{"id":11360,"date":"2011-12-04T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T13:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:03:48","slug":"stars-in-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/stars-in-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars in Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11361\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11361\" title=\"Red &amp; Black\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Red &amp; Black\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PICT0315sm.jpg 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red &amp; Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It occurred to me sometime in the distant past that making 6&#8243; LeMoyne Star blocks using stripes was a good idea. I started out using paper piecing. I decided that I don&#8217;t much like paper piecing and stopped working on the project. Lately, since I have continued to buy stripes, I have picked the project up again. Creating the tutorial for the LeMoyne Star for my sampler class got me back in the groove as well.<\/p>\n<p>This 5.5&#8243; unfinished red and black cutie is one of the new ones, which I just pieced normally using the method I discussed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/tutorial-lemoyne-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">LeMoyne Star tutorial<\/a>. It is a bit smaller than the blocks I made with paper piecing, so I will add some sashing to it. It is too cute to toss out.<\/p>\n<p>I have some more diamonds cut for other blocks and need to cut the backgrounds and then sew.<\/p>\n<p>So much to sew and not enough time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me sometime in the distant past that making 6&#8243; LeMoyne Star blocks using stripes was a good idea. I started out using paper piecing. I decided that I don&#8217;t much like paper piecing and stopped working on the project. Lately, since I have continued to buy stripes, I have picked the project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/stars-in-stripes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stars in Stripes&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[400],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-blocks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","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=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}