I couldn’t resist this 1/2 yard of fabric when I came across it at the Austin quilt show last weekend. Owls + Robert Kaufman Fabric = LOVE!
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*wipes tear*
I need to craft…and watch this trailer again. And again. And again…
Some of my Deathly Hallows offerings…
For free HP patterns, visit Harry Potter Paper Piecing and the Guest Designer page on Sewhooked.
Time to watch the trailer again!
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Name That Quilt!
Shrinking Solution Challenge
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“Crafty” FaceBook (“professional” sounds so pompous – blech!)
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Happy Crafting and don’t forget to share your idea for the Name That Quilt contest!
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I love coming up with creative titles for my projects, but even my name bank runs out from time to time. The above quilt is 12 1/2″ x 15 1/2″ and is entirely paper pieced. It’s the latest design in my wall hanging series for the Sewhooked shop. The pattern itself tested, edited and ready to go. As soon as I have a name, it will be ready to sell!
This is where you come in! For the next week, add your title idea in comments. I’ll put up a poll including all the suggestions* and the one with the most votes is what I’ll use for the new pattern! The person that suggests the winning name will receive the very first hardcopy version of this pattern and a Sewhooked button!
*I reserve the right to not include names that are 1)inappropriate 2)obviously copyrighted by someone else. Please ask me first if you’re not sure! You’re always welcome to email me with questions.
ETA: The poll will go up on Friday, September 24!
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I’m using a tiny bit of this in my current project. It’s almost gone and I wish I had about a zillion yards of it. It’s so perfect for so many projects!
A short video in which I show off Electric Amish and a quick fix for a bleach spot on a favorite top.
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Free TARDIS paper pieced pattern, designed by me
and tested (as shown) by the ever awesome Shae.
Oh, fandom quilting, how do I love thee?
Bigger on the inside, that’s how!
In a fit of I Am A Fan, I made this a highly detailed TARDIS. I designed this pattern to be a 6″ block, but I would recommend enlarging it even bigger to work on, just for sanity’s sake. Shae made her’s 6″ and it worked out beautifully.
Why is the pattern purple? No idea. I drafted it back in May of 2009 and then it got lost amongst my files. When I unearthed it a couple of weeks ago, I realized it just needed numbering and separating. My guess is I had some really good wine and thought the purple was blue…
Need more Doctor Who?
How about a Dalek quilt block?
Sample pieced by Stephanie T
More hardcore fan, you say?
Need even more DW? Check out crafty_tardis on Livejournal and the Doctor Who crafts flickr group.
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Electric Amish, 55″ x 73″
Some days are better than others. The day I finish a big project is always a good day!
I pieced this top in early 2006. Then, in a moment of complete insanity, I decided to hand quilt it.
I’d only been quilting a couple of years and I thought, for reasons I can’t even explain myself, that I needed to hand quilt a project in order to be considered a “real quilter.” Do I believe that now? Absolutely not.
Had I ever hand quilted anything? No, no I had not. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, what kind of thread to use, needles, anything. I just jumped in with both feet and started stitching.
I picked up and packed away this project more times than I care to mention. Dozens of other projects (mostly paper pieced!) were completed while this one waited patiently in its big red bag. To put it in perspective, I lost a pair of glasses for a whole year because I accidentally put them away with this quilt. It’s been on vacation to New Mexico to visit my BFF, sat with me through many movies, lots of sci-fi and true crime shows. It collected cat hair sitting on the arm of my chair.
The pattern came from an old magazine that I still have floating around somewhere. It’s a Storm At Sea pattern, set on point. I had never made a quilt this complicated at the time and had no idea what “on point” really meant. Part of that experience was chopping off half the blocks all the way around. If I remember correctly, I almost had a panic attack when I made the first cut.
I kept all those cut blocks. Earlier this year, I turned them into a small quilt for The Linus Connection, which I dubbed Baby Storm. Finishing that quilt gave me the impetus I needed to get this project out again and get it finished! If you’ve been following for a while, you might remember this was on my UFO Round Up for 2010.
One of the most special things about this quilt for me is what it represents. All bright and batik fabrics were gifts to me from my Bee friends. I pieced this top on my very first quilt retreat with those same ladies. It’s my first hand quilting project and my first big project that made for myself start to finish. 4+ years (really, almost 5!) and it’s done. I could not be happier.
Electric Amish was named by my friend Linda when I first started piecing it. Linda, do you remember?!
Tackett, helping me quilt (obviously!)
The quilting isn’t anywhere near perfect, but as time passed, my stitching did improve.
I take a fabulous close up of one of the blaring errors! Still, I think it’s pretty.
Baby Storm, donated to The Linus Connection, August 2010
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If you’re not familiar with Dammit Dolls, the idea is this: a basic soft doll with long legs to hold on to, usually accompanied by a poem that goes something like this:
When you want to kick the desk or throw the phone and shout,
Here’s a little dammit doll you cannot do without,
Just grasp it firmly by the legs, and find a place to slam it,
And as you whack it’s stuffing out, yell,
dammit, dammit, dammit!
What? Sometimes a girl has to vent her frustration! Of course, I can’t do that in an ordinary way, it has to have a fandom twist to it.
My original post on Craftster, January 27, 2007:
I’ve been feeling a bit… erm, craftipated, and decided on a simple & fun project that might help me get back on the crafty track.
I’ve seen Snape as a dammit doll before and decided to do one of my own. I’ve left him with a, shall we say “blank” expression? (Read: I suck at faces.)
One of my friends has suggested Voldie, Umbridge & the Malfoys as possible future candidates to be dammit dolled.
Now I need a Snaperific poem to go along with him.
For the pattern, I drew out the shape I wanted then cut the hands, feet & head away from the body, cut those out of muslin and the body out of black adding seam allowance to all the pieces. I then attached hands, feet & head, then sewed front to back. I stuffed it & stitched up the hole I’d left for stuffing. For the hair… I wrapped black yarn around a 6″ ruler, then stitched it down the middle, hand-stitched it to his head then gave it a trim so to achieve those “greasy black curtains” of hair.
I had some issues with the corners (under the arms, neck, etc). I think it was more the fabric than the pattern. The black fabric was a little too loosely woven, so the stitching was pulling out. I think if I used a tighter fabric, I wouldn’t have the same problems.
I’m may make some shoes and a cloak for him, but I haven’t decided yet. I kind of like him just the way he is.
ETA: No cloak or shoes, or anything else for that matter, but Dammit Snape still lives in my sewing room. He still makes me smile, even without a Snapetastic Dammit Doll poem.
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