17 November, 2015

Skydiving Bunnies




My new blogging friend, Heidi, of Red Letter Quilts, sent me an email recently asking if I was interested in this fabric. She found it at her local fabric store and it was super cheap. 

As in, $5.49 a yard. This is a panel print; usually these are sold by the panel which is shorter than a yard.

Anyway, Heidi picked up on my little obsession problem with airplanes and sewing. BFF status here.
I jumped - lol, bunnies jump fast too. In my five boxes of airplane fabrics, I did not own this particular biplane print.

At first, I was just going to get two yards for the stash but then I got looking at the panel and I saw pillowcases. The lower part with the bunny airshow will be the main fabric with the upper sky portion the cuff. A little red in the right tone will be the trim.

Won't everyone on my christmas list love getting new pillowcases for Christmas? So, I asked her to get four yards. You are seriously THE BEST, Heidi!!!


Over all picture of the panel. The sky is folded over at top - so lots of blue with airplanes flying around.







 Lower portion of the panel - depicting a busy little airshow with tents set up and spectators.







For the record, I would never jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

11 comments:

  1. You really got me with that headline, Kathy. For a moment, I thought I would see skydiving bunnies for real (and was a bit shocked). ;) Thanks for the laugh!

    Lots of greetings from Germany,
    Birgit

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    1. As I told Heidi, I didn't know skydiving bunnies was a 'thing'.

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  2. Wow! Amazing fabric. Someone had a lot of fun designing that one!!! I had to enlarge the photo because I wanted to see all of the details!

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  3. Wow.. perfect fabric for you! How nice of your friend to send it to you. We're having a devil of a windstorm over here in Corbett, lost power for 3 hours. Just came back on.. stay warm. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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    1. Windy here too - power is still on. I'm going to set my cell phone wake-up clock as a backup tonight.

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  4. Fun fabric! I liked your conclusion, "I would never jump out of a perfectly good airplane."

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  5. Wow, how cool is that fabric? Just imagining all the things you could create from it makes me giddy! Do share when you do make something!

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    1. Oh, I will. I'm really into making pillowcases in my head. Not sure I have the correct tone of red for the trim. Woot! reason to go to the fabric store.

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  6. As if there as any doubt as to whether you'd love the fabric! My thought would have been an attic window, but the pillowcases are a great idea!

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  7. Hi! Wow! Thanks for your blog! I'm making a quilted baby blanket for my skydiver friends, who is expecting a baby. I was googling for inspiration when I came over this blogpost. Love the fabric :) I wonder if you have any leftovers you'ld be willing to sell me? Cheers, Lina (Lina.kittilsen@gmail.com)

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