My Quip – Quilts In Progress – New Rainbow Glass Quilt - Preview

Evening,

I thought that I would introduce you to a portion of our newest quilt design and effort. The final quilt will be one that we will title “Rainbow Glass”.

Most recently we have been working on a couple of new series, one of which has been based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and stained glass designs and elements. I peruse the Internet at times and in one search I came upon the web site “Glass By Design”. In a review of the work, I was very taken by one of their stained and leaded glass panels, “Abstract 33”. I immediately thought that I would like to reproduce the similar concept in fabric and create a quilt.

I contacted Marian Eide at Glass by Design, in Bryan, Texas, and asked if I could use the design of “Abstract 33”. Marian was very considerate and has allowed us to use their design to create our quilt. You can link to their website by clicking on Glass by Design.

I am thrilled with our new quilt and it will include, excluding the backing, 34 different fabrics. You can count 28 fabrics in the sample image. There will be six panels and the final quilt will be somewhere in the vicinity of 84” long and 70” wide.

We are very excited about this quilt and we have progressed along at a very quick rate. Stay tuned.

Enjoy,

Jim

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My Quip - Disappearing Quilt Images

Morning,

I have received written requests and calls that some people are having a problem with the images of the quilts at my blog site. The images that I am referring to are specifically the ones that I have set up in a table or grid at the bottom on my home page.

The issue is that the images in the grid/table appear and then they almost immediately disappear.

I have discovered that this seems to be only an issue at IE - Internet Explorer. It does not appear to happen in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or Safari.

Believing that this is a IE security function I have performed the following. I am using the latest version of IE 8.07600.16385.

Here are the suggested steps:

1. Go to "Tools".
2. Go to "Internet Options".
3. Go to "Privacy".
4. Go to "Pop-up Blocker Settings".
5. Add the "Address of website to allow." - http://quiltsb.blogspot.com
6. Change "Blocking level:" to "Low: Allow pop-ups from secure sites"
7. Apply and save.
8. Exit from IE Browser.
9. Reopen IE Browser.

I then went back to Quilts SB. Initially the images didn't come up. I then doubled clicked on on an empty space on the Grid. The images came up. It looks like this works.

I rebooted my system and when I opened IE and went to Quilts SB. The Grid images did not exist. I repeated where I doubled clicked on an empty space on the Grid and then the images appeared. I repeated all this on my Notebook and it seems to address the issue as far as I have described.

If any one has any idea on how to set a better fix which will automatically allow for the images in the Grid to appear, please contact me.

Hope this helps?

Enjoy,

Jim

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My Quip – Quilts in Progress – Rule of Thumb

Morning,

And the pitter, patter, plunking of 24 feet is a constant this weekend. Moxon, Tobi, Taylor, Harbor, Bella and Tinker… If one would graphically plot their bursts of enthusiasm against the promise of food and the mail truck. It would be down, then up, then up, then down, then down, and up, and up again and then finally down. (There is a postman who lives a couple of houses down… and he has a very old mail truck.)

Well I accomplished the “I-will-never-ever-do-that-in-my-life-time” act. I was adding the images of Café au Lait to my Quilt Grid on my front page of my Blog… and I inadvertently deleted the Grid. You can imagine the pain of dread that just settled over my body. I was doing the additions straight to Quilts SB on Blogger. I hadn’t made a back-up, and Blogger does not have any apparent backup procedures. Damn… not at Blogger, but at myself, and racing through my grey matter, “I-told-you-so, I-told-you-so.”

Eight hours later, I finished the re-creation of our Quilts Grid. All 51 quilts are back in the table format for your easy viewing. I’m still looking and waiting to get images of six more of our earlier creations. Quilts currently in progress include: Orange Peel Indian Summer; Tango 3; Bayberry; Kanzashi; Deer Lake; Continuance; PJs & Packages; Christmas Morning I; Christmas Morning II; and Rainbow Glass.

Stay tuned,

Enjoy.

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Q51 – Quilt – Café au Lait

Evening,

And here we go, Quilt 51, number two of our TayTow Series – Café au Lait. As you can see this Café au Lait is a sister quilt to Provence, Q50. Both quilts share the same fabrics; see My Quip on 9 April.

Café au Lait is an adaptation of Kaffe Fassett’s Yellow Potpourri design from his book Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts, Abrams, New York, 2010.

This is a sort of large quilt and may be considered as large full-size and its dimensions are: Length – 102” (259 cms.) and Width – 70 (178 cms.). Here are some close up images.

To see previously posted quilts, there is a visual grid presentation at the bottom of the Blog 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.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Q50 – Quilt – Provence

Good Afternoon,

We are pleased to announce that we are now beginning the unveiling of our first quilt of our TayTow Series – Provence. There is also cause for celebration as this is our 50th quilt that we have posted on Quilts SB. And if I say so myself, Provence is one beautiful quilt. I took so many images of Provence that I had to rein myself in from overloading my PC systems.

Ladies and Gents, may I introduce our new quilt – Provence.

The intention of Provence is based on the steadfast and true quilting pattern of Trip Around The World. I also borrowed the construction idea from Blanche Young and Dalene Young Stone’s book Tradition With A Twist; C&T Publishing, CA: 1996. The fabrics are a combination of 10 as I presented in my Quip on 9 April.

This is a large quilt and its dimensions are: Length – 98” (249 cms.) and Width – 88” (224 cms.) It is made up of tons of small rectangles, each 3 ½” (8.9 cms) by 1 ½” (3.8 cms). And here are some close up images.

And just how did I come up with the name of our quilt, Provence? Mentally I envisioned the colors of our fabrics and as always, I searched the Internet looking for some triggering ideas. I came upon a picture image that seemed to capture that of which I was envisioning. The site, Tongue in Cheek belongs to Corey Amaro. The image to the right, photographed by Corey Amaro, of three woman musicians in traditional costumes resting affirmed to me that I should name this quilt, Provence.

Stay tune for our next quilts of our TayTow Series: Café au Lait, Tango 3, Bayberry, and Kanzashi.

To see previously posted quilts, there is a visual grid presentation at the bottom of the Blog 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.

Enjoy,

Jim

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Quip - This Is An Experiment In Presentation - Altered Logs I Slideshow

Evening,

And as always I'm trying to do something a wee bit different to enhance your viewing experience.

I am using the images of our latest quilt, Altered Logs I, of our C&N Series, and I am attempting to create a slideshow. This is a slideshow of the images that I have taken of Altered Logs I, and as in Q49 you will not have to point-and-click a number of times to see all the images and close-up photos of the quilt.

I am using Slideshare.net to assist with this Altered Logs I slideshow.

Altered Logs I

View more presentations from jklsmith.

As this is a first, and an experiment, and there are a number of enhancements that I would like to see and present, please feel free to comment or send me an email with your thoughts and ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim

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My Quip – Quilts In Progress and A Genealogy Hunt Updates

Morning and Happy Mother’s Day,

All quilts of the C&S Series: C&N, Patience, V-Bricks, A-Mazed, and Altered Logs I and II have all been posted. Check out the new Series and Quilts tabs under the top Quilts SB heading.

The five new quilts of the TayTow Series are now under construction and should be posted within the next weeks. I have also begun work on a new series of Christmas quilts and have completed the design for one - PJs & Packages. I’ve also begun a new series incorporating the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright stained and cut glass windows.

The new Quilts SB blog site is, as far as I can see fully operational. And I am pleased to announce that there has been 424 visits since start up in March. Last night it ranked in the top 10 websites at TopListed.net. As of this morning it is ranking in at 23rd out of the top 50. Also TopListed.net has now included an image of the Quilts SB front page.

Work on the Transcription Project has taken a slow turn. The lengths of the recent Records have seemed to increase… considerably, and I’m coming to the fast conclusion that the lawyers must have enjoyed repeating themselves, over and over and over again. Month-to-date there has been 99 visits including as far away as New Zealand, Egypt, and Ecuador. Genealogy, A Treasure Hunt is currently ranked at number 2 of the top genealogy websites at TopListed.net.

I’ve worked out the schematic of an ancestral chart for one Richard Oliver Smith who has been noted in a number of Records in my Transcriptions. Check back shortly for the diagram at A Genealogy Hunt. The current Record I’m working on is an 1829 follow Record to Part 275s is at least 10 pages and relates to a David and James Smith. Work continues on the new website and all-things-being-equal I hope to have it presentable in a couple of weeks.

Oh, yes the image of the rose is from our garden.

Enjoy,

Jim

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