This week, the Harry Potter fabric fairy visited me and I acquired approximately 20 yards of out of print Harry Potter fabric*. I’m still amazed by this great good fortune and fully plan to share the love. If you’re participating in the Project of Doom, you will see HP fabric in the monthly prize drawing!
*fabric is not for sale
All the fabric together, in the trunk of my car on the way to a new home…mine!
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Just a reminder, 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 2 pattern was posted today*!
Want to see what other quilters are making of 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!
*PoD pattern posts go to the PoD page, with the actual block behind a link to keep it a mystery!
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I talk a lot in this video about my freshly finished quilt, Grannie’s Nine Patch. I’ve added some photos and other videos below in order to share a little more history and process.
March 16, 2010, where I show off the blocks for the very first time.
The blocks when I first received them from my Mom.
Pieced into a top and pin basted for quilting.
And, the finished product!
Be sure and watch today’s video for more about Grannie’s Nine Patch,
this wonderfully huge quilt made out of nine patch blocks from my childhood!
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Here’s a quick sneak peek at what I’ll be showing off in tomorrow’s Talk To Me Tuesday! There’s nothing in the world quite like the feeling of finishing a quilt!
More photos and Show & Tell tomorrow, so be sure to stop back by. 🙂
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Today’s Fabric Friday offering was a gift from my best friend, Jewells, for Christmas. She picked this up at a Japanese festival in Albuquerque. Isn’t it fun?
A totally non-related photo of my cat, Tackett, helping me quilt. He’s adopted my nine-patch project as his own and had decided I’d been quilting on it long enough! Despite his “help,” I only have about 8 more nine-patch blocks to quilt. Of course, then there is trimming and binding!
Have a very happy Friday and a great weekend! I’ll be at The Linus Connection’s monthly meeting in Round Rock tomorrow. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello!
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Once upon a time, I made some bags out of sweaters (okay, it was probably around 2008!).
The first bag was made for my daughter. It was purple and stripey and had cute little flowers on the front. She loved it so much, and carried it for so long, that I made more and posted a tutorial to boot, including a version on cut out + keep.
Two years later, a lovely blogger named Kris asked to post about my recycled sweater bag over on Resweater. And, that is just what happened! There have been lots of visits to the recycled sweater bag post, which has helped me to remember what a fun project it was to create. Thanks, Kris!
It’s been a while since I’ve recycled a sweater, mostly because I live in Texas and wool sweaters are something of a rarity. I haven’t found one that really grabbed my attention in quite some time, but I’m sure if I did, I would be happy to make another of the spiffy bags!
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The Project of Doom, a big scary name for something that is actually going to be not-so-hard and loads of fun, started yesterday! That’s right, the very first pattern was posted and several of you have already shared photos of your first block with me. AWESOME!
Just a reminder, 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). 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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In which I discuss The Project of Doom, The Linus Connection and show off my new IKEA cushion.
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Tomorrow is the big day – the day I will post the very first pattern for the Harry Potter Paper Piecing Project of Doom.
This project is months in the making and has been created for all my fellow crafty HP fans as a spanking big THANK YOU for all the support I’ve received since I started designing and sharing patterns online over five years ago.
It’s also the last HP paper piecing project I plan to do. I’ve put everything I have into making this project truly awesome and I hope it will be fun, fun, fun both for me to present and for you to play along.
I’ve been teasing about this for weeks in my Talk To Me Tuesday videos and have even shown off my background fabric on Fabric Friday. I’ve been stitching up a storm and I cannot express how EXCITED I am about this quilt!
If you love, or even just like Harry Potter, if you paper piece or you want to learn, this is the time and the project for you! There will be lots of us playing along and at the end we will have a completed quilt top. Not just a stack of blocks, but an entire quilt. I’ve designed the layout as well as the blocks and will give instruction on how to complete the top once all the blocks are made. A whole, complete Harry Potter quilt!
Are you excited yet?
If you are, visit hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal. That’s where all the fun will be taking place! If you’re not a member of the community yet, it’s easy to sign up for a free Livejournal account and then join the community. All Project of Doom (POD) patterns will be posted there first, so be sure to sign up!
If you’re part of the hp_paperpiecing community and you share your photos with me either via email or through our flickr group, you will be eligible for the monthly prize drawing for participating members! The prizes are fantastic this year and have been donated by a variety of community members. I’m waiting for a last couple of prizes to arrive in the mail and then I’ll post a photo of the awesomeness.
I can’t wait to get started!
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My family un-decorated a week ago today, but it’s always hard for me to take down the holiday cards. They are concrete evidence in my hands of the existence of so many of my friends and family, all in one place, and I LOVE THAT.
Cheesy? Possibly, but I don’t care.
The cards are all down and packed away. Yes, I save them all.
One last look. Thank you to everyone that sent us a card!
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