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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*
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.
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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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?
19″ x 22″ wall hanging
Paper Piecing and Strip Piecing
Includes four original paper pieced patterns, cutting and piecing instructions.
$8 – PDF Instant Download
Or
$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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Grandma’s House Quilted Potholder Set
It’s been a while since I talked about my business. I post a lot of crafts and patterns and, of course I talk about Harry Potter (no, no…really!?).
Sewhooked is not just the name of my site and business. It’s become a community of crafty people that are near and dear to me. As you probably already know, I design and sell quilt patterns. What you may not know is that I also sell hand crafted items, including custom-made buttons and hard-copies of my patterns on Etsy. All of my available patterns are ready for instant purchase and PDF download in my shop here on Sewhooked. For quilt shop owners, my patterns are also available for wholesale purchase. Email me for details.
After a year of working on Sewhooked part time, I’ve decided the time has come to try my hand at running my business full-time. Up until now, I’ve worked on Sewhooked whenever I have time, squeezing in minutes here and there between other things.
At the end of the summer, all that will change. I’m leaving my part-time job at the quilt store where I work and am going to take a session off from teaching to build my inventory and focus on my business. There have been some changes in my life recently which make me feel the time is right to work hard, to work longer and to make Sewhooked everything I want it to be.
What can you look forward to? Well, more patterns, for sure! Creating patterns is my first love, and there are lots of ideas rolling around in my brain, just waiting for their chance to make an appearance. I’m tentatively planning a Block of the Month quilt for my shop next year, which I would love to be guided by those that would like to participate. More on that once the Project of Doom has wrapped up.
There will also be new hand-crafts available through Etsy. After a brief hiatus, Custom 1.5″ Buttons are back, including optional graphic design services. Soon, I’ll be adding grab bags of fabric from my crazy-huge scrap stash, as well as limited edition cards featuring photos of some of my quilts.
Photos in this post include some of the items currently available for sale through Etsy. PDF Downloads are here.
Tree Trimming, Hard Copy Version
What kind of quilt patterns are you looking for? What handcrafts would you be interested in seeing on Etsy (keeping in mind that I do not sell items made from my Harry Potter and other fandom patterns out of respect to the authors/creators)?
I’d love to hear from you!
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Phoenix Rising Conference Tee, 2007
It has come to my attention that I bred earworms among many of my readers yesterday. Yes, yes, Save Ginny Weasley can definitely do that to you!!
Today’s shirt is very special to me. I didn’t stencil it. I didn’t reconstruct it. It came as-is and it’s perfect.
This is my conference tee from Phoenix Rising, held in New Orleans, Louisiana in May 2007. It was the last Harry Potter conference I attended. It occurred just two months before Deathly Hallows was released. There was something palpable in the air, a very “this is it” sort of feeling. It was the last mass gathering of hard-core Harry Potter fans that I attended. It’s the conference where I met, in real life, many of my online friends. It’s was also the debut of my Harry Potter quilt, My Magical Lens.
We had crafty meet-ups.
We swapped ATC cards.
I gave away hundreds of buttons, as well as providing buttons for a number of podcasts.
We drank hurricanes and listened to Wrock. My BookCrossing group (now defuct), book-bombed all the common areas with free books. There were costumes, and characters and theorizing, and asking, repeatedly, urgently, Is Snape good or evil?
We went to a ball and got to be Cinderella, or Ginny, or Hermione…or Fawkes for a night.
This is the shirt I pull out when I’m feeling nostalgic for that all-too-short weekend. My sister and my best friend were there. There were friends from all over the world, all in the same hotel, breathing the same air. That conference was special, it hummed the feelings we were all having building up to the release of the final book, the one that would close our canon. For many of us, it was the first and the last time we got to see each other, to occupy the same space. Hopefully, very hopefully, it won’t be the last.
Yeah, a shirt really can make me feel all that.
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Save Ginny, purchased at a live H&tP show during Lumos, Las Vegas, 2006
I’m not sure when I first discovered Wizard Rock, but it was probably some time in 2005.
I had heard a whisper, a whisper about Harry & the Potters. Back in 2005, Facebook wasn’t the thing, MySpace was. So I went there, and I looked, and I found them.
They’re not the best vocalists in the world, but I love their lyrics and I love their heart. They’re fans and they get it.
The first opportunity I had to see Harry & the Potters perform was at Lumos in 2006. I bought this shirt without a second thought and I have worn it until the threads are starting to come out. It’s one of my favorite H&tP songs…and one of my favorite fandom tees.
We’ve got to save Ginny Weasley from the basilisk
We’ve got to save the school from that unseen horror
We’ve got to save Ginny Weasley from the basilisk
We’ve got to save the school again
Since the early days of Wizard Rock, about a million other bands have come on the fandom scene. My heart still belongs to Harry & the Potters…and I admit it, a little of it belongs to Draco and the Malfoys.
What?! Every girl has a little touch of poison. Click for a listen. 😉
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At the bottom of every post, I say something along the lines of “Add your Sewhooked photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!” This sentence has changed from time to time, but the idea is always the same…share photos and I might post them here!
Promises, promises! Enough with that…let’s post some quiltspiration.
All of the following pieces were created using Classic Film, a traditionally pieced pattern available for sale in my Shop. The intention of this pattern is to be able to use any 5″ (5.5″ unfinished) blocks you choose to create a film strip. It’s been one of my most popular non-paper pieced patterns, though many of the quilters that have used it have added paper pieced elements. It’s even more exciting for me when the blocks they add were designed by me!
Fairy Classic Film by midge817, incorporates Fanciful Fairies for a sweet wall hanging!
Twilight Cover Classic Film by liljabs uses Twilight blocks by Cat Magraith and Lilja herself. Patterns available on Fandom In Stitches.
Wizard of Oz Classic Film by midge817 beautifully incorporates licensed Wizard of Oz fabric with sepia-toned fabrics.
Hogwarts Classic Film by liljabs uses my own Hogwarts House patterns, available for free on Fandom In Stitches.
Harry Potter Classic Film by hpfan_poa uses a combination of mine and Connie Tessier’s patterns, all available for free on Fandom In Stitches.
From here on out, Featured Photos from the Sewhooked Flickr (say that five times fast!) will replace the Sew Awesome Craft award. If your photo has been featured, feel free to grab one of these images for your own! I apologize for not having the html easily available for you. My current blog host does not support that feature.
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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 24!
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!
Sunbonnet Sue’s Magical Friends: Busy Bodies
a pattern collection from the Sewhooked Shop
During the craziness that was getting sewhooked.org and blog.sewooked.org consolidated into the Shiny New sewhooked.com, one of my newest designs, Peace, Love, Pi, slipped through the cracks of blog posting.
This spiffy new design was created to entertain my husband and son, both who love math and have great senses of humor. They love the design and once it’s quilted, it will quite possibly end up hanging in my husband’s office where he does magical things with computers all day long.
One of the best parts about this pattern is it’s construction. It’s super simple, with 5″ (5.5″ unfinished) paper pieced patterns and simple sashing.
Added March 2012 – By popular request, Pi is available as a single pattern for just $2 on Craftsy!
Not into math but love the “Peace, Love” part of the pattern? Replace the bottom block with any 5″ square of your choice and create a statement about what you love!
How about….
Peace, Love, Sewing
Peace, Love, Zombies
Peace, Love, Vampires
Peace, Love, Trees
Peace, Love, Santa
Peace, Love, Harry Potter
The combination is endless with the variety of both free and for sale free patterns available through Sewhooked, Fandom In Stitches and many other great online sources!
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