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Free Pattern Friday – Spread the Love!

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Some of my favorite things to play with over the years have been hearts, love, and general happiness!

With Valentine’s Day coming up, it seemed like a good time to share some old favorites. I’d love to see what you can do with these in modern fabrics. If you make any of these, please do share!

All patterns were designed by me and are free for your personal & non-profit use.

Need paper piecing help? I’ve got you!

First, we have some complete quilt patterns:

Big  Heart Quilt, 44″ x 49″, tradionally pieced
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Cross My Hearts, Blocks – 6” & 12” paper pieced, Quilt As Shown in pattern 58” x 58”
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Cross My Hearts as a blocks – 6” & 12” paper pieced, Quilt As Shown in pattern 58” x 58”
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Mug O’ Love, 5″paper pieced
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Woven Heart, 6″ paper pieced
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Heart With A Cause, 6″ paper pieced
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A Simple Heart, 5″ paper pieced
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Log Cabin Heart, 5″ paper pieced
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Cupid’s Arrow (a heart pattern), 3″, 5″, or 8″ paper pieced
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Braided Heart, 5″ paper pieced
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Less Than Three, 5″ paper pieced
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Scrappy Heart, 5″ paper pieced
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Scrappy Heart 2, 5″ paper pieced

Fun Fact! Scrappy Heart 2 resulted from a Photoshop design tutorial I shared on YouTube 14 years ago! If you’re interested, you can find Part 1 and Part 2 on my YouTube channel. I currently design in EQ8, but the principals are the same.

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Hearts Go Round, 10″ paper pieced

Just need a hug? How about a virtual hug?

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Virtual Hugs, 6″ or 12″ paper pieced
ASL I Love You v2, 6″ paper pieced

And, in case you’re not feeling the Valentine’s love, a Broken Heart for anyone who needs a little therapeutic sewing. ♥

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Broken Heart, 5″ paper pieced

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

♥ Jennifer O

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

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Free Pattern Friday – Love Flag!

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Welcome back to Free Pattern Friday!

After YEARS and years of being asked to do so, I have created a Sewhooked Suggestion Box! The Suggestion Box is a way for you to suggest pattern ideas directly to me.  I can’t make any promises that I can (or will) create a design from every suggestion, but I will do my level best to take them all seriously.

You can find the Sewhooked Suggestion Box linked in the main menu at the top of this page. More details at the link.

Today’s pattern, Love Flag was a special request that went something like this, “I really wish a pattern like this existed…”

Well, now it does! It’s super simple to paper piece and finishes 6″ x 9″.

Extra special thanks to my Instagram followers for the encouragement and to Jessica for testing!

Enjoy. ♥
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Get this free pattern on Craftsy

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Save/Print from Google Drive

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Beautifully tested by @sharkgoddess3 on Instagram!

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Coming in September!

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FINAL post on Monday!!

Get the complete Paper Piecing Vintage quilt pattern for $10 from…

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Free Pattern Friday – Mug O Love

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Hello, my amazing friends! Thank you so much for your very positive response to Free Pattern Friday!

I’ll keep at it as long as you continue to enjoy it. 🙂

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Mug O Love is a 5″ pattern originally designed for the Beat the Winter Blues Blog Hop + Giveaways hosted by Michele from The Quilting Gallery. It still makes me think warm thoughts of my favorite beverages.

Get this free pattern on Craftsy

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Save/Print from Google Drive

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Need help paper piecing? Check out this page of resources I curated just for you!

Want a different size? Check out how to enlarge & reduce quilt patterns using Adobe Reader!

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Stop by Sewhooked on the second and fourth Mondays of every month through June for the Paper Piecing Vintage Quilt Along (PPV2017)!

Find all posts on Sewhooked about PPV 2017

Get the complete Paper Piecing Vintage quilt pattern for $10 from…

CRAFTSY or ETSY

Happening now on Fandom in Stitches!

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Want to connect with other quilters working on Paper Piecing Vintage and other Sewhooked projects?

Join the Sewhooked Facebook Group for community, support & prizes! I’ll be there, as will my awesome pattern tester Amber along with many other friends of Sewhooked. We’ll answer your questions and nudge you along if you need it. Joining the group is not required, but it is fun!

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TTMT #355 – Birthdays & Surprises (and a free pattern)

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Today, I share some gifts made for the hubster as well as hinting at some secrets in progress and talking about an upcoming DIY project.

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In honor of the memory of my mother-in-law, Carol, who we lost one year ago today, I please enjoy my pattern, Cross My Hearts. ♥

This block is 6″ paper pieced (6 1/2″ unfinished).

Want a different size? I have a tutorial for that. 🙂

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Quilt idea using Cross My Hearts

Our February drawing will be for a custom quilt label professionally embroidered by Sarah’s Sewing Studio (photo soon!). Entering to win is easy, just share your photos with the Sewhooked flickr group, making sure your photos are set to share. You’ll be entered to win for each photo you share!

Want to sponsor a prize? Please drop me an email.

Join the Sewhooked Facebook Group for community, fun and support! This is absolutely optional and not required to participate in the BOM.

Happy stitching!

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My Favorite Things. a Block of the Month by Jennifer Ofenstein

I Want To Believe: An X-Files Quilt & Stitch Along coming 2016 on fandominstitches.com

Paper Piecing: Drawing a Patchy Heart

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One of the most constant requests I’ve had over the years is for a video tutorial showing how I design paper pieced patterns.

Putting together a pattern is a step by step process, but designing is not. It’s artistic and intuitive.  Even so, there are some basic techniques that stay the same every time you start a new pattern.

The absolute best advice I can give you is practice, practice, practice!

This is how I do it. In the next two videos, I’ll walk you through, step-by-step, my own process. Both videos are real time.

Part 1 of 2

Part 2 of 2

If you make 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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Less Than Three
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Back in November when I put together the post for Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, I talked about my own penchant for designing heart patterns (see below).

Geeks need love, too, so I present Less Than Three (above)!

The Linus Connection Heart My Scrappy Heart My Scrappy Heart II

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In addition to Less Than Three, with the Pink & Red season looming and Cupid stringing his bow for another year, I thought it would be fun to find all the heart patterns online that I could get my hands on and then share them with you!

After searching around for a bit, it’s obvious to me that I’m not the only one obsessed with hearts.  It doesn’t surprise me greatly, but I didn’t expect the quantity of patterns I found floating around out there.

The variety ranges from simple hand drawn patterns to chic professionally published ones.  There were a few websites that I’m sure haven’t been updated in a decade.  The patterns are still fun, cute and just waiting to be made!

Make a heart, it’ll give Cupid a target!

Free Heart Patterns:

*site has multiple heart patterns

 

Not in the mood for all these happy hearts? How about a broken one?

Broken Heart

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Also check out:  Paper Piecing:  Step By Step

&

Paper Piecing:  Seams To Me (adding seams)

Free Paper Pieced Patterns On Sewhooked!

 

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