June: A Lovely Year of Finishes ~ Goal Setting Party

Okay. . stop I say.  How is it JUNE?

Well at least there is A Lovely Year of Finishes to keep me moving along.

You've heard that saying?  I don't recall where it's from now.

We underestimate what we can do in a year,
but overestimate what we can do in a week.

So I'm just trying to keep it all in perspective.

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Melissa from Sew BitterSweet Designs and I super thrilled that ALYoF is working for so many of you.

We love hearing about that too :)


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I'm thinking about what I want to do for my June goal.

I'm going to choose to get my Sew.Happy. Quilt along quilt to finish.  I'm pretty sure a certain niece of mine would love to cuddle under it.  :)

This is only a black and white photo.  Check out the actual colors at my flickr set here.
Don't mind that these blocks were created over a year and a half ago.  Lalalalala

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Do share, what's your June 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

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!

**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 June!!

June prizes include:

1.  Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns

2.PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams

 

3. $15 gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop

4. One PDF Pattern from Meadow Mist Designs

5, 6. One pdf Pattern from Clover and Violet

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

8. One pdf pattern from  Sew Sweetness 

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

11. Thread Prize from Aurifil

12. Quilting Patterns designed by Quilting Lodge

Geeze!  Fantastical amounts of goodies that you may win..and you get a finish out of it too!??  

Awesome

Enjoy your June.

While the teen is gone I'm just sewing away

My step-daughter is gone for a week and I'm taking full advantage of the kitchen table and time to sew.  Who needs to have full blown meals at a table!

In preparation of the 2013 ~ A Lovely Year of Finishes being co-hosted by Melissa and myself, I'm starting to dig through my piles of blocks. 

Some of the lovely ladies in the flickr group have actually counted their Works in Progress (WIP).  That feels just like a guilt-trip, I may do that at the beginning of the year. Sigh!

I have been slowly organizing and taking inventory of all I have just to know what I could finish this next year. I found blocks from my Sew.Happy.Quilt Quilt Along with Jenna over at Sew Happy Geek.  

Don't judge if you see the date of this QAL as this isn't my oldest WIP!

Here's a peek of what I'm making it into! 

I'm growing little by little beyond white sashing.

The center is a block from Happy Quilting where Melissa is doing a QAL just on this block in 2013. 

I loved the idea I had to make one just for my quilt top!

Love it.

So two QAL's = 1 quilt top for me

I'll share when I finish this up - I'm thinking sooner than later! 

Still working it. . that's right

I want to share some links to some local (amazing) bloggers that have some photos of the ice storm that we had. 

Becky over at Becky's Blabber is a local quilter.  We've had coffee a few times and have to plan a quilting night - she said with WINE.  Oh lala!  Some of her photos of the ice storm are here. 

A good friend of mine has a way with the camera. She hasn't posted in a while but she did post an amazing photo from this past storm here and here.

I've been blah blah blah.  I think it's because I'm forced to work.

I was able to catch up in my Sew.Happy.Quilt quilt along. 

This beauty is called Fireflies

I used this tute

And this is called Template Star Block

I used this tute.

My brain apparently couldn't grasp this block to save my life.  I re-cut this thing FOUR TIMES {yes, that is me cyber-yelling}. First I didn't have the template large enough, then I cut the white too small.  Then I re-cut this and I had the blue (used to be orange} cut on the wrong side - twice.  I used my seam ripper more times on this than I want to admit. Lalalala.  So eventually I got this block right.  And let me tell ya. . I'm happy to have it done with.  :)

 

Another block came out yesterday.  I might break into my fabrics soon - maybe.

 

Go check out the flickr group of the amazing 100+ participants and Jenna over at Sew Happy Geek {click the pretty button}.

 

Sew.Happy.Quilt QAL Blocks 1&2

Jenna posted her tutorials up for Sew.Happy.Quilt Quilt Along.  Photos immediately started showing up.  And I couldn't wait to break into my fabrics I picked out.

Blocks 1 & 2 tutorials are posted with amazing instruction along with photos are found.  I love being able to work off of photos!

Here are my two blocks.

Woven

Snowball

My fella is drawn to the snowball block.  This would be a lovely {easy} quilt all on it's own!  

I'm so happy for Sew.Happy.Geek! These are the first time I got to sew these blocks.  I love it.

I have these hanging on my design wall in my sewing room.  They are so bright and cheery this is going to be fun to make this whole sampler quilt!

Check out Jenna by clicking the button.  Or the flickr group (70 people strong) found here.






Tonight I really need to work on some other blocks that have deadlines coming up soon.  Lalalalala! What are you working on?  

 

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.