her fabrics and I made her a quilt for display in her store and quilt market booth. I got to play with wide range of fabrics and the layout was up to me which I enjoyed very much.

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What is your favorite time of day to sew? That would be morning hours or any other with good daylight.

What is your favorite quilting/sewing accessory? I couldn’t possibly live without my ¼” patchwork foot with guide. That thing makes my seams even which is quite handy since I tend to be negligent 🙂

What is your number one quilting/sewing goal for 2014? My number one goal is to keep on having fun with what I do. I hate to feel obligated.

What is one technique you really want to learn? I want to get better and learn more about FMQ. I took the first steps already.

Thank you so much for joining us today Vera! Make sure you hop over to Vera’s blog and check her out, she is truly an inspiring quilter!!!

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Slice & Insert Tutorial

Hi Everyone! Sorry I have been missing all week I have had a ton of family stuff going on. May hit me like a ton of bricks!  I wrote a fun tutorial for my guild today for a slice and insert block. If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen the block yesterday.

Slice & Insert Block Tutorial - https://www.sewbittersweetdesigns.comHead on over to the South Sound MQG Blog and check it out!

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Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

Hi Everyone and happy Monday to you!  If you are new to my blog, welcome! If you are a regular here, welcome back! Normally on Monday I set goals for the week, but life happened and last week’s goal didn’t happen, so that will just move to this week.

If you are new here let me tell you a bit about myself. I used to work in marketing before my beautiful daughter, Anne was born 4.5 years ago, now I am a stay at home mom with a few addictions – quilting, cooking/baking and my garden.  My husband proudly serves in the US Army and I blog a bit about all of it.  Anne is a regular on my blog because she is the most important thing in my life!

I have a fun giveaway today – I thought I would giveaway a complete pack of all my patterns, you can see them here and in addition to that I am offering a charm pack of Honey Honey by Kate Spain.

Honey Honey Charm Pack - https://www.sewbittersweetdesigns.comTo enter all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me your favorite time of year.

For a bonus entry, follow me on Instagram and leave me your name so I can follow you back! I am @SewBitterSweetDesigns

Don’t have Instagram, follow me on Facebook – and leave me a comment.

This giveaway is open until 5pm on May 16th, have fun!
Have a happy Monday and make sure you visit Sew Mama Sew to see all the other wonderful giveaways from around the world!

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Tangled Tiles – A Finish

Happy Friday Everyone!

Today is especially happy for Anne and I because my hubby comes home tonight and we haven’t seen him in 2 weeks!  I can’t wait, I’m even making homemade bread and pasta for dinner tonight to celebrate his homecoming. I do so love to bake for my family.

Anyways! On to the quilting!

As a member of the South Sound MQG I had the opportunity to participate in a special challenge for Pacific Northwest Modern Quilt Guilds. The challenge was to take metallic fabric, thread or metallic themes and create a quilt no larger than 48×48″.  We were provided with fabrics from Robert Kaufman, my guild selected the Quilter’s Linen. It was luxurious to work with. Here is what I came up with:

TangledTiles-FULL - https://www.sewbittersweetdesigns.comIt is really much smaller than it looks – measuring 28.5″ x 28.5″.

It is an original design of mine. I really wanted to name it Drunken Tiles because of the quilting reminded me of someone just aimlessly wandering around but since this is being judged, I thought I would go with a slightly tamer name.

Here is a close up of the quilting:

TangledTiles-DETAIL - https://www.sewbittersweetdesigns.comI really enjoyed making this quilt and it will hanging in our bedroom, though I do hope it is accepted into the show, although after seeing some of the other entries, I’m not very confident.

Quilt Stats:

Name: Tangled Tiles
Fabrics: Kona Black, Quilters Linens
Thread – Metallics by Superior Threads
Quilting – done by me on my Janome Horizon
Designer – Melissa Dunworth

Thank you for stopping by! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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April 2014 Winners – A Lovely Year of Finishes

Congrats to your finishers.  

It’s so fun to celebrate our little successes!

 Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and I are always so excited to share your amazing talent.  

GO YOU


A Lovely Year of Finishes

 Here are our winners of the April prizes:

 1. Aurifil – Thread prize

 

Kristel – Work in Progress Girl

2. Quilting Lodge – quilting patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

 

Miss Mary – Walking With Feathers

3. Fat Quarter Shop– $15.00 Gift Certificate 

4,5. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern

from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)

 https://www.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/

Rachell – Claddaghs Quilts & Stars
Carole – Fresh off the Frame

 6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

 Project QUILTING Season 5

Barb – Paint Creek Quilt

 7. Sew Sweetness – 1 pdf Pattern

Sew Sweetness

Pat – on Flickr


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

 

Barbara – Cat Patches

9. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

 

Kathy – Kathy’s Quilts

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

 

Leah – Quilted Delights

11. Meadow Mist – 1 Digital pattern

Elizabeth – In The Boon Docks

Remember that if you missed out on any of the months…it’s NEVER too late to join.

Have a happy Thursday!!!

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