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A Lovely Year of Finishes – 2015 Finale Link Up

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Melissa Dunworth

How did you do in 2015? Were you able to finish at least 6 of the goals that you posted and linked up in 2015? If so you are in luck! You qualify to enter our finale link up party! We have some awesome prizes.

In order to be eligible you must have finished at least 6 goals that you linked to either Shanna or myself during 2015. In you link up post, please include a mosaic of the finished projects and a link to your goal and finish post to each one.

2015 was a big year of finishes for me. Since I’m not eligible to win prizes I decided to simply show off all of my finishes from the year!

Believe it or not, making this mosaic took me all day on the 31st, I was having some technical difficulties!

We would like to take a moment and thank all of our wonderful sponsors who have stood with us over the years. Their generosity is what has kept this project going all these years!

1. $35 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

2. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

3. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

4. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

5. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

6. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

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

8. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

9. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

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

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

Posted in 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts | 10 Comments

More Christmas Sewing

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Melissa Dunworth

Well, I never got my picture with Santa Claus in our shirts, but we did wear them on Christmas Day! Here is a picture of us with my sweet nephew.

Next year I will have to make that little man a shirt so we can all match for the picture! This was a free design from Urban Threads. They are such a generous company, every month they give away free designs and I have to say, that it is really what got me started using the embroidery function of my machine. Now I buy from them all the time… probably too often!

And because I am a mom to a ridiculously cute little girl, I thought I would show you how adorable she looked on Christmas Eve! That tree skirt in the background is a log cabin tree skirt that is hand tied and dates back to the 80s. I have very fond memories of it coming out each year to decorate our home (see there are quilts in this post!).

Santa must know that Anne is a quilter because he brought her this awesome mini tangram puzzle, Anne shouldn’t be at all surprised if mommy ~~steals~~ (*ahem*) borrows it.

From my little family to yours, I hope you had a wonderful holiday and we all wish you a very Happy New Year!

Posted in 2015 Finishes, Christmas, Embroidery | 5 Comments

A Lovely Year of Finishes – Final Thoughts

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Melissa Dunworth

The last three years have been so much fun, Shanna and I have really enjoyed managing and running A Lovely Year of Finishes.

We have had the opportunity to work with some incredible sponsors and we have been lucky to see so many wonderful finishes, and finish a few projects ourselves.

That being said, we have decided it is time to take a break from A Lovely Year of Finishes, and it is with heavy hearts that we are announcing the end of A Lovely Year of Finishes.

We want to thank each and every person who linked up with us over the last three years. Give yourselves a huge round of applause, there have been over 3,000 finished projects linked up to our blogs. Talk about amazing!

We want to thank our incredible sponsors. Your generosity has be unparalleled.

This doesn’t mean that Shanna and I are going away or that our wonderful friendship is ending, merely that we want some time to re-focus ourselves, our blogs, and our sewing. We are excited for the future and we hope that you will keep up with your finishes.

The group on Facebook will still be live and you are always welcome to keep posting there if you need some cheer leading!

Now if you were able to successfully link up and complete 6 finishes this year, make sure you visit on January 1st for our 2015 Finale Link up – lots of great prizes will be awarded.

I will have many exciting things happening in 2016, so stay tuned!

Posted in A Lovely Year of Finishes, Fiber of All Sorts | 15 Comments

A Lovely Year of Finishes – December 2015 Finishes Party

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Melissa Dunworth

Merry Christmas! We made it to the very last link up of the year. Come back in the next few days for a very important announcement about 2016. In the meantime, I was able to finish up some Christmas sewing. I made a few of my embroidered scarves, all the designs were purchased from Urban Threads. The scarves were finished on my wonderful serger. Now that I know how to use that little machine I’m really beginning to enjoy it!

How about you?

What one item did you choose?

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

1. Link-up the first 7-days of the month

Please choose ONE project

and

2. Link-up {on this post} 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. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

2. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

3. One PDF pattern from Michele of Aiming for Accuracy

4. PDF Pattern from Katy – The Littlest Thistle

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

7. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

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

9. Sew BitterSweet Designs one pdf pattern

10. One PDF pattern from Sew Sweetness

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

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

Posted in 2015 Finishes, A Lovely Year of Finishes, Christmas | 7 Comments

Merry Disney Vacation Part 2

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Melissa Dunworth

We had so much fun in Disneyland. One of the special Christmas things they do is they make handmade candy canes. Each day it switches from California Adventures to Disneyland. You have to stand in line in the morning and get a wrist band, they only hand out a certain number for each day. We were able to get 5! One for each us and one extra for my dad.

It was super fun to watch them make the candy canes. They candy makers at Disneyland are just so talented!

We took Anne to the Frozen princess salon that they have at Downtown Disney. She had such a good time getting all dolled up. It is always fun to get to spoil her just a little bit with something special like this. I wasn’t sure at first if we should do it, but my hubby reminded me that this isn’t an every day occurrence and it would make life long memories.

I think one of the coolest (literally) parts of our vacation was discovering that it now snows at California Adventures! Olaf, from the movie Frozen, has his own little winter wonderland. Anne got to make snow angels and play indoors while it actually snowed on her. We all loved the magic of it! We even went on a short toboggan ride!

Anne loves the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and we got to meet Jack Skellington. She was so excited! We also got the chance to go on the Haunted Mansion ride when it was transformed into the Nightmare Before Christmas movie. It was so exciting to see it set up differently.

We had so much fun!

Only a few more days left until Christmas and then I will be back to sewing my heart out. I have some exciting projects coming up in 2016 and I am looking forward to sharing them with you as the year unfolds!

Posted in Christmas, Personal Post | 1 Comment

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