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PoD Week 18

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).

The Week 18 pattern is online! I’m really excited about sharing this week and I hope you enjoy piecing today’s pattern as much as I did!

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven
Week Twelve
Extra Credit
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen
Week Fifteen
Week Sixteen
Week Seventeen

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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Classic Film, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

PoD Week 17

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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).

The Week 17 pattern is now online! You haven’t started yet? No worry, all the patterns up to this point are still available and you can jump in at any time! You need three yards of background fabric for the PoD

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven + corrected alternative block
Week Twelve
Extra Credit
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen
Week Fifteen
Week Sixteen

If you participate, and you’re part of the hp_paperpiecing 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 – Monster Madness, from the Sewhooked Shop

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PoD Week 16

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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).

The Week 16 pattern is now online! You haven’t started yet? No worry, all the patterns up to this point are still available and you can jump in at any time!

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven
Week Twelve
Extra Credit
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen
Week Fifteen

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Find that fabric! – ETA FOUND!

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I’ve been promising a new Sewhooked Shop pattern for several weeks now.

What’s holding me up?

This little bit of fabric!

I need about 1/6 of a yard, let’s say 1/4 yard to cover all the bases. All the online shops I’ve found that still have this lovely, out-of-print, Bonnie Blue fabric, sell 1/2 yard cuts per minimum. I’m totally okay with that and would happily buy a 1/2 yard cut.

Then I hit a stumbling block. Priority Shipping is the only option on every site I’ve visited that still has the fabric I need. That drives the total price to well more than what a 1-yard cut would be in a quilt shop. I know a little about shipping prices and online quilt store shopping, being that my day job involves maintaining a quilt store website, and I much prefer actual shipping cost, which is what Honey Bee charges.

SO, why am I rambling on about this? Well, this is where you come in! If you, by some small miracle, have 1/4 yard of this lovely Bonnie Blue fabric in your stash that you would be willing to swap, I will give you one of the following in exchange – either an equivalent amount of rare Harry Potter fabric, a free copy one of my for sale patterns (hardcopy or PDF) version, OR 5 free 1.5″ pin back buttons with the image of your choice.

First come, first serve! I’ll post an update here as soon as I have what I need.

And…thanks in advance!

ETA: Thank you to my fabulous friend Amber who has solved the fabric shortage! YAY, I can finish my new design in just a couple of days!

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Bother, Bother, Bother

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For those of you that don’t follow my quilting adventures over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing, I could not resist sharing our “week off” patterns.

Members voted to have one week off of the Project of Doom, our HP block of the week. That doesn’t mean, of course, that my brain turns off or I stop drafting new patterns!

Update: All of my Project of Doom patterns plus many more can now be found on Fandom in Stitches!

Here for your entertainment are some of my favorites as depicted by the brilliant Neil Nicieregaas’ Potter Puppet Pals.

Each pattern is 5″ (5.5″ unfinished).

PPP Dumbledore

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

PPP Snape

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

PPP Harry

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

PPP Ron

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

PPP Hermione

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

PPP Voldemort

updated 2011

5″ paper pieced

I have long been entertained by (read: giggled at) the work of Neil Cicierega, creator of the Potter Puppet Pals. I think part of what I love the most, aside from the humor and general cuteness is the fact that his mom made the puppets for him.

Looking for The Project of Doom? Week 15 is right this way! There are links to all previous weeks in each post.

The Project of Doom resumes next week on Harry Potter Paper Piecing.

Find more Harry Potter inspired patterns both here on Sewhooked & on Fandom in Stitches!

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PoD Week 15

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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).

The Week 15 pattern is now online*! You haven’t started yet? No worry, all the patterns up to this point are still available and you can jump in at any time!

Please note: We’re taking a one week break between Week 15 and Week 16. The PoD will resume Wednesday May 4.

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven + corrected alternative block
Week Twelve
Extra Credit
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen

*New PoD pattern posts go to the PoD page, with the actual block behind a link to keep it a mystery!

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Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends – Monster Madness, from the Sewhooked Shop

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PoD Week 14

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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).

The Week 14 pattern is now online! You haven’t started yet? No worry, all the patterns up to this point are still available and you can jump in at any time!

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven + corrected alternative block
Week Twelve
Extra Credit
Week Thirteen

*New PoD pattern posts go to the PoD page, with the actual block behind a link to keep it a mystery!

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Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends – Monster Madness, from the Sewhooked Shop

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PoD Week 13

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Today’s post is presented a little bit differently than prior weeks. Due to Livejournal outages created by DDoS attacks over the last week, I’m essentially posting a “backup” here on the Sewhooked Blog…just in case! Last week’s Wednesday post was inaccessible for most of the day and created a lot of frustrations for PoD participants. Better safe than sorry this week!

Week 13 comes after a difficult Week 12. Between Livejournal outages and confusion over what in the world that mystery object in the Week 12 block was, I think it’s safe to say you will enjoy today’s pattern!

If you would like to see a photo of today’s block, click here!

Pattern Link —> Block of the Week – Week 13 pattern (PDF) <—Pattern Link

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.

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight
Week Nine
Week Ten
Week Eleven *corrected alternative block*
Week Twelve
Extra Credit

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Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends – Monster Madness, from the Sewhooked Shop

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Fabric (Postcard!) Friday

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No fooling, fabric postcards!

Recently, one of my fabulous Talk To Me Tuesday friends, Clumsy Chord, organized a fabric postcard swap over on fabricpostcard

This is a summary of that swap with both what I received and what I sent. It was a huge amount of fun and I loved getting to experiment!

I’ll start with the postcards that I received, because they are FABULOUS! They all make me think of spring, which is lovely, because it’s just what I need right now.

Top (L-R) lovely sunrise inspired card from Kristel (clumsy chord), and gorgeous serged ribbon card from Erin

Bottom (L-R) sweet spring birds by Patti and a very plant/spring inspired card “grow” from Amanda

They’re all fabulous and I have them hanging on the wall in my sewing/craft room!

For my cards, I took the opportunity to play on a small scale with a few different ideas. I challenged myself to use different fabrics and techniques on each one. The results are what you see here!

Postcard backs, before addressing!

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One Cross Stitch To Rule Them All

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Some time ago, the amazing Shae (tumblr, blog, etsy) gifted me with an amazing piece of cross stitch that she designed not only for me, but for my family. She knows we’re big Lord of the Rings fans and ingeniously combined our name with a little fandom awesome and created the gorgeous piece of cross stitch you see.

The edges were unfinished when I received her awesome work and I knew I had to do something fabulous with it. The result is what you see in the top photo.

The fabrics I used were all Fairy Frost from Michael Miller. LOVE FF…love, love, love!

After starting with Shae’s amazing cross stitch, I was able to finish everything but the outside border in one sitting. I added the last border a little later so it would fit the frame of my choice.

I intentionally made the outside border larger than it needed to be. Then, using the glass from the frame I purchased as well as the grid on my cutting mat, I lined up the piece as evenly as possible.

Then, I trimmed!

Not shown – I also trimmed a piece of cotton batting to the same size to help hold the quilt in place inside the frame. The result is what you see above!

On the back of the frame, I made a note of who made each part of the project and when. It’s just a simple note, but it’ll be awesome for future generations of Ofensteins to know!

Before deciding on this layout, I played around with ideas in EQ7 as seen in my pre-retreat post! When it came down to it, what I really wanted were earth tones (with a little sparkle!) and triangles. I love triangles in quilts.