September: A Lovely Year of Finishes ~ Finishes Party

Beep Beep .. approaching the end of the month.

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Sadly I'm sick.
I had uber travel last week and to top it off I WON a ticket to the
Ricky Tim's Quilting Seminar it was amazing.

I'm so glad I wasn't sick for any of that.  But now. . day 3 of blahhh
So, I'll show you my finish after I am better and can finish the beauty up.

Go check out what Melissa finished!

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What one item did you choose to do for September?

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

Please link up only a project that we can verify. . make it easy for us.  Point us to your initial link up.

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

For those unsure of how to link up go check out our Q&A Page for A Lovely Year of Finishes - there are instructions on how to link up from a blog and from Flickr.

Grab a button!  Spread the LOVE

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

And what's for grabs this month?  Here is what our fantastic sponsors are offering:

September Prizes Include:

 1.  Any Craftsy Class of your choice 
{this is an affiliate link}

2, 3.  TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern 
from Melissa from Sew BitterSweet Designs
($10 value)





4. $25.00 Gift Certificate to Pink Chalk Fabrics

5. Choice of $15 or 2 charm packs from Stitch n’ Giggles

6. Paper Pieces prize donated from Paper Pieces

7. Quilting Pattern from the Quilting Lodge

8 & 9. a thread packet from Aurifil

Thanks for joining in! 

And you'll have to link up anytime on the last 7 days of the month.

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As always if you have questions. . please let me know.

September: A Lovely Year of Finishes ~ Mid-month link-up

Hello middle of the month.  

Why yes I'm working on my A Lovely Year of Finishes project. .
{cough} slowly.

I'm a wee bit distracted by the Marcelle Medallion QAL.  

But no worries I have a deadline and I'll meet it.

I cut into my roll of batting {gasp}



Here is a start to my Crazy and Twisted starter row. .



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How's your September project coming along?

Add your blog post or flickr photo (with appropriate descriptions) to the optional linky party below, open til the 21st.   

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

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Please note, the linky party is the same here and over at 

Melissa, so there is no need to enter twice **




Here's a shout out to our fantastic September sponsors.

We {heart} you!

Craftsy {this is an affiliate link}

 Sew BitterSweet Designs

 Pink Chalk Fabrics

Stitch n’ Giggles

Paper Pieces

 Quilting Lodge

Aurifil

See you after a busy week!

Liberty Love overload

I'm so happy with my Liberty Stile pillow that I posted about earlier this week.
{Thanks for all the love - it's super helpful with the few weeks I've been having}

Because of some instagram love, I've joined in a new Quilt Along with Penny Poppleton

Working from the awesome book Liberty Love book, I've had this book for awhile and cart it around with me during trips.  I so needed this QAL, okay need isn't the right word :)

Ohhh my it's so fun go check out some of the blog entries so far here.
Penny is giving some fantastic advice to nudge everyone along the way.

So, I'm going to show you some of my progress.

The interview process:


First this quadrant



And then a whole center!



Ahhhhhhh

I love how this is super fun and seeing how others are working along is totally inspiring.

Go check out the medallion check-in linky here with Penny Poppleton

And I'll continue to show my progress . . once I get a few more nuggets of advice.

Liberty Stile Pillow Challenge

I'm showing the pillow cover I created! 

Can you believe that I've never made a pillow cover?

I have now, and I'm in love!

Sew Mama Sew put out a call on their newsletter, and I was chosen to sew up some Liberty Stile fat quarter pillow challenge.

You know the Stile Liberty collection from Liberty Art Fabrics.

When these beauties were fluttering their way into my sewing area the ideas were flowing.
Here they are when they hit my mailbox. 

It was only a bit and I created this front. 

I even threw in a little hand stitching in the center.

Oh, and to make it into a pillow with an envelope back ... soooo easy. I used this tutorial  {on Sew Mama Sew - of course}.

And add piping, also from the tutorial on Sew Mama Sew.

You want to see the front piping, too? Ohhhh, OK.

You can see my echo quilting in this photo.

So it wasn't until I got this entirely finished and I found a little mistake in my block placements, but I don't mind!

I had an issue that I made this pillow cover because I made it for a larger pillow that did not live in my house.  I searched my limited selections in the local area and struck out.  Soooooo I took a standard  sleeping pillow, cut 5 inches from the long side, extracted some of the filling, closed it back up, and tada - pillow form! At 1/3 of the price I may add.

I'm not the only one who got some fabric!  Head over to Sew Mama Sew and check all of us out! *Next week there will be a re-cap*

Now that it's photographed, my step-daughter has officially claimed it. Ahhh, the pillow is loved.

August Winners ~ A Lovely Year of Finishes

I applaud all of you!  

Not only are you inspiring me to keep going but you're finishing some fantastic projects.

I'm actually getting to some finished quilts.  

Love it!

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Thank you all for your fantastic projects.  

But also thanks to so many of you sporting our button!

And for making these last few parties so much easier to give away these prizes!

Remember that you can jump in any month that works for you.

September's goal setting linky is still open. . remember to join in before the 7th!

You can find it HERE.

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How about the winners of last month...

Okay!

Thanks to our sponsors.  They are the ones making this sooo much fun!

1. Choice of $15 or 2 charm packs from Stitch n' Giggles

The winner is Connie from Freemotion by the River

2. $25.00 Gift Certificate to Superior Threads

Sew Much More!™

The winner is Julia from Life as a Quilter

3. Fat quarter bundle {one of their latest lines} from Riley Blake Designs.

The winner is Mary from Tosty's Quilting Tidbits

4. $15.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop

The winner is Becky from Solar Threads

5. Paper Pieces prize donated from Paper Pieces

The winner is Heather from Quilts in the Queue

6. Quilting pattern from the Quilting Lodge

The winner is Barb from Paint Creek Quilt

Phew aren't these prizes amazing!  You do have time to join in this month again {every month is fresh again} you can check out my goal and sign up yourself here. You have til the 7th to sign-up.

Thanks for joining in.

Threading my way

I was feeling {extremely} guilty when I started to list all of my works in progress (WIP's) on a tracking list I started.

I have a few projects ready to go.

~5 quilt tops with backings ready to go
~5 quilt tops with no backings
~8 with all or nearly all the blocks for a quilt top assembly (with no backings)
~4 others in progress waiting to have some attention.

Lalalalalala

The first step was batting. I posted about the bolt I got here.

Okay how about backings.  Yep got some solids to get this covered.  I posted bout that here.

What was stopping me...ohhh - of course ... thread!

As you know I'm an Aurifil girl.
My Bernina and my Pfaff both love it.

I happened to run out of brown when I was quilting up something
for my mother.
{Hi MOM}

I had to order some more brown.. and while I was at it I {cough} happened to buy more.

These are the last piece to give me noooooo excuses to finish these WIP's up.

I have many praises to Follow that Thread.  Oh and there is an extra on her page that matches the thread colors with kona solids {score}.



Star Surround ~ Pieced quilt top

I finished my Star Surround quilt top.

Isn't this amazing?

This is a lovely large size!

I've loved the timing of this QAL and the instructions are fantastic!

Over in the flickr group I've seen a few other color combinations that I might have to make a new {smaller} one!

Melissa at Happy Quilting provides so many options that it was just too hard to resist.

The post about the assembly and other's finishes is found here.

September: A Lovely Year of Finishes ~ Goal Setting Party

New month, new project

I'm so looking forward to this month.  The crisp mornings and the feel of quilting in the air ... right?

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First off I wanted to share that our very own Melissa from Sew BitterSweet Designs is finally on Instagram.  Do go and follow her if you're on that program. 

Melissa is SewBitterSweetDesigns

and 

mine is FiberofAllSorts

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Ohhh are you here for the monthly linky party for any project that you choose with some fantastic prizes?

Awesome. . that's why I'm here too!  Well it's a bugger as I so want to keep some of these prizes but my prize is all of you. ♥

That and finishing all of my fantastic projects!

So for September I'm choosing to finish {cough start & finish}
my Crazy & Twisted Starter row.

It's going to be a QAYG project that's in berry lovely colors.

I'm being using something like this.



Not these colors.  
Something bigger and much longer  
Rest assured I'll be using my new Bloc Loc rulers!!!

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Soooooooo

What one item will you choose to do for September?


What is a project you ask?  
That's up to you.  
Make it crafty for one please.  Sewing or quilting.

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

and 

2. Link-up in the last 7-days of 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 Melissa and I so other people can join in the fun!

For those unsure of how to link up go check out our Q&A Page for A Lovely Year of Finishes - there are instructions on how to link up from a blog and from Flickr.

Grab a button!  Spread the LOVE

<a href="http://fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com/p/lovely-year-of-finishes.html" title="A Lovely Year of Finishes"> <img src="http://blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/image004.gif" width="180" height="180" alt="A Lovely Year of Finishes" style="border:none;" /></a>

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

And what's for grabs this month?  Here is what our fantastic sponsors are offering:

September Prizes Include:

 1.  Any Craftsy Class of your choice 
{this is an affiliate link}

2, 3.  TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern 
from Melissa from Sew BitterSweet Designs
($10 value)





4. $25.00 Gift Certificate to Pink Chalk Fabrics

5. Choice of $15 or 2 charm packs from Stitch n’ Giggles

6. Paper Pieces prize donated from Paper Pieces

7. Quilting Pattern from the Quilting Lodge

8 & 9. a thread packet from Aurifil

Thanks for joining in! You have til the 7th to link-up.

There's an optional mid-month check-in

And you'll have to link up anytime on the last 7 days of the month.

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As always if you have questions. . please let me know.