{"id":10063,"date":"2011-08-20T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:31:29","slug":"abc-challenge-c-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/abc-challenge-c-block\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Challenge: &#8216;C&#8217; Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10064\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PICT9680sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10064\" title=\"Cake Stand\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PICT9680sm-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Cake Stand\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PICT9680sm-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PICT9680sm-1024x998.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/PICT9680sm.jpg 1565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cake Stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am a sucker for basket blocks. Cake Stand is a classic. Even though I said I was going to use <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Around the Block Again<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Once More Around the Block<\/span>, I took a quick peek at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Around the Block<\/span> and couldn&#8217;t prevent myself from making this block. I have to admit that the templates that I mentioned in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/abc-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">last post<\/a> about the project make me not want to use those books. They are not hard to use and it isn&#8217;t that I can&#8217;t measure the templates and cut them, but I just don&#8217;t want to be flipping back and forth. I will get over myself, because I don&#8217;t want to give real estate to books that I don&#8217;t use.<\/p>\n<p>The gold color is, again, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patbravo.com\/PureElementsSwatches.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Bravo Pure Elements<\/a>. I believe it is the Empire Yellow. It has kind of a green tinge to it. I used it, because it was next on my stack to be ironed and I want a bit of a challenge in this project. The dots are a bit light for the background, so I may try the block again with a different background, but we will see.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment, I am still making one block for each letter. I may make seconds for some of the letters. I am going to kind of go with the flow and see how the project evolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a sucker for basket blocks. Cake Stand is a classic. Even though I said I was going to use Around the Block Again and Once More Around the Block, I took a quick peek at Around the Block and couldn&#8217;t prevent myself from making this block. I have to admit that the templates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/abc-challenge-c-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ABC Challenge: &#8216;C&#8217; Block&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[349,72,331],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-blocks","tag-group-project","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}