ALYoF - final party

I know I said I won't do any recap posts but hey it's ALYoF finale party time! It pretty much sums up my year as well.

January - two lunch bags

February - Lone Star top
March - failure

April - Triangle quilt
May - failure

June - Mini Disco top, my link up post is here

July - Ikea ZOO quilt

August - Ballerina's quilt, my link up post is here
September - failure

October - Paint Drips quilt
November - failure

December - Christmas ball
That makes it 8/12. I'm feeling pretty successful :) which brings high hopes for 2015. Will you be joining in? It's time to choose January goal already.

Plus this morning I managed to make those #blocks. I'm thankful for comments and good advice offered. I looked up scant seams and found this easy tutorial and it worked! All I had to do was reposition my needle to the right.

As I upcycle envelopes I needed to hide previous address on it. My girls had the best sticker which suits perfectly. I asked them, do not worry ;) I'm ready to drop it off the post office tomorrow.

Linking up with Finish it up Friday

Q3 - blog hop quilt finished and recap

As I said in my FAL Q3 list I was shooting for more than average this time around. Here is recap and final finish.

1. Ballerinas - DONE

2. Ikea ZOO - DONE

3. Love - no progress
4. Pantone - no progress
5. Blog hop quilt - DONE. That is my last minute finish and I'm yet to make separate post. You can read about the process here. For now it's done and hanging in its place. The lovely quilting is unfortunately not very visible.

6. Two pouches - DONE

7.  Demons - DONE

8. Scrap purge - not much progress
9. Orange peels - DONE

10. Cherry Christmas - DONE

11. Honey honey - no progress
12. Echino bag - no progress

That my friends makes it 7/12! Pretty good if you ask me. Time to make some great plans 4Q4!

Linking up with

October hopes

September wasn't really my month but look what's in store for October! I'm so excited about this quilt top. I picked it up today from quilting service. My friend done a fab job on it and I love it! She does quilt for others and uses short arm. Every time I visit her and chat over coffee it's like recharging my batteries. She is my quilting guru for sure.

I'm making this my October goal. I missed my September goal which was to finish Christmas cushion. I have only managed to quilt the back side of it.

Pebbles in my interpretation looks like rocks! Yeah sure, that was my intention, lol.

I definitely need to practice MORE. Once I hang this quilt on wall I'll have it as motivation to improve myself.

Take this as September round up since that's all I achieved. The credit of quilting goes to my friend Monika. Plus we have collected 112kg of horse chestnuts so far. These are collected by school and huntsman will feed the deer in winter with them.

I'm linking up with

   

Linky here and linky there

Last week I mentioned new linky Monday Makers @ Hug a Bit Quilts. You can learn more about Nurdan in her post since it is her turn of the Around the World blog hop.

My project for this week is going to be house zippered pouch with crochet roof. I have the supplies ready so we'll see next Monday. Are you starting something new? Let's join in!

Guess what. There is another Monday Makers linky @ ayliN-Nilya. She is also having her Blog around the world post up. Check out Nilya's creations as she makes some beautiful stuff.

I have also tagged Janeen @ Quilt Art Designs. She'll be posting next week but you can check out and download free paper pieced pattern as part of her BOM called In the Garden.

It is also time to do August round up. Check out what others have created @ Lily's quilts. You can also join in if you feel like it :)

I made some zippered pouches. Click on the pictures to see the details.

Houses for boys and girls

Selvedges & squares

I made some cushions.

Orange peel 

Preschool cuteness

And I finally finished Ballerina quilt which was in progress for a very long time. This one yet to be fully revealed. 

Plus if you are into Pinterest you might want to join in Pin It Monday @ 13 spools

Piggy and July round up

I squeezed in some Christmas sewing. The kids are getting piggy bank pouches. I linked those up for Ho Ho Ho and On We Sew blog hop. Let's do something in August as well.

Few days ago I saw felt piggy bank tutorial over at Sew Can She and I couldn't get it out of my head. I just had to make them. I enlarged the pattern using Word and since my printer is not working, I copied right from the screen. Here is pic to show you the size. Pattern is placed on standard size copy paper. The zippers are 10cm long.

It is really an easy and quick project so what are you waiting for? Make one yourself.

Is July worth to do round up?
It went really fast and besides having fun on trampoline I managed to finish 2 things from my Q3 list. There is space for improvement, lol.

Demons pin board.

Ikea ZOO quilt.

I'm linking up with

 

Plus have you heard about new Friday linky party? If you into paper piecing check it out.