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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.

Classic Film Quiltspiration from flickr

Classic Film

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At the bottom of every post, I say something along the lines of  “Add your Sewhooked photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!” This sentence has changed from time to time, but the idea is always the same…share photos and I might post them here!

Promises, promises! Enough with that…let’s post some quiltspiration.

All of the following pieces were created using Classic Film, a traditionally pieced pattern available for sale in my Shop. The intention of this pattern is to be able to use any 5″ (5.5″ unfinished) blocks you choose to create a film strip.  It’s been one of my most popular non-paper pieced patterns, though many of the quilters that have used it have added paper pieced elements. It’s even more exciting for me when the blocks they add were designed by me!

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Fairy Classic Film by midge817
, incorporates Fanciful Fairies for a sweet wall hanging!

Twilight cover wall hanging
Twilight Cover Classic Film by liljabs
uses Twilight blocks by Cat Magraith and Lilja herself. Patterns available on Fandom In Stitches.

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Wizard of Oz Classic Film by midge817
 beautifully incorporates licensed Wizard of Oz fabric with sepia-toned fabrics.

Hogwarts Classic Film
Hogwarts Classic Film by liljabs
 uses my own Hogwarts House patterns, available for free on Fandom In Stitches.

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Harry Potter Classic Film by hpfan_poa
 uses a combination of mine and Connie Tessier’s patterns, all available for free on Fandom In Stitches.

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PoD Week 25

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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).

We’re back today with Week 25!

Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here.

Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

If you participate, and you’re part of the HP Paper Piecing community (it’s easy, you just need a Livejournal account), you’ll be eligible for awesome prizes every month! There are details on the site…so GO!

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Broomstick Witch Oopsie Daisy Witch Fortune TellerPotion Maker Old Wise Wizard Green Thumb Witch
Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends: Busy Bodies
a pattern collection from the Sewhooked Shop

TTMT #117 – Paint and Prizes

I’m back after a fantastic long weekend away visiting family and friends.

While I was away, the Portal t-shirt I posted about last week was featured in Craft’s flickr pool round up…fun! Each of the shirts I shared with you last week are now with their proper owners and one of them is being worn right this very moment by my very own Big Guy.

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PoD Week 24

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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).

We’re back today with Week 24!

Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here.

Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

If you participate, and you’re part of the HP Paper Piecing community (it’s easy, you just need a Livejournal account), you’ll be eligible for awesome prizes every month! There are details on the site…so GO!

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Broomstick Witch Oopsie Daisy Witch Fortune TellerPotion Maker Old Wise Wizard Green Thumb Witch
Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends: Busy Bodies
a pattern collection from the Sewhooked Shop

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Dish Towel Rescue Mission…commence!

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission

This is one of my favorite dish towels. It’s horrible, frayed and falling apart. It’s stained from family pizza night and wiping up messes after my kids.

But it’s absorbent and rugged and I love it the waffle-y-ness of it.

Maybe I’ve loved this one a bit too much.

Finally, I decided to rescue this dish towel. The mission: patch the gnarly hole and make my dish towel fabulous again. Alright, okay, maybe not fabulous, but at least functional and not-so-scary.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
The first step was to find a scrap of fabric that would be wide enough to patch the hole, while being long enough to go across and around the towel plus a couple of inches for overlapping (see below). I also pulled out a couple of different threads to decide what color I’d like to use.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission

Hem along the length of the fabric trip, top and bottom.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission

Lay the towel across the fabric strip, making sure the scary bit will be covered.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Fold fabric strip over, smoothing and pinning so the pieces are even.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Fold over end and pin in place.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
I wanted a distinct stitch, so I chose an extra wide one on my sewing machine, D50. This particular stitch goes back and forth three times.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Use the fun stitch of your choice and stitch all the way around the patch. See that pin? Pull it out. You definitely do not want to stitch across it!

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
If you have a walking foot, use it! You are sewing on a towel after all and a walking foot will help pull the thickness through. Hmm, need to dust my sewing machine…

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Turn the corner and keep on stitching!

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
After the outside edges are stitched, I changed to white thread and stitched rows along the patch. Remember, the inside of this patch is scary, loose, falling-apart towel. Extra stitching will give the towel spiffy new stability.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Turn the patch and stitch the other way.

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission
Rescue mission complete! It’s still not perfect, and it still has some funky pizza stains, but it’s usable and won’t go to the landfill.

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

I have a couple more towels like this and am thinking it would be fun to add some patchwork for a fun repair!

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Peace, Love, Pi

Peace, Love, Pi

During the craziness that was getting sewhooked.org and blog.sewooked.org consolidated into the Shiny New sewhooked.com, one of my newest designs, Peace, Love, Pi, slipped through the cracks of blog posting.

This spiffy new design was created to entertain my husband and son, both who love math and have great senses of humor. They love the design and once it’s quilted, it will quite possibly end up hanging in my husband’s office where he does magical things with computers all day long.

 

9 1/2″ X 21 1/2″

Includes 3 original

paper pieced patterns

plus sashing instructions.

One of the best parts about this pattern is it’s construction. It’s super simple, with 5″ (5.5″ unfinished) paper pieced patterns and simple sashing.

Pi 5" paper pieced pattern
Added March 2012 – By popular request, Pi is available as a single pattern for just $2 on Craftsy!

Not into math but love the “Peace, Love” part of the pattern? Replace the bottom block with any 5″ square of your choice and create a statement about what you love!

How about….

sewing machine
Peace, Love, Sewing

Zombie
Peace, Love, Zombies

fangs
Peace, Love, Vampires

Tree @ Sunset
Peace, Love, Trees

Lil' St. Nick
Peace, Love, Santa

HP Snitch
Peace, Love, Harry Potter

The combination is endless with the variety of both free and for sale free patterns available through Sewhooked, Fandom In Stitches and many other great online sources!

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Pineapple…the Fruit, A Free Pattern

Pineapple...The Fruit
Pineapple…the Fruit, a free 5″ paper pieced pattern

You might know by now that I have a bit of a love affair with pineapples.  I knew this day would come eventually. I have designed my a pineapple block.

But this one, this block? It’s special. It’s not intended to be a traditional pineapple quilt block, it’s intended to look like the fruit.

When I teach Intro to Paper Piecing, I use a traditional, paper pieced pineapple, this pineapple, in fact:

class sample batik - pinapple quilt block  class sample red and white - pinapple quilt block class sample scrappy - pinapple quilt block

I eat them. I grow them. A make quilt blocks named after them out of fabric. It’s a sickness, really.

pineapple, day 1

Pineapple, planted

I even made a video showing how to cut them up.

It seems fitting somehow that I design a pineapple quilt block that looks like an actual pineapple!

Pineapple…the Fruit

 a free 5″ paper pieced pattern

Mock up done in EQ7. Pattern drafted in  EQ7 & Photoshop

Thank you to the YouTube commenter that requested this pattern. I don’t often do requests, but this is a special case. Not only do I love pineapples myself, but it’s not the first time I’ve been asked for this exact thing.

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PoD Week 21 and 22

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This is your weekly reminder that The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).

We’re back today with Week 23!

Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here.

Previous Patterns:
Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

If you participate, and you’re part of the HP Paper Piecing community (it’s easy, you just need a Livejournal account), you’ll be eligible for awesome prizes every month! There are details on the site…so GO!
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Peace, Love, Pi

Peace, Love, Pi
a new pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

TTMT #115 – Hair Brained

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In other news, my 2007 Harry Potter quilt has once again popped up…this time on Fail Blog WIN. I’m sure leading into Deathly Hallows pt. 2, we’ll see loads of HP stuff, both old and new.

For more places my stuff has been seen, check out Ballyhoo, which is freshly updated!

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