I want to give a HUGE congratulations to Shirley U., whose Project of Doom quilt won the Blue Ribbon at the North Carolina State Fair quilting competition in the "Other Technique" Category!

Can I even tell you how excited I am? I really don't think there are words!

Her quilt will be on display October 12 - 23, so if you have the chance to go see it, please, please do.

And? If you do go? I want pictures!

I would encourage everyone that participated in The Project of Doom to share their finished quilt. Check with your local quilt guild about future shows, or your local library or school library to see if they might like to have it on display. Those things I plan to do with my own PoD once the quilting is complete.

We put a lot of fandom love into each of our quilts and we need to share it with the world! That's my real hope for the legacy of this very special project we all participated in together.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

The Project of Doom was a Harry Potter Block of the Week that took place between January and August 2011. This is a comprehensive archive of all of the patterns that were posted during that time, including fabric requirements and suggested layouts.

All patterns were designed by Jennifer Ofenstein of Sewhooked and are shared for personal and non-profit use only.

This archive can also be found on Fandom In Stitches and Sewhooked.

Click on any photo to enlarge. Click on "week" for pattern and "original post" for blog post.

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This archive can also be found on Fandom In Stitches and Sewhooked.





I look forward to continuing to post your PoD photos as they come in. I hope you're working hard to finish your quilt tops for the End of Days Challenge.

To everyone that has participated in The Project of Doom...my most sincere thanks! Remember, projectofdoom</lj> is a special community for those people participating that would like to swap tips, ideas, photos and more!

See you next week!

Thank you all for your wonderful response to Week 30. The Project of Doom has been such a pleasure to work on and to share and I can never thank you all enough for your participation!

This week, I bring you the final PoD post which includes layout suggestions for the 30 blocks that you made during our Block of the Week. I say suggestions because these are just that, suggestions. You do not have to follow my finishing instructions in order to complete your quilt, but if you want to create my original vision, this is it!

( Two For The Price of One )

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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit Week Thirteen Week Fourteen

Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29 Week 30





Click on the banner above for details about our PoD Challenge!




And, last, but not least...as promised! An Announcement!








Two Little Hooters, a new pattern from The Sewhooked Shop

This is it! I can hardly believe it.

On January 12 of this year, we embarked on a journey together. You gave me your time and attention and rode out the rough patches in the beginning as we worked through sizing and printing issues. You posted your photos to flickr and participating in a friending meme. The experienced quilters in our group adopted those less experienced and in need of fabric. We made friends. We laughed. We waited for Deathly Hallows part 2 together. With the generosity of your donations, I mailed out 7 monthly prizes to lucky winners and was thrilled at each of their responses.

We, in short, lived the last eight months together, meeting twice a week; once for sharing, and once for the excitement of a new pattern. It has been my great honor to share The Project of Doom with you. hp_paperpiecing will continue to exist, but as I have said in the past, the PoD is my last big HP quilting project.

I dedicate every block of this project to you. Every hour of planning. Every moment of scrutinizing lines until my eyes watered to make sure each block was as perfect as I could make it.

This is for us, so we remember what it was like to be a Harry Potter fan, right here, right now.

Always.

Reminder: If you DO NOT want to see the block before you make the pattern in order to keep it a mystery, please do not click on the cut! If you leave a comment, you will be taken behind the cut and will see the block...just FYI!

( Take a risk. )

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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit Week Thirteen

Week Fourteen Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28 Week 29





Click on the banner above for details about our PoD Challenge!


I'll be back next week with suggested finishing instructions. And photos. You know we'll have lots of great block photos!

We're not 100% done...not just yet!

EDITED TO ADD: In honor of this week's pattern, use coupon code WEEK30 through Friday, August 12 and receive 30% off of your total purchase from The Sewhooked Shop!







Two Little Hooters, a new pattern from The Sewhooked Shop

Well, hp5freak said it...this is the Penultimate Pattern!

And this one? This one is easy. And awesome. And fun. I think it'll make a fun addition to your quilt.

Reminder: If you DO NOT want to see the block before you make the pattern in order to keep it a mystery, please do not click on the cut! If you leave a comment, you will be taken behind the cut and will see the block...just FYI!

( Add a clockwise stir. )

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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit Week Thirteen

Week Fourteen Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27 Week 28




Just a reminder that we have a Challenge going on! Click the banner for details.

Next week is, dare I say it? The last Project of Doom block pattern. The very, very last one. How did we get here so quickly?







Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

Well, well, it's August! Just a few more weeks and the journey we started in January will be complete.

Never fear, there's one more thing we have to do...and that's complete our quilts! It's my great pleasure to announce The Project of Doom End of Days Challenge!

This may be our best Challenge ever here at hp_paperpiecing and if you've been playing along with the Project of Doom, then you are already most of the way there!

The Challenge
Complete your Project of Doom quilt top by Monday September 26, 2011. Post a photo of your completed quilt top in our flickr group or send me your photo via email.

The Prizes
One participant will win custom quilting for their Project of Doom quilt from Rock Creek Quilts! That's right, all your hard work will be quilted by The Official Quilter of hp_paperpiecing! The winner will be chosen by a random drawing. Winner must provide backing fabric, batting and shipping.

Every person that participates in the End of Days Challenge will receive a 20% off coupon to Rock Creek Quilts, valid for six months, exclusively for their Project of Doom quilt AND a $5 coupon good on any Sewhooked Shop pattern.

How's that for Challenge?

And now, on to our usual business!

( You do not get warts from toads, just photos. )

August Prize


The August prize was donated by MariaRose3685 (quilting gloves and notecard), hp5freak (t-shirt), aalia7 (fat quarter), mkissa (2 fat quarters), ladyoflosttimes (snitch pendant), hpfan_poa (tile pendant), lunaneela (pin cushion) and Sewhooked (HP fat quarter & PoD button).


I'll see you tomorrow with Week 29. Only two left...







Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

So, I kinda sorta broke a promise to you....

Remember about halfway through the PoD when I mentioned that all the blocks from here on out would be three wands or less in difficulty? Well...they were. Then I realized there was something really important that I wanted to include in the PoD that had not been in the original design.

So, this weekend, I redrafted and re-pieced this week's design and am now much happier with the final layout. Unfortunately, that means asking you to bear with me through one more 4-wander. Do you think you can do it if I pinkie swear this is the very last one? It's not hard, I promise, especially when you take it one piece at a time. I'd even go so far as to call this a 3 1/2, especially after all the practice you've had with the first 27 PoD blocks.

Reminder: If you DO NOT want to see the block before you make the pattern in order to keep it a mystery, please do not click on the cut! If you leave a comment, you will be taken behind the cut and will see the block...just FYI!

( It's not easy being green. )

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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit

Week Thirteen Week Fourteen Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26 Week 27



CHALLENGE
Big things are brewing! We will have a challenge immediately after the completion of the Project of Doom. Please continue to watch for PoD-related Challenge info! Full details coming soon.

There are two blocks left to go and both feature, well.... items...so look forward to that!







Aces High, a new pattern from Sewhooked!

As I look over the last few patterns I have to share with you for the Project of Doom, I find myself getting a little choked up. It seems like we've been doing this forever, but at the same time, it feels as though we just started, which is much how I feel about my involvement in the Harry Potter fandom in general! I've enjoyed this process so much and once again want to thank you all for playing along.

Reminder: If you DO NOT want to see the block before you make the pattern in order to keep it a mystery, please do not click on the cut! If you leave a comment, you will be taken behind the cut and will see the block...just FYI!

( Oi, it's twenty seven in 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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit

Week Thirteen Week Fourteen Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25 Week 26



Three more to go...







My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop
All Sewhooked patterns now available as hard copies! Click here for details.

The final countdown has begun! This week brings us block number 26. The PoD will be completely online by mid-August! There is a challenge in the works to encourage you to finish your quilt by the end of the year. I am open to suggestions and/or donations for prizes!

Thank you all for the great response to the idea of the projectofdoom community! Each and every one of you is welcome to join, share, post, etc. I'll be there, too, if you need me, even after the Project of Doom patterns have all been posted. :)

Reminder: If you DO NOT want to see the block before you make the pattern in order to keep it a mystery, please do not click on the cut! If you leave a comment, you will be taken behind the cut and will see the block...just FYI!

( Twenty-what? That's not possible! )

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.

All about the Project of Doom Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve Extra Credit

Week Thirteen Week Fourteen Week Fifteen Week Sixteen Week Seventeen Week Eighteen Week Nineteen Week 20 Week 21 and 22 Week 23 Week 24 Week 25



See you next week with Week 27. Wow, really...only four left. It seems like we just started!







My Kitchen Window, a pattern from the Sewhooked Shop

By special request, I have created a new community called projectofdoom as a sister site to hp_paperpiecing. This is a place for you to share, talk and ask questions about The Project of Doom.

I realize it's a bit late in the game, but there are a number of people that have not yet started or are in the early days with their PoD that suggested they'd like a place to go once the project is over so they can still feel the sense of community and playing along that we have now. This is will be also be a great way to keep in touch once the PoD is complete.

To anyone and everyone that is interested, please feel free to join the projectofdoom community, share your blocks and your stories, ask questions, etc. All members of the community will be able to post, comment, etc.

Please note that I will not be collecting photos from the projectofdoom community, to save myself from any confusion that might arise from seeing a photo in more than one place. Please continue to either email them to me or post them to the flickr group.

And...have fun!



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