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Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 26

Welcome to Day 26 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

Today’s pretty pattern comes from Jen over at A Quilting Jewel. Her block brings a little star power to the party!

Click here to read more about this block, to see it quilted and to download Jen’s free pattern!

I’m having a drawing at the end of each week in April for a fun, new prize pack! You’ll get one entry for each Blog Hop block you make and share with our Flickr Group. Winner to be chosen in a random drawing on May 1 and the winning photo will be featured right here on Sewhooked! All winners are chosen with via random.org.

Week 4 Prize Pack: Fruit and Flowers Fat Quarters plus The Angler 2! Remember, only Flickr participants are eligible for the Sewhooked weekly Blog Hop prize!

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness
Aalia, Joy of Stitches: Garden Gate
Schenley, Margaret’s Violet
Megan, Monkey Beans: Garden Party
Lilja, liljabs: Bluebird
Jill, Apple Avenue Quilts: Bloom
Dolores, A Labour of Love: Pimm’s Garden Party
Kari, Fresh Cut Quilts: Let Them Eat Cake!
Cindy, Quilt Doodle Designs: Spring Time Blooms
Amy, During Quiet Time: Pick Violets
Cat Magraith: Garden Party
Susan-Claire, GourmetQuilter: Garden Party Munchies
Cyrille, Bubblestitch Quilts: Yummy Cupcake
Missy, GraceParfait Creations: Birdhouse
Gaya, borsedigaya: Posh 20s Lady
Jessica, Plum Patchwork: Garden Topiary
Diane, From Blank Pages: Potted Roses
Cherry, Cherry Blossom Quilting Studio: George
Vanessa, Crafty Gemini: Mod Mushrooms
Sonja, Artisania: Vintage Mason Jar Lanterns
Michele, Quilting Gallery: Patio Umbrella
Alma Stoller: Colorful Pinwheel
Benita, Victoriana Quilt Designs: Croquet, Anyone?
Charise, Charise Creates: Hello Spring Tulip

Don’t miss my blog post to celebrate author Marie Bostwick’s new Cobblestone Quilt novel, The Ties that Bind. I’m giving away two copies of her novel, plus free patterns to each winner!

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Garden Party Blog Hop Day 19

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Welcome to Day 19 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

Today, Cherry from Cherry Blossom Quilting Studio introduces George to our party!

Click here to read more about this block and download the free pattern.

I’m having a drawing at the end of each week in April for a fun, new prize pack! You’ll get one entry for each Blog Hop block you make and share with our Flickr Group. Winner to be chosen in a random drawing and the winning photo will be featured right here on Sewhooked!

Week 3 Prize: Hoot-tastic! Three owl-themed fat quarters and a free copy of Two Little Hooters!

Remember, only Flickr participants are eligible for the Sewhooked weekly Blog Hop prize! The drawing for this prize will be on Saturday, April 21.

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness
Aalia, Joy of Stitches: Garden Gate
Schenley, Margaret’s Violet
Megan, Monkey Beans: Garden Party
Lilja, liljabs: Bluebird
Jill, Apple Avenue Quilts: Bloom
Dolores, A Labour of Love: Pimm’s Garden Party
Kari, Fresh Cut Quilts: Let Them Eat Cake!
Cindy, Quilt Doodle Designs: Spring Time Blooms
Amy, During Quiet Time: Pick Violets
Cat Magraith: Garden Party
Susan-Claire, GourmetQuilter: Garden Party Munchies
Cyrille, Bubblestitch Quilts: Yummy Cupcake
Missy, GraceParfait Creations: Birdhouse
Gaya, borsedigaya: Posh 20s Lady
Jessica, Plum Patchwork: Garden Topiary
Diane, From Blank Pages: Potted Roses

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Garden Party Blog Hop – Day 12

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Welcome to Day 12 of Sewhooked’s Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop!

Today’s pattern, Garden Party, comes to us courtesy of my dear friend, Cat Magraith, a prolific Fandom In Stitches designer.

Download Garden Party by Cat Magraith

*Jennifer’s note: Cat’s pattern prints at 5″, to be enlarged by 200%. An easy way to do this is to print the pattern, cut the pieces apart, and enlarge them on a copy machine in sections.

From Cat:

We often have parties in our back garden and will often light candles in lanterns and hang them from the trees and veranda. I thought of nothing nicer for the party than a Victoria Sponge cake, although i have shown this version as iced with cherries or berries on top. To add to the sense of Spring I’ve added a little butterfly. My birthday is also in Spring, but being in the southern hemisphere is in a different time of year, but we will often get butterflies about the place for a party. Most of the butterflies i get in my garden are an orange colour, so i’ve made my butterfly orange.

I’m having a drawing at the end of each week in April for a fun, new prize pack! You’ll get one entry for each Blog Hop block you make and share with our Flickr Group. Winner to be chosen in a random drawing and the winning photo will be featured right here on Sewhooked!

Week Two Prize: Sewhooked Blog Hop Brights Super Scrappy Charm Pack – 40 unique fabric cut 5″ x 5″ (quilting cotton)! Remember, only Flickr participants are eligible for the Sewhooked weekly Blog Hop prize!

Previous Blog Hop Posts:

Soma, Whims & Fancies: Music Notes
Jennifer, All Things Belle: Summer Sweetness
Aalia, Joy of Stitches: Garden Gate
Schenley, Margaret’s Violet
Megan, Monkey Beans: Garden Party
Lilja, liljabs: Bluebird
Jill, Apple Avenue Quilts: Bloom
Dolores, A Labour of Love: Pimm’s Garden Party
Kari, Fresh Cut Quilts: Let Them Eat Cake!
Cindy, Quilt Doodle Designs: Spring Time Blooms
Amy, During Quiet Time: Pick Violets

And just in case you missed my impromptu post yesterday, there’s this! Am I excited? You better believe it! Coming soon…100 Blocks Blog Hop, a REAL LIFE Trunk Show in Austin, Texas and fun giveaways!

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Half-Price Poppies

The Awesome Inbox

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Some days, the inbox just doesn’t quit!

A huge thanks to my best friend, Jewells, for nudging me about Quilter’s Club of America and Fons & Porter’s newsletters, both of which featured free Craftsy patterns this week. The top two on the right might look a little bit familiar, as they were designed by yours truly! Both patterns can be found right here on the Sewhooked Free Quilt Pattern page as well as on Sewhooked Craftsy.

Log Cabin Heart on Craftsy

Shamrock on Craftsy

Did this make my week? You bet it did!

This morning, yet another one of these awesome Craftsy promotional emails hit my inbox, this time from McCall’s Quilting!

Here’s the amazing and fun part, the two free patterns that were featured this week have had a total of over 2,000 downloads. TWO THOUSAND!! In just a couple of days.

My mind is well and truly blown. THANK YOU to every single person that has downloaded one of my patterns or followed me on Craftsy.

Are you on craftsy? Follow me and I’ll follow you, too!

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.

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!

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

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Ready To Play!

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Nick, Dean, Alex

Just to clear the air, this is not the big secret. That’s coming soon…but not today!

Since I first shared All Dolled Up back in January, Ready to Play! has been on my mind.

If I was going to make little girl dresses, obviously I needed some boy clothes, too!

Meet Nick, Dean and Alex, named, slyly, after three of my favorite people. They know who they are. 😉

Here’s how it works?

There are three paper pieced patterns in two sizes each:

3 – 6″x6″ (6 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ unfinished) patterns
3 – 9″x9″ (9 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ unfinished) patterns

Like Julia, Catherine and Amber from All Dolled Up, the patterns from Ready To Play! not only come in two sizes (6″ x 6″ and 6″ x 9″) but the tops and bottoms are interchangeable. That makes 18 total outfit variations all in one pattern set!

This super fun, super simple pattern set is available right now as an instant download PDF right now through The Sewhooked Shop, powered by e-junkie, for safe and secure PayPal payments.

Ready To Play Pattern Set

$6.50 PDF Instant Download

See all the patterns in the Sewhooked Shop

This pattern is also available on Craftsy!

Now I have the urge to shout, “But wait! There’s more!”

Not only can you swap Ready To Play! patterns with each other, you can also swap them with All Dolled Up for even more pattern combinations…how fun is that?!

I’ve had a blast creating these tiny outfits, and I hope you enjoy them, too!

Selling my patterns is what enables me to keep Sewhooked and Fandom In Stitches running, as well as allowing me to be a full-time crafter/quilter, something I’d very much like to continue doing. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support of my work!

Reminder: Use coupon code QUILTMYPHONE in the Sewhooked Shop to receive the Floating Mariner instant download PDF pattern for half price as an instant PDF download with PayPal payment – completely secure shopping through E-junkie. This price is only good right here on Sewhooked during the month of February.

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!

Happy Stitching!

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Floating Away

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Floating Mariner and Floating Mariner 2, product images courtesy of Quilt My Phone

I’m thrilled to be able to share with you that a Sewhooked original, Floating Mariner, is part of the new Contemporary Collection at Quilt My Phone!

Quilt My Phone, created by Cathleen Savage, offers awesome cases for phones, laptops and tablets, all with gorgeous quilts on the outside!

See all the Floating Mariner products right here!

To celebrate this fun and awesome happening, I’ve done a couple of things…

First, I’ve created new layouts and color schemes to inspire you, as well as updating the Floating Mariner pattern.

Not into blue & lavender? Try a different color!

The Floating Mariner table runner is made with four Floating Mariner blocks plus 4 extra 3″ units used as corner stones.

Try mixing Floating Mariner with a traditional block and see what happens!

This one makes me think of fireworks! Red, White & Blue Floating Mariner made with 16 blocks plus 4 3″ units as cornerstones.

I think this is my favorite of all the layouts I played with. Alternate Floating Mariner colorings combined.

This one is totally different, putting Floating Mariner on point and leaving out the small corner pieces. Fun!

These layouts were created using Electric Quilt 7.

Floating Mariner is my original design.

Sharing new ideas and colors isn’t the only way I want to celebrate! Now until February 29, you can get Floating Mariner for half price.

Use coupon code QUILTMYPHONE in the Sewhooked Shop to receive the Floating Mariner instant download PDF pattern for half price as an instant PDF download with PayPal payment – completely secure shopping through E-junkie. This price is only good right here on Sewhooked!

Yeah, you heard me…half price! That’s $3 for a 15″ block pattern that can be used individually or as part of a larger project!

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free patterns free!

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

Happy Stitching!

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On Craftsy and Revisiting an Old Favorite

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My Kitchen Window, now available through Craftsy!

I’ve spent quite a bit of time the last couple of days enjoy the creative bounty that is Craftsy! After lurking for months, I finally dived in and joined up.

And what a wonderful world it is!

I am in the process of making all of my shop patterns, as well as select free patterns, available as PDF instant download through my spiffy new Craftsy shop. Crafts makes for safe, simple shopping from a variety of independence artisans.

While adding patterns to Craftsy, I have been revisiting many old friends.

My Kitchen Window is one of my oldest paper pieced designs, and it was the first pattern I re-drafted when I started working on patterns to sell.

The original was designed many years ago for my mother-in-law, Carol, based on a piece of stained glass she made for us when we first moved to Austin.

The original piece was early days in my designing career. The revamped pattern is much, much simpler and easier to piece!

The inspiration.

While posting this pattern today, I realized the pattern could use a few updates. Since the original pattern was designed entirely in Photoshop, I decided to play with it in EQ7 and see what I could do with different fabrics.

The first one uses the same color scheme as the actual quilt and stained glass.

How fun is it in blue and yellow? I might have to make this one!

I already want to call this one clown kitchen, because, WOW, those are some wild colors together. Fun, but wild!

Follow me on Craftsy!

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Add your Sewhooked-related photos (that includes my patterns posted to Fandom In Stitches!) to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

See you tomorrow for Talk to Me Tuesday!

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Wordless Wednesday

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All Dolled Up!

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Julia Catherine Amber

Julia Catherine Catherine Amber Amber Julia

Julia Amber Catherine Julia Amber Catherine

All Dolled Up Pattern Set

Oh my, have I ever been busy!

Earlier this week, a message dropped in my inbox from Ann-Marie S., asking about paper pieced dress patterns. She wants to turn her daughters’ toddler dresses into quilt blocks and was looking for patterns to help her do that.

Well, how could I resist such an adorable request?

In exchange for her idea, Ann-Marie received a free copy of this fantastically fun set of patterns, which I have dubbed All Dolled Up.

Here’s how it works:

There are three paper pieced patterns in two sizes each:

3 – 6″x6″ (6 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ unfinished) patterns
3 – 9″x9″ (9 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ unfinished) patterns

The tops and bottoms are interchangeable with blocks of their own size, which gives you 18 total dress variations!

This super fun, super simple pattern set is available right now as an instant download PDF right now through The Sewhooked Shop, powered by e-junkie, for safe and secure PayPal payments.

All Dolled Up Pattern Set

$6.50 PDF Instant Download

There are three basic patterns; Julia, Catherine and Amber. The top from each dress can be paired with the skirts from the other two dresses, giving you nine different dresses!

Each pattern is also printable as a 6″ x 9″ (6 1/2″ x 9 1/2″) pattern, for a more “grown-up” effect!

Confused? Here’s an easy chart to get you on your way! The top row shows the base patterns: Julia, Catherine and Amber. The next two rows show each tops with a different skirt. For example, J+C = Julia (top) + Catherine (skirt). Easy!