{"id":11454,"date":"2011-12-03T06:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T18:21:59","slug":"circa-1934-stepping-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/circa-1934-stepping-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Circa 1934 Stepping Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I checked a Pam and Nicki Lintott<\/a> book out of the library. One of the patterns intrigued me.<\/p>\n

\"Moda<\/a>
Moda Circa 1934<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other day, I stopped at the Granary in Sunnyvale and saw the Circa 1934 fabrics from Moda. I bought a few of them and a layer cake. Once I got the fabric home, I decided to try the Stepping Stones pattern using the fabric during the Thanksgiving weekend.\u00a0 I can’t even remember the last time I bought fabric, washed it and immediately started using it. I want to get to the point where I do that more often. Sometimes the excitement of the fabric is fresh in my mind when I buy and I would like to capitalize on that excitement in my work.<\/p>\n

\"Fabric<\/a>
Fabric selection for quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t buy large pieces of the whole line, so I knew I needed some additional fabrics. Also, I want to take Joanna Figueroa’s advice and work towards using only 80% of a line so that my quilts look different from other quilts that use a whole line.<\/p>\n

\"4<\/a>
4 Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I looked at the layer cake to get a few ideas about colors to use. I picked some fabrics out of my fabric closet and set to work. There was a bit of pulling colors out of the pile, but I really wanted to sew and tried not to be too picky.<\/p>\n

I am not very experienced at following patterns and I had trouble with this one. I am not used to making a whole bunch of one element at a time, then making a whole bunch of other elements and finally sewing them together. I have to admit that once your elements are made the sewing goes quickly, but it was a lot of time on my feet.<\/p>\n

Also, I didn’t like the pattern, because it didn’t clearly tell me how many of each triangle square and four patch I needed, nor did it tell me what size they should be (finished or unfinished). I tried to guess and hope I got it right.<\/p>\n

Finally, the pattern is not written in such a way where it is easy to switch out colors. I would have preferred if they used terms like “light,” “dark” or “medium.” Even if they used “large floral” or “fabric with small repeat”, it would have been a bit easier to NOT use the colors and fabric line the authors used.<\/p>\n

\"1<\/a>
1 block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The blocks appear large and are coming out fine. I am liking how it looks, though I see now where I could have used more contrast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, I checked a Pam and Nicki Lintott book out of the library. One of the patterns intrigued me. The other day, I stopped at the Granary in Sunnyvale and saw the Circa 1934 fabrics from Moda. I bought a few of them and a layer cake. Once I got the fabric home, … Continue reading “Circa 1934 Stepping Stones”<\/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":[315,252,163],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-fabric","tag-project-quilt","tag-stepping-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","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=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}