Q79 – Quilt Wall Hanging – Born This Way

Good Day,

Our 80th Quilt has been finished… even though this is labeled Q79. The missing quilt is at home in North Carolina and we haven’t been able to get some photos, as yet. (Hint, hint, SG…)

Q79, Born This Way is a wall hanging.

Born This Way's dimensions are: Width - 31” (78.7 cms) by Length - 45” (114.3 cms) and the top is seven batique cotton fabrics. The batique colors are beige, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Born This Way is an inspiration and adaptation from the works of fabric artist Yoshiko Jinzenji. The top is constructed of 791 beige and 58 colored rectangles. Each rectangle, including seam allowance is 1 ½” (3.8 cms) by 2 ½” (6.4 cms). And yes, the title of this new wall hanging has credit to a certain Lady G…

Here are some close-up images.

We are currently working on six new quilts. Stay-tuned for She’s Arrived, Coral Steps, NCBB, Colored Windows, Mystery Jelly, and DW’s.

Check out our current available quilts at Quilts SB Etsy. Also scroll down any page in our Quilts SB Blog to our Grid. You will see a portfolio of all our finished quilts and wall hangings.

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 or in red, it has found a home in a collection and is no longer available.

If you are interested, and would like some more information of the available quilts, regarding costs, shipping, and insurance, please check our Quilts SB Etsy shop.

If you have any questions and/or comments please feel free to get in touch with me via email.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Mystery Jelly Update – Two New Quilt Designs

Morning,

Okay, okay… Just wondering why I the first conscious thought that came into my head when I awoke this morning was Peter, Paul, and Mary… Or could it have been St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Mary. Obviously I’m not religious, but I couldn’t think of anything else but sending up some prayers to some listening Saints this morning when I went outside to walk the Pack. There is frost on the roofs and the ground.

Peter, Paul, and Mary… This is Tampa, Florida! Please send some sun. Please. Or at least some sort of hammer so I can chisel the white stuff off the windows of the car. And can you Saints, collectively weave me the sunshine so that we can get on with the true Florida warmth?

All the same this is My Quip, (QUilt In Progress), about Mystery Jelly. The top for this new quilt has been finished.

Mystery Jelly (MJ) is an adaptation of a Kimberly Einmo design. The beginnings of MJ is a nine-block square. We’ve increased it to 20 blocks and included sashing as a border around and between each block. Also a double border has been added around the perimeter. The top is now 64” (163 cms) wide and 77” (196 cms) in length. It appears that it will be about the size of a lap or twin-size quilt. See the earlier My Quip for the MJ announcement.

And here’s a flash – Two new designs of our Rainbow Series are on the drawing board: Born This Way and Colored Windows. Stay-tuned for updates.

Oh, and just a note about the frozen palm in front of our house. It is a real picture that I did take a while ago when I forgot to turn off the water sprinkler system. Sorry to say the palm didn't survive. This morning's frost has changed the color of all the roofs in the neighborhood.

Check out our current available quilts at Quilts SB Etsy. Also scroll down any page in our Quilts SB Blog to our Grid. You will see a portfolio of all our finished quilts and wall hangings. If you have any questions and/or comments please feel free to get in touch with me via email.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - A New Quilt, She's Here - Prairie Points

Good Day,

The progress of getting our new quilts done and worked on seems to be speeding up. She’s Here, our version of a Deirdre Amsden design is well on the way to being completed.

Amsden’s design results in a quilt with the dimensions – Width-24” (61 cms) and Length-32” (81 cms). I have increased the specifications to an approximate – Width-37” (94 cms) and Length-48” (122 cms). It’s like adding just a bit more than a foot (30.5 cms) in each direction.

The border is of folded-squares reconstructed into triangles. These are also called Prairie Points. They are added after the quilting is completed.

Dierdre Amsden’s 1994 book is Colourwash Quilts: A Personal Approach to Design & Technique. It can be found available on the Internet via Amazon.com and on Etsy.

Stay-tuned for progress updates. Check out our current available quilts at Quilts SB Etsy. Also scroll down any page in our Quilts SB Blog to our Grid. You will see a portfolio of all our finished quilts and wall hangings. If you have any questions and/or comments please feel free to get in touch with me via email.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Urban Oasis – Coral Steps Progress

Afternoon,

Have to make my Friday trip to the farm, Urban Oasis... They are a hydroponic farm that we joined just down the way from the house. Once a week for a season, this being the winter season, I have to head on over and pick up our share of the week’s harvest. This week: mixed lettuce, butterhead lettuce, baby arugula, bok choy, tatsoi, turnips with greens, collard greens, cabbage, scallions, and oregano… Guess what color this coming week’s meals will include?

And I thought I would provide you with a quick update of one of the five quilts we have in process. This one is Coral Steps.

Our adaptation will approximate – Width: 68” (173 cms), Length: 92” (234 cms). It is based on a design by Yoshiko Jinzenji. The two fabrics, as you can see in the image, are somewhat flowery… but I really like the way they have complemented our adaptation of Jinzenji’s original design.

You can see Yoshiko Jinzenji’s new book, Quilting Line + Color that was just published this year, 2011 in the United States. I have been a very big fan of hers and of her work for some years now. Explore her website, The Quilt World of Yoshiko Jinzenji, Message from Grass House.

Stay-tuned for progress updates. Check out our current available quilts at Quilts SB Etsy. Also scroll down any page in our Quilts SB Blog to our Grid. You will see a portfolio of all our finished quilts and wall hangings. If you have any questions and/or comments please feel free to get in touch with me via email.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Five New Quilts Preview

Good Day,

And it is overcast today… It is cold, and the third or fourth cold front in a week is heading down from Calgary and Inuvik. All right, already. This is Florida. Canada is a beautiful country… but please keep your cold weather. This is supposed to be the Sunshine State. You are supposed to come here for the sun and sand… not for the blues and the blahs.

I’ve received a number of comments and questions as to our quilting progress. And, have we given up quilting? No, we have not! Thanks for the concern, but be prepared.

We have five new quilts in progress… Three are already spoken for and we are excited to be working on all five.

Here is a preview. They are all titled at present, but the labels maybe will change.

NCBB – A Bargello wave design.

Mystery Jelly – An adaptation of a Kimberly Einmo design.

She’s Here – An adaptation of a Deirdre Amsden design.

Coral Steps – An adaptation of a Yoshiko Jinzenji design.

DW’s Queen – An original Essbee design.

These are not UFOs. The quilting acronym "UFO" implies an Unfinished Object, quilts that are started but never seem to finish. The above five are all in progress. We only have one UFO at this place. It is a completed Orange Peel Indian Summer quilt top.

Stay-tuned for progress updates. Check out our current available quilts at Quilts SB Etsy. Also scroll down any page in our Quilts SB Blog to our Grid. You will see a portfolio of all our finished quilts and wall hangings. If you have any questions and/or comments please feel free to get in touch with me via email.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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