{"id":17101,"date":"2013-03-07T19:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?page_id=17101"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T03:08:46","slug":"fabric-of-the-year-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2010\/fabric-of-the-year-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabric of the Year 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOTY 2009 Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Story<\/h1>\n

This is the second in a series of Fabric of the Year quilts. This one is not as successful as some of the others, but is still a nice piece.<\/p>\n

This series started last year with a comment by a friend about using fabric right away so as to know whether to buy more of a certain pattern before it was discontinued. The idea was to find out before needing more fabric and not being able to find it. I envisioned this series as happening in tandem with my friend. Her idea was to do blocks and while I didn’t want to do that for FOTY 2008, I decided to do it for this piece.\u00a0 I cut the pieces and made blocks throughout the year, sewing the piece together in January of 2010. The block is a scaled down version of a design by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle called Zanzibar<\/em> from their book, The Quiltmaker’s Color Workshop<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The fabrics in this quilt were purchased during 2009. I combined two fabrics in a pleasing way to make the blocks and then focused on the outside color for placement of the blocks. I longarm quilted this quilt myself.<\/p>\n

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