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PoD Week 30, The Final Block

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).

This is it, Week 30, the very last weekly pattern for The Project of Doom. Next week, we’ll have suggested finishing instructions.

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Previous Patterns:

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Are you wondering what on earth you’ll do after The Project of Doom? Keep your eye on Fandom In Stitches, where a Great Big Secret Project is brewing!

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Two Little Hooters, a new pattern from The Sewhooked Shop

Two Little Hooters

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Two Little Hooters

Sitting In A Tree

One For You

And One For Me!

Two Little Hooters is one of Those Quilts. I woke up with a complete vision of it in my mind, started working and realized how cute and fun it was. And really, it was all about cute and fun while choosing fabrics and piecing it together!

Another fun thing? It’s my twentieth quilt in the Sewhooked Shop! *throws confetti*

Two Little Hooters

15 1/2” x 18 1/2”
Paper pieced and Strip Pieced

Includes full-color paper pieced patterns, cutting and piecing instructions for the quilt shown above.

~~$8 – PDF Instant Download~~

Now Just $5.95 in my Craftsy Shop!

I posted this teaser pic on my Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday. I couldn’t resist!

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The quilt center is all pieced!

Removing the paper…you can see how I color my patterns while they’re still being tested.

Quilting in progress. I did simple straight line quilting to emphasize the design.

Another teaser pic posted to Facebook. Binding, almost done!

And, we’re done!

Fun alternate colorings created in EQ7

Alternate Layout, also created in EQ7

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PoD Week 29

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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).

Today’s pattern is Week 29! Next week will be the last weekly pattern, followed by finishing instructions.

Join the Project of Doom on Livejournal to talk PoD, share photos, questions and stories!

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Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

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Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

PoD Week 28

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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).

Today’s pattern is Week 28!

Edit: Livejournal is currently experiencing downtime. For a direct link to this week’s block photo, click here. For this week’s pattern, click here.

Join the Project of Doom on Livejournal to talk PoD, share photos, questions and stories!

Coming soon – a PoD-related challenge with faaaabulous prizes!

Previous Patterns:

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Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

Looking back at “Tails”

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Miles “Tails” Prower
74″ x 94″
made 2008, photographed July 2011

Once upon a time, I made a quilt for my son. The coolest part about this quilt is that he designed it himself. He was 10* at the time.

With a tiny bit of help from me, my kiddo created this chart using an image he loved of his favorite video game character. The main part of the quilt, excluding the solid pieces of fabric at the top and bottom, is made of 1,054 individual 2″ squares.

I pieced almost all of the mosaic while at retreat with my bee in 2008 on my Singer 301A. I remember chain piecing from different colored stacks of 2 1/2″ squares that I had cut beforehand. I pieced and pieced…and pieced, all along following the chart and keeping track of everything with Post-It notes!

Much of the following is taken from a post I made over on Fandom Quilts back in June 2008, after I’d completed quilting and binding the quilt.

The blue sparkle background fabric was cut in 2 1/2″ strips (except the top and bottom, which were wider), with the other colors all being 2 1/2″ squares (2″ finished). I quilted 2″ squares to give the illusion that the entire quilt was made from squares. You can still see the chalk lines from the grid I drew on the solid fabric.

The entire quilt was quilted on my home sewing machine using a walking foot and straight-line quilting.

Hanging from the side of our trampoline (photo taken in 2008) just for SCALE. You can see the quilting better in here. I think you can also tell that there are two colors of orange, and the subtle difference between the white and off-white. We gave this trampoline away earlier this year, 2011.

This awesome swirly red fabric was chosen by the kiddo for the back.

For quilting, I outlined the major shapes (the white quilting in the pic is one of the hands). When there were more than two or three blocks of the same color, I quilted around to echo the outside shape.

Grid quilting the top and bottom of the quilt created the illusion of 2″ squares on the solid top and bottom pieces of the quilt top.

If you’ve made it all the way to the end of this post and you like what you see, visit The Quilting Gallery’s Quilts for Little Boys contest and vote! There are lots of great quilts there to see, including “Tails!”

Aces High

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Aces High is my fresh-off-the sewing machine pattern, available in PDF or hard copy.

I love this design. Seriously, love it. The idea came from my very best friends, Jewells. I drafted the whole thing during an email conversation we had, while we went back and forth making her idea a reality.

It’s now tested, proofread and ready to roll! This was the most natural-feeling design I’ve worked on in a while for Sewhooked. Natural meaning…it just flowed. It worked. And I love the outcome. I hope you do, too. Don’t you just think this would look great in a game room or be a fantastic gift for a poker player?

Aces High

19″ x 22″ wall hanging

Paper Piecing and Strip Piecing

Includes four original paper pieced patterns, cutting and piecing instructions.

$8 – PDF Instant Download

$8 (plus S&H) Hard Copy via Etsy.

You can also find Aces High, along with all of my other for sale PDF patterns right here on Sewhooked.

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PoD Week 27

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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).

Today’s pattern is Week 27! That leaves only THREE more patterns until final instructions!

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Previous Patterns:

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My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

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PoD Week 26

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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).

Today’s pattern is Week 26!

NEW – Join the Project of Doom on Livejournal to talk PoD, share photos, questions and stories!

Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

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My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

PoD Week 25

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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).

We’re back today with Week 25!

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

Previous Patterns:

Links go straight to posts including block samples. If you do not wish to see photos of the blocks, click this link for previous posts.

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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Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends: Busy Bodies
a pattern collection from the Sewhooked Shop

Favorite Dish Towel Rescue Mission

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Dish Towel Rescue Mission…commence!

This is one of my favorite dish towels. It’s horrible, frayed and falling apart. It’s stained from family pizza night and wiping up messes after my kids.

But it’s absorbent and rugged and I love it the waffle-y-ness of it.

Maybe I’ve loved this one a bit too much.

Finally, I decided to rescue this dish towel. The mission: patch the gnarly hole and make my dish towel fabulous again. Alright, okay, maybe not fabulous, but at least functional and not-so-scary.

The first step was to find a scrap of fabric that would be wide enough to patch the hole, while being long enough to go across and around the towel plus a couple of inches for overlapping (see below). I also pulled out a couple of different threads to decide what color I’d like to use.

Hem along the length of the fabric trip, top and bottom.

Lay the towel across the fabric strip, making sure the scary bit will be covered.

Fold fabric strip over, smoothing and pinning so the pieces are even.

Fold over end and pin in place.

I wanted a distinct stitch, so I chose an extra wide one on my sewing machine, D50. This particular stitch goes back and forth three times.

Use the fun stitch of your choice and stitch all the way around the patch. See that pin? Pull it out. You definitely do not want to stitch across it!

If you have a walking foot, use it! You are sewing on a towel after all and a walking foot will help pull the thickness through. Hmm, need to dust my sewing machine…

Turn the corner and keep on stitching!

After the outside edges are stitched, I changed to white thread and stitched rows along the patch. Remember, the inside of this patch is scary, loose, falling-apart towel. Extra stitching will give the towel spiffy new stability.