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Guccilicious Moves On to a New Bracket

April 3, 2017August 17, 2025 Elizabeth E.11 Comments

So, I’ve been playing around some more with my Guccilicious bundle of Painter’s Palette Solids, and created this New York Beauty block ( *here*).

It seems my bundle has made it into the Top Eight of the Mad for Solids Bracket 2017. What an honor, and it’s all due to all those nice votes I received from you. Thank you very much. If you feel like doing it again, well, I won’t argue.

So…Head to the Paintbrush Studios Blog to vote for my bundle of fun another time, or head to their Instagram feed. The voting opens at 7 a.m. EST Monday April 3rd, and closes 24 hours later. You can vote once each place.

And thank you, thank you.

If I win this round, I’ll be in the final four. And then we’ll see what happens from there. At any rate, it will all be over by Friday, as shown by the Paintbrush Studios voting schedule:

Monday, 4/3: voting in games 9 and 10 (That’s this one!!)

Tuesday, 4/4: voting in games 11 and 12

Wednesday, 4/5: announce Final Four and voting for games 13 and 14

Thursday, 4/6: announce championship game and voting

Friday, 4/7: announce winner

Regardless of whether I win or not (so you should vote for the bundle you like best, even if it isn’t this one), I will hold a drawing for the remainder of my fabrics, about a fat-eighth each, as a way to say thank you, and for you try to these fabrics. I may give away a couple of extra things, because you’ve all been so nice to vote, and because I really really want you all to discover how wonderful these fabrics are to work with.

Go Guccilicious!!

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March Madness: Guccilicious and Sky Rocket Quilt

March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 Elizabeth E.1 Comment

Today is the day to vote for my bundle of fabrics titled Guccilicious, *here* and on Instagram.

On Friday, I introduced you to my bundle of colors, and the name, and today I’d like to show you what I made from that bundle.

It’s a variation of an old block titled Sky Rocket from the 1930s, but here I’ve changed up some colorations, shortened some sections and let the colors pop. At a later date, I’ll attach a link for a free pattern, but today…just enjoy and get yourself over to the blog to vote.

I’ve disabled the comments today on the blog so as not to be confusing, and will let you know later on when I run my giveaway for the fat-eighths of my Guccilicious bundle.

Head over now to cast your vote in Paintbrush Studios March Madness for my Gucciliccious, on their blog Inspired by Fabric, and at their Instagram account @pbstudiofabrics.

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March Madness with Painter’s Palette Solids

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 Elizabeth E.

Today is the day we announce the Mad for Solids 2017, our quilty version of March Madness (we can’t let the basketball players have all the fun, can we?) There are 16 quilters who have chosen sixteen different combinations of fabrics, and we’ve been placed in a bracket of games:

I’m in Game 1–which is Monday. Yeah, I won’t really be challenging my opponent to a game of basketball in my driveway. Instead we will post info about our bundle of colors and you’ll choose the winner in each match-up. If you like hers better than mine, that’s fine–the point is to play and have some fun.

And what’s in it for you, other than a chance to see a lot of fabulous colors from the Paintbrush Studios line of solids? Paintbrush Studios will draw two people at the end of the contest during the championship game to win a bundle of their favorite fabric. You’ll love wanting to get your hands on this fabulous fabric. Click *HERE* to see the line-up of beautiful bundles of fabrics. (UPDATE–I fixed the link.)
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And now, I’d like to introduce: Guccilicious!

Yes, I chose my colors for my bundle after looking at the clothes in the Gucci Designer Collection. The Fall Paris Fashion Shows are always held in Spring, and since I’ve had some down time for reading, I looked at several collections. The clothes are not what caught my eye in Gucci’s collection–it was the colors!

I went to my color chart, and started narrowing it down to the colors shown above. I tried to capture the essence of Gucci’s colors with my eight allowed choices.

So come back Monday to get a look at what I made with my colors, and to get the link where to vote for my bundle. When this is all over with in a week or two, no matter if I win or not, I’ll have a drawing for someone to win a fat-eighth bundle of my colors (essentially–my scraps) so you can have some Guccilicious, too! I’ve deactivated comments on this blog post, and will do the same on Monday’s post (so it won’t be confusing where to vote for my bundle), but I’ll let you know when I run the giveaway for my bundle.

See you Monday!

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March Madness Coming

March 20, 2017 Elizabeth E.7 Comments

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I have been working with Painter’s Palette Solids for nearly two years now in various capacities (quilt designer, mostly) and I love these fabrics not only for their wide range of colors, but also for the hand–or how it feels. They are made by Paintbrush Studios. pbstudios_1

I was contacted by them to help them with their launch of the fabrics, to make them a quilt for Quilt Market announcing these solids. I designed a quilt, sent off my fabrics request and started working. I fell in love with the saturation of color, the fine thread count–but not so much that it’s too lightweight, like a batiste (which wrinkles terribly)–but enough that it was easy-to-work with, to cut and to sew.

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And since I was sewing for someone else and I was hyper-vigilant about matching the seams, etc., it also held up while I ripped out and resewed seams, without showing cloth fatigue or looking used. I was amazed at this new line of solids and have been working with them for a while now, waiting as they rolled out their fabrics for sale across the United States.

QMarket3_Focus And now again, I get another chance to play with my beloved Painters Palette Solids! They are running a March Madness contest, starting Friday, and at the end of the contest, they will draw two winners to win free fabric…and I hope one of them is you.

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More details are coming on Friday (3/24), with voting in brackets (just like the real March Madness) beginning on Monday, March 27th. I’ll have a bundle of colors that will go up against other quilters with their bundles of colors. Vote for the one you like the best in the categories, and send your favorites to the top (I like mine, but it’s also great if you like someone else’s too).