{"id":12360,"date":"2012-02-21T06:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12360"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:26:24","slug":"fabric-of-the-year-2011-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/fabric-of-the-year-2011-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabric of the Year 2011 &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12361\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1273sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12361\" title=\"FOTY 2011 top\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1273sm-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2011 top\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1273sm-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1273sm.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 85vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2011 top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Fabric of the Year 2011 top, back and binding are finished and ready to be sent to the quilter.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know from <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/foty-2011-update-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my previous post<\/a>, I ripped out the first inner border (which meant ripping out all of the outer borders as well) and replaced it with a different fabric. The &#8216;different&#8217; fabric, is a 2002 star fabric from kp kids. I used it a few years ago on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts\/womens-work-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women&#8217;s Work #1<\/a>. The stars suggest the same form as the triangles and the color is the right amount of black to frame the piece.<\/p>\n<p>I also trimmed a bit of the grey Ta Dot from the top and bottom borders. The top and bottom borders didn&#8217;t need that much space.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12366\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1260sm-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12366\" title=\"FOTY 2011 before removing diamond border\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1260sm-2-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2011 before removing diamond border\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1260sm-2-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1260sm-2-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1260sm-2.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 85vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2011 before removing diamond border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You might think I am crazy for doing all that ripping. I really think I need to make visual decisions visually, but sometimes I can&#8217;t see the piece as a whole until I get pretty far along the sewing path. I really want to do my best work and in order to do my best work I needed to get rid of that diamond border. I couldn&#8217;t get the joins in the strips I was using for the border to match up to my satisfaction. TFQ pointed out that the diamond fabric was printed off grain so the parts of the pattern printed on the fabric was not the same each section of the strip I used. She is right and I didn&#8217;t notice it until she articulated it. All I could tell is that I didn&#8217;t like the border and I needed to rip it out. So, I ripped it out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1274sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12368\" title=\"FOTY 2011 back\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1274sm-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2011 back\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1274sm-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PICT1274sm.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2011 back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used large pieces to make the back, for once. The two fabrics on the left are Basic Grey and I thought using the large pieces would show off the labels and the portions of letters, which are part of the pattern of the fabric. I was also pleased that I was able to use the last bit of the Belle Fleur fabric. I like that fabric and I am glad I have a piece that I can keep for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>Backs are arduous and I am really glad I was able to focus on using large pieces and getting the back finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fabric of the Year 2011 top, back and binding are finished and ready to be sent to the quilter. As you may know from my previous post, I ripped out the first inner border (which meant ripping out all of the outer borders as well) and replaced it with a different fabric. The &#8216;different&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/fabric-of-the-year-2011-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fabric of the Year 2011 &#8211; Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[401],"tags":[315,377,152,17,364,331],"class_list":["post-12360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2011","tag-foty","tag-hunting-gathering","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\/12360","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=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63962,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions\/63962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}