In which I talk about swaps, gum, paper piecing classes, Batiks on Black and crocheting for The Linus Connection!
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Quilting: Sweet Honey Bee
Dianne Ferguson, owner of Honey Bee Quilt Store with her Harry Potter blocks
Since the summer of this year, I have had the great pleasure of being the Paper Piecing instructor for Honey Bee Quilt Store in Austin, Texas.
What I didn’t expect was that not would Honey Bee embrace me and my paper piecing classes (which several of the employees have taken!), but both the store owner (Dianne, shown above) and Kerry (who I will get a photo of with her blocks!) would both work on Harry Potter quilts using both my patterns and Guest Designer patterns from sewhooked! Every time one of them shows me their quilty progress, I get more excited about their future quilts. They’re both using gorgeous fabrics for their blocks and their stacks get a little taller each time I visit.
Tomorrow, I’m teaching Intro to Paper Piecing at Honey Bee to a full house!
Stop by the shop on December 6, 2009 at 1:00 pm for Open House to meet next session’s instructors, get a peek at the classes and sign up early before they fill up. I’ll be there along with other instructors for questions and just to hang out and meet potential students!
My intro technique class and a new class, Paper Piecing + Curves (New York Beauty block) will be offered in the Spring. Many of the wonderful kits and projects offered at Honey Bee include paper piecing, so if you haven’t learned yet and are anywhere near the Austin area, join me for a fun technique class in the spring.
Intro to Paper Piecing, February 20, 2009
Paper Piecing + Curves (New York Beauty Block) – Date TBA
For those of you that didn’t catch it earlier in the week, one of sewhooked’s own Guest Designers, Cat Magraith, was featured on the Honey Bee Blog after her visit here to the U.S. and some seriously quilty shopping at Honey Bee!
vlog – TTMT: Swaps, Super Secret Guest and Halloween!
Lots of updates on completed swaps as well a Super Secret Guest and some Halloween photos!
Honey Bee Blog post mentioned in the video
Maylee’s Garden for vegan natural soap
If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked, I’d love to see a photo. Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.
vlog: Teeny Tiny TTMT
My shortest TTMT ever, in which I direct you straight to my video interview with The Leaky Cauldron’s Crafty crew as part of my Crafter of the Month honor!
If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked, I’d love to see a photo. Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.
The Leaky Cauldron: Featured Crafter of the Month
I just received this lovely banner in my email and had to share with you all! After being nominated for Leaky’s Crafter of the Month and sharing the spotlight with some completely amazing and talented crafters, I’ve had the honor of being selected for November’s CotM!
Thanks Leaky and a huge THANKS to everyone that voted for me! It means the world to me to be acknowledged by my favorite fandom!
You can see the November feature here, including a video interview with yours truly or, if you’re a member of the Leaky Lounge, you can check it out here.
What an awesome honor!
If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked, I’d love to see a photo. Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.
freezer paper stencil: Torchwood Me
Fandom is not just a noun, it’s a verb. To be a part of fandom is to participate, geek out and show your love by wearing your fandom literally on your sleeve, or in this case, on your chest.
Oh Torchwood, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
22 hexagons worth, that’s apparently how much!
The amazing calypsobard shared her Torchwood stencil with me, which I photoshopped up to make it more user friendly. This one is easy to cut out, but, in calypsobard’s words is “a bit hinky,” so I’ve added directions to the stencil itself that will hopefully make it more user friendly.
You’ll need:
- Torchwood stencil, printed on the matte side of freezer paper
- X-acto Knife or other stencil cutting tool
- cutting board or other safe cutting surface
- fabric paint, I recommend Lumiere by Jacquard, available online and at craft stores
- sponge brush
- iron
- cardboard or newspaper for inside the shirt
Pre-wash t-shirt without fabric softener.
Carefully cut pieces out with an exact-o knife. Start with the hexagons first, keeping them in order. Then cut and discard the gray area. (Or, if you’re my teenage daughter, pinch it from the trash and put it in the clear pocket of your binder.)
Set a dry iron to medium.
Place cardboard or newspaper inside t-shirt to help prevent bleed through.
Place stencil on t-shirt, aligning the hexagons until they are even. Carefully press in place with the iron.
Use the foam brush to gently paint on the fabric paint, being careful to not push it under the edges of the stencil.
Allow a few minutes to dry, then carefully remove the outside of the stencil.
If the stencil is still wet, use a straight pin to remove the hexagons. Otherwise, just gently peel away each one, setting them aside as you go.
Finish drying according to manufacturer’s directions.
Final product.
Freezer paper stenciling is my favorite stenciling technique and can be used for any of my stencils and for most stenciling on fabric.
More Free Stencils on the Craft Page!
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Leaky’s New Crafter of the Month – Droxy!
Congrats to the amazing Droxy on being the first Featured Crafter of the Month on Leaky!
You don’t know Droxy? I bet you do, even if you don’t realize it! Click on the link above and you’ll see what I mean.
Droxy is an AMAZING crafter, costumer and make up artist. And? She’s one of my online friends. I shall bask in the glow of knowing her and direct you all to read about her crafty exploits.
I expect to see loads of my crafty peeps popping up over the upcoming months because HP Crafters are made of WIN.
You can find out about FCotM more by clicking on the banner below…
Thanks Crafty Witches and Wizard for the awesome new feature!
If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked, I’d love to see a photo. Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.
vlog: TTMT – Operation Save Sue
- My flickr
- 16 Circles Crochet Pattern
- Honey Bee Quilt Store
- The Linus Connection
- Layer ‘Em Up Book
- Twilight Crafts Black/Red Swap
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Vertical Ribbons 6″ Square
add to your Ravelry queue:
This is another pattern for the Twilight Crafts Black & Red Swap. While the pattern itself is very easy, working on it is a bit tedious. It’s well worth the patience to get the awesome pattern that works up as you go.
- Color A – Black (worsted weight)
- Color B – Red (worsted weight)
- Size H Hook
- Gauge – 4dc = approximately 1″, 2 rows = 1″
Special Note: The pattern is achieved by changing colors at the top of every dc across. At the end of rows, continue to change colors at the to of ch 3 (i.e. ch 2, change color for third ch).
Throughout the pattern, you will be working across the strand of yarn that you are not using. This means you’ll only have ends to weave in at the beginning and end. See the illustrations in BD Chessboard for examples on how to do this.
Because of the way this pattern is worked, you’ll want to pay special attention to your two strand of yarn so they don’t get too twisted.
With Color A, ch 22
Row 1: dc in 4th ch from hook, change color at top of dc, (dc in next ch, change color at top of dc) across
Row 2: ch 2, change color, (dc in next ch, change color at top of dc) across
Repeat pattern for Rows 3-12, always working across the color not on the hook, finish off.
More free crochet patterns from sewhooked
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stencil: Revisiting The Cullen Crest
My original Cullen Crest t-shirt, made June 20, 2008
Once upon a time, I made myself a Cullen Crest stenciled tee. I posted it here and started getting requests to share the stencil.
So I did, and then in November of last year, I posted about it here on the sewhooked blog. I pulled the stencil together for myself before there was anything commercially available with the crest on it, back when all fans had was a tiny glimpse from an MTV teaser.
Fast forward to today and The Cullen Crest Stenciled Tee is one of my most visited posts, with a downright ridiculous number of visits each month. The Cullen Crest in general is huge in handmade. If you don’t believe me, search it on etsy or on flickr. Woah.
I have see my version of the Cullen Crest everywhere since I first posted it and I thought it’d be fun to show a few of the ways it’s turned up. If you look closely, you can certainly tell the difference from the official crest (shown below) and the image that I created (shown above), so you’ll always know which images, no matter how they are presented, came from the stencil that I designed.
The first peek, from this MTV article posted June 16, 2008
I took a lot of liberties with the official image to make it into a stencil from the tiny image shown above. Those changes included greatly simplifying the image and adding the “Cullen” text to the top.
The Real Deal – “Rosalie’s Necklace” from Hot Topic
The Cullen Crest goes viral…
My stencil makes it around the world and onto everything you can possibly imagine!
images from a variety of sources
Some of the things I’ve seen the stencil on were for sale, and while I don’t condone the taking another crafter’s stencil, pattern or idea that is free for everyone to use and then making something to sell (in case you didn’t know, that’s a crafty taboo!), I don’t deny the ingenuity of the different uses the stencil has been put to.
To everyone that has used it on something for yourself, a friend, a swap, a gift or any other way that was just for fun and not for profit, A HUGE THANK YOU. That’s why I share my stencils, patterns, crafts and ideas, to spread the crafty love. Thank you, too, to Summit and whoever the awesome artist was that came up with the original crest!
If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked, I’d love to see a photo. Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.
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