My Quip - Elation - Quilting Part 2 - Parallel Lines

Good Day,

Andy and I worked on a thought to create a quilting pattern for our new Elation: parallel lines and concentric circles.

Elation - JS AB - 2016

In Part 1, the Pantone color wheel, the concentric circles are 1/4" apart.

In Part 2, the beige background, we decided to follow an offset angle to the strips and create a quai-basket weave-effect.  We created the parallel as a sub-divided component of the individual strips.

Follow our previous postings to see and read about our thoughts and progress.

My Quip - Elation - Quilting Part 1 - Concentric Circles
February 28, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-quilting-part-1.html

My Quip - Elation - Our Progress - Adding Butterflies
February 22, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-our-progress-adding.html

My Quip – Elation – Step By Step...
February 19, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-step-by-step.html

My Quip – Elation – Continued Progress
January 10, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-continued-progress.html

My Quip - Elation - Progress and Phase 2 
January 7, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-progress-and-phase-2.html

My Quip – Elation – The Building of Our New Quilt/Wall Hanging
January 4, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-building-of-our-new.html

My Quip – Elation – Quilt in Progress, A New Wall Hanging 
December 30, 2015
 http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-quip-elation-quilt-in-progress-new.html

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB (jsmith58@gmail.com) if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Our Current Projects in Process

Good Day,

A few of our quilts and wall hangings are presently on the road. Also Diamonds is currently on display at The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Colorado. Blumish Two; Cosmo's Moon; I Really Love Lucy; Sleep Jezebel; Betty White - BW 2010; Warhol's Itch, Light Bringer; Sea and Sky and La Vie en Rose are all in Colorado. Apollo 1, The Beginning; Betwixt and Between; and Cosmo's Moon 2.5 are in Virginia.

Andy and I work just about 24/7 on our quilts and wall hangings.  We continue to try new things and new techniques.  We do like to work on our own designs and patterns, and many are and can be based on the thoughts and ideas of many, many skilled and practiced artists and quilters.

Andy and I like to try all types of quilting and we push the needle, so-to-speak.  We consider our works a mishmash and combination of traditional, contemporary, modern, artist, et al, styles of quilting.  And there are still a great number of forms and techniques we would yet like to try.

The following is our up-to-date project list.  Yes, there are 33 works in progress.

"C" means completed, and a percentage is our guesstimated degree of completion. A blank space translates to "We haven't got there yet."

Quilt	Design	Fabric Chosen	Top	Border	Back	Quilting Design
Currently In Progress
An Unnamed Classic	C	C	C
Astro Physics	C	C	C	C		25%
Batique OM		75%
Bird Cage	10%
Birth Year Bargello	10%
Blumish One	C	C	C
BT's Nixon	30%
Butterfly Mandella	20%
Civil War Re-Enactment II	25%	C
D Meets K	25%
Damask		50%
El Toro	25%
Elation	C	C	C	C		C
GPS	25%
HERstory BW	25%
HERstory LM	50%
HERstory SD	10%
Hummingbird	C	C	C
Joseph's Coat	C	C	C	C
Joseph's Pants	50%
Just Trees	50%
Ladies on The Boardwalk	50%
Mauk II	C	C
Nauvoo Moon Phase	10%
Native American		50%
Orange Peel Indian Summer	C	C	C
Parity	C	C	C	C	C	25%
Post-it Network	C	20%
Rán	50%
The Amulet	C	C	C	C	C	25%
The Eagle	50%
Waterfall	10%	C
Wings	C	C

And of course there are our New Ideas, Other, and Maybe folders with possibilities.

Elation - JS AB, 2016

Keep following 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 quilts and wall hangings.

Please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Elation - Quilting Part 1 - Concentric Circles

Good Day,

Continuing our work and my report on the progress of our new quilt and wall hanging Elation...

For the first run all butterflies have been added.

And now begins the quilting.  The sandwich has been constructed; the top; 100% cotton batting; and a beige solid back.  All three parts are safety-pinned together.  The quilting is being done with our Janome Memory Craft 6300 domestic sewing machine.

Part 1 - The Pantone -

Andy and I decided on concentric circles.  They are drawn in freehand 1/4" apart and then quilted using a walking foot.  We decided to keep this form, the concentric circles, of quilting only in the Pantone area of our Elation.

Here are some images -

Follow our previous postings to see and read about our thoughts and progress.

My Quip - Elation - Our Progress - Adding Butterflies
February 22, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-our-progress-adding.html

My Quip – Elation – Step By Step...
February 19, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-step-by-step.html

My Quip – Elation – Continued Progress
January 10, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-continued-progress.html

My Quip - Elation - Progress and Phase 2 
January 7, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-progress-and-phase-2.html

My Quip – Elation – The Building of Our New Quilt/Wall Hanging
January 4, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-building-of-our-new.html

My Quip – Elation – Quilt in Progress, A New Wall Hanging 
December 30, 2015
 http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-quip-elation-quilt-in-progress-new.html

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Elation - Our Progress - Adding Butterflies

Good Day,

Part of our Elation quilt and wall hanging design is to celebrate the nature of butterflies... I have always likes butterflies. I like the magnificence of their variety and their colors.

My thought process in designing Elation seemed to be synchronous with the presentation of the 2016 Hoffman Challenge fabric, Crystalia. The digitally printed butterflies, when we first saw them, seemed to fit what we were looking for. (Oh yeah we’re working on another possibility for the Challenge.)

Our idea is to appliqué individually cut, (broderie perse), butterflies in an effort to create a feeling of delight and celebration. This is our Elation.

More images -

Follow our previous postings to see and read about our thoughts and progress.

My Quip – Elation – Step By Step...
February 19, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-quip-elation-step-by-step.html

My Quip – Elation – Continued Progress
January 10, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-continued-progress.html

My Quip - Elation - Progress and Phase 2 
January 7, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-progress-and-phase-2.html

My Quip – Elation – The Building of Our New Quilt/Wall Hanging
January 4, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-building-of-our-new.html

My Quip – Elation – Quilt in Progress, A New Wall Hanging 
December 30, 2015
 http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-quip-elation-quilt-in-progress-new.html

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Elation - Step By Step...

Good Day.

Andy and I are continuing our step-by-step progress of our new quilt and wall-hanging Elation.

Elation - JS AB - Progress update

We've attached Part 1 to Part 2, the pantone to the background.  We've used Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton Solids which we found in both jelly rolls and fat quarter bundles.

The beige background was supposed to be four shades of beige but we ran out.  If you look closely you can see that the dye-lots are actually somewhat off.  Hell the effect is still a good one.

More images -

We've pieced the beige fabrics on the strips to create a sort-of basket weave-type look.  

We were a bit worried at the number of seams coming together at some junctions.  By trimming them we were able to get them to lay flatter...

Here are some progressive images of joining the beige background to the color pantone.

Previous postings -

My Quip – Elation – Continued Progress
January 10, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-continued-progress.html

My Quip - Elation - Progress and Phase 2 
January 7, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-progress-and-phase-2.html

My Quip – Elation – The Building of Our New Quilt/Wall Hanging
January 4, 2016
http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-quip-elation-building-of-our-new.html

My Quip – Elation – Quilt in Progress, A New Wall Hanging 
December 30, 2015
 http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-quip-elation-quilt-in-progress-new.html

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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Q139 – Apollo 1, The Beginning – Quilt and Wall-Hanging

Good Day,

Andy and I would like to introduce you to our 139th quilt, and wall-hanging, Apollo 1, The Beginning.

Apollo 1, The Beginning

Jim Smith Andy Brunhammer - Sep 2015

Photo by Jaimee Ponce Photography

This past summer Andy and were invited by Susanne Jones to consider the possibility of submitting entries to the Fly Me to the Moon: An Art Quilt Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Man’s Walk on the Moon. Apollo 1, The Beginning is one of our three entries.

The Fly Me to the Moon project is a multi-faceted juried exhibition. All-things-being-equal the exhibit will be in museums and galleries and NASA facilities. The majority of the participants are from the United States. International participants are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. Pieces selected will travel for the next four years.

Our Apollo 1, The Beginning is a celebration and a memorial quilt and wall-hanging.

"On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular activity during the Gemini program; and Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing for his first space flight, died in this tragic accident." (NASA History Program Office)

All three of Andy's and my quilt wall-hangings - Betwixt and Between; Cosmo's Moon 2.5; and Apollo 1, The Beginning have been juried and accepted as a part of the Fly Me To The Moon project and journey.

The dimensions of our Apollo 1, The Beginning are Width - 18" (45.7 cms) and Length - 30" (76.2 cms).  Fabrics are Graduation Batiks, all available from SewBatik.  Our techniques include piecing, strip piecing, foundation piecing, color/shade manipulation, appliquéing and free-hand/motion quilting.

Here is an image journey of our Apollo 1, The Beginning -

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Apollo 1, The Beginning

Jim Smith Andy Brunhammer - Sep 2015

Photo by Jaimee Ponce Photography

Apollo 1, The Beginning is now ready to embark on its journey with its companion pieces Betwixt and Between and Cosmo's Moon 2.5 and all the other fabric art pieces selected to Fly Me To The Moon. 

Please feel free to email Andy and me at Quilts SB if you have any questions, comments, thoughts, ideas.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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