Two Finished!

I finished my black and white quilt  a month early for our guild's president's challenge.  I used embroidery thread to quilt it, two strands, and quilted it horizontally and vertically.   The black thread does not show unless you look really close.  Only my coloured threads show which is kind of cool.

  The fabric is cotton left overs, the batting is bamboo from Pellon and the screening is when I broke our screen as I ran through it to answer the phone as I didn't see it=)

Do you know what is coming next? The 'Undie Quilt'!  I probably should think of a better name for it, but that could prove a bit difficult, I mean it is underwear=)

I did a stipple stitch to quilt it in white thread and chose not to quilt the underwear so that they would pop out a bit more.

 The embellishments are Riley Blake Fabrics, the batting is bamboo from Pellon and the fabric is from Trend-Tex Fabrics. What do you think?  

Happy Dance

I got a fat envelope as they say in the juried quilt show world today.   It was from the International Quilt Festival for their O'Canada exhibit that starts in Chicago and goes to Houston!
It was for my quilt 'Rockin The Rainbow'.

I have been making great progress on my undie quilt too.  I have machine appliqued around all the little undies now.  And look at those adorable embellishments at the top of each underwear!! So stinking cute.

This button trim I got when I was in Utah and only bought 2 metres, ok, yards down there.  I should have bought all they had, it is so fun.

All the rest of my embellishments are from Riley Blake fabrics.   They really do have that many different kinds of embellishments!

This one just cracks me up.

Who wouldn't want to have roses on their waist band?  If you don't have them on your dining room table, put them on your underwear!

Have a great weekend=)

Undies Anyone?

Now there is a post title I thought I would never write!

I have wanted to do this for so long, and never got around to it, but when I had to look after a huge fundraiser for our national quilting organization, CQA/ACC.  I knew it was time to have some fun.

I started by sketching out 9 different types of underwear.  With this fundraiser, we purchased 5 pieces of fabric and have to use only those in the making of the quilt, which then is auctioned off.

Here are the fabrics I had to play with.  

And here are some of my undies.   

On the top of each pair, I had to use a fun embellishment.   This one has zipper tape.

This one has rose ribbon from Riley Blake Fabrics.  Actually all the embellishments are from Riley Blake, because they just have the most fun when it comes to embellishing!

This white ribbon elastic is just so fun to use.   I make bracelets out of it too with buttons on them.  

Now was this good planning on laying the pattern out?   

I have only shown you 4, and will show you the rest in the next day or two.   I now have to go and do some type of stitching around the edges of them.  I am unsure of what stitch to use as I don't want it to detract from the actual underwear.   I am considering a small machine applique stitch in a corresponding colour.   Well, except for the striped ones, may use a light grey thread for those.