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.

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Blog Hop Party Giveaway on Sewhooked
Blog Hop Party Giveaway on Fandom In Stitches

In honor of the Blog Hop Party, get 20% off your entire purchase of PDF instant download patterns from my Shopwith coupon code BLOGHOP! Offer good through December 17, 2011.

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TTMT #140 – STITCH Me

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Fandom In Stitches
STITCHED Registration
Lily’s video
Harry Potter Paper Piecing
Blog Hop Party Giveaway on Sewhooked
Blog Hop Party Giveaway on Fandom In Stitches

In honor of the Blog Hop Party, get 20% off your entire purchase of PDF instant download patterns from my Shopwith coupon code BLOGHOP! Offer good through December 17, 2011.

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

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Please Spread The Word!

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We’ve topped $2000 in our Lily fund!

I’m waiting for a last couple of promised donations for the final total, but I think I can safely estimate $2,300 combined donations through PayPal, Cash and Check.

Yeah…wow!

If you still want to help out, please make a donation to your local Humane Society, animal shelter or cat rescue organization in Lily’s name. There are lots of cats out there that need help and haven’t found the loving home and the generous friends that Lily has.

The PayPal button for Lily has been been disabled, but because Lily’s story spread fast and wide, I’d like to ask for one more favor; if you reposted Lily’s story, please share this message so everyone will know we have made our goal and that Lily is going to be alright.

We cannot thank you all enough for your help in spreading Lily’s story. The outpouring has been absolutely amazing!

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Love For Lily, A Thank You

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Two weeks ago, I told you about Lily, the kitten my sister and her husband adopted after finding her abandoned near my parents’ home out in the country.

This is her story, and our thank you.

We now have all the money we need to pay for Lily’s medical expenses. We might even have a little left over to donate to our local Humane Society.

We quite literally can’t thank you enough.

Click here to learn more about Lily’s story.

Here’s a little something I made for Lily. I was lucky enough to act as her post-surgery kitten sitter this week while my sister and brother-in-law were at work. She was a joy to be with every day and I will miss my mid-day kitten break!

Don’t miss my Blog Hop Party Giveaway! I have a free pattern and a fun giveaway, too!

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Blog Hop Party Giveaway!

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Hoo-boy, I cannot resist a giveaway! And a Blog Hop Party? This just keeps getting more fun!

Welcome Sewooked friends, old and new…I have some fabulous things to share with you today!

First, in honor of the Blog Hop Party and inpsired by my recent finished UFO, a free pattern just for you:

click for the pattern >>>> Holiday House <<<< click for the pattern
a free paper pieced pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein
5″ or 8″ ( 5 1/2 or 8 1/2″ unfinished)

Now, how about the “Giveaway” part of this party?

Comment* on this post and be entered to win a most wonderful winter prize, this fantastic grab bag of reproduction fabrics plus a hard copy version of my best-selling pattern, Tree Trimming!

Winner to be announced Saturday, December 17, 2011!

*Please make sure to include contact information with your comment. Anonymous comments and those without contact information cannot be included in the drawing.

* Coupon Alert *

In honor of the Blog Hop Party, get 20% off your entire purchase of PDF instant download patterns from my Shop with coupon code BLOGHOP! Offer good through December 17, 2011.

Are you a quilter? Share your story!

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Doing The Things You Do

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There’s nothing quite as fantastic as popping over my flickr group and seeing new photos made from Sewhooked patterns! I just love sewtobed’s mug rug, made by combining Sweet Sue Tops the Tree and Santa’s Helper (from Holly Jolly) ! It’s absolutely inspired and made my day to see it!

Marjon Savelsberg has also been super busy and has posted lots of new Christmas blocks, including a super sweet original design for a stack of gifts. I love the way she’s using a variety of patterns and I can’t wait to see what is sure to be a very festive quilt!

Wonky Lil’ Tree (from Holly Jolly) and House 1, by Marjon Savelsberg

Oh My Star and 7 Point Star by Marjon Savelsberg

Check out these sweet gifts, an original design by Marjon Savelsberg

Guess what I’ll be doing starting December 9?

Be sure to come back for my fun giveaway!

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Love For Lily, Revisited!

AWESOME OFFERS

A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to every single generous person that has helped us create a better world for Lily!

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TTMT #139 – Kitties, Cold and STITCHED

Homes For The Holidays

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It’s raining in Austin.

Beautiful, wonderful, life-giving rain. After a year of drought, it’s a magical sound.

Rain is not, however, conducive to taking quilt photos. I love photographing my quilts outside. This so-so photo was taken in-between showers. It’ll have to do for now because I will trade good photos for rain any day!

“Homes for the Holidays” started as a pile of cottage blocks from a 2009 swap on the now defunct All About Paper Piecing (the site is still there, but deactivated). I free-hand designed the paper pieced trees and just kept adding until the quilt top was a nice lap size!

This project made my UFO to do list for two years running: 2010 and 2011. It’s good to move it to the “completed” list!

Blocks made by me for the Christmas Cottage Swap on All About Paper Piecing, 2009.

Pattern by Tina Reed.

Quilting Detail: Custom Quilting by Rock Creek Quilts

My family always holds off on decorating for Christmas until after my son’s birthday on December 2. We had a house full of boys last night and this morning the celebration is officially over.

We’ll be decorating tonight after I spend my afternoon at Honey Bee Quilt Store for Open House for January – May classes and then “Homes for the Holidays” will officially be in circulation!

Happy Sunday!

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This Post is Made of Win

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This is going to be a post of GOOD NEWS!

We have winners and a happy kitten home after her surgery!

First…winners of my STITCHED Registration celebration are:

sequana

dragonsinger594

Jeanann

They each win a PDF instant download copies of My Kitchen Window to celebrate STITCHED registration openng!

Congratulations to all three winners, I hope you enjoy your prize! If you do not hear from me in 24 hours, please contact me at sewhooked@gmail.com so I can get your prize to you.

There will be more giveaways coming this month, so make sure you stick around for you chance for some fun prizes!

Lily is home with my sister and her hubby, and will be pampered and loved while she heals and finds some normalcy in what’s been a crazy life for a little kitten!

For anyone that missed it, Lily was adopted by my sister and her husband after she was abandoned on our parent’s property. Her leg was injured, but what we didn’t know what she had been shot. I’ve been on a mission to help my sister and her husband pay for the surgery Lily needed to save her life. Lily’s leg had shrapnel in it and was infected. She she was running a fever and her leg was amputated today to save her life. She’s on antibiotics and painkillers and short a leg, but she’s already improving, is happy, eating and being a kitten again, despite her big surgery today!