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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.

An Unusual Day

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Remember that post, oh, a few hours ago, in which I mentioned that Craft had featured my Harry Potter quilt?

Well, later, this happened:

Harry Potter Quilt on The Daily What

A friend emailed me a link to The Daily What, where they have my quilt listed as the Kickass Quilt of the Day.

It’s been such a crazy day, with my inbox exploding, Twitter tweeting and Facebook, well, whatever FB does.

The evolution of the Harry Potter quilting community that I’ve been lucky enough to be part of over the last five or six years is the best part of all of this for me. Because this quilt? I finished it in 2007.

If  you’re not a regular Sewhooked visitor or one of those fantastically awesome HP fans that sees the quilt and instantly thinks “I get it,” you might think I’m just a crazy fan with nothing else to do. You’d be both right and wrong. Sure, I am a crazy fan, I won’t ever deny that, but boy do I have other things to do. The important part is how I choose to spend my time.

Make what you love. Love what you make.

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How Wednesday Greeted Me

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My HP Quilt on Craft

I woke up this morning to an inbox full of messages and posts on my Twitter and Facebook about a certain quilt showing up on Craft this morning.  When I clicked the link, my eyes were filled with the image above.

Woah.

And you know what? There’s even a link to the Project of Doom!

You all know that if I love anything, it’s paper piecing and fandom. Despite having completed my quilt in 2007, I still love quilting Harry and I still love my fandom friends.

Thanks, Craft, for sharing my labor of love and thank you, thank you to everyone that was excited enough about it to get in touch with me first thing this morning!

Remember, all Harry Potter free quilt patterns on Sewhooked, as well as other fandom patterns, both mine and the Sewhooked Guest Designers‘, are moving to Fandom In Stitches. I’m two designers away from having the Harry Potter page complete, where you’ll find all HP patterns organized by categories in my favorite easy to browse thumbnail format.

Fandom patterns will continue to be available on Sewhooked for a limited time and then those pages will automatically re-direct to FiS.

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PoD Week 19

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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).

The Week 19 pattern is online!

Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here or visit our Flickr Group.

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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Runic Alphabet Sampler
Runic Alphabet, a collection of 24 Paper Pieced Patterns from the Sewhooked Shop

Oh, Portal!

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Aperture Science Aperture Science

Aperture Science, a paper pieced quilt block. L – EQ7 version, R-my pieced block

For a brief period in April and May, my thirteen year old became my personal assistant. He was helpful with laundry, with taking out the trash, yardwork…you name it!

While he is genuinely a good kid,  like most people that have jobs, he did it for the money. You see, Portal 2
was on the horizon, and as I was eagerly informed, it was a Must Have Game.

He worked hard, earned his money, and now owns (and has beaten) Portal II.

When I started Fandom In Stitches, the first comment he made to me was how amazingly cool it would be to have Portal quilt blocks. Spoken like a true fan with a quilty mom! He helped me choose a few that I could work on, the first being Aperture Science.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve transitioned from designing my patterns exclusively in Photoshop to using a combination of EQ7 and Photoshop. The advantage of this is being able to have sample images before I ever piece a block. It gives me a really good idea where a block is going and if I’m getting just what I want out of it.

Above, you can see the EQ version that I mocked up after drafting my pattern on the left and my actual pieced block on the right. Pretty cool, huh?

He loves the new block and has requested an Aperture Science pillowcase…perfect for dragging to sleep-overs with his video game loving friends!

For this pattern and more awesome free fandom patterns, visit Fandom In Stitches!

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A Little Help From My friends

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It’s Linus Saturday today and I’m one of the willing and happy distributor of blankets. We sort them by size, fold them and pack them off to send out to children in crisis in Central Texas.

This month, I’m taking four blankets to the monthly meeting, three courtesy of wonderful friends.

afghan by Amber
Pretend Plaid by Amber

Quilt by Kristel

Quilt by Kristel, quilted by Marge, bound by me 🙂

afghan by Amber

Eye of the Tiger by Amber

Oh Wavy Baby

Oh Wavy Baby, by me

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PoD Week 18

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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).

The Week 18 pattern is online! I’m really excited about sharing this week and I hope you enjoy piecing today’s pattern as much as I did!

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

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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Classic Film
Classic Film, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

Today, I have Birthday Feet

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Birthday Feet

My best friend makes socks (and many other great things, too!). It’s just possible that she makes the best socks in the world.

Of course, I might be a little biased since I have several pair of the little beauties.

This is my newest pair. They’re perfect. Perfect color. Perfect weight. Perfectly soft. She made them for my birthday.

I love them.

I hope your day is full of best friends, hand knitted socks and chocolate!

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PoD Week 17

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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).

The Week 17 pattern is now online!  You haven’t started yet? No worry, all the patterns up to this point are still available and you can jump in at any time! You need three yards of background fabric for the PoD

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

If you participate, and you’re part of the hp_paperpiecing 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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frankwerewolf reaper zombie vamp
Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends – Monster Madness, from the Sewhooked Shop

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