Next week, on September 11, 12 & 13, Atlanta GA will be host to Quilting LIVE!, a 3-day event featuring workshops, make-it- take-its, trunk shows, quilt exhibits, industry celebrity meet-and-greets, shopping, and other special events. Classes will be offered in a variety of fields, including quilting, bag-making, home decorating and more and attendees will have the opportunity to meet industry icons like Maryann Fons and Liz Porter. To learn more about Quilting LIVE! (perhaps even to plan a last minute trip down?) click here.
We are especially excited about one class in particular — Make a Village: 3-D Fabric Houses with Rose DeBoer, Managing Editor of Quilting Arts Magazine. Rose adapted from Jacqueline deRuyter’s village in Quilting Arts Holiday 2014 and uses our Pellon® 50 Heavyweight Stabilizer as a base. We were thrilled to provide product for the class and are SO looking forward to seeing the gorgeous pieces that her students create. Check out Rose’s post about her class.
(Jacquelyn deRuyter’s Village Houses.)
Will you be attending Quilting LIVE!? What classes are you most excited about attending?
GIVEAWAY
We’re pleased to offer 2 yards of our Pellon® 50 Heavyweight Stabilizer + a copy of Quilting Arts Holiday, which contains the pattern and template for the Village houses. To enter-to-win, please leave a comment letting us know how you might embellish your own fabric house. We’ll accept entries until 11:59pm on Friday, September 5th. A winner will be randomly drawn and notified on Saturday, September 6th. Good luck!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
Congratulations to mcwflint for being our winner, randomly selected by random.org:). Have a great weekend all!!
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Would use old costume family jewelry and vintage glass Mardi Gras beads.
I would couch all kinds of wild weird fibers adn yarns and things I twist up with wire or yarn on the surfaces. I think making it look like vines growing on one of them would be really neat and remind me of the cottages in cornwall that we drive past when I was a child.
I would felt on some surfaces with my felting machine to add texture. Additionally, I would use my Shasiko machine stitches to embellish the fabrics with colorful threads.
My 2 daughters and I would have a wonderful time going through all my scraps and using buttons, trims, ribbons, and my Gem magic gem setter to put on lots of bling!
I would make the house have the look and feel of my Grandma’s house and use buttons and things that I have that were her’s…
I have some old buttons, vintage jewelry, and old lace. My husband has a shed full of reclaimed hardware that would make cute doors or window frames.
I have some antique buttons that would work and maybe the windows need a stained glass look.
Very cool! really like those!
Bring in the floss, buttons and fabric scraps. Open the box of trims, images and do-dad’s that were rescued from “ruined,” or outgrown shirts, dresses, and pants. Find the specialty, crazy edge scissors. We have house decorating to do!
Oh what fun, I’d use vintage jewelry and old hardware and aged textiles………..
I would use some of my (carefully hoarded!) vintage buttons, beads and trim!
Thanks so much for the giveaway,
Jacqueline in Pitt Meadows
I would use my NEW embroidery machine to add details to houses, leaves up the wall, gargoyles on the roof, what ever takes my fancy!
Buttons and beads!
I’m going with a gothic look, moody fabrics and hardware items. Washers for windows, buttons and perhaps some beading.
On my fabric house, I would use baby rick rack for roof tiles, and I would add a stork’s nest, perhaps made from tan and brown thread scraps.
I would decorate them with beads, such as wreaths, Christmas lights, candles in the windows, etc.
I would make a gingerbread house village and display at the library where I work. We have a gingerbread house contest each year and this would inspire people! Thank you!
Beads, sparkly threads, embroidery with lots of textured thread play would be fun to add to this festive village!
Foil candy wrappers,beads and sequins.
Very cute! I’d like to make a Christmas house with tiny pinecones and holly berries and leaves. Artificial, so they would last.
Before assembling I would lay the pieces flat and let the kids design there own houses. I like to inspire the kids, they are so proud to see their artwork displayed in our home!
I would do some thread painting and add some Swakorski crystals.
I would use some embroidery techniques to add some climbing ivy or rose vines on the sides along with some applique windows and doors. I would make them to ne used year round.
Definitely window boxes with ribbon flowers.
I have bunches of buttons & beads that would love to see the light of day!
Halloween designs would be my choice for these adorable houses. With beading, specialty yarns and embroidery, they could be a conversation piece on my mantle. Placing some photos in the windows would be fun as well. Thanks for the opportunity to win the stabilizer. ~Coco
I would use it to make an Advent calendar decorated with beads and trinkets I have collected.
I would use moss and other forest floor items to make a new home for a wee (real or not) woodland fairie creature (who can then live inside my home).
I would put some christmassy decore on the houses!
My house would have windows with pictures of my family in them and lots of antique embroidered fabric I brought with me from my home in Germany ! Yes It would look like a typical German home ,my castle !
I think it would be fun to make a neighborhood mash-up of Edward Gorey meets 1950s Christmas.
Love all the pellon produces I have used,,i would embellish the houses with beads 🙂
I’ve got a big box of vintage trims that I’ve been itching to use. This would be perfect!
I would embellish with found objects, and mirrors to reflect festive lights and candles…….
I would definitely wire these houses with lights that would look like candles in the windows. For a holiday flair I’d probably drape some evergreen looking swag (green eyelash yarn???) around the door and under the eaves.
I would use a variety of things: wood, beads, buttons, and several fabrics – from silk to wool.
Also metallic thread and maybe something to make a weather vane for the roof.
I might embellish my own fabric house with machine embroidery to give it lots of personalized details. And I know it will be beautiful because PELLON is the absolute best and easy to work with!
Why not make a summer village as well as a holiday village. I would use shells and sandpaper for them along with the beads and buttons
These are so cute.I would add those battery operated little LED lights, beads and miniture greenery.
I would embellish by making 3D thread art greenery and flowers for the front of the houses. I would also love to make little shingles for the roof.
I always love the holiday issue!
I would make all the windows with translucent fabric, and illuminate the houses from inside with battery-operated tea-lights.
Decorative stitches from my sewing machine to accent the details of the house and miscellaneous embellishments to make it uniquely my own.
I would use sprigs of boxwood and holly berries.
I have lots of beads and ribbons that could be used to decorate these houses.
My houses would have metal window frames and hammered metal doors – I think these are adorable
The houses could easily be turned into a country chapel with a cross at the top and decorated for Christmas, very cute. BTW, love Pellon!
Can’t wait to make these. I will add bead lights and holly to make the houses look as if they are decorated for Christmas. I will put them on my mantle when I do my holiday decorating.
Cute little houses! Would do some christmas decor on them. Love Pellon – and would really like to check out the Holiday magazine. Thanks for the chance to win.
I would decorate with machine and hand embroidery along with handmade buttons and some fun bling. Thanks for the sweet giveaway 🙂
I would embellish with a little cross and then shiny beads (made into stain glass windows) to transform it into a church! I want to make one!😀
Love the houses. Can’t wait to see the book.
Image transfers of relatives peeking out the windows.
Beautiful…..no end to the ways that one could decorate these houses….
I like to do lots of free motion embroidery as well as hand embroidery and beading. Some bones, some flowers and for winter, some snow and Xmas lights. Snowflakes done using heavier white thread on the bobbin.
I love 3D houses and Pellon. I have always wanted to make a village or one for each holiday. Mine would be very whimsical with use of buttons, fabrics, ric rack, painted papers and nic nacks to personalize. Can’t wait to get started!
xmas in a small town. Garland, lights, snow
Oh how cute! Could totally do a Christmas scene! Use some ric-rac, and other various ribbons along with some buttons, and fancy metallic thread!!
I have lots of fabric scraps and tons of vintage buttons, so I probably would use up some of those.
Love the houses they would lokk great with beade and lace.
Since I live in the southwest, I would probably have a cactus or 2, maybe a kokopelli or 2, and the beautiful colors that mean the sw to me.
I use buttons, ribbon, fussy cuts…..
Love Pellon…use it all the time……I would embellish with vintage linens and lace, paint, beads and embroidery……<3 thanks.
I think it would look great with button and Swarovski Crystal.
Great to work with pellon
I love houses, in any shape or form. Would be fantastic to try my hand at 3-d ones.
I would use crystals.
These could be adapted for a Easter display also with small bunnies!
I would add ribbons and beads to these cute houses.
I adore this, have a personal affinity for houses. I have buttons from those in my life that have
gone. I would make some houses one for each using fabrics from them and decorate with their
buttons. I just love this!! I hope I win… I find I need visual memories as my age creeps up.
How fun. Can’t wait to see the show.
I think Christmas fabric would be added and placed on the mantel.
I’d like to use some fabric and paper, stenciled in colors for the season. A witch house for Halloween would be such fun!
I would make a Halloween village. Black lace, black cats in window. Etc. what fun!
Ooooo, adorable. I have lots of ribbon stashed away. I think I would start with that. Then maybe get to those pieces of shiny beads that have accumulated from my kids’ various toys.
I love these! I would add some flower boxes by the windows and a wreath on the front door.
I would love to win and make some fairy tale houses
I’d use Christmas fabrics and trims to make a holiday village.
Cute. I think it would be fun to make a holiday village of models of family homes we have lived in through the years.
I think I’d embellish with rick rack for trim, and square buttons for windows.
I would embellish my houses with different trinkets I have collected. Maybe mini Christmas charms. If I can see how to do it I might add small lights or flameless candles
I would decorate for the holidays, a different one on each side so a all you would have to do is turn the house!
I have a container of buttons and containers of laces – looks like it could be dented into with the houses.
I would embellish my house using many decorative ribbons and textured materials I have gathered ove the years!
I have some antique buttons that need a good ‘home’
I would do mine with Xmas decorations and mini lights
I would make a gingerbread village. lots of baby rickrake pipeing
buttons rhinstones for glisk.
I’d love to win. I’d make flower boxes for all the windows! 🙂
I would use my button and bead collection, and do some embroidery, a wreath by the door, a doggie in the window.
I would use some of my charming charms and some copper wire swirls!
Beads will be everywhere!
I have some hot fix crystals that I didn’t know what to do with… Perfect for holiday houses.
House with Christmas lights!!!
Embroidery with decorative threads would work for just about any detail I might want to add. Some beads and ribbon would be a nice touch as well.
So cute! I’d love to try to make a model of my own house. 😉
Those sweet houses would look so good with tiny twinkle lights!! I love making functional things. I’d make a house purse.
Would love to make a Christmas-themed village! Possibly using embroidery to decorate the doors especially with greenery.
Ooh! I think I would couch some glittery threads/yarns on the fabric before making the houses. Then add buttons, trinkets and whatever found objects that might inspire me!
I would love to use my pieces of vintage embroidery and lace
With little fabric vines and flowers climbing up the sides!
I would embellish my fabric house with lace and sparkly material. See thru windows made of vinyl and a cat sitting in the window.
Those 3-D houses are so awesome!
I’d use my collection of buttons, ribbons and beads.
I’ve made greeting cards for years so I have sequins and glitter to make glitsy houses!
Clever project. Ric Rac comes to mind for a gingerbread look!
I have oodles of buttons and fabric scraps, and a village of buildings seems like a great way to put them to work!
How adorable!! I would embroider flower wreaths on the doors. Thanks!