Year in Review & Hustle Winners

First up - The 100 Day Hustle winners!

• $25 Fat Quarter Shop Gift Certificate goes to link #37 - Jane from Where Jane Creates!

 

• Madrona Road Fabric Roll From Westwood Acres goes to link #51 - Tessa from The Sewing Chick!

• Fat Quarter Bundle From Fresh Squeezed Fabrics goes to link #16 - Fiona from Finding Fifth!

• $20 Gift Certificate to Plum Patchwork goes to link #28 - Lindsey from Happier Than A Bird Quilts!

• $20 Gift Certificate to Sew Lux goes to link #19 - Stacey from The Tilted Quilt!

Congratulations to all of our winners and a huge thank you to everyone who participated and to all of the shops who kindly donated prizes!  I will definitely be organizing something similar next year!

                                                                                                                                                                     

I decided that I was going to try new quilty things in 2012 and I did!  I joined bees, swaps, learned to paper piece and got a longarm! 

I completed 10 quilts, one that just needs binding and one top for a total of 12 for the year!

Between the bees and my do.Good Stitches group I made boatloads of blocks in 2012!

 

One goal for 2013 is to up the number of quilts and reduce the number of bee blocks.  I enjoy participating in bees but it can leave you feeling a bit overwhelmed at times.  Once I finish out the groups I'm in I'm just going to focus on quilts and my do.Good stitches group for a while and see how that goes!

Here's to a happy, healthy and quilty 2013!!!

The 100 Day Hustle - Final Review

I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season!  Ours has been very busy but very enjoyable!  Now it's time to play sewing catch-up.

It's time for us to recap how we've done on our Hustle Lists!

Here are my final results (you can find my original list here):

1. Leaf Quilt - Done!

2. Finish the T-Shirt Quilt - Done!

3. Quilt for The Hubs - Started working on it and have a few blocks done!

4) On a Whim Quilt - Blocks are all done now I just need to put the together

5) Sew.Happy.Quilt QAL Quilt - It's quilted!!!  Binding is on the schedule or this weekend.

6) Baby Quilts - Done!  Full post to come but here's a few pictures.

7) Swoon - I didn't get anything done on mine but I did start a second one! That one is a gift and I have it all cut and 1/3 of the way pieced.

8) Double Wedding Ring - I finished all of my arcs!

9) Christmas Quilt - I bought/received lots of Christmas fabric but didn't make any quilts!  Next Year!

10) Small Gifts - We did a small swap in my do.Good Stitches circle and I made these for Marta!

Four finished quilts and some other small projects - not too shabby!!  How did you do?  Be sure to write up your post and link it up here by 10:00ET Monday the 31st!  Don't forget about the prizes from our awesome sponsors!!  You can see the list here - and I'll post winners on the 1st or 2nd of January.

The 100 Day Hustle - Feature

How are you doing with your list?  I'm making progress on mine!!

We've made it 2/3 of the way through The 100 Day Hustle and today we have our second feature!!  Please head over and visit Marit at Sew, love, live (Sy, elsk, lev) and check out the awesome mixer cover she's sharing!

Weekend Update

First things first - The 100 Day Hustle link-up winner of the $25 Fat Quarter Shop gift certificate is Marla!

2-59 since #1 was my test link!

I did a bit of sewing this weekend and managed to finish my blocks for Jennifer's Hurricane Sandy Relief quilts.  She isn't collecting any more quilt blocks but is accepting other supplies like binding in order to finish all of the quilts.  Check out the Flickr group to see what is needed.  I made two of each color scheme and sent them out today. 

I also had time to finish putting together my quilt top for the Tula Pink Sew Along that Sara organized.  I really wanted to use bigger cuts to showcase some of the larger prints.  This pattern is adapted from a tutorial video from Missouri Star Quilt Company.  The finished top measures 70"x70".  Now I need to decide how to quilt it - I'm stumped on what thread color to use!

Completed Quilt Top!

Close up of the center

You can check out all of the Sew Along entries by heading over to the Flickr group.

Linking up at {Sew} Modern Monday as well!

The 100 Day Hustle - Half Way Point!

Wow! I cannot believe that there are only 50 days left in 2012!  Where has this year gone?

50 Days left means that it's time to check-in for The 100 Day Hustle.

Here's my progress so far (you can find my original list here):

1. Leaf Quilt - Done!

2. Finish the T-Shirt Quilt - Done!

3. Quilt for The Hubs - Started working on it and have a few blocks done!

4) On a Whim Quilt - I put all of the blocks together now it just needs to be made into a top!

5) Sew.Happy.Quilt QAL Quilt - No, but it's the first quilt I'm quilting when the longarm comes next week!

6) Baby Quilt - I actually need to make two now.  I have one planned and the top for the other almost done!

7) Swoon - Nothing yet - I really want to get this one done though!

8) Double Wedding Ring - I finished all of my arcs!

9) Christmas Quilt - I bought a Dear Mr. Claus FQ Bundle so now I just need to make something!

10) Small Gifts - I have a few ideas but nothing yet


How are you doing with your list?!  Write up a check-in post and link up here.



Now onto the prize!  I will randomly draw one winner from all of the links and they will win a $25 Gift Certificate from The Fat Quarter Shop!  Check back on Monday to see if you won!

Please visit some of the other bloggers who are linking up - that's half of the fun - and keep hustling!

The 100 Day Hustle - Prizes!!

How is your hustling going?!  We hit the half way point one week from today!  Where have the past 50 days gone?

I am so excited to share the prizes with you!  We have some great shops that kindly donated prizes!

Fat Quarter Shop

 

Fat Quarter shop has donated two $25 gift certificates!  One for the linky next week and one for the final link-up

Westwood Acres

Westwood Acres has donated a Madrona Road Fabric Roll!

Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics

Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics has donated a bundle of 8 fat quarters to the winner!

Plum Patchwork

Jessica of Plum Patchwork donated a $20 gift certificate!

Sew Lux

Sew Lux has donated a $20 gift certificate!

First off, a big thank you to all the shops who are donating prizes!!  It is greatly appreciated!!

Secondly, I contacted these shops in particular and asked if they'd like to sponsor a prize because I have shopped with them in the past, have had a wonderful experience and happily recommend them to others.  Please take a few minutes to pop over to their shops, take a look at what they have and get a few goodies for yourself!

The 100 Day Hustle - Feature!

How are you doing with your list?  Hustling through?  Mine seems to be growing instead of shrinking!!

We've made it 1/3 of the way through The 100 Day Hustle and today we have our first feature!!  Please head over and visit Heidi at Fabric Mutt and check out what she has to share today!

I have been working with some shops to set up sponsored prizes for the link-ups and have some great things lined up!  Once everything is finalized I'll post all the details to get you excited :)

Don't forget that the half-way link-up runs from November 9th to November 11th!

The Mary Kate Experience

It's finally done!!  The giant t-shirt quilt for my husband's cousin, Mary Kate, is finished and I love it!  Our aunt gave me a huge bag of t-shirts and free reign over the design and colors which was both fun and nerve wracking.

I used twenty-five shirts for the front.  All were cut and backed with lightweight fusible interfacing and then I jazzed them up.  The t-shirt blocks were bordered with bright colors and then all sashed together with 2.5" strips of a grey and white print.  This gave a finished size of approximately 90" square - giant!  

I still had more shirts so I pieced three into the back.  The backing fabric is a bright cheery Amy Butler print which I love!  I'll be buying some more of this one to back a quilt of my own.

I free motion quilted the whole quilt in big loops and little Bernie the Bernette kept up like a champ!  One thing that helped with the quilting, at least I think, was using a denim needle.  It had no problem gliding through the seams and layers of interfacing. 

I also wanted to do something fun with the shirts that had small emblems on the front/back but were going to be too plain to be a whole block on the quilt top.  Those were cut up and pieced into some coordinating pillows!!

 
All wrapped up and ready to be delivered tonight!

And now it's time for a break from t-shirts and back to my bee blocks and my hustle list!  Linking up at Finished it up Friday at Crazy Mom quilts, Manic Monday at SewHappyGeek and Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.

WIP Wednesday 9-26-12

First of all, I love you guys!! When the idea for The 100 Day Hustle popped into my head I was really nervous about putting it out there.  What if no one joined in?  One of my personal goals is to put myself out there a bit more in the quilty/blog world so I went for it.  I told my husband that if 5 people wanted to play along with me and linked up I would be ecstatic.  You guys, there are 93 wonderful lovely bloggers who are playing along! NINETY THREE!!  That's 88 more than I had hoped for!  I really appreciate all of you who joined in.  It means so much to me and I've loved reading all of your lists and finding loads of new blogs to follow :)  Now I need to start planning prizes!!

Now on to the WIP Wednesday portion of the post.  I worked on  two new projects from my Hustle list!

First up, the dreaded  t-shirt quilt.  I'm just going to be honest and say that these are not my favorite thing.  But it's a surprise for my husband's cousin and she's awesome so I'm going for it.  I decided it had to be jazzed up so all the blocks are getting framed in punchy colors and then sashed together with a dark gray print...I love it so far! Never thought I'd say that about this quilt!!  Here's a bit of the progress.

 
 Then last night I started on the Sparkling Cider quilt.  I got two blocks done and am very excited about this one too!  I just love hometown :)

 

 I'm hoping to finish the top of the t-shirt quilt tonight and then I have to figure out how to quilt this giant (it's 92x92) - any suggestions?  What are you working on?

Linking up over at Freshly Pieced.

The 100 Day Hustle - Link Up!

 Thank you so much to all who are joining in with me!

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Here's a refresher of the details and the schedule.

Did you know today, Saturday the 22nd, the first day of fall, marks that there are only 100 days remaining in 2012?  Yep, only 100!  Where did this year go?!  Let's take those last 100 days and finish the year with a bang!  Let's hustle through our to-do lists and start the new year with a clean slate!

Would you like to join in and work-along?  Please do!  Your list can be long or your list can be short.  You don't have to finish everything - heck your goal can just be to start some projects!  Let's commiserate collaborate together and enjoy the rest of the year.

September 22 - 25 - Join In Link- Up Open

• Please create a post on your blog about your to-do list!  No project is too big or too small!  I posted mine yesterday as a bit of an example if you're having trouble - but there is no wrong way to do this.  Then come back here and link-up your post!  In order to be eligible for prizes (oh yes there are prizes) you must have a link in the Join in link-up.

October  25 - Feature Post

• We've made it 1/3 of the way!!  Heidi from Fabric Mutt will be sharing with everyone today!

November 9 - 11 - Half Way Point Link-up Open

• November 11th marks 50 days down and 50 more to go!  If you want, create a post sharing your progress and link-up here!  All of the half way link-ups will get tossed in a hat and I'll choose two people for prizes! 

November 27 -  Feature Post

• 2/3 of the way done!  Marit from Sy, Elsk, Lev will be sharing with everyone today!

December 6 - Feature Post

• Can you believe it - 3/4 of the way done!  Shelley from Courtepointe Amour is going to be sharing with us!
  

December 28 - 31 - Final Report Link-up Open

• Write a post and share what you accomplished.  Only finished one thing?  Share it!  Karate chopped that to-do list and finished everything?  Share it!  Then come back and link-up your post here.   

 January 1 or 2 -  Winners Announced!!

• You don't need to finish your list to win - just participate!  All of the people who post in both the Join-In link-up and the Final Report link-up will be entered to win.  I'll randomly pick the prize winners from those participants and will post them here.

I hope that you'll consider joining me for this adventure!  Grab that button above, add it to your blog and get working on that list! I set up a Flickr group so we can share throughout the 100 days not just at the end, as well as ask for help, share tips and get to know everyone!

Please link up your to-do list below.  Be sure to check out the other links and encourage each other!  I'll leave the link open until Tuesday evening.

Do The Hustle!

Do The Hustle!

I am so excited that so many of you have expressed interest in hustling along with me!  Thank you!  I have a few featured posters lined up but would love to add more - let me know if you're interested.

As promised here is my to-do list.

1. Finish my leaf quilt - I have most of the blocks done so it just needs put together, backing bought, quilted and bound!

2. Start & Finish the t-shirt quilt for my husband's cousin. I am SO behind on this but I do have all of my materials.  This will be my project on Sunday.

3. Start & Finish the quilt I'd like to give to my husband for Christmas.  I'm using a Hometown FQ bundle and making him a Sparkling Cider quilt!  I'm trying to keep this one a secret so I have to work on it the few hours a week he is in class. 

4. Finish my On a Whim quilt.  I'm almost done with all the blocks.  I have all the pieces together now I just need to assemble them into the big blocks and then put them together.

5. Finally quilt and bind my Sew.Happy.Quilt. QAL Quilt

6. Start & Finish a baby quilt for my cousin who is due in January.  I think I want to use this new fabric line, Soaked, from Connecting Threads - go look at it - it's adorable!

7. Finish my Swoon top.  I have 5 blocks done and I would like to knock out the remaining four!  I'm thinking I'll  send this one out to be quilted since we're going to use it as our bed quilt so I'm not sure it will be done by the end of the year but at least the top can get done!

8. Finish my Double Wedding Ring Quilt.  I'm working along with Rebecca and Jennifer on this one and with our little schedule I should get at least the top done by the end of the year.

 

 9. Make a Christmas Quilt.  This is a low priority but I'd really like to make one!  I'm thinking something out of the Dear Mr. Claus line - it's adorable :) 

10. Make some small homemade gifts for the holidays.  I'm thinking a few pot holders, coaster sets or wine bags etc.  They're just good to have on hand to add to gifts or take as hostess gifts!

Now obviously it would be an amazing miracle if I finished all of this in the next 100 days!  I'm definitely going to have to prioritize - my leaf quilt, the t-shirt quilt and the quilt for my husband must get finished!!

Get thinking about your to-do lists!  I'll open up the linky tomorrow morning and leave it open until Tuesday evening.

The 100 Day Hustle

Earlier this week I decided to make a list of all of the projects that I either need to, or want to, finish before the end of they year.  It's long.  Really long.  And that made it a bit intimidating.  I like to make lists as much as the next gal but the best part is crossing things off!  How am I going to get all these things done?!

I kept looking at it and thinking about all of the projects and how I should attack my list.  Then it hit me!  Working through a list is always more fun when you have friends going through the same thing.  Misery loves company!  We need a work-along group...

Welcome to The 100 Day Hustle!

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Did you know that this Saturday, the 22nd, the first day of fall, marks that there are only 100 days remaining in 2012?  Yep, only 100!  Where did this year go?!  Let's take those last 100 days and finish the year with a bang!  Let's hustle through our to-do lists and start the new year with a clean slate!

Would you like to join in and work-along?  Please do!  Your list can be long or your list can be short.  You don't have to finish everything - heck your goal can just be to start some projects!  Let's commiserate collaborate together and enjoy the rest of the year.

Here are the details:

September 22 - 25 - Join In Link- Up Open

• Please create a post on your blog about your to-do list!  No project is too big or too small!  I'll post mine on the 21st as a bit of an example if you're having trouble - but there is no wrong way to do this.  Then come back here and link-up your post!  In order to be eligible for prizes (oh yes there are prizes) you must have a link in the Join in link-up.

November 9 - 11 - Half Way Point Link-up Open

• November 11th marks 50 days down and 50 more to go!  If you want, create a post sharing your progress and link-up here!  All of the half way link-ups will get tossed in a hat and I'll choose two people for prizes!

December 28 - 31 - Final Report Link-up Open

• Write a post and share what you accomplished.  Only finished one thing?  Share it!  Karate chopped that to-do list and finished everything?  Share it!  Then come back and link-up your post here.   

 January 1 or 2 -  Winners Announced!!

• You don't need to finish your list to win - just participate!  All of the people who post in both the Join-In link-up and the Final Report link-up will be entered to win.  I'll randomly pick the prize winners from those participants and will post them here.

I hope that you'll consider joining me for this adventure!  Grab that button above, add it to your blog and get working on that list!  There will also be a Flickr group so we can share throughout the 100 days not just at the end, as well as ask for help, share tips and get to know everyone!

I'd also like to add some blog features to the schedule.  If you have a project that is going to be on your to-do list and you would like to write a post specifically about it in any form and be featured sometime during the 100 days please let me know!