My Quip – News Flash – Civil War Re-Enactment I and Colored Windows II Accepted to Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza

Good Day,

The mail just arrived. Andy and I are extremely pleased. Our quilts Civil War Re-Enactment I (CWR I) and Colored Windows II have both been selected to be judged in the Take Me Home competition at Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza.

Civil War Re-Enactment I

Colored Windows II

The Show will be at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania September 19 through 22.

For details of our two quilts please click on the following links –

Q94 - Civil War Re-Enactment I

Q88 - Colored Windows II

If you have any questions, comments, and thoughts, please feel to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Blumish Two – Construction Continues

Good Day,

Our work continues on the completed top of our Blumish Two.

 

Pinning the four layers together.

Our quilting pattern sampler.

 

Underside reflection of the quilting progress of our Blumish Two.

Links to our previous posts and discussion.

My Quip – Blumish Two – New and Progress Update

My Quip – Blumish Two – A Peek at Our Progress

My Quip – Blumish Two Quilt Top Completed

If you have any questions, comments, thoughts, please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Test 40 and Metropolis Accepted To A Splash of Color Quilt & Fiber Art Show, North Carolina

Good Day,

Our quilt, Test 40 and our wall-hanging, Metropolis have both been accepted for display at A Splash of Color Quilt & Fiber Art Show 2013.

Test 40

Metropolis

The Show, sponsored by the Cabarrus Quilters Guild, will be held October 4th and 5th at the Cabarrus Arena and Event Center in Concord, North Carolina. Both are now in the mail and en route.

Detailed information on each Test 40 and Metropolis can be seen at the corresponding links – Q110 and Q111 at Quilts SB.

If you have any questions, comments, and thoughts, please feel to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Marilyn’s First Draft – The Reconstruction Underway

Good Day,

We’ve been working on the new design of our reconstruction of our Warhol’s Marilyn.

This is our first draft of the new design… but at the same time we wanted to keep a somewhat analogous feeling due to our initial design.

This new design, coupled with what we have learned these past few years, has Andy and me excited about the new possibilities both in arrangement and quilting.  We are deciding on the sizes of the fabric borders, the fabrics, the colors of the background and framing fabrics, and the quilting.

Here is our original quilt.

Check out my announcement – My Quip – Something Old, Something New…

Definitely would like to hear your comments, thoughts, and opinions. Email us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Cotton Fabric, Surface Review - Did It Ever Change?

Good Day,

Because Jim and I quilt - a lot- and we use cotton fabric for a majority of our quilting, I thought I would look into some of the new wrinkle resistant advancements that have occurred since my college days in my textile science classes.

I had to laugh to myself when I was reading an article on some of the chemical related advancements.

USING NANO-TiO2 AS CO-CATALYST FOR IMPROVING WRINKLE-RESISTANCE OF COTTON FABRIC

At one time I actually could understand this...LOL. In order to prevent cotton wrinkling, hydroxyl groups in the cellulose chain of cotton are partially cross-linked to keep the chain fixed relative to each other with dimethylol dihydroxy ethylene urea (DMDHEU). However, DMDHEU suffers disadvantages of reduced fabric strength and releasing of free formaldehyde. Recently, 1,2,3,4-butane tetracarboxylic acid (BTCA) has been explored as a new wrinkle-resistant agent providing similar performance to that of DMDHEU.

In BTCA finishing, catalyst of inorganic phosphorus-containing acids was used but such phosphorus compounds have an adverse impact on the environment. In this paper, nano-TiO2 was used as a co-catalyst with sodium hypophophite in the treatment of cotton with BTCA, and the final properties were assessed.

Read More: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218625X07009864

Now you understand who knows what and who does what in our partnership...

Enjoy,

Andy and Jim

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My Quip - 23 Quilts and Wall Hangings - OCD?

Good Day,

Andy and I are currently working on 23 quilts and wall hangings.

The list is in order of our priorities. "C" means that that area is completed, and a percentage is the degree of completion. A blank space translates to "We haven't got there yet."

Quilt	Design	Fabric Chosen	Top	Border	Back	Quilting Design
Blumish Two -	C	C	C	C	C	75%
Tampa Kaleidoscope -	C	C	C	C	C	75%
Astro Physics -	C	C	C	C
The Amulet -	C	C	C	C	C
Blumish One -	C	C	C
Equality -	C	C	C	C
Warhol's Marilyn -	50%
BW 1950 -	C
BW 2010 -	C
Joseph's Coat -	C	C	C	C
Joseph's Pants -	50%
Ladies on The Boardwalk -	50%
Orange Peel Indian Summer -	C	C	C
Batique OM -		75%
Damask -		50%
Hummingbird -	C	C	C
Native American -		50%
Rán -	50%
The Bird Cage -	50%
The Eagle -	C	50%
Trees -	50%	50%
Mauk II -	C	C
Civil War Re-Enactment II -	25%	C

And yes, we try to be a wee bit organized. The following are the projects that are currently on our list... and I have a number of other thoughts and ideas in folders just waiting.

Stay tuned to our progress and updates. If you have any comments, questions, interest, thoughts, or ideas, please feel to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Cosmo's Moon Showing This Weekend - World Quilt Show

Good Day,

Just a note.

Our Cosmo's Moon will be on display in two days at the World Quilt Show - New England XI. The Show is this Thursday, August 15 through Sunday, August 18.

The World Quilt Show will be held at the Radisson in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Check out our details and working progress of our Cosmo's Moon on Quilts SB. Link to Q112- Cosmo's Moon - Quilt and Wall Hanging.

Stay tuned for my next posting to Quilts SB. I will be listing the next 22 quilts and wall-hangings that we are currently working on.

If you have any comments, questions, thoughts, and ideas please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Tampa Lightning Awarded Judge's Choice Award at Diamond State Quilt Show

Good Day,

Andy and I just received news that our quilt, Tampa Lightning has been awarded a Judge's Choice Award and the Diamond State Quilt Show 2013 in Newark, Delaware.

The Diamond State Quilt Show 2013 opens to day August 8 and runs through Saturday, August 10. The Diamond State Quilt Show is presented by Ladybug Chapter 73, NQA and is being held at The Delaware School for the Deaf, Route 4, Newark, Delaware.

This is a thrill for us, and we are certainly very pleased.

Details of the design and construction of our Tampa Lightning can bee seen at Q97 - Tampa Lightning - Quilt.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Quilting Has Begun

Good Day,

I have been sort of quiet on our blog, Quilts SB for the past few days...but it certainly doesn’t mean, apart from having the flu, that we have not been at work. Of course I mean our quilts and afghans. Mind you, we may have been taking it a wee bit slower than usual.

Tampa Kaleidoscope has been loaded to our Longarm sewing machine. We are trying our quilting pattern that we hope well highlight each and every hexagon.

This has been a very good and exciting effort. The resulting quilt and reconstruction of the fabric that creates the top certainly is something to see. Our Tampa Kaleidoscope, once completed, will be a very large quilt with the approximate dimensions of 94” (239 cms) wide and 108” (274 cms) long.

If you have any comments or questions thoughts ideas please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,
Jim and Andy

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My Quip - On Day 10 31/32 - Our Quilts and Afghans Status

Good Day,

Just a quick status update of our progress.

Been working on Sea Foam afghan, Tampa Kaleidoscope quilt, Warhol's Marilyn wall hanging, Blumish Two quilt/wall hanging.

Our Blue Diamonds, Civil War Re-Enactment I, and Tampa Lightning have all safely arrived in Newark, Delaware for the Diamond State Quilt Show 2013, August 8-10.

Cosmo's Moon is now en route to the World Quilt Show - New England in Manchester, New Hampshire for August 15-19.
Our EssbeeCon and Who Did Desi Adore? have been accepted to the QuiltFest 2013 of Jacksonville, Florida, September 26-28.

Check Afghans SB and Quilts SB for updates. I will be posting progress shortly.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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