{"id":121,"date":"2006-08-20T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/progression-on-thoughts-on-dots\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:46:46","slug":"progression-on-thoughts-on-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/progression-on-thoughts-on-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Progression on Thoughts on Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAbove is pretty much how the piece was before I started working on it again last night and this morning.<\/p>\n

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\nHere you can see I got the piece into what I thought was a final stage. I particularly like the upper lefthand corner section.<\/p>\n

Two concerns I had were adding the new fabrics from Seattle and the sewing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After contemplating the construction of the piece (AKA how to sew it together), I realized that adding an additional row would allow me to sew the thing in 4 patches AND leave the two bottom rows unsewn so that I could work on uniting the two halves. (In case I forgot to mention it, dear readers, I plan to make this piece twice the size it is now and add a couple of rows on the right hand side as well.) St. JCN sugested that I keep the bottom two rows on the design wall to aid in uniting the two halves. I decided that it would be easier to work with the bottom two rows if they were not sewn together. All of this meant that I needed an extra row otherwise I would have an orphan row which would ruin my 4 patch sewing model.<\/p>\n

You might ask why not sew the thing in rows. I find that sewing large pieces in chunks (e.g. 4 patches) rather than rows facilitates squareness of the entire piece.<\/p>\n

Adding an additional row also meant I could start to incorporate the Seattle fabrics into the piece, so the two halves would not look like completely different quilts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above is pretty much how the piece was before I started working on it again last night and this morning. Here you can see I got the piece into what I thought was a final stage. I particularly like the upper lefthand corner section. Two concerns I had were adding the new fabrics from Seattle … Continue reading “Progression on Thoughts on Dots”<\/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":[369],"tags":[229,362],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-369","tag-thoughts-on-dots","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}