Challenge Winner

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I don’t usually double post from Harry Potter Paper Piecing to the sewhooked blog, but today is not an ordinary day!  Today, I had the pleasure of announcing the Harry Potter Paper Piecing Complete Your Quilt Top Challenge Winner (say that five times fast!), Jennifer Tanner, hpfan_poa, and also a Guest Designer on sewhooked.

If you missed the challenge poll, you have to go see.  The quilts were absolutely amazing and I’m proud of this little Livejournal community that I created, which is populated by talented and caring quilters.   Many of the community members have become close and trusted friends, and my life would definitely not be the same without it!

If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked,  I’d love to see a photo.  Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.

Happy crafting!

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Earring Hanger V2

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Earring Hanger V 2

You may remember my earring hanger that I posted some time ago.  No?  Well, go check it out, then!  It’s fun and easy to make.

What do you do when you have a teenager with way more earrings than the hanger can hold?  Make a new one, of course!

While rummaging around my supplies looking for a spare frame, I came across an extra piece from one of those wire cube storage widgets.  This thing has been hanging around forever in my pile of “you never know” craft supplies.

Today, it found it’s purpose!

It’s as easy as pie to put together (and definitely takes less time than pie!).

All you need is one piece of a wire cube storage set, or some other wire-frame widget, some zip ties, a piece of plastic canvas and some of those awesome 3M Command hooks.  All of these things were in my craft supplies, left over from other projects.  Total cost… $0!

The piece of plastic canvas fit perfectly across, leaving two rows at the top for the earrings that won’t fit through the smaller holes.

Hey, wait a minute!  Some of those earrings are mine…. *grumblegrumble*

I put the zip ties on from the back and then trimmed them, so the closure is hidden.

Using larger hooks on top gave her a place to put her gargantuan hoop earrings while simultaneously keeping the earring hanger sturdy.

A single smaller hook on the bottom holds the whole shebang nice and steady so the earrings don’t get bounced off!

Happy crafting!

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♥ Jennifer O

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TTMT #65 Talkative Bonus…plus Potter!

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If you make a Sew Awesome Craft or any pattern, craft or recipe from sewhooked,  I’d love to see a photo.  Email me or add it to the sewhooked flickr group.

Happy crafting!

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Last Day!

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If you’ve been following my crafty blog for the last six months or so, you might have noticed a footnote at the bottom of each post.

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And hey, look at that!  The end date on the banner is July 5!  Well I’ll be…that’s today!

If you have been working on a Harry Potter Paper Piecing challenge quilt top, this is it, THE LAST DAY to get those entries in.  Please post a link to your photo on any of the challenge posts on Livejournal, email it to me or post it to the flickr group.

If you’re running a little behind, please keep in mind that I usually make the Tuesday post on hp_paperpiecing fairly early in the morning (usually 8 or 9 am Central Standard Time). As long as I have your photo before the Tuesday post goes up, your quilt will make it in for voting. If you are running really late, your best bet will be to email your photo directly to. After checking LJ and the flickr group, my email is the always the last place I look before I post on Tuesday!   Once the poll goes up, it’s up (LJ does not allow changes to polls), so please make sure you get your photos in asap!

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The Elder Futhark

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Runic Alphabet Sample

Despite sounding like someone’s grandpa, Elder Futhark is actually a runic alphabet.

Runes are fascinating and you have to admit, they just look cool!  My own interest in runes lies in the fantastic. Runes constantly pop up in my favorite fantasy stories, and honestly, I just couldn’t resist taking advantage of the graphic nature of runes to create quilt patterns with them!  That said…

I’ve created a complete set of runic letters using the Elder Futhark alphabet, which are now available in the Sewhooked Shop as an instant PDF download with PayPal payment (completely secure shopping through E-junkie!).

$12 – PDF Instant Download

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What do you get?

24 – 5″ finished (5 1/2″ unfinished) paper pieced patterns, all ranging from beginner to intermediate skill level. None of the blocks is particularly taxing, but some are a little more involved.

Each block has been tested by me and edited to be the simplest, cleanest piecing I could possibly make it.

Now the obvious question is what will I use my rune blocks for?  Hmm….  A quilt border?  A quilt center?  An awesome tablerunner or wall hanging? Just the beginning of a Norse quilt of Doom?  Who knows?!

To learn more about runes, check out Oswald The Runemaker.

Want to learn to paper piece?  Check out my free paper piecing resources and text tutorial!

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TTMT #64 – Tour and Tell

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In which I give a brief tour of my newly tidied work space, do a little show and tell and talk about the shiny and new Sewhooked Shop.

Guest appearance by Professor Snape.

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sewhooked shop!

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I’m thrilled to announce that after months of research, sleepless nights, filing of papers, designing, stitching and lots and LOTS of work, the Sewhooked Shop is finally online!

I’m starting with just a few products, all available for instant download with PayPal payment.  Every pattern is also available for wholesale.  Contact me for more information at sewhooked@gmail.com.

How excited am I? I ate a lot of peanut butter today…That’s how excited!

Please check it out…I’d love your feedback!

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free patterns free!

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!

Have a wonderful day!

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Peanut Butter

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Homemade PB

Hi, my name is Jennifer, and I am a peanut butter junkie.

If I was alone on a desert island and could only bring one food?

Stressed-out comfort food?

Favorite thing to eat with chocolate?

I think you get the idea!

I like all-natural, no sugar or stuff-added peanut butter and I’ve tried all variety of brands, organic, and not.  The one thing that I can’t get over is how expensive plain ole peanut butter can be.  I can really go through the stuff and it just never lasts long enough!

In a recent out-of-peanut-butter-crisis, I decided to try and make my own.  The slightly astonishing thing is that I had no directions and I didn’t try to find a recipe.  And it worked!  It worked so well, I’ve already eaten it all and made another batch.  Nom!

It’s super easy –  16 oz of roasted, salted peanuts in the variety of your choice.  Toss that into your food processor (it’s a must, sorry if you don’t have one!),   Add about 1 tbs vegetable oil.  I used corn oil, but I’m sure peanut oil would be even more awesome.

Process for about three minutes or until smooth.  Move to a bowl and refrigerate.

Eat!  Really, that’s it!

Nomnomnom!

Next time, I think I’ll try roasting my own peanuts…

Like peanut butter?  Check out my video, Peanut Butter In Real Time!

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