A Little News

I have a little bit of fun news.   I write tutorials for Pellon Inc. who have the most wonderful products.   My very favourite is their bamboo batting.   I LOVE it.   It is all I use in my quilts.   My quilts are mostly wall hangings, okay, all wall hangings.  Who has time to make those enormous bed quilts?  I know, many of you are amazing quilters and do take the time and your talent to turn out beautiful big quilts.  I admire you for that.

The bamboo batting is just wonderful, not too lofty, which I like for my quilts and easy for the needle to puncture through by machine or hand.

They have released a few new products and I received them in the mail yesterday.   I was sent them for a certain reason.

This is Pellon's new Fuse-N-Shape.

Let's take a closer look at the teacup in the top right hand corner.

Hmm...it is 3D, that might look familiar.  Let's see what it says on the back of the product.

Let's just zoom in a little....

Love that bottom line=)

I also made the coasters on the top right corner of  Pellon's new EZ-Steam as well.

That is really exciting mail to get=)   Now back to a tight deadline.  Have some fun stuff to show you shortly.

I Am Featured Here

Pellon Inc. sent out a quick email asking for Father's Day gifts.   Initially ties popped into my head.  I think ties must be the standard gift idea for dad.   I took that idea a little further and came up with this:

Pellon liked the idea so much that they kicked off their Father's Day series with it!

I used The Quilted Fish's new line 'Madhuri' by Riley Blake Fabrics.   The bottom one, I just had to add some extra dots on it.

You can find my instructions on Pellon's blog and website.

Catching Up

I have been out of town for 10 days in beautiful Penticton British Columbia for our annual national quilt conference, put on by the Canadian Quilters' Association.

While I was gone, had an exciting email.   Pellon is launching a new product in Jo-Ann's craft stores and sent me the following message:

Jo-Ann wanted to feature projects on the packaging ... we chose to showcase a variety of projects that were made using Peltex®.  I'm happy to report that  one of your projects was selected to be on the packaging. This also means that the project title and your name will be listed on the packaging.

This is the project, Cup O' Tea.  You can find the tutorial here.

I also managed to sneak away and do a few wine tours.

Now Quilt Market was on the same weekend as our national conference.   Don't even ask how sad I was that I had to miss market!

But one of my quilts was in the super awesome Amanda Herring's booth - The Quilted Fish.  By the way, her booth won 2nd place for the Booth Awards!   ( I like to think my quilt helped=)  heehee

Here is her booth:

And here is my quilt in there:

Thank you Sally for the great pics! Amanda's design team all made mini modern quilts for her to hang in her booth.  We are all posting tutorials on May 29th of our projects, so stay tuned!

One Sheep Two Sheep

I finished a really fun wall hanging yesterday.   The best part is that it is going to be a tutorial for Pellon Inc.
A while ago they sent me some new stuff they were marketing and asked if anything grabbed me.   As soon as I saw the 'Perfect Loft', 100% Cluster Fiber Fill, I was in love.  

  

There was no possible way that I was hiding that perfect little round squishy filling inside something without showing them off a little bit!   They instantly reminded me of the sheep my grandparents used to have on their farm.   Their hair was so white, curly and cuddly.   

After a bit of planning, alot of fun, and a few little sheep running around, I came up with this.

The background fabric is from 'The Quilted Fish' fabric line called 'Flutter'.  I love how bright and busy the background is.   I find it makes my little white sheep stand out that much more.

As soon as I hear that Pellon Inc has put up the tutorial, I will let you know.   

Let me know what you think=)

New 3D Art Quilt with Tutorial

Remember I teased you with this picture:

I can now show you the whole quilt.   There is a funny story about this one.  Pellon needed something using their product 'Fabric Magic' by the end of a week, for a promotion with a huge company.

I was emailed, but was leaving in middle of said week.  Not wanting to let Pellon down, and knowing the product made fabric go 3D, I decided to try. At 5 pm I walked into my studio with no idea whatsoever in my head, and having never used the product, I got started. At 10 pm I skipped joyfully out with this.

Now to clarify this NEVER happens to me, that an idea hits, no kinks happen, well, other than restarting the project halfway through.   That was when the really big brainwave hit, and then I got petrified I didn't have enough of the Fabric Magic left.  The fabric used is 'Apple of My Eye' by The Quilted Fish.

The tutorial is here.   The great news, Pellon loved it and is going to use it for promotion...more on those details later=))

What do you think?

P.S. My friend Nina Marie is doing a link up Friday, drop by and check it out.

Playing With a New Product

I got an email last week from a colleague asking me about using Fabric Magic by Pellon.  I had a package here, but did not have a chance to open it till then.    Have you heard of it?  It is a brand new product of Pellon's.  Here is what they say about it:

Picture from Pellon

I decided to give it a try.  The material is like a thin plastic that you can trace onto, and then sew to the back of your fabric.   

It is set by steam from your iron.   You hold the iron about an inch above the Fabric Magic and it shrinks it up.  Although it doesn't look like the plastic is changing shape at all, wait until you turn it over to look at the fabric!   Total shrinkage.

The more quilting or stitches you make in it, the more it shrinks up.   If you sandwich batting between the fabric and the Fabric Magic, it gives it even more of a 3D look, and we all know how I like my 3D embellishing!

Here is a little peak of a project I have made.  I can't reveal it yet because there is some exciting news to go along with it, but just to keep you interested....

Word Play Quilt

Remember my teaser picture of this:

I told you it was for a project for Pellon.  This took so long to do, and more designing than I would have thought.  But I had fun doing it.  Then it turned into this:

Then this:

Are you guessing it yet?  Then this:

And finally finished:

You guessed it, a giant sized board game of making words.  If you want to learn how to make it, check out Pellon projects!

Giveaway Winner

It's Friday and we have a winner for my hand dyed fabrics!

Congratulations go to:

 Peggy said...

I am a follower. Thanks for a chance to win some beautiful fabric.
Thanks,
Peggy

   

I think we may sneak in one more giveaway before Christmas.   I will be back next week to show you the progress of my art quilt.  For now, here are some stockings I hand dyed with Kool Aid.  They are made out of Pellon batting.  As soon as they post the tutorial on their website, I will let you know.  

Dyed Batting

I have finished a cute fast little project for Pellon.   I dyed batting with Kool Aid!   It is easy and turned out really cute.  Check out the tutorial here.

I also got a little carried away with the dyed batting....

This is a cute little pouch, used my Baby GO! for the circles. A tutorial will be available soon!

A second brooch, GO! again at work.

Another pouch.

What else could you do with dyed batting?

Stained Glass Quilt

Remember I gave you a glance of this:

Here is the rest of it:

It is finally up on the Pellon site and my whole tutorial is there.   It is an original design and let me tell you, I had a real tricky time designing this template.   I must have had over 15 different designs on my sketch pad, before I found one that worked and looked good.

I used all my hand dyed fabrics for it, and love how the colours have different shades in them, just like light peaking in behind.   If you want to make one, click here for the tutorial.  It is not a difficult procedure and it is fun picking out the fabrics that will go in each little section.  One could get really carried away and make several, just to see how different they all look.

If you haven't entered the GO! giveaway, click here.

Having Fun with my GO!

I have been playing with my Baby GO!  I didn't think I would use it as much as I have.   I wonder if there is such a thing as a GO! addiction.  I may have it, if there is.  I think the treatment is probably to buy more dyes for it=)

When my kids were younger, I made them felt boards and literally spent hours cutting out shapes for them.  Last week I used my GO! to cut out shapes the board, in 3 minutes flat!  Now why wasn't the GO! around back then?  

Now take a look at this sneak peak of what I have been working on:

This is what I have been creating for Pellon.  Trust me when I say you have no idea what I have made this out of.   

You see that I have mentioned the GO! quite a bit, you may want to check back next week.  Just sayin'...