My Quip - Quick Update and Progress...

Good Day,

Work continues on our quilts. We've just finished 4 new ones. Also a 5th one is now at the sewing machines and we currently working on the designs of 4 more.

Chopsticks - JS AB - completed April 2015

Our Chopsticks is on display September 17 through 20 at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII.

Tampa Kaleidoscope - JS AB - completed June 2014

Also our Tampa Kaleidoscope as well as our Betty Whites - BW 1950 and BW 2010 will be shown at the Splash of Color show in Concord, North Carolina, September 25-26.

BW 1950 - JS AB - completed February 2014

BW 2010 - JS AB - completed February 2014

If you have any comment, thought, ideas feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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Q121 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Quilt

Good Day,

We have now completed our 121st quilt, Tampa Kaleidoscope.

Our Tampa Kaleidoscope is one humongous quilt created primarily from one fabric. The Tampa Fabric was commissioned by Keep Me In Stitches a local Tampa Bay specialty sewing center. This is Andy’s and my second attempt at constructing a quilt/wall hanging using this fabric. Our first is Tampa Windows a quilted wall hanging. To date we have not yet constructed a typical Hawaiian style shirt from this fabric.

Tampa Kaleidoscope is a large king size quilt that measures 88” (224 cms) wide and 100” long (254 cms). The construction of the top includes three of the Keep Me In Stitches (KMIS) fabric colorways plus complimentary blue and grey fabrics. Our inspiration of the kaleidoscope design using the KMIS fabric is the work of quilt artist Bruce Seeds  and Maxine Rosenthal’s 2005 book, One-Block Wonders – One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts.  The blues and the grey, (no play on words intended), are used for the borders and the backing.

We designed and used both our Babylock Jewel Longarm and our Janome Memory Craft Professional to create a free motion quilting design. The techniques we used are concentric hexagons, pebbling, and stippling. The threads used were both Sulky and YLI.

Here are images. We are both amazed at and how the cutting technique transforms the original fabric.

Follow our construction and progress of our Tampa Kaleidoscope.

April 30, 2013 – A New Quilt Experiment and Leaning Process – Tampa Kaleidoscope
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-quip-new-quilt-experiment-and.html

May 2, 2013 – Progress Report – Tampa Kaleidoscope
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-quip-progress-report-tampa.html

May 4, 2013 – Update – Tampa Kaleidoscope
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-quip-update-tampa-kaleidoscope.html

May 5, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Progress On Colorways
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-progress-on.html

May 12, 2013 – Progress – Tampa Kaleidoscope – And The Thought of Two New Quilts
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-quip-progress-tampa-kaleidoscope-and.html

June 20, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Quilt Progress
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/06/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-quilt_20.html

June 24, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – The String Begins
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/06/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-string-begins.html

July 1, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Quilt in Progress
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-quilt-in.html

July 13, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – A Quick Update
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-quick-update.html

July 21, 2013 – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Loaded On Longarm
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-quip-tampa-kaleidoscope-loaded-on.html

June 17, 2014 - Tampa Kaleidoscope completed.

Keep tabs with us at Quilts SB for updates and our progress. Scroll down to the bottom of each page on Quilts SB to see our Grid of our completed quilts and wall hangings.

Please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Quilting Still Continues - Some New Ideas

Good Day,

Andy and I are currently working on the new designs for three new quilts: The Bird Cage, The Party's Over, and GPS.

Of course this doesn't mean that we have stopped working on just a few other quilt projects. Tampa Kaleidoscope is currently on our longarm machine.

The Bird Cage is based on JG's photographs and his construction of some extraordinary bird houses.

The Party's Over is a new art quilt that we are going to try. I am using a piece of "art" that I created for an art class that I taught some years ago.  The piece was Ladies on Boardwalk. I'm still trying to remember and figure out of who was the artist that I copied.. This one should be an interesting construction and journey. I am going to use, I believe, a technique that I used that many years ago and thank you Kathy Wiggins for tripping that memory.

GPS is a possible inspiration of the art of Gustav Klimt.

Who knows where these will lead? Details to follow on Quilts SB, when I get my PC back.

Our current project 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 - Completed -	C	C	C	C	C	C
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%
The Party's Over -	75%
Orange Peel Indian Summer -	C	C	C
Batique OM -		75%
Damask -		50%
Hummingbird -	C	C	C
Native American -		50%
Rán -	50%
The Bird Cage -	75%
The Eagle -	C	50%
Trees -	50%	50%
Mauk II -	C	C
Civil War Re-Enactment II -	25%	C
GPS -	25%	C

Our Blumish Two along with our Cosmo's Moon are both on display this weekend at the MQX Quilt Festival - Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon. All-things-being-equal when I get my PC, which has all my data storage, back I will posting and display our final presentation of our Blumish Two. This one turned out much better than we expected and we are pleased at the final results.

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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My Quip - Tampa Kaleidoscope - Loaded On Longarm

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The top to our Tampa Kaleidoscope quilt has now been completed. The frame and borders and incidental full and half-hexagons have been added.

The quilting design has been decided upon as a complement to the overall quilt. We will be completing the quilting on both our Longarm and domestic machines.

The current dimensions of Tampa Kaleidoscope are: Width - 94" (239 cms) and Length - 108" (274 cms). This is a large quilt.

Here are a couple more images of our Tampa Kaleidoscope in progress.

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

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Tampa Kaleidoscope – A Quick Update

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Our Tampa Kaleidoscope quilt is definitely coming together, so-to-speak.

The majority of the strips of the half-hexagons have been pieced together. Only eight more inches remain to complete the inner top. We are amazed at our progress and how our design is taking shape.

Check back with Quilts SB to see our progress and updates.

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

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Tampa Kaleidoscope – Quilt In Progress

Good Day,

Thought you may interested in some new images of the current progress of our new Tampa Kaleidoscope quilt. All hexagon strips have been created, and now we are sewing those strips together to construct the inner quilt top. We’re just going to let the pictures speak a thousand pieces.

And from the underside –

More –

To read about our progress of our Tampa Kaleidoscope make sure you check the past postings at Quilts SB. If you have any questions, thoughts, and comments please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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