Q145 – Hope Cures! – A New Quilt

Good Day,

Andy and I would like to introduce to you to our newest and 145th quilt – Hope Cures!.

Hope Cures! - JS AB - August 2016

Hope Cures! is our commemoration to the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

Earlier in June Melissa Helms of Keep Me In Stitches (KMIS) and one of the founding members of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) asked Andy and me if we would be willing to design a quilt on behalf of the 25th Anniversary. Our immediate response was “Yes”.

Hope Cures! is our expression of the hope, research, support and cure that exists because of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation to children as they begin and progress upward through their journey in response to this dreaded disease.

Hope Cures! is a queen size quilt with the dimensions of 82” (208 cms) wide by 91” (231 cms). We created each one of the 12 individual NPCF logo coronas. The 288 rays of the logo coronas were each cut from a die we created using the AccuQuilt Go! Big. (This was a first for Andy and me.)

We used our domestic sewing machine, a Janome Memory Craft 6300. Janome has created a new machine, the Janome NPCF50. Keep Me In Stitches and Janome America, Inc will donate a portion of the proceeds from every machine sold to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

Andy and I were privileged to design and construct Hope Cures! on behalf of this great organization.

Hope Cures! was delivered on August 31, 2016.

And as always it is easier to say it in pictures.

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To see previously posted quilts, there is a visual grid presentation at the bottom of the Quilts SB page. Move your cursor over any mini-picture found there and click to see an enlargement. Move your cursor to the "Q#" link to see the quilt's details. If the quilt’s title is highlighted in yellow, it has found a home in a collection and is no longer available.

Please let me know if anything on the Blog site does not properly work, or do what it says it is supposed to do. I’m always striving to make sure an ease of use.

If you are interested, and would like some more information of the available quilts, regarding costs, shipping, and insurance, please get in touch with us Quilts SB, at jsmith58@gmail.com.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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Q144 – New Quilt – Wings

Good Day,

Andy and I would like to introduce to you to our 144th quilt, our Wings.

Wings - JS AB - June 2016

Our Wings is a quilted triptych; a quilt that is a set of three associated panels. This is our expression and experimentation of freedom, a 3-panel work incorporating the harmony and synthesis of the Hoffman Crystalia Opal, Onyx and complementary fabrics.

The explosion of Bali Watercolors and coordinating Aurifil threads are used and manipulated to create our super butterfly as it flies and takes up out over the kaleidoscope of digital butterflies.

The idea of the Opal and the Onyx fabrics dripping and melding into each other represents the delicate and concise life-cycle of butterflies. The superimposition and combination of fabrics where we matched the Opal and the Onyz patterns are incorporated using an appliquéing technique.  Layerd fabric pieces are used to create the wing scales and the butterfly body.

The quilting is a a measured lattice work while incorporating and highlighting free motion quilting.

This is our mixed technique entry to the annual Hoffman Challenge for 2016. The prime requirement of the 2016 Challenge was to present a “reasonable” amount of the challenge prime fabrics from the Hoffman Crystalia collection.

Our Wings was chosen for the final round of judging and for travel with the 2016 Hoffman Challenge throught September 2017.  Once we receive a schedule of our Wings itinerary I will be posting the schedule.

Andy and I also decided to include as many of the supplementary fabrics from the collection, which were from the Hoffman Bali Watercolors and Bali Batiks..

The final dimensions of our Wings (each panel) are - Width: 17.5"; Height: 24.5".

Our gallery of images for our Wings –

  

 

 

 

Other links -

Our New Triptych Wings - Finalist, Hoffman Challenge 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/07/my-quip-our-new-triptych-wings-finalist.html

A New Triptych - Wings - Next Decisions 
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/05/my-quip-new-triptych-wings-next.html

To see previously posted quilts, there is a visual grid presentation at the bottom of the Quilts SB page. Move your cursor over any mini-picture found there and click to see an enlargement. Move your cursor to the "Q#" link to see the quilt's details. If the quilt’s title is highlighted in yellow, it has found a home in a collection and is no longer available.

Please let me know if anything on the Blog site does not properly work, or do what it says it is supposed to do. I’m always striving to make sure an ease of use.

If you are interested, and would like some more information of the available quilts, regarding costs, shipping, and insurance, please get in touch with us Quilts SB, at jsmith58@gmail.com.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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