Silhouette Christmas Quilt

Is anyone else doing this quilt from Bernina and OESD?

I saw it and fell in love!  While mine will basically be the same, I chose a different line of fabrics, “Together” by Brannock and Patek for Moda to do mine in.

I’m also going to do the appliqués in felt.  National Wovens has a new line out called “XoticFelt” made from a bamboo/rayon blend that is dry cleanable. I am testing a piece in the washing machine on the delicate cycle, as I have to be able to wash my quilts!

Since I have the AccuQuilt Studio and not the GO!, I’ll have to cut my appliqués by hand as these dies are not available for the Studio.  Or I may convert them and let the Cutwork software and tool cut them out.  I’ve never worked with felt before, so we’ll see how it goes!

These are my fabrics.

This morning I’m going to get them all starched, and I have the felt in the washing machine now.  I’d like to get at least one block made today to see how I like it! 

We All Sew

Have you seen this website, ”We All Sew”, sponsored by Bernina? I received an email from them today, letting me know that my blog has been chosen to be the featured blog all next week in their “Favorite Blogs” section!  Cool beans!

I decided I really needed a new “look” for the occasion!

If the black and white stripes are too much, holler and I’ll see what else I can come up with.  The new logo was made with Electric Quilt 7 and Photoshop…  Oh how I’ve missed using Photoshop!

I never bought the Mac version, but chose to use Photoshop Elements instead.  Ugh.  Not that I’m a graphic artist or anything, but I’ve used Photoshop forever, and there’s things I just can’t figure out how to do in Elements.

Update on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 5:12AM by Created by CJ

Thank you everyone for all the feedback!  The stripes are out, you’ll have to let me know if the houndstooth background works or if it is still hard your eyes.

I also fixed the link to We All Sew… sorry about that!