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Mad for Solids Wrap-up 2018 and Giveaway

April 12, 2018September 6, 2018 Elizabeth E.102 Comments

Giveaway Thanks

I’m sure you have seen a version of this photo before, as I participated in the Mad for Solids 2018 for Painer’s Palette Solids. Paintbrush Studios, the people who manufacture this line of solids first contacted me about four years ago, asking me to make them a quilt for Quilt Market. Paintbrush who? was my first response. But I jumped in and made them a medallion sort of design. I was paid for this effort. But simply being paid doesn’t keep me coming back. I have also sewn for “free” for them.

Paint Chips Painter's Palette Solids

Why do I keep agreeing to do this? When they do send me fat quarters/half yards of a variety of colors — whatever they are setting up as their parameters — it challenges me to design a quilt using just those fabrics, and I use it as a design challenge. (Of course, if any of you have participated in any of the MQG challenges, you know that even if you get 3 fat quarters for free, you end up buying about more on your own. Typical, right?)

Paintbrush Studios Colors_chart

When I first was considering designing/sewing for them, I asked, “Is your fabric of a good quality?” Painter’s Palette was a new line, made with a bit tighter weave and finer threads, and while the first launch had 80 colors, they now have many more than that (latest card is above). I don’t need 500 colors to be happy; I need enough to make the designs I want to. My favorite part about this fabric is how it feels in the hand–almost silky, but with a good weight. I also like that if I have to “un-sew,” this fabric will hold up to the repeated picking out and re-stitching. It also steams into place well, if the block needs to be flat, or seams eased in. I’m not the only one who is in love with this fabric.

Here are the quilts I’ve made with Painter’s Palette Solids:
Starry Compass Rose
Cinque Terra Tiles
Northern Star (in progress)
Annularity

RedWhiteBlueStar_final1
Red, White, and Blue Star (free pattern)

Sky Rocket Variant

Guccilicious Block, above, and here too
(Note to self: I need to finish my ideas on this one)
Electra Magnetic

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Six Ways to Blue (above)
Rose Window

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And this little one, Focus, made for their first booth at QuiltCon 2017 from scraps from the first quilt I made for them.

Mad4Solids2018votesign — *I make these little pictures on my phone, using the app Snapseed. Easy-peasy.*

Thank you all for your votes and support in the Mad for Solids 2018. I really owe you all a quilt or something, but I decided instead to have a little giveaway of Painter’s Palette fabrics, in the exact colors I used for my Northern Star (which is still in process), so you can try them for yourself.

I ordered these from Pineapple Fabrics, which is where — until I can persuade my local shop to carry them– I purchase my Painter’s Palette Solids.

I have two stacks of 8 fat quarters, which I’ll give away to two people. I will announce this on Instagram and on my blog, but only comments on my blog will count. (I will ship internationally as well as domestic, for those of you overseas who are wondering about that.) If you are a follower of this blog, leave an extra comment to double your chances (and thank you for reading!). I’ll let this run for a couple of days, and then draw a winner, who I will notify by email.

~~To enter the giveaway, please leave me a comment telling me if you’ve ever seen the Northern Lights in the night sky.~~

Giveaway now closed. Thank you for entering!

Guccilious Scraps Head into the World

April 5, 2017April 6, 2017 Elizabeth E.52 Comments

Paintbrush Studio Solids_lineup

As promised, the scraps from my Guccilious quilt need to go out into the world, for others to enjoy this fabric and this particular range of colors. And although this bundle accumulated quite a few votes in the March Madness 2017 (thank you very much!), Christine’s bundle of blues and yellows won (I voted again today…and for hers!).

Paint Chips Painter's Palette Solids

I think someone might like to see all the range of colors, so I’m also giving away two Paintbrush Studios Paint Chips, which includes every color you see below. No, I’m not giving away the card, just the double-pack of two Paint Chips that have every color, as shown above.

Paintbrush Studios Colors_chart

UPDATE: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO ALL WHO LEFT A COMMENT. RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW. Leave me a comment below, telling me which one you’d like to win–the scraps or the double pack of Paint Chips–and after a few days, I’ll close off the giveaway and send out the fun! Thanks for entering!

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Summer Giveaway Winners

August 11, 2013 Elizabeth E.5 Comments

You are all winners in my book–just take a look at all that was accomplished this summer!

I’m generally terrible at picking winners; I personally LOATHE the random number generator, but don’t mind their List Generator. So I typed up all your accomplishments into a list and let the random generator help me choose. Of course, I personally would have gone for the running-while-not-re-injuring foot, given the fact that my summer consisted of foot surgery, but in the end, Amy C. and Ashley, of Wasn’t Quilt in a Day, were the winners for this giveaway.

I still have a couple of more little things I picked up at Long Beach, so I’ll probably have to find another reason to host a giveaway. Thanks to all who entered and congratulations on having so many stupendous achievements over the summer!

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Summer Giveaway

August 8, 2013August 12, 2013 Elizabeth E.52 Comments

So why a giveaway?

Oh, I don’t know–it’s coming down to the end of summer, I picked up a couple of cute things at Long Beach Quilt Show, and why not?

The top photo shows the little bundle exploded so you can see the fabrics. I chose turquoise and reds, plus that fabulous record novelty print for the first one. And for the second, I sometimes think we all need some decent darks in our stash–we all tend to buy light, brights, but to make a quilt really pop, a wider range can help.

And what’s tucked inside? Two little sewing kits, picked up from Eleanor Burns’ booth at the quilt show, with fun sayings.

To win either packet (you can specify), leave me a comment telling me your favorite achievement this summer–could be a quilt finished, time spent with children or grandchildren, or a good book read. As per the usual, those who are followers of this blog get their name thrown in twice!

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Comments were closed at this post on Sunday evening. Anything comments after that were appreciated but unable to be entered into the drawing. Thanks for stopping by! See this post for winners.