Hottie Cover Challenge Exhibition!

With such a creative group of people in this group, I thought you all might appreciate hearing about a little project I took part in just recently to support the Margaret Pratt Foundation. It was an interesting challenge and a very original way to raise funds for a very worthwhile but perhaps not widely known cause. I joined in with a group of bloggers, organised by the very talented Cam from Curlypops, to enter the Hottie Challenge. The challenge involved creating a hot water bottle {or hottie} cover using any art or textile techniques that you enjoy working in.

An invitation to the exhibition of all the completed hottie covers!

My little hottie design was inspired by my love of books, reading and children's literature and was intended to look like the spines of books on a shelf or stack. Scattered through these "books" were typewritten excerpts from some of my favourite stories, like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Chronicles of Narnia and Matilda. On the front of the hottie I also added a little bookworm out of felt for a bit of fun {and I really like using felt}.

My hottie cover design!

All of the finished hottie covers will be displayed in Opendrawer's Gallery from Friday July 1st to Sunday July 24th, 2011. If you'd like to pop in and see some amazing designs Opendrawer can be found at, 1158 Toorak Road in Camberwell.

The actual Opening night for the exhibition is next Friday July 1st from 6 - 8 PM and all of the Hotties will be for available for sale for $50 (with all of the proceeds going directly to The Margaret Pratt Foundation).

Each Hottie will also have a dedicated money box where visitors can make a donation for the Hottie that they love the most.... when everything is tallied at the end of the exhibition, that Hottie will win the grand trophy! Trust me when I say there is some pretty tough competition, from some incredibly creative people.

If you can't make it to the gallery itself, there is a flickr group where you can take a look at the wonderful entries from Cam's group here. Well worth a look!

Best wishes,
Kylie x