Happy Blogoversary to ME!!!

Today is time to celebrate!!

I am THREE years blog-old!!

This third year has been amazing! I learned a lot and accomplished enough to be pretty proud of myself.

Let's put it down in numbers and pictures!

Numbers (for the last year):
- 122 posts (more than 2 posts a week!!)
- > 70000 pageviews
- 422 followers (between GFC, Blogloving and Pinterest)
- 1 new website opened for all my patterns! (alidatweloqdesigns.blogspot.com)

And what about sewing projects?
So what did I made in this third year? Here are some pictures!
(click on the picture if you want to see it bigger!!)

If anyone is interested in pattern/instructions for a specific project, just drop me an email!! :)
All of them have been shared during the year, but sometimes it's hard to find things in blogs.

Mug rugs (Peanuts in a pumpkin, Nintendo console, Spring, HP). Christmas decorations, Sweet birds,

Zipper pouches (Sew Together bags, simple long pouch), Bags (tote bag, beach bag, tapestry crochet pouch), Crochet caterpillar, Card holder, Tree skirt, Knitted Hand warmers, Knitted scarf, Fabric box, Crochet Slippers, Cross stitching hoop art, Sewing machine cover, HST pillow, Squirrel pot holders, BW pillow.

Blocks made for the Block Swap Adventure + 4 blocks (bottom row) 

made for Jennifer @ Sewhooked for charity quilts.

Reversible Halloween/Xmas WH, Flying Geese, Rainbow Dresden with X stitch kitten, Mountain house, Piet-ite Blue & Vincent, Stained Glass, Color of the Year (2016, 2015), Teal swap, Paper Piecing Vintage+Tea Towel Challenge, Pigeon.

Water Lilies, Animal samplers (2), Bargello (2), Panels with squared dresdens

(all except Water Lilies were donated to charity)

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And now let's stop looking at the past... and let's look at the future!!
I already posted the list of projects I have for 2016 (see the complete list here), but let me highlight the main project I will run through the year!

Check out the Play with Me QAL page for more information.

I also run a weekly link party (MOP Monday) and I post every Thursday about my weekly Tangle (in the My Tangle Thursday series).

So yes, this following year will be busier than the previous one!!

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I want to conclude this post with an Happy Blogoversary to me... and a huge thank you to YOU ALL.
With your comments and support you fuel my passion for sewing and you gave me so much inspiration!! If you promise to keep the support going, I promise to keep sewing and sharing!!

As a last note, please be patient with me in these first few months of the year as I am moving patterns and pages around. All of the patterns will be moved to alidatweloqdesigns.blogspot.com and here I will try to keep a more organized record of what I make over the year(s).
As usual, if you are looking for something and you cannot find it, just leave me a comment or send me an email and I will help you.

Happy Blogoversary to ME!!

Today is time to celebrate!!

I am TWO years blog-old!!

This second year has been amazing! I practiced many new things, learned a lot and accomplished enough to be pretty proud of myself.

Let's put it down in numbers and pictures!

Numbers:
- 140 posts (about 1 every 5 days!!)
- > 80000 pageviews
- 315 followers (between GFC, Blogloving and Pinterest)
- 104 original patterns created and shared for free on this blog (22 still untested!) - about 1 new pattern a week!!
- 1 pattern shop closed (issue with Craftsy)

So what did I made in this second year? Here are some pictures!
(click on the picture if you want to see it bigger!!)

If anyone is interested in pattern/instruction for a specific project, just drop me an email!! :)
All of them have been shared during the year, but sometimes it's hard to find things in blogs.

Color of the Year wall hanging, Cardinal pillow, Grocery bag, Music & Downton Abbey pillows, Xmas decorations, Bibs, Convertible bag, Evil Eye Wall hanging, Grocery bag 2, Dachshunds pot holder and pouch, Ties pillow, Convertible bag 2, Xmas coasters, Xmas table runner.

On the right - All the blocks received in my Block Swap Adventure.
On the left - blocks made for the Block Swap Adventure + 3 blocks (lower right corner) made for Jennifer @ Sewhooked for charity quilts.

Triangle QAL (baby quilt), Celtic Solstice + Celtic Sunrise (baby quilt), Topolino (twin size), Rainbow Starburst (twin size) & Message in a Quilt (twin size)

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And now let's stop looking at the past... and let's look at the future!!
I already posted the list of projects I have for 2015 (see the complete list here), but by now I already added several things to the list and I want to highlight few of the main projects I will focus my attentions on:

I will be running a monthly series of tutorial to learn new techniques or new tricks to known techniques ;) we have a pretty cool list of authors for the different tutorials.

Check out the SYS 2015 page for more information.

Bea @ beaquilter.com is hosting a Peanuts BOM with my patterns! I am not sewing more of them myself, but I designed new patterns because people seems interested in making bigger quilts with these characters! 

I will follow some QAL because I plan to collect animal blocks to make some quilt tops for charity. No specific plans for that, except that I want to use several orphan blocks that I have, so I need to make my collection larger!

I also run a weekly link party (MOP Monday) and I post every Thursday about my weekly Tangle (in the My Tangle Thursday series).

So yes, this following year will be busier than the previous one!!

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I want to conclude this post with an Happy Blogoversary to me... and a huge thank you to YOU ALL.
With your comments and support you fuel my passion for sewing and you gave me so much inspiration!! If you promise to keep the support going, I promise to keep sewing and sharing!!

Happy Blogoversary to me!!!

Today is time to celebrate!!

I am ONE year blog-old!!

I created this blog after designing my first paper piecing pattern (Tweety) and after I fell in love with sewing paper piecing blocks... at that time I thought that piecing was called "quilting" now I now that quilting technically means something else ;) but still the name of the blog is short for Tweety Loves Quilting ;) technically I don't love quilting... it's actually the part I like less ;) but maybe I will love it one day!

When I started the blog I thought I would have posted maybe some pictures/patterns once in a while... and maybe I would have someone to read my few posts... I actually did a little more than that in one year!!

These are the numbers:
- 65 posts
- > 24000 pageviews
- > 150 followers (between GFC, Blogloving and Pinterest)
- 68 original pattern created and shared for free on this blog

I am also ONE year sewing-old!! :)
I never touched a sewing machine before... and I am pretty proud of collecting all the projects done in this single year! Mosaic time!!

If anyone is interested in pattern/instruction for a specific project, just drop me an email!! :)

1. Coraline; 2. Reindeer; 3, 4. Amigurumi Owl; 5. Pincushion for giveaway;

6, 7. Finger labyrinth; 8. Wallet, 9. Plastic bag small rug;

10, ..., 16, Hot pads and Kitchen sets; 16. Tablet sleeve;

18, 19. Hot pads and mit; 20. Sewing set; 21. Toothbrush sleeve; 22. Hokie-Dokie sewing caddy. 

1, ...,10 - Block swaps (no blocks received from partner 1, bad start but all the others are lovely); 

11, 12, 13 - For Melissa @ HappyQuilting because she sent me so many wonderful selvages!

14, ..., 20 - For Jennifer @ Sewhooked for charity quilts.

1. My first baby quilt!! Pieced by hand and quilted by hand --> the reason I bought the sewing machine ;)

2. Christmas mat; 3. Love pillow; 

4. Various Fandom related PP blocks turned into pillows;

5. Second baby quilt (PP and Applique); 6. Alice's game (back); 

7. The Sword in the Stone; 8. Secret Santa wall hanging;

9. Music mat; 10. Alice's game (front); 11. Star Surround QAL giant pillows; 

12. Small Cardinal wall hanging; 13. The Fault in Our Stars mat; 

14. Magica de Spell pillow (detail); 15. Snoopy and Friends wall hanging; 

16. Pillows: Magica De Spell, Esther test pattern, Floppy disk;

17. Music mat (detail); 18. Coaster; 19. Alice's game (detail);

20. Christmas pillows: seat belt, t-shirt, rainbow starburst, storm at sea, monster (front);

21. Christmas pillows (back)

And now let's stop looking at the past... and let's look at the future!!
This following year I have some QAL that I want to keep up with... some organized by others and one organized by me :)
Here they are all together... I will keep updating those images to track my progress... much easier than keep everything on my design wall :) especially because some are pretty large projects (the grid is 5'', for reference)

1. As you Wish - I am a designer so I already made some progress on blocks that will be released soon :)
2. Celtic Solstice - I didn't make the original quilt, I redesigned a smaller version
3. Tea Towel challenge and PPV BOM - fused the two QAL in that (not yet final) design
4. Alice in Wonderland quilt - designed by me, blocks need to be tested
5. Happy Halloween wall hanging - mix of halloween blocks + Start Light, Start Bright variation
6. Topolino quilt - designed by me, blocks need to be tested

I am going to be pretty busy!! Let's see how far I can go on those projects before my next blogoversary!!

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I want to conclude this post with an Happy Blogoversary to me... and a huge thank you to YOU ALL.
With your comments and support you fuel my passion for sewing and you gave me so much inspiration!!
In particular I want to thank Jennifer (@sewhooked.com) for all the inspiration, support, energy and help that she gave me over this year... and also thank to all the wonderful people that post videos in the TTMT livejournal community... I love watching your projects every week!! :)