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Happy Caturday!

Rose says hello!

She loves looking at herself, which makes taking a kitty selfie the obvious thing to do! She and I have been busy bonding and I am loving having a kitty that likes to be picked up and snuggled. Merlin and Marie, our other two kitties are sweeties, but being picked up is not part of their contracts. 😉

Yesterday, I drove up to the University of North Texas to help my daughter move home for the summer. It was a whirlwind day with more traffic than I could have even fathomed. It took me just about three hours to drive there, and five to drive back. Egads, was I tired last night, but so very very glad to have my girl home!

This little guy above is a gift I purchased from a friend’s Etsy shop, Deranged Delightz. He’s a Moshi Mushroom, custom made for my daughter in her two favorite colors as a coming home surprise. She loved him and he will now live with her other favorite stufties!

The very same friend gifted me with a gorgeous pair of socks and a sweet turtle bag for my birthday! I’ve already worn the perfectly fitting, gorgeous socks and the bag carried my snacks for my road trip yesterday.

And the socks? THEY HAVE OWLS ON THEM!

This is the current state of the Make-A-Wish Project of Doom. I really wanted it to be basted before the weekend, but it just didn’t happen. Fortunately, it doesn’t need to be in the mail for another couple of weeks, so I have time to get it basted, quilted and bound. Time’s ticking, but I’ll get it done! That backing fabric? Jelly beans! As my friend Amber said, Bertie Bott’s for everyone!

Don’t miss out on Craftsy‘s Birthday Flash Sale! Get select online classes at up to 50% off for a limited time only. You won’t see so many classes with prices this low again soon. Hurry, offer expires May 11th at 11:59pm MT.

Shop Craftsy’s Birthday Flash Sale!

May 2014 Flickr Prize

Share your Paper Piecing Vintage photos with the Sewhooked flickr group for a chance to win fun prizes all year long. The May prize includes the bundle of fabric and two Sewhooked-themed pin back buttons above! Winner to be chosen Monday, June 2, 2014!

Need some help with paper piecing? Check out my FREE full-length workshop.

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Featured pattern: Runic Alphabet, now just $9 on Craftsy!

How to Add & Sell a Pattern on Craftsy

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Hi there Sewhooked friends!

As you probably know by now, I am an independant pattern designer, sharing patterns both here and on Fandom In Stitches, selling on Etsy and Craftsy and with the occasional pattern published in a magazine.

While I started designing years before Craftsy existed, it is the existence of Craftsy that kicked my ability to design and share both my free and for sale patterns to a wider crafty audience. What is most helpful to me as an indie designer with limited resources is that Craftsy is free for me to use. FREE. If you are a Designer, you know how hard it can be to scrape a living selling patterns. There are a million patterns online and many, many of them free. Making money in this industry is hard, but thanks to Craftsy, it’s a little bit easier and I can keep on doing what I love.

Without Craftsy, I would not had a venue for Paper Piecing Vintage, the 2014 Sewhooked Block of the Month, an event that I’ve not only loved creating but, here’s that word again, sharing!

Many of my readers are also Designers and I know at least a few of you lovely people that have indicated you would like to share your patterns but you don’t know where to start. I have some super useful information directly from Craftsy that will help you get started!

Want to design, but don’t know where to start?

We have some great resources over on Fandom In Stitches to help get you going!

I’d like to add that you do not have to sell patterns on Craftsy to share patterns. You can opt to share patterns for free. For my Designer friends that work on fandom patterns, FREE is always your best choice. Keep in mind the moment you start selling fandom-related patterns, you violate laws surrounding derivative work and risk copyright infringement.

Full Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links which means I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking through.

In addition to wonderful online courses and craft supplies, Craftsy also has an independent online pattern store that lets anyone upload and sell downloadable e-patterns with no fee!

How do you add a pattern to Craftsy and start your pattern store? It’s easy!

1. Make sure you have a Paypal account. All pattern transactions happen through Paypal, and Craftsy requires that you have a Student, Premier, or Business account in order to sell patterns.
2. Put your pattern in .pdf format. You can’t upload any patterns to the online pattern store unless they’re a .pdf file format, so if they’re currently saved as a Word doc, .jpg, or other file format, you must convert it to a .pdf before you upload it to Craftsy. (See Fandom In Stitches for some easy ways to do this.)
3. Include a photo. All patterns must have at least one photo to accompany them, but you can add up to five photos. Colorful, interesting photos tend to work the best for catching our members’ eyes!
4. Fill out the pattern description. We will ask you some basic questions around your pattern making it easier for Craftsy folk to find your pattern and know what your pattern is for. Make sure you have info about your pattern handy for this step.

For more information on how to sell a pattern through Craftsy, or to get started, visit Craftsy today!

Be sure to stop by Sewhooked on April 30 for a sneak peek of my block in the upcoming Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks and for a chance to win fun prizes!

PPV Prize April 2014

Share your Paper Piecing Vintage photos with the Sewhooked flickr group in April and you’ll have a chance to win a copy of Quilts From 100 Blocks, Fall 2013 (includes a pattern designed by me!) as well as copies of my patterns Poppies from the Past and My Kitchen Window!

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Featured Pattern: Bluebonnet to Hand Embroider, just $2 on Craftsy!

Linus Craziness, Special Doom, Pretty Kitty and a Craftsy Sale!

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It’s been a crazy Linus Connection-filled week for me! While our actual meeting isn’t until next weekend, I have spearheaded a yarn drive to help my favorite blanket charity. We have been in serious need of yarn donations and what better place to ask for help than my online friends?

Everyone that knits or crochets will, possibly grudgingly admit that we all have balls, skeins and hanks of yarn that we are never going to use. That yarn taking up space? We can use it! The Linus Connection needs 100% acrylic washable yarn to make our child-friendly hypo-allergenic blankets for kids in need in Central Texas.

Have yarn? Drop me an email and I’ll send you my mailing address!

My basting mojo was high yesterday! I paired five orphan block quilt with backs and batting and then basted them all! One is quilted with four more to go! Each and every one of these will go to The Linus Connection when complete and a couple of these will be great big check marks on my 2014 UFO completion list!

A special shout out to Sarah from Houston. All of the batting used for these quilts came from her donation!

Yarn donations are coming in! Yarny goodness from Sarah in Houston!

Pretties from my dear friend Amber. This is the second box of yarn she’s sent!

Here’s another wonderful donation from Liza! Yarn and blankets and granny squares, oh my!

There’s a VERY special Project (of Doom!) going on over on Fandom In Stitches. It’s this week only, so if you’re a quilter, please be sure to check it out!

Rose came out of hiding to visit us downstairs earlier this week. She’s coming out of her shell little by little. The poor sweetie lived a long time in a shelter’s kennel, and all the space she has access to now is a bit overwhelming. We’ve been using a Feliway diffuser, which seems to be making all the difference!

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Surprise! Craftsy has just announced a Spring Flash Sale for this weekend only! Discover huge savings on select online Craftsy classes, but for a very limited time .Visit Craftsy to reveal what classes are on sale, but hurry, this offer expires at 11:59 MT on Sunday, April 13, 2014!

Craftsy Spring Flash Sale

PPV Prize April 2014

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Sign up for Paper Piecing Vintage
and get a new pattern in two sizes each month during 2014!
That’s 24 patterns for just $12!

Monday Madness and a Winner!

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Whew, what a crazy day!

It’s the last day of the month, and I have a whole lot to share!

This is it!

Get these and more individual

paper pieced block patterns while they are just $2!

Tomorrow, these sweet little blocks

go up to $2.95 each!

We had an amazing flickr month and we a winner for this month’s prize!

Congratulations, MsMoommist!

Look for a flickr message from me on how to claim your prize!

We’ll have a new prize each month for one winner! For your chance to win, just share your Paper Piecing Vintage photos with the Sewhooked flickr group. Winner to be announced the first Monday of each month.

See the rest of this month’s AWESOME photos below:

by Barbara Colson

by Debby

by Terry Minckler

by Julia Murtha

by TweLoQ

by Rockislander

by Fran

by GheckoAZ1

by Jewelri

by Natalie Bates

by jeanm826

by Patricia McLaughlin

More awesome flickr photos:

by Julia Murtha (Two Tone Star and Hot Dog Pillowcases)

by Natalie Bates (Shamrock)

by hardhat_cat (Two Tone Star )

Each month’s set of photos just keeps getting better and better! Thank you to each and every one of you for sharing and remember, keep those pictures coming, I have more great prizes for April, to be announced tomorrow!

Sign up for Paper Piecing Vintage now!

Have you Joined the Paper Piecing Vintage Facebook Group?

I’m around to answer questions, there are special, Facebook-only bonuses and lots of wonderful new quilting friends just waiting to meet you!

For those of you anxiously awaiting the name of our newest furry family member, I’d like to introduce Rose! Her name is inspired by four of our family’s favorite fandoms: The Lord of the Rings (Samwise’s wife, Rose Cotton), Harry Potter (Rose Weasley), Doctor Who (Rose Tyler), and Homestuck (Rose Lalonde). We’ve pretty much covered all bases for all two-legged family members! Also, and most importantly, she just looks like a Rose. 🙂

See you tomorrow with Paper Piecing Vintage: April!

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Learn to Paper Piece Sweet Skating Sue, Just $3 on Craftsy!

Two Dollars in March

Pretty Pretty Pinwheel

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As I’ve been working my through tidying up my Free Pattern page, it occured to me that it has been some time since I’ve shared a free non-fandom pattern.

Well, we can’t have that, now can we?

Here is a sweet little pattern that I’ve dubbed Pretty Pretty Pinwheel. I think you’ll find fun and easy to piece.

Once the units are made, it goes together like a four-patch. If you chain piece the similar units, you’ll find it goes even faster!

Download the 6 inch Pretty Pretty Pinwheel for free from Google Drive!

The pattern is three colors plus a background fabric. Each color is indicated by a different texture. To make it piecing easy, I just penned in where the colors go.

♥ Jennifer O

Where did my retired patterns go? Read all about that here.

Posts on this blog may contain affiliate links to help cover the cost of my website. I thank you for your generous support. ♥

PPV Pre-Registration is live!

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Pre-registration for Paper Piecing Vintage is now live!

Today through December 31, registration is half-price, just $6!

Each pattern comes in 6″ and 12″. The 6″ patterns are full color and the 12″ patterns are grayscale to help save on ink.

That’s six bucks for 24 patterns plus layout instructions!’

The pre-registration download for Paper Piecing Vintage includes fabric amounts for both block sizes and how to get your update on January 1.

Want more information? Everything you need to know is on the listing on Craftsy!

Who’s excited? I’m excited!

Click here to grab the html for these fun badges

or copy and paste the images directly to your blog!

We have TWO winners for a free copy of the January pattern! Our winners will receive the actual January 2014 block of the month document, a preview of what’s to come. Congratulations and thanks to you both for commenting!

Our winners!

Do you Facebook? Join our spiffy new group for Paper Piecing Vintage and quilt with friends during 2014! I will be posting exclusing content to the group, including alternative color schemes!

See you later today for TTMT!

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Learn to Paper Piece Sweet Skating Sue, just $3 on Craftsy

Crafting The Holidays

Paper Piecing Vintage – Coming in 2014!

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Let’s face it, when I get ready to sew, paper piecing is what I love best.

There’s this other thing, too: I’ve always wanted to make a vintage-inspired sampler quilt.

After years of contemplating the idea of paper piecing vintage blocks and considering what blocks I personally would most like to include in a quilt like this, the idea has solidified.

Please join me beginning January 1, 2014

for a very special year-long event:

This will be a for purchase Block of the Month (BOM) through my Craftsy store that includes each month’s block in two pattern sizes: 6″ & 12″.

The entire quilt is designed in two colors with a solid background. Can you make it scrappy? ABSOLUTELY!

If you sign up in December, you will get a super duper special discount, because honestly, I want you to play along. Quilting is more fun when we do it together!

The best part? You only need to sign up once:

It works like this:

Once you’ve paid, you’ll receive a notification from Craftsy to download your pattern.
One the first of each month, I will update Paper Piecing Vintage on Craftsy.
You will receive notification from Craftsy that the updated pattern is available.
Download and print the pattern for each month’s block in the size of your choice.
That’s one payment, one time for the entire 12 month series; that’s 24 patterns total, each of the 12 patterns in two sizes, all for one price.
Any questions? Ask! I’m just a comment away. 😉

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Remember, buying a pattern from time to time helps keep my free content free, and I LOVE to share free content!

Sign ups begin December 3!

Do you think you might play along? Let me know in comments before December 3 and I will give two lucky commenters a free copy of the first month’s pattern!

Do you Facebook? Join our spiffy new group for Paper Piecing Vintage and quilt with friends during 2014!