Quilts

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!!

Quilts

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.

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).

So, play March Madness Mad for Solids and vote for your favorite bundles. See you Friday.

Chuck Nohara

Chuck Nohara Blocks, and This N’ That

October 4, 2016October 1, 2016 Elizabeth E.8 Comments

It’s Chuck Nohara update time, as I just finished my last block for September. This is how one of them started: a wonky mess. I realized that while I had decided to paper piece this one, not each piece was identical to its brother/sister piece. If you decide to do #CN1723 (which is how we identify them on Instagram), number the pieces from 1-8, so you get neighbors together, rather than mixing them up. Yes, I unpicked it all and started again.

Here are September’s blocks: #cn1723, #cn1105, #cn570, and #cn1454 (links are to IG).

I cheated on the EPP on this one, as I first pieced together the four-patch, then treated it as one unit in the construction.

Here they all are. Now that we are getting closer to the end, I need to think about the shape I want to make. I tend towards square quilts, so if that’s what I want to do, I only need four more. Or eighteen. (Maybe I won’t make it square.)

You know already that I went to Kansas City, but I thought their restored Union Station was stunning, which includes the ornate ceiling and scrubbed-up chandeliers.

The folks in Kansas City are ~~rabid~~ enthusiastic about their sports teams, as I’m sure you can see the Chiefs logo in one of the giant windows.

While I was there I had a chance to sew on a new label for Starry Compass Rose, and it was good to see an old friend again. Not only was my quilt an old friend, so were the people who work at Paintbrush Studios–it was Anne’s birthday and we all went to lunch to celebrate. Yes, we sang to her in the restaurant–she is a lovely person and I was happy my trip coincided with her birthday.

They do food big here; it was delicious (I took home the leftovers). I think there’s a special feeling about the Midwest. You kind of feel like the center of the universe there, with all the trains and planes and people having to go through there, or pass over there on the way to somewhere else. I lived in the Midwest for a couple of years, and still have very fond memories (just not of the snow in the winter).

Lastly, I finished Shine: The Circles Quilt, and have been photographing it in preparation to enter Road to California. I’ll give a big reveal here in a couple of weeks after I finish some more photographs, but for now–it’s done by the deadline.

Now comes the nerve-wracking waiting part.

(I swiped this illustration from Susan’s blog: we are doing this Chuck stuff together.)

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