Q64 - Christmas Quilts - OP Noel II

Afternoon,

Number two Quilt – OP Noël II – of our OP Noël Series is completed, and available for your Christmas present.

The design of OP Noël II is quite simple. It is based on the construction of a square of six rectangles and using four fabrics. That’s it. There are 50 constructed squares; 18 half squares; and 4 quarter squares - the corners. The Optical Illusion design is succeeded by putting and sewing two exact squares perpendicular to each other. The binding and the backing are two of the four fabrics. The four fabrics can be seen at My Quip dated September 6.

The dimensions of OP Noël II are: Length – 73 ½” (186.7 cms) and Width – 63 ½” (161.3 cms). OP Noël II can be considered a lap quilt, small coverlet and accent, or it may be used as a holiday wall-hanging.

The following are images of close ups and the backing. Please remember that actual shades of the colors may not appear as sharp and as crisp in the images.

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 me at our Quilts SB Etsy shop.

We will be showing some of our quilts at the Cypress Creek Quilters’ Guild Show, As Your Garden Grow. The Show will be held at the USF Botanical Gardens on November 6th, 2010.

Stay tuned for our new quilts – P’nG and OP Angel.

Enjoy,

Jim

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My Quip – Quilts In Progress – OP Noël Series – Do Not Answer

Morning,

I learned something a wee bit different a couple of days ago. I’ve started being bombarded by unsolicited sales and crank calls on my cell phone. It drives me up a wall, since I almost never give out my cell phone number, and there is no identifying caller name. When I checked in to see how to block unwanted calls, I will be damned if I’m going to pay out more money to have some sort of additional service added by the provider. The best answer I found was that when an unsolicited sales or crank call rings, on my cell phone, I answer it, quickly hang up and then save the offending telephone number to my Contact list. I name it “Do Not Answer”. Therefore the next time the phone rings and it originates from that offending number, I will know to ignore it. Simple, but pretty slick… for some bit of mind peace.

I have been working on some new designs for our new OP Noël Series. Noël Diptych is the first.

Noël Diptych will be presented, along with three other of our quilts at the Cypress Creek Quilter’s Guild Bi-Annual Quilt Show, As Our Garden Grows, this coming November at the University of South Florida’s Botanical Gardens. The show is Saturday, November 6th, 2010 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The USF Botanical Gardens is located at 12210 USF Pine Drive, Tampa, Florida.

The new OP Noël Series, all-things-being-equal, will be a combination of three thoughts. I like the idea of Op art, optical art, coupled with the geometric forms that have been present in some of our previous quilts. The third idea is the fabrics which are of a Marcus Fabrics offering called Colonial Christmas from the collection of Judie Rothermel. I was able to get the fabrics from Fabric.com.

Presently under construction is number two, which has the current label of OP Noël 2. The title has not been determined as yet. I’ve included an image of the four fabrics, all from the Colonial Christmas collection that will be incorporated into this new quilt. As a hint it will be an assembly of rectangles… and that is as far as I will reveal.

Enjoy your Labor Day,

Jim

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Q63 – Christmas Wall Hanging and Quilt – Noël Diptych

Afternoon,

As promised we have completed our first quilt of our OP Noël Series – Noël Diptych.

Not Noël Dipstick – Noël Diptych! The OP is my reference to OP Art and the Noël to Christmas. Hence, OP Noël Series.

Noël Diptych is a result of my workings on a first draft for a commission that may be headed to North Carolina. I liked what I had designed and thought that I could do the same with some Christmas fabric. The two fabrics: Peace Love Faith in cream designed for MMFab, Inc. and Rustic Christmas Twinkle in red were both acquired from Fabrics.com.

Thinking that it may be a nice idea to create a Christmas Wall Hanging instead of a quilt, I worked on a simple checkerboard idea with the two fabrics. And not satisfied with only one hanging I then decided to recreate a mirror image of the first. And Noël Diptych was generated.

Noël Diptych is a set of two panels. Each individual panel is 72” (182.9 cms) in length and 25 ¾” (65.4 cms) in width. Andy hand-stitched the binding of each panel and completed each with four loops at the top on the back to allow many different means of hanging. And if one would like to join the two panels together we have created three sets of ribbon-ties which all can be paired up and tied together from panel-to-panel. Together the two panels are 72” (182.9 cms) in length and 51 ½” (130.8 cms) wide.

The following are images of Noël Diptych.

And next, images of close ups and the backing.

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.

Noël Diptych is being presented at the Cypress Creek Quilter’s Guild Bi-Annual Quilt Show, As Our Garden Grows, this coming November 6th at the University of South Florida’s Botanical Gardens. We will also be displaying a few others of our quilts in the show. The show is Saturday, November 6th, 2010 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The USF Botanical Gardens is located at 12210 USF Pine Drive, Tampa, Florida.

If you are interested, and would like some more information of the available quilts, regarding costs, shipping, and insurance, please get in touch with me at our Quilts SB Etsy shop.

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.

Enjoy,

Andy and Jim

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