Category Archives: Quilts & Quilting

Busy Bee!

It’s been crazy cakes around my house this week!

My high schooler is back to school, doing what 16 year olds do and my college freshman hit the road and is now back in the dorm, ready for her second semester as a college woman. How did my kids get so grown up? This is a mystery I will never solve!

Paper Piecing Vintage has been amazing so far, with lots of beautiful blocks and fantastic participation in the facebook group.

The crazy mistake I found during this week’s Talk To Me Tuesday has now been rectified. Whew! Now I just need backing fabric to finish up this little quilt of orphan blocks for The Linus Connection.

As You Wish, the Princess Bride quilt and stitch along that I’m organizing on behalf of Fandom In Stitches, starts next Wednesday and has been keeping me busy every minute in between!

Quilting is my job and my hobby, what can I say?!

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Fanciful Fairies (Paper Pieced BlockSet)

6 Blocks to Paper Piece, just $7 on Craftsy!

Name That Mustache – Mustachio!

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Welcome to the final Name That Mustache post!

It’s been a month of fabulous and funny mustache names!

Thank you to every single person that submitted a name. Whether your submission was chosen or not, I loved reading them all and sincerely appreciate your ideas!

Today, I have our Week 4 WINNERS to announce!

Each winner receives a free pdf copy of the mustache pattern he or she named, a free fat quarter and his or her name included in the new version of the pattern!

If you were chosen as a winner, please email sewhooked@gmail.com with your mailing address so you can receive your prizes.

In the case that a name was suggested more than once, the first commenter to suggest that name wins the prize.

Mustache #10 – “Reginald” – submitted by Gwen

Mustache #11 – “Clarke” – submitted by Michelle Thompson

Mustache #12 – “Gus” – submitted by Gwen (two in one week, way to go, Gwen!)

Get the entire Mustachio! set from my Craftsy shop!

Once I hear from today’s winners, Mustachio! will be updated with the winning names. If you purchase Mustachio! from Craftsy prior to the name update, you will receive a notification from Craftsy that the pattern has been updated.

Just want one mustache? For the first time ever, all twelve mustaches will be available for the first time ever! The first nine are already on Craftsy! The last three will be up as soon as I hear from the winners.

But hey, why not buy the whole shebang and help a good cause? During the month of November, I will donate $1 to Movember for the sale of each Mustachio! pattern set!

Don’t forget to vote for your favorite quilts during the Blogger’s Quilt Festival! You’ll find my entries under Wall Hangings and Bed Quilts.

Stay tuned for a Crafts of Halloweens Past flickr roundup and winner! Another big thanks for all of your recent participation! See you tomorrow for Talk To Me Tuesday!

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Featured Pattern: Turkey Talk, just $8 on Craftsy!

Learn to Paper Piece with Sweet Skating Sue!

Name That Mustache, Week 4!

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Welcome to the final week of Name That Mustache!

Thanks for stopping back by and for ALL the wonderful mustache names! Week three was just as fun as weeks one and two and I found it even harder to choose because all the names were just SO GOOD!

Before we move on the final three mustaches, I have our Week 3 WINNERS to announce!

Each winner receives a free pdf copy of the mustache pattern he or she named, a free fat quarter and his or her name included in the new version of the pattern!

If you were chosen as a winner, please email sewhooked@gmail.com with your mailing address so you can receive your prizes.

In the case that a name was suggested more than once, the first commenter to suggest that name wins the prize.

Mustache #7 – “Pierre” submitted by Roubaix

Mustache #8 – “Pops” submitted by Sandy A.

Mustache #9 – “Albert” submitted by Kelly

Congratulations and THANK YOU for the wonderful names!

And now, on to Week 4 of Name That Mustache!!

Name That Mustache is a weekly challenge for my readers throughout the month of October.

The rules are simple:

Share a name idea for one or more mustaches in each week’s post, making sure to include the mustache number.
Comments must be made on Sewhooked during that week’s post. For example Week 4 Mustache names must be commented on this post.
At the end of each week, I’ll pick my favorites and that will be the name of that mustache pattern!
Please do not use copyrighted names. If you’re not sure, just let me know.
The winners will receive a fat quarter, a free PDF copy of the mustache pattern he or she named AND I will include the winner as the namer on that pattern!

In November, Mustachio! will be updated and all of these fun mustaches will be available individually…for the first time ever! To celebrate and help a good cause, during the month of November, I will donate $1 to Movember for the sale of each Mustachio! pattern!

Enough talk, let’s get started…ready, set…GO!

Name these three mustaches in the comments for a chance to win:

Need a little lip hair in your life? Get the entire Mustachio! set from my Craftsy shop!

Mustache Names so far:

Wyatt
Victor
Watson
Walter
Rollie
Beauregard
Pierre
Pops
Albert

Check out my entries for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival:

A huge thanks to everyone that has already shared mustache names! If you didn’t win this time, try again, I’d love to hear what you come up with!

It’s almost Halloween, my favorite time of year! Be sure to check out Crafts of Halloweens Past for some fun free tutorials and patterns!

Coming soon…wait for it… mustache companions!

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Featured Pattern: Two Little Hooters

Crafts of Halloweens Past: Quilty Goodness!

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Let’s be honest, most of you are here because of the quilts.

I’m totally okay with that.

While I do have many for sale patterns, I have many, many free ones.

Whimsical, fun, happy patterns are my favorite to create. To be frank (or Jennifer, as the case may be!), I make what I like. It’s as plain and simple as that. Making what I like makes me happy, and hopefully, you will feel that when you’re working on a pattern that I designed. If not, then I’m clearly doing it wrong!

Trick-or-Treat Sue, up at the top of this post, was created for a blog hop hosted by Soma over on Whims & Fancies last October.

She’s 10″ paper pieced and can be downloaded right here or over on Craftsy. This sweet Sue is just one of the over 50 magical Sunbonnet Sues that I’ve designed over the years. You can find all of her Magical Friends right here!

If you’re looking for even more quilty goodness for Halloween, try one of these blasts from the past, designed by me and available on the Harry Potter page over on my other site, Fandom In Stitches (click the image for the free pattern!):

There are many, MANY more where these came from!

To make reliving the Crafts of Halloween Past even more fun for you, I’m offering a challenge with a prize!

Make any of my Halloween projects or patterns posted during the course of the month and post a photo to the Sewhooked flickr group tagged “halloween.”

At the end of the month, I’ll draw a winner to receive a free copy of Quiltmaker’s Quilts from 100 Blocks, which includes my pattern Corn Maze!

Heck, I’ll even sign it, if you like!

Don’t Miss Week 3 of Name That Mustache, posted this Monday!

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Featured Pattern: Two Little Hooters

you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are

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Left: TFiOS Clouds, 7″ Hand Embroidery or Applique

Right: TFiOS Clouds, 8″ Paper Pieced

While organizing the #TFiOS Design Challenge over on Fandom In Stitches, I could not resist designing a couple of patterns myself.

Ehem.

The Fault in Our Stars has been one of my favorite books since the first time it was placed into my hot little hands.

As well as being a beautifully written, it is also an extremely quotable book. With that in mind, I created two versions of the same image, both just waiting for Your Words Here.

The design on the above left will work either for applique or for hand embroidery.

The design on the above right is paper pieced, but will also work just fine if you’d like to embroider the clouds after piecing.

And now, a couple of my favorite quotes, grabbed from GoodReads.

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

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“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.

“Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

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“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

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“You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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I know, right?

Go Vote! Winner announced Tuesday on Fandom In Stitches.

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Featured Pattern: A Little Haunted, $8 on Craftsy

Name That Mustache, Week 3!

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Welcome to our third week of Name That Mustache!

Thanks for stopping back by and for ALL the wonderful mustache names! I have had more fun reading your comments on these posts than I have had in a long time. You are all creative and awesome!

Before we move on to this week’s mustaches, I have our Week 2 WINNERS to announce!

Each winner receives a free pdf copy of the mustache pattern he or she named, a free fat quarter and his or her name included in the new version of the pattern!

If you were chosen as a winner, please email sewhooked@gmail.com with your mailing address so you can receive your prizes.

In the case that a name was suggested more than once, the first commenter to suggest that name wins the prize.

Mustache #4 – “Walter” submitted by Judy

Mustache #5 – “Rollie” submitted by Susie Q.

Mustache #6 – “Beauregard” submitted by Roubaix

Congratulations and THANK YOU for the fantastic names!

And now, on to Week 3 of Name That Mustache!!

Name That Mustache is a weekly challenge for my readers throughout the month of October.

The rules are simple:

Share a name idea for one or more mustaches in each week’s post, making sure to include the mustache number.
Comments must be made on Sewhooked during that week’s post. For example Week 2: Mustache names must be commented on this post.
At the end of each week, I’ll pick my favorites and that will be the name of that mustache pattern!
Please do not use copyrighted names. If you’re not sure, just let me know.
The winners will receive a fat quarter, a free PDF copy of the mustache pattern he or she named AND I will include the winner as the namer on that pattern!

In November, Mustachio! will be updated and all of these fun mustaches will be available individually…for the first time ever! To celebrate and help a good cause, during the month of November, I will donate $1 to Movember for the sale of each Mustachio! pattern!

Enough talk, let’s get started…ready, set…GO!

Name these three mustaches in the comments for a chance to win:

Want to plan ahead! Here is the rest of Mustachio! so you can think up fabulous mustache names for the weeks to come!

Mustachio! on Craftsy!

Mustache Names so far:

Wyatt
Victor
Watson
Walter
Rollie
Beauregard

A huge thanks to everyone that has already shared mustache names! If you didn’t win this time, try again, I’d love to hear what you come up with!

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Featured Pattern: A Little Haunted, $8 on Craftsy

Name That Mustache, Week 2!

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Welcome to week two of Name That Mustache!

Before we move on to this week’s mustaches, I have our Week 1 WINNERS to announce! Each winner receives a free pdf copy of the mustache pattern he or she named, a free fat quarter and his or her name included in the new version of the pattern! If you were chosen as a winner, please email sewhooked@gmail.com with your mailing address so you can receive your prizes.

The names chosen for each mustache were simplified slightly so they would all fit a similar theme, but I think you’ll find the spirit of each name remains intact. I hope this gives you inspiration for this week’s mustaches!

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Mustache #1 – “Wyatt” submitted by Michelle Thompson

Mustache #2 – “Victor” submitted by Beth T.

Mustache #3 – “Watson” submitted by Francesca

And now, on to Week 2 of Name That Mustache!!

Name That Mustache is a weekly challenge for my readers throughout the month of October.

The rules are simple:

Share a name idea for one or more mustaches in each week’s post, making sure to include the mustache number.
Comments must be made on Sewhooked during that week’s post. For example Week 2: Mustache names must be commented on this post.
At the end of each week, I’ll pick my favorites and that will be the name of that mustache pattern!
Please do not use copyrighted names. If you’re not sure, just let me know.
The winners will receive a fat quarter, a free PDF copy of the mustache pattern he or she named AND I will include the winner as the namer on that pattern!

Enough talk, let’s get started…ready, set…GO!

Name these three mustaches in the comments for a chance to win:

Want to plan ahead! Here is the rest of Mustachio! so you can think up fabulous mustache names for the weeks to come!

Mustachio! on Craftsy!

A huge thanks to everyone that has already shared mustache names! If you didn’t win this time, try again, I’d love to hear what you come up with!

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Jack Leaves The Light On, $6 on Craftsy

Jack Leaves The Light On

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Jack Leaves The Light On, $6 on Craftsy

How about a fun new Halloween-themed table runner pattern? This set is SUPER easy to piece and crazy versatile!

Just need the blocks? Use them for whatever you like!

Want a quick table runner? Piece the three blocks, add borders as shown in the pattern and you’re good to go!

I shared a Jack-O-Lantern block in my video yesterday and mentioned that the pattern was coming soon.

How’s this for soon?!

I originally designed this fun piece for a magazine. They passed on the pattern and it’s been collecting dust in my sewing room ever since.

Tis the season for Trick-or-Treat and what better way to decorate than a fun table runner?

Pattern includes two, full-color 8″ block patterns and instructions to create the table runner shown above.

Want a wall hanging instead? Simply piece the blocks vertically! The same instructions will apply to the wall hanging shown on the left as the original table runner. Slightly more fabric will be needed for the example on the right.

How about a longer table runner? Just add more blocks! I love a little versatility!

Don’t miss Name That Mustache every Monday in October!

See you tomorrow for another Halloween craft blast from the past! Woo, that’s some serious rhyming!

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Featured Pattern: Wizard with Snake, $2 on Craftsy

part of the Friendly Familiars Set!

Name That Mustache, Week 1!

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During the Great Sewhooked Revamp of 2013, many of my patterns have undergone updates and all around improvements.

Mustachio! is no exception.

A pattern set including 12 paper pieced mustaches, Mustachio! is one of my more ridiculous designs created for my own amusement.

Hey, if you can’t make stuff that entertains you, then what’s the point, right?!

During the revamp process, I decided these mustaches REALLY need names. I love to name the things I make and am not entirely sure how these guys ended up with monikers Mustache 1, Mustache 2, etc. Boo, that’s no fun!

In an effort to make them more interesting and fun, I came up with some tentative names but quickly realized I could really use some help!

That’s where you come in to help me NAME THAT MUSTACHE!

Name That Mustache is a weekly challenge for my readers throughout the month of October.

The rules are simple:

Share a name idea for one or more mustaches in each week’s post, making sure to include the mustache number.
Comments must be made on Sewhooked during that week’s post. For example Week 1: Mustache #2 names must be commented on this post.
At the end of each week, I’ll pick my favorites and that will be the name of that mustache pattern!
The winners will receive a fat quarter, a free PDF copy of the mustache pattern he or she named AND I will include the winner as the namer on that pattern!

Enough talk, let’s get started…ready, set…GO!

Name these three mustaches in the comments for a chance to win:

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name that mustache 02

name that mustache 03

Want to plan ahead! Here is the rest of Mustachio! so you can think up fabulous mustache names for the weeks to come!

Mustachio! on Craftsy!

Do you design paper pieced, embroidery, applique or other quilt patterns? Love John Green books? Join us for the #tfios Design Challenge, happening now on Fandom In Stitches!

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