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TTMT #165 – Summer Challenge!

In which I talk prizes and show off the fun stuff I’ve been working on!

The 2012 Summer Challenge is going on the entire month of June! It’s super simple, just make a project from one of my patterns or tutorials and share a photo with my flickr group. Full details and deadlines are here.

To celebrate the Sewhooked 2012 Summer Challenge, I am offering 10% off your total purchase from the Sewhooked Shop for the entire month of June. Starting right now, through midnight, July 1, use coupon code SUMMER2012. Offer valid here on Sewhooked and in my Etsy Shop. Not valid on Craftsy.

Have a wonderful week!

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Sewhooked Summer Challenge!

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Welcome to the first day of the 2012 Sewhooked Summer Challenge!

This is a super fun, super simple challenge with a fun prize!

The challenge is this… make any project from a pattern or tutorial designed by me, Jennifer Ofenstein, and take a photo of yourself and/or your project at a fun or interesting location and then post that photo to the Sewhooked flickr group!

Your projects can come from the Sewhooked Shop, Free Patterns, Yarn Patterns or Tutorials (which includes stencils, stitching projects, crafts and more!) OR any pattern designed by me that’s been posted on another site, like Fandom In Stitches, or any of my published work (like May Showers Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks).

In short, if I designed it, shared it, posted it or published it, you can use it for the 2012 Sewhooked Summer Challenge!

Photos must be posted to the Sewhooked flickr group by 8 am (CST) on July 1, 2012 and only photos tagged “2012 Sewhooked Challenge” will be included. Please include the location in your photo’s description.

July 1…. That’s one whole month to get your awesome, fun, wacky photos posted!

I will post all the challenge photos to Sewhooked during the first week of July and the winner will be chosen via anonymous poll. Please make sure sharing is enabled on your flickr photos so your photo can be included in the poll!

The winner will receive the above prize pack: TWO autographed books: Go! Baby Quilting (signed by contributing quilter Osie Lebowitz), Treasures from the 30s (signed by author Nancy Mahoney), three fun pin-back buttons, two skeins of posh specialty yarn, a pack of sweet fabrics, and my own pattern, In a Castle. I reserve the right to ADD MORE PRIZES before the July 1 deadline! Please contact me if you’d like to contribute to the prize pack!

Want to spread the word? Grab the code for the Challenge button here!

To celebrate the Sewhooked 2012 Summer Challenge, I am offering 10% off your total purchase from the Sewhooked Shop for the entire month of June. Starting right now, through midnight, July 1, use coupon code SUMMER2012. Offer valid here on Sewhooked and in my Etsy Shop. Not valid on Craftsy.

Have fun with this…and don’t forget to say CHEESE!

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100 Blocks Blog Tour Winners!

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It’s been a fantastically awesome time, giving away so many wonderful freebies!

In the last month, I have given Sewhooked Prize Packs as part of the Garden Party Blog Hop, free patterns, copies of Marie Bostwick’s newest novel and a free copy of EQ7. How awesome is that?!

Today I have more fun prizes to give away…what can I say, I love giving stuff away!

Each person that commented on my Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Blog Tour post was entered to win two separate drawings: a copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol. 5 or a copy of my pattern set, Fanciful Fairies.

Thanks once again to the awesome that is random.org, we have a winner for the free issue of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol. 5 !

Yay, congrats, Leenah!! I hope you enjoy your free magazine!

Because I can’t give just ONE thing away, I had to include a free pattern! I’m happy to announce the winner of a free copy of my pattern set, Fanciful Fairies is…

Congratulations to both of my winners! You should both have already received emails from me about your prize. As noted above, both winners were chosen via random.org.

Don’t forget to look for block #421, my own May Showers!

If you didn’t manage to score a free copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol. 5, it hit newsstands, quilt and craft stores TODAY!

Reminder: Today is the last day to use coupon code QUILTMAKER to get 20% off your total purchase from the Sewhooked Shop! Offer not valid on Etsy or Craftsy.

If you’re local to the Austin, Texas area, please stop by Honey Bee Quilt Store on Saturday, May 12 from 10am-Noon for my Trunk Show! There will be copies of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Vol. 5 for sale at the shop and I will be giving away a wall hanging made from May Showers to one lucky visitor!

Please stop by later today for Talk To Me Tuesday and some sneak peeks of my upcoming Trunk Show!

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EQ7…we have a WINNER!

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It’s time, it’s time!

Each and every person that made a block from my Garden Party Blog Hop pattern, Perennial Pleasures, between April 28 and May 7 and submitted it to the Garden Party flickr group was entered to win a copy of Electric Quilt 7, courtesy of The Electric Quilt Company!

Drum roll, please?

The winner is steamkat!

The winning block was chosen using Random.org. Congratulations, steamkat!!

Download the free pattern for Perennial Pleasures

Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol. 5 hits newsstands, quilt and craft stores tomorrow! Make sure you stop by your local shop and pick up a copy!

On Tuesday, I will be announcing the winner of one copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol. 5 as well as the winner of a free copy of my pattern set, Fanciful Fairies! There’s still time to enter, all you need to do is comment on my 100 Blocks Blog Tour post!

If you’re local to the Austin, Texas area, please stop by Honey Bee Quilt Store on Saturday, May 12 from 10am-Noon for my trunk show! There will be copies of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks Vol. 5 for sale at the shop and I will be giving away a wall hanging made from May Showers to one lucky visitor!

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Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 28: It’s My Birthday!

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Welcome to Day 28 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop! Hey, ho, it’s my birthday! This is a post full of PARTY and PRESENTS for both you and me, so make sure you read all the way to the end! It’s been quite a birthday month for me, what with the amazing-ness of the Garden Party, being part of the Ties That Bind Blog Tour (giveaways and coupons, oh my!) and Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks and the 100 Blocks Blog Tour both on the way! TODAY, my original quilt The Project of Doom, is on display at the Pflugerville Area Quilt Show hosted by Hennig House Quilts! If you are in the Austin area, please stop by for this super fun outdoor, non-juried show! Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Vol 5 will be available for sale on May 8. Please support your local quilt shops and go pick up a copy! You can find me on pages 22 and 31! If you will be in the Austin area on May 12, please stop by Honey Bee Quilt Store to see me! More information on that right here. And now…what you came for…Garden Party! My block, Perennial Pleasures, is a reminder to myself to take a few minutes to sit and do nothing, something a dear friend of mine has reminded me on occasion that it is OK to do! We’ve broken out the wine, the table is decorated and the sky is lovely and blue, how relaxing! For those non-wine lovers out there, I’ve included alternate pattern pieces for a sweet butterfly.

Garden Party Blog Hop - Day 28: It's My Birthday

Download the free pattern for Perennial Pleasures

10″ paper pieced, all pieces include seam allowance

Directions for both layouts (wine and butterfly) are included in the free pattern.

Perennial Pleasures with Wine; pattern pages 2-5

Perennial Pleasures with Butterfly, pattern pages 4 – 7

I cannot thank you all enough for making this April one I will never, ever forget! Because of this, I have something to give back to you…

Each and every person that makes a block from my Garden Party pattern, Perennial Pleasures (wine or butterfly), and posts it to the Garden Party flickr group will be entered to win a copy of Electric Quilt 7, courtesy of The Electric Quilt Company.

Yes, you heard that right.

I’m giving away A FREE COPY Of EQ7, the design software that I myself use!

The winner of the drawing will be announced on Monday, May 7 and will be chosen via random drawing using random.org.

Don’t forget, you’ll get one entry for the last Sewhooked prize pack (below) for each Garden Party Blog Hop block you make and share with our Flickr Group. Winner to be chosen in a random drawing on May 1 and the winning photo will be featured right here on Sewhooked! All winners are chosen with via random.org. Week 4 Prize Pack: Fruit and Flowers Fat Quarters plus The Angler 2! Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness
Aalia, Joy of Stitches: Garden Gate
Schenley, Margaret’s Violet
Megan, Monkey Beans: Garden Party
Lilja, liljabs: Bluebird
Jill, Apple Avenue Quilts: Bloom
Dolores, A Labour of Love: Pimm’s Garden Party
Kari, Fresh Cut Quilts: Let Them Eat Cake!
Cindy, Quilt Doodle Designs: Spring Time Blooms
Amy, During Quiet Time: Pick Violets
Cat Magraith: Garden Party
Susan-Claire, GourmetQuilter: Garden Party Munchies
Cyrille, Bubblestitch Quilts: Yummy Cupcake
Missy, GraceParfait Creations: Birdhouse
Gaya, borsedigaya: Posh 20s Lady
Jessica, Plum Patchwork: Garden Topiary
Diane, From Blank Pages: Potted Roses
Cherry, Cherry Blossom Quilting Studio: George
Vanessa, Crafty Gemini: Mod Mushrooms
Sonja, Artisania: Vintage Mason Jar Lanterns
Michele, Quilting Gallery: Patio Umbrella
Alma Stoller: Colorful Pinwheel
Benita, Victoriana Quilt Designs: Croquet, Anyone?
Charise, Charise Creates: Hello Spring Tulip
Jen, A Quilting Jewel: Garden Party Block
Denise, Garden Cart

Whew, what a month! Please come back tomorrow for another free Garden Party pattern!

♥ Jennifer O

Coming to Sewhooked on May 3!

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TTMT #158 – Doom, I say!

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In which I talk ALL about The Project of Doom. Yeah, baby!

Don’t miss the Garden Party Blog Hop, a free paper pieced pattern every day in April! This just in…come back for a surprise bonus border block on May 1 from Regina Grewe!