My Quip - Sleep Jezebel and Warhol's Itch Return Home

Good Day,

Our Sleep Jezebel and Warhol's Itch have both arrive back home from England and the Festival of Quilts 2015.

The following are the judge's comments. Andy and I always take judge's comments and notes in stride. It is a part of our learning experience.

Sleep Jezebel - JSAB

Sleep Jezebel -

Judge - "A novel approach to patchwork with interesting results - the quilting creates a vivid secondary design, but the work would improve with a bit more quilting."

Judge - "Lots of 'jaggy' shapes here in the piecing and quilting. On one interpretation, colour choice might be described as bland. A worthy attempt."

Warhol's Itch - JSAB

Warhol's Itch -

Judge - "An interesting combination of cross stitch on bright colored backgrounds. An original idea and the pleated background fabric adds depth - however I feel the blocks are a bit lost on the light background."

Judge - "An unusual quilt and an ambitious project. It will create interest at the show."

I asked the following question on a couple of quilting forums –

“Does anyone know of any venue for display and/or competition where the quilt expectancies are not necessarily “pigeon-holed” (if that makes any sense)?”

Not sure if anyone understood my question. I could reword the question to read -

“Are there any open/free-form quilt displays and/or competitions?”

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

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Quilts On The Road and Two in Progress

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Just a quick note -

Our Chopsticks and Warhol's Itch, will be on display at The Home Machine Quilting Show (HMQS) 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah 7th-9th May.

Also our Warhol's Itch and Sleep Jezebel have been accepted for entry and display to The Festival of Quilts 2015, 6th-9th August at NEC, Birmingham, England.

Our Betty Whites are currently a part of the Notable Women Quilt Initiative and will be on display at Quiltworks in Bend, Oregon for the month of June, 2015.

Our Hoffman Challenge Quilts -

Light Bringer will be in Yakima, Washington May 13th-16th and Albany, Ohio July 21st-26th.

Sea and Sky will be in Chula Vista, California, May 15th-16th.

Diamonds will be in Lemon Grove, California October 17th.

And right now on the tables, in progress, are two new ones - An Unnamed Classic

and Moon Over Broadway.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Our Warhol’s Itch – Selected – World Quilt Show – New England XII

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Andy and I just received acknowledgement today that our Warhol’s Itch quilt and wall hanging has been selected to be judged at the World Quilt Show – New England XII.

It will be exhibited August 14 – 17 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The World Quilt Show will be held at The Radisson Center of New Hampshire in Manchester, New Hampshire.

My previous write and details of our Warhol’s Itch on Quilts SB be can be seen at the following link -

http://quiltsb.blogspot.com/2014/04/q117-warhols-itch-quilt-and-wall-hanging.html

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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Q117 – Warhol’s Itch – Quilt and Wall Hanging

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And now for something completely different. Our Warhol’s Itch quilt and wall hanging has been completed.

Yes Andy and I have finished what we think is a unique type of a quilt and wall hanging. We are amazed at we have accomplished and how this new quilt has come about. Our original Warhol’s Marilyn is now our Warhol’s Itch.

Obviously we were inspired, thank you Norma Jean, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Julie Styne, and Leo Robins. by a number of ideas and available techniques and technology.  Andy and I have come up with something that we hope, apart from being different, is something that is distinctive, and a part of our quilting learning experience. The story of our Warhol’s Itch is a continuation of our current journey into the world of quilting and fabric art.

The dimensions of our Warhol’s Itch are: Wide – 42” (107 cms) and Length (at the lowest point) – 40” (102 cms). Warhol’s Itch will have a hanging sleeve and our personalized label added shortly.

Here are some additional images, front, close-up, and back.

Check out our work progress and previous posts on Quilts SB.

My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – Some New and Quick Pleats – Update

My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – The Progress Continues

My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – A New Wall Hanging

My Quip - Marilyn’s First Draft – The Reconstruction Underway

Quilt – Warhol’s Marilyn

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

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – Some New and Quick Pleats - Update

Good Day,

Andy and I thought that you may like a quick peek at the progress we have been making on our new Warhol’s Itch.

This one is certainly something different. The design and the layout of the fabric is looking more and more like our original intention and draft.

 

Follow the progress and our previous posts.

My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – The Progress Continues

My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – A New Wall Hanging

My Quip - Marilyn’s First Draft – The Reconstruction Underway

Quilt – Warhol’s Marilyn

That's all we're going to reveal right now.  If you have any thoughts, questions, comments, ideas please feel free to contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip - Warhol's Itch - The Progress Continues

Good Day,

Andy and I have been quiet. Posting to Quilts SB? Yes.  Working on our new projects? Well, not exactly. We've been working on a very different project of which we're both extremely excited.

Will it turn out okay? Hell if we know, but as you do know we have become the type of quilters that we feel that there might be a lot to gain from experimentation and trying something completely different.  And our new project is definitely different.

This is only a sneak peek. This one is a quilt and wall hanging that will be approximately 48" wide and 36" long, give or take.

 

And the quilt sandwich has already been made. The background, currently under construction, is of 100% cooton and a shade of white.

We are naming this new project, Warhol's Itch.And we're not sure, as yet, what category of quilt this may fall under.

Check back to Quilts SB for our progress and updates on all our current working projects. If you have any comments, questions, thoughts, and ideas please contact us at Quilts SB.

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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My Quip – Warhol’s Itch – A New Wall Hanging

Good Day,

If at first you don't succeed…

Well we have started the remaking of our own design and effort and this new wall hanging and quilt is our Warhol’s Itch.

The above image is the base of the top of our experiment and challenge. It measures 48” wide and 36” long.

We crossed-stitched the six Marilyn’s with one of our embroidery machines in 1998. Each Marilyn is a rectangle 8 ½” by 11”. We used the same portraits in our attempt and creation Warhol’s Marilyn above. Check the original details at Q13 – Quilt – Warhol’s Marilyn.

Andy and I are somewhat critical of our earlier attempt which we worked on just as we were beginning to learn how to quilt. We have taken our Warhol’s Marilyn apart and we are repurposing, if that’s the correct word, the six cross-stitched portraits.

Our new quilt and hanging is Warhol's Itch... In our new design we have decided on three, maybe four fabrics, excluding that of the cross-stitched portraits. The base has been pieced.

The batting and the backing have now been pinned.

This should definitely prove interesting. All-things-being-equal our new design will take shape.

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

Enjoy,

Jim and Andy

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