{"id":1212,"date":"2009-03-07T06:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:58:29","slug":"more-on-longarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/more-on-longarming\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Longarming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, after longarming all day on Friday<\/a>, I spent time on bindings. I made and machine sewed the bindings for Eye Spy<\/a> and the Crazy Test<\/a>. Last night I worked a bit on doing the hand sewing on the Eye Spy. Neither of these quilts will have sleeves, so once the hand sewing is done, they will be done.<\/p>\n

\"Quilting<\/a>
Quilting Detail - front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pattern I used to quilt this quilt with is called Double Bubble. I wanted to use the same pattern as Thoughts on Dots<\/a>, but I didn’t remember to look carefully at it before I left. I am pleased with this pattern and may used it again for the FOTY<\/a> 2008 quilt.<\/p>\n

\"Quilting<\/a>
Quilting Detail - corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[click photo to view detail of quilting]<\/p>\n

Practice does make perfect as well. I thought I did pretty well the first time, but my stitches improved immensely this time. I didn’t add a practice piece to this quilt and it turned out that I didn’t really need it. I worked really hard at going the same speed regardless of what I was doing. I didn’t always succeed, but I improved.<\/p>\n

\"Quilting<\/a>
Quilting Detail - back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the famous crocodile fabric quilted. I think using it worked out really well.<\/p>\n

My next longarm day is in April and then I have no more quilts to quilt, so I need to get on the stick if I want to keep up my momentum. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, after longarming all day on Friday, I spent time on bindings. I made and machine sewed the bindings for Eye Spy and the Crazy Test. Last night I worked a bit on doing the hand sewing on the Eye Spy. Neither of these quilts will have sleeves, so once the hand sewing is … Continue reading “More on Longarming”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[99,322,332],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-longarm","tag-machine-quilting","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}