Category Archives: Quilts & Quilting

I love Sushi

Okay, that’s not entirely accurate. I don’t love sushi. I think it’s aesthetically lovely, but it does not go into my mouth.

Fortunately, the lovely Sonja Callaghan of Artisania has the perfect non-edible solution…a sushi quilt! I’m sure you remember Sonja from the Garden Party Blog Hop, where her Mason Jar Lanterns were a huge hit!

She’s turned her lovely iconic paper piecing style to the favorite food of many with the I love Sushi quilt pattern!

How about some details?

The I Love Sushi Quilt finishes at 37″ x 43″ , and is a paper pieced quilt pattern. The PDF pattern is 20 pages long, and includes all pattern templates. The first 10 pages print out as a handy booklet, and includes basic paper piecing instructions, a glossary of terms, illustrated instructions and links to online tutorials. It was designed with beginners in mind, so it’s rated easy-moderate for novice quilters. It makes a yummy wall hanging, baby quilt, or small lap quilt. Retail Price $14.

Where can you get this fun pattern? I’ve got links!

Artisania Instant Download Pattern Shop

Artisania Etsy Store

Craftsy Instant Download Pattern Shop

I hope you’ll stop by Artisania and check out Sonja’s fun designs. She’s an awesomely talented independent designer!

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A Favor for my Best Friend

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My best friend of close to two decades (holy cow!), had shoulder surgery last week.

Jewells was working on gifts and other obligations (including working full time!) right up to the wire, including making a quilt top for her brand new great-nephew, baby Oliver. I wanted to do something for her as a get well gift and I wracked my brain trying to think of something helpful. It ended up being kismet that she needed a quilt top finished and I needed something special for a get well gift. Long story short, I offered to finish the quilt, and after swearing to her that it would not be a burden to me (it most emphatically was not!!), Jewells sent me all her stuff for the quilt, and I finished it up this weekend.

My free-motion quilting on anything bigger than a wall hanging tends to be a meander or waves (I’m still learning!). This time, I thought meandering was the way to go.

Basted and ready to go!

Quilting, in progress! Look at those happy little monkeys!

Quilting close up!

Fun fact…the border fabric on this quilt is the sashing/border fabric on my Project of Doom quilt!

And more quilting…

More quilting close-ups…’cause I can!

The back!

Quilting on the back.

The awesome label that Jewells made (fabric markers over printed text).

See you tomorrow for Talk To Me Tuesday!

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TTMT #162 – A Trunk Full

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Thanks again to the girls at Honey Bee Quilt Store and all my visitors for making my first ever Trunk Show an awesome success!

Find all the quilts featured in this video in the Sewhooked Shop.

See the pictures from this video here.

If you’d like to order a signed (by me!) copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks vol. 5, please call Honey Bee Quilt Store at 512-257-1269.

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A Happy Mother’s Day

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Yesterday was an exceedingly special day for me!

A Huge, HUGE thank you goes out to Honey Bee Quilt Store for hosting my first-ever Trunk Show. A very special thank you goes out to my friends that came by to help out and cheer me on, as well as the multitude of visitors that so kindly came by to share part of their day with me!

I can’t say enough good things about all the people I was lucky enough to get to visit with. In the photo above, you see me with blog reader Sarah (wearing an awesome Doctor Who tee!!), who came all the way from Houston! We had a lovely visit and it was wonderful to get to meet her face to face. Thanks for coming, Sarah!

If you came yesterday, THANK YOU. I was nervous and excited and it was a wonderful, wonderful day. Everyone I met was so kind about my work and it was lovely to get to share with so many new faces.

As a special thank you to my readers, helpers and yesterday’s visitors and for all the moms out there on this Mother’s Day, I offer you this sweet pair of free patterns.

Pecking Chick and Sitting Hen

both are 5″ paper pieced

Here they are together, with Sitting Hen increased to a 10″ block!

Both mother and baby can be found on my Free Pattern page or by clicking the links above.

Have a lovely day and thank you all for the gifts you have given me by being part of my life!

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Trunk Show Tomorrow!

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Hoo, boy, I have been uncharacteristically quiet this week!

The reason for this is simple, my beloved friends, tomorrow is my very first Trunk Show and I have been busy getting ready.

Trunk Show featuring Jennifer Ofenstein
Honey Bee Quilt Store
10am – Noon, Saturday May 12, 2012
9308 Anderson Mill Rd #300
Austin, TX 78729

What’s a Trunk Show, you say? Well, it’s a bit like a one-woman show.

This is your chance to see many of my Sewhooked projects in fabric! There will be oodles of Sewhooked patterns for sale, some of which are making their quilt store debut!

There will be Quiltmaker 100 Blocks, Vol. 5 on hand to buy (and I’ll sign my block, if you like!) as well as some fun freebies and a drawing for a wall hanging made by yours truly!

I really hope to see you there! If you’re a blog reader, please be sure to let me know. I love being able to put faces to names. 🙂

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A Quick Announcement…

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Join me for the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks Blog Tour from April 30 through May 4

On May 3, I will be talking about my block from this issue and there will be giveaways!

Also…

Save the date for May 12, 10 am – Noon. I will be at Honey Bee Quilt Store in Austin, Texas for a 100 Blocks signing event and a trunk show of my quilty goodness! All of my hard copy patterns will be available for purchase through the store!

I am so excited!

Squee!

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Giraffe, Again

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Giraffe, free on Craftsy!

Oh, hello Giraffe!

Mr. Giraffe wants you to know that it was his turn for an update. He was a little bit too complex before and there was just something missing for that added “cute.”

After drafting and playing with colors, I realized that extra something was French Knots. Horns, check. Eye, check. How fun!

Giraffe

For the most up to date version of this pattern, get it free on Craftsy!

a free 5″ paper pieced pattern

More Free Quilt Patterns

Giraffe replaces my original giraffe pattern, seen here as pieced by shaebay.

And, of course, a free pattern post would not be the same without a fun layout created EQ7! How about four giraffes and some fun sashing and cornerstones to create a unique and fun wall hanging?

Reminders:

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Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop

The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome free paper pieced patterns with you! I’ve already seen several of the blocks and they are all fantastic…just you wait!

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Soggy Saturday Surprises

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I woke up this morning to find Peace, Love, Pi featured on Geek Crafts! With March 14 (3-14, get it?!) just around the corner, Peace, Love, Pi makes a perfect project for “Pi Day.”

Check out the Geek Crafts post here.

NEW and by popular request, Pi is available as a single pattern for just $2 on Craftsy!

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It’s bucketing down rain today in Austin, which is good news for us as we slowly climb out of severe drought. I’m hoping for a green spring and NO fires.

The rainy day has put our Saturday plans on the back burner. Instead, I’m going to spend my day cleaning and rearranging my sewing space. It’s time to purge things I don’t foresee myself using and tidy up those things I need easy access, too.

My cutting table is also a wibbly wobbly mess and I’m planning to swap it out with another table that will be re-purposed from another area of our house. Fingers crossed that it goes well and I’ll be back to stitching in a couple of days!

Carol, the winner of the free PDF pattern from my Learning Center post earlier in the week, chose Stellar Stripes as her prize. Carol, I hope you enjoy and can’t wait to see your version!

Reminders:

In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.

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Quilting Types and Styles on The Learning Center

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Talk to Me Tuesday is on the way, but while you wait, I wanted to let you know about a fun opportunity I recently had. Pat Sloan, host of The Learning Center (among many other awesome things!), invited me to write up a little piece explaining what paper pieced quilts are.

Well, how exciting!

Keeping it short was a challenge, but I managed. As you all know, I have loads to say on the subject!

The Learning Center is part of Quilting Gallery, one of my favorite quilt web sites, and is a great resource for quilters to learn all there is to know about quilts. There are new posts regularly and lots of great information!

Check out today’s post and then come back here and let me know what you think. My favorite comment will win a free PDF pattern of their choice! Winner announced Friday, March 9!

Just in case you missed it…Quilting Types and Styles!

Reminders:

In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.

The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome free paper pieced patterns with you!

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free! (Craftsy Shop)

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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