November: A Lovely Year of Finishes ~ Goal Setting Party

 Melissa from Sew BitterSweet Designs and I are so excited to keep A Lovely Year of Finishes going even with our busy times.  Be sure to go check out Melissa and her awesome goal this month!  

And remember to check everyone else out too.  ALYoF is awesome because of all of YOU.

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Oh it's time to pick out a new goal...so many possibilities.

I wasn't able to finish my goal last month but I'm gonna choose another goal.  To finish the quilt for my bed.  This is just at the binding stage.  Hand binding.

Yep...it's gonna be a lovely one.




Many thanks to Vicki of Orchid Owl Quilts for longarming this monster.  

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Do share, what's your November goal?

What one item will 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 Melissa and I so other people can join in the fun!

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



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 Here is a list of our generous sponsors for November!!

1. One pdf pattern from  Sew Sweetness

2.Thread Prize from Aurifil



3. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

4. One Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to

Stitches n’ Giggles (winners choice)

5. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

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

7. Sew BitterSweet Designs  one pdf pattern

8. PDF Pattern from Katy - The Littlest Thistle

9. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

10.  Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

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Happy quilting my dears!

Help me Chelsea!

I'm bad, no really I'm bad! 

Remember these fabrics?  Back here.

Yeah remember this QAL that I joined? 

I blogged about it here.

It wasn't until Chelsea opened this giveaway that I got this finished TODAY.

I happily dug this out as I had everything cut out so I just had to stitched away.  I'm super impressed with my piecing skills!  I took the extra time to make sure each block was cut perfectly.  I took the time to iron each block this way or that (thanks mom) so I could nest each seam together.

This is the HUGE size.  I really felt like a kid sewing these blocks together. 

I am SUPER happy I ordered more of the background color. I made the 4 corner square pieces 5" bigger and there is a edge around the whole thing. 

But it's done. . yip yip!

These are the photos that I could get because we're having thunderstorms roll in you know after a day of 90 degree weather.  Ugh is all I can say.  I've been quiet content sitting inside sewing this top together. I'll get better photos once the weather is ready for me to take some photos. :)

I'm happy to see some of my favorite fabrics come together. Finishing quilt tops isn't that scary after all!  

Made in Cherry Progress Report 1

I picked out this lovely stack of fabrics specifically for the Made in Cherry QAL (blogged about previously here). 

And while some of these had to be swapped out because of quality most of them are the same.  I decided to spray starch ALL of these fabrics before cutting into them.  What a pain to pre-measure, what a lot of starch, a lot of ironing {not my favorite}, what a dream to cut, what a dream to sew.  Totally worth those hours of preparation.

 

I was able to construct the entire center 100 squares of the center.  I'm making the larger version with 5" squares.
  

The above photo is only 1/4 of the center as now I'm working on the points. So, as you can see the top point is pretty cool, and I now see the left one needs help! This is taking up a lot of room on my design wall. I'm so happy!

I told my fella this quilt was for him.  It's so large that it will be for our bed, but it's still his. He was so happy it made it very apparent that I need to make him a lap quilt soon.  Ever since I've been making things he is getting more into my hobby.  I {heart} my fella!

There are a few other people in this QAL.  Go check out Chelsea by clicking the button or the flickr group by clicking here.

Early on 2012 Quilt Along's

What a great year this will be!

How do I know?  I'm participating in two totally awesome quilt along's right off the bat!  There are the past ones I need to finish up but I'm going to try to get these two done while they are being published.  I think that may help in the motivation/encouragement.

With that I'm going to sign myself up for TWO QAL's start this month.  Both have seriously awesome leaders!

Jenna who blogs over at Sew Happy Geek is hosting the Sew.Happy.Quilt QAL. She's a doll and mocked up a few layouts!  Yipee.

Here are the fabrics I'm going to use.

I chose these fabrics with the help of Jeni over at In Color Order her Art of Choosing series and my trusty color wheel.

I'm excited as this QAL should go pretty fast as it's a sampler block layout.

We start January 3. Go check our the QAL info or the ever growing flickr group.

The second QAL is with Chelsea who blogs over at Pins and Bobbins I'm so excited!  I adore Chelsea and I peeked over at the pattern and I need someone to hold my hand through this QAL. 

I picked these out and my fella commented how nice these were - a few times. Looks like I'll be making the larger version.  Eeep! 

I'm excited to start this January 13. 

Go check our Chelsea's blog for more info or join us at the flickr group.

Here's to less bee blocks in 2012 and more quilty finishes.