Author Archives: Jennifer Ofenstein

About Jennifer Ofenstein

Owner of sewhooked.com and fandominstitches.com. #quiltforgood advocate. Quilt designer, instructor, Talk to Me Tuesday founder & contributor, cat mom, and craft enabler.

Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 4

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Welcome to Day 4 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

We’re celebrating my birthday with a free pattern every day during the month of April! Check back each day for a new pattern, all with a Garden Party theme! You can find a complete list of previous Garden Party bloggers at the end of this post.

We’ll be having a weekly drawing here on Sewhooked (keep scrolling for our first prize!) and many of the designers will be having sales, specials and giveaways…what a great way to celebrate my birthday!

New to paper piecing? Click here for help!

Today’s pattern comes to you from Schenley Pilgram. You can find her patterns on Fandom In Stitches and in her Etsy shop.

Today, Schenley shares Margaret’s Violet, which you can download right here on Sewhooked!

download the free pattern

In honor of the Blog Hop, Schenley is offering 20% purchases from her Etsy store with coupon code gardenparty. For every pattern sold, Schenley donates $1 to Blood:Water Mission, a grassroots organization that works alongside African communities to improve access to clean water and medical care.

I’m having a drawing at the end of each week in April for a fun, new prize pack! You’ll get one entry for each Blog Hop block you make and share with our Flickr Group. Winner to be chosen in a random drawing and the winning photo will be featured right here on Sewhooked!

Week 1 Prize: Holly Jolly pattern set and three fat quarters to get you on your way to making these fun blocks! Holly Jolly includes: Lil’ St. Nick, Santa’s Helper, Lil’ Mrs. Claus, Wonky Lil’ Christmas Tree and Wee Lil’ Penguin. Each block is 5″ finished. Please note: Only Flickr participants are eligible for the prize (details above).

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness
Aalia, Joy of Stitches: Garden Gate

See you tomorrow for day 5 of Garden Party!

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TTMT #156 – Est. 2009

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Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop

Don’t miss the Garden Party Blog Hop…happening right now!

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free!

Register Now for STITCHED and learn to paper piece with my full-length video workshop!

Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 3

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Welcome to Day 3 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

New to paper piecing? Click here for help!

Our April 3 designer is Aalia from Joy of Stitches. She brings you a lovely Garden Gate!

Click here to read more about Garden Gate and download the free pattern and to see Aalia’s gorgeous embroidery, including her helpful hints for embroidering.

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness

See you later today for Talk to Me Tuesday and tomorrow for day 4 of Garden Party!

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Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 2

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Welcome to Day 2 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

We’re celebrating my birthday with a free pattern every day during the month of April! Check back each day for a new pattern, all with a Garden Party theme!

New to paper piecing? Click here for help!

Our April 2 designer is Jennifer, from All Things Belle, sharing a teacup full of roses!

Click here to read more about Summer Sweetness and download the free pattern.

Jennifer also shares a link for her paper piecing tutorial.

Week 1 Prize: Holly Jolly pattern set and three fat quarters to get you on your way to making these fun blocks! Holly Jolly includes: Lil’ St. Nick, Santa’s Helper, Lil’ Mrs. Claus, Wonky Lil’ Christmas Tree and Wee Lil’ Penguin. Each block is 5″ finished. Please note: Only Flickr participants are eligible for the prize (details above).

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies – BLOG HOP POST

See you tomorrow!

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Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free!

Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 1

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Welcome to Day 1 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

We’re celebrating my birthday with a free pattern every day during the month of April! Check back each day for a new pattern, all with a Garden Party theme!

We’ll be having a weekly drawing here on Sewhooked (keep scrolling for details!) and many of the designers will be having sales, specials and giveaways…what a great way to celebrate my birthday!

New to paper piecing? Click here for help!

Our first designer is Soma from Whims and Fancies! Soma sets the stage for our Garden Party with a little music!

Click here to read more about Music Notes and download this free pattern!

See you tomorrow!

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Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free!

Oh Sweet Mushroom

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I’m elbow-deep in preparations for the blog hop, which is keeping me from my usual big, happy posts.

Not to worry, I’m sure you will have had quite enough of me by the end of April!

I shared this little piece in Talk to Me Tuesday earlier this week. It’s my interpretation of a vintage design. This was made purely for the pleasure of stitching.

EDITED TO ADD: Free Oh Sweet Mushroom Embroidery Pattern!

Happy Friday!

COUPONS:

Now through Friday March 30, Poppies from the Past is half price (that’s just $4!) with coupon code SPRINGPOPPIES. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.

This offer can be combined with the 15% off coupon below.

In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy. ENDS MARCH 31.

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Half-Price Poppies

TTMT #155 – Caffeine-Fueled Creativity

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Next week is my 156th consecutive episode of Talk to Me Tuesday and I’m taking questions and requests!

What do you want to know?

What projects would you like to see?

Let me know and I’ll do my best to include them all!

Links from today:

Bear Paw (1/12) – Completed and gifted!
InuYasha Quilt (2/12) – Completed and gifted!
Project of Doom Signature Quilt (3/12 – March) – top completed with borders, needs embroidery
Granny’s Signature Quilt (4/12 – April) – in queue
The Project of Doom (5/12 – May) – needs binding, on it’s way to me in the mail!
Embroidery BOM (6/12 – June) – next step planned at retreat
New York Beauty (7/12 – July) – Completed and gifted!
5 @ The Hive 2011 (8/12 – August) – progress made during retreat (I forgot to show these!)
Vintage Quilt Top (9/12 – September) – in queue
Hand Applique (10/12 – October) – in queue
HP/Magical Swap Blocks (11/12 – November) – Layout Decided on during retreat
Churn Dash/Snowball ) (12/12 – December) – Borders decided during retreat

Things to Come

Retreat Glee!

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As I write this, it’s Wednesday night and I’m all packed and ready to leave tomorrow morning for my bee’s annual quilt retreat!

Woo-hoo!

And just for fun, a photo of my empty spools from the last year…ready to donate to a pre-school teacher that uses them in her classroom. I anticipate adding a couple more to the pile during the next four days!

See you Monday!

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