If you’re a quilter, maybe you already know about this. In fact, I might be the last person in the entire sewing universe to have discovered this, but since it’s new to me, I figured I’d share it. Hey everyone, did you know that there’s a not insignificant market for homoerotic beefcake quilting fabric? And oh, they are giggle-worthy indeed! I guess it’s not surprising, because you can get pretty much anything on quilting fabric. But I’d be curious to see a quilt actually made from these though.
All the usual hot ‘n’ heavy fantasy suspects are available for your sewing pleasure, including your chiseled, shirtless motorcycle cops:
Your oiled-up construction workers/handymen types:
Buff and bronzed cowboys:
A couple of rugged lumberjacks:
The ever necessary ripply-bodied firemen (obviously the one on the left is doing the quick change into his gear on his way out to battle an inferno, not stripping for you. Get your mind out of the gutter!)
And lastly, the surprisingly tame and clothed package delivery guys for those of you who prefer a little mystery with your naughty quilts:
And no, I wasn’t prowling red light districts for R-rated quilting shops. These fabrics are surprisingly widely available on Etsy, eBay, and lots of online fabric stores like J&O, and Ladybutton Fabrics. I don’t expect I’ll be purchasing any of these anytime soon, but if you do and make yourself a really weird wrap dress or something, be sure to come back and show us, ok?
Between this and the weirdly steamy Burda 6.2010 preview, it sure gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “fabric pr0n,” doesn’t it?
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May 7, 2010 at 9:36 am
kathleen
I made some pajamas for my sister out of the fireman fabric. She found them very amusing. There is also pin up fabric for guys too. Quilters aren’t just sweet boring old ladies. That’s their secret.
May 7, 2010 at 9:37 am
Carlotta
Come on! Of course this fireman is a strip–teaser in costume. Otherwise, I can’t see why he would wear a buckle on his underwears.
May 7, 2010 at 9:38 am
rainydayseamstress
I love this line! I’ve seen very cute pot holders made out of these fabrics. Just find your favorite guy and he can help you out when things are too hot to handle!
May 7, 2010 at 9:48 am
Catherine
Where is the sexy clerical worker, sitting in his cubical in front of his rapidly aging pc eating hot pockets?
May 7, 2010 at 9:50 am
Mz. Whitney
I’m gonna be needing an entire wardrobe of beefcake sundresses, actually. Like, right now. How cruel that they’re out of stock on “Beach Boys”. http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=pin00017
May 7, 2010 at 10:02 am
Emma Louise
Delivery guys? Seriously?? Um… no.
May 7, 2010 at 10:08 am
Tasia
Love it! Thanks for sharing, I’ve been looking for naughty-delivery-boy print cotton for a while now :)
Did you buy any??
May 7, 2010 at 10:18 am
Katie
PJ pants. Genius. This is hilarious!!!
May 7, 2010 at 10:21 am
Anonymous
I’m afraid they remind me of The Village People with their YMCA – or is that just my age showing?
May 7, 2010 at 10:22 am
viv
Sorry – didn’t mean to be anonymous with that last comment
May 7, 2010 at 10:30 am
Angela
Wow! I had no idea those prints existed… that’s too funny!
May 7, 2010 at 10:38 am
frifris
*rofl*
May 7, 2010 at 10:41 am
Patchwork Queen
How hilarious……
May 7, 2010 at 10:42 am
Stacy
I have some of that cowboy fabric in my stash!
It was originally supposed to become throw pillows for a house-warming gift for my gay BFF, but that was, um, about three years ago? Instead it just adorns the depths of my stash bin, along with the leather piping I bought to trim those alleged pillows. Sigh. I’m a bad friend.
May 7, 2010 at 10:51 am
sarahdipity
One other popular use for these fabrics is for aprons.
May 7, 2010 at 11:05 am
Myra
Too funny, I knew they existed, hadn’t really looked closely, but some do resemble YMCA/Village People style. Now you are advocating a piece of clothing in quilting fabric :)
May 7, 2010 at 11:09 am
Tammy
I made pillows for all my office girlfriends out of the cowboys. Put fringe all around the pillow – like you used to see on souvenir pillows. I let them pick out their favorite cowboy and they used them to help make the office chairs more comfortable or just set them on their desks for “decoration”
May 7, 2010 at 11:24 am
Dei
New to you, new to me, too. How novel.
May 7, 2010 at 11:34 am
jana
Wow, I love these! I can´t get them in my country I´m afraid, but if I could , I would immediately! I think a simple shopping bad would be great.
May 7, 2010 at 11:39 am
daiyami
Made me rethink the name “Ladybutton” Fabrics…..
May 7, 2010 at 11:58 am
Peter
All that modeling and not a CENT of royalties — don’t think otherwise.
May 7, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Dinah
I used the cowboy print as the backing fabric for a quilt I made for my horse trainer. She loved it!
May 7, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Auntie Allyn
Oh great . . . I haven’t been quilting much lately so haven’t looked at quilting fabric in a while. But I gotta have some of this stuff!!!!
May 7, 2010 at 12:27 pm
CarmencitaB
My brother just sent me 5 yrds for his&his pyjama pants, he chose the Wranglers motif.
May 7, 2010 at 4:06 pm
karen
While I am a quilter, I am surprised to see these fabrics. The firefighters I know don’t look half that good.
May 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm
tara
Most of them look ecstatically happy, especially the construction workers/handymen types and lumberjacks. But even the top right corner package delivery guy is like, “seriously? in full uniform? not even the buttons cracked open? this is lame”. hehe
May 7, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Colleen P.
If the firemen at my nearest station looked that good I’d set the house on fire every afternoon…
May 8, 2010 at 1:45 am
Shona
Whooarrhh.
I will have to get me some of those cowboys
May 8, 2010 at 12:19 pm
queentanya
I keep humming “I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay!” Yummy fabric!
May 10, 2010 at 3:19 am
allisonC
OMG I can’t believe theres so much of this stuff. I’ve got to find a way to use it!
May 10, 2010 at 6:31 am
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May 10, 2010 at 8:19 am
Amber
I had no idea this fabric was even out there – hilarious!
May 10, 2010 at 9:06 am
Kathy
I’ve got pajama/lounge pants from the handyman fabric and my husband has a pair made up with the pinup girls. We amuse ourselves.
May 10, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Sandi
Too too funny! I’ve never seen this fabric. Can’t imagine what I’d use it for – although the pj’s idea with the pin-up girls for my hubby is pretty cute. Not sure how I’d explain all those half-naked men on my jammies to my 4 year old daughter, though. LOL. Very very funny that any company goes to the trouble to print these!
May 10, 2010 at 4:18 pm
chrissy
I sort of hate to admit how much I love this fabric. I dont know if we are going to carry it? Can’t decide?
May 11, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Meredith P
What can brown do for you? But seriously, my DH loves the “opposite” fabric with babes on it. He loves wearing his Aloha shirt, with the precisely matched “babe” on the front and being able to say that spouse made it. Invariably, people do ask where he got the shirt. Current shirt has 1940’s style babes with short skirts (skirts blowing up-natch) straddling large motorcycles. Out of the scraps of a shirt, I can get matching boxers! He also has Project Runway boxers, out of the crappy licensed fabric. They do indeed say “make it work”.
May 11, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Meredith P
Oh, upon further study (ahem) that is not a buckle on that firefighter’s underwear. It’s a belt buckle on his uniform pants, which he would wear under his actual “gear”. You know, you’re hangin’ out at the firehouse, in your uniform, and the alarm sounds, and you jump into your actual fire fighting duds. I’m sure there’s an actual name for them. Like non-flammable overalls, or something.
May 11, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Heather
A year ago or so, I made a bunch of ‘pencil roll’-type caddies (for rotary cutters, marking pencils and the like).
I made the outsides from ‘sedate’ fabrics like butterflies or paisleys, but on the inside (hidden until untied and unrolled), I put these firemen, lumberjacks or construction workers.
My friends almost swallowed their tongues when they opened them up!! :)
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May 13, 2010 at 10:43 am
TracyKM
I’ve seen Momma pads (re-usable feminine hygiene products) made from the cowboy fabric. Now you can have a man in your panties all month :)
May 13, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Sandi
He he he – funny TracyKM
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T.
Why is this homoerotic and not just erotic?