{"id":12384,"date":"2012-02-23T06:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12384"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:32:04","slug":"test-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/test-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Test<\/a>
Test Piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The center of this piece has been on my design wall<\/a> for a long time. I made it to try and get my head around sewing diamonds together for FOTY 2010<\/a>. I didn’t feel like I could toss it even though it isn’t my best work.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I decided to use it to test my idea for the border on the Original Bullseye<\/a>. After some thought, I decided not to use my idea for the Original Bullseye, but I decided to try the border on the Test Piece anyway.<\/p>\n

I used some fabric that I didn’t really care about for the border. I modified the directions from an old QNM article (hand applique’ was not going to happen on this piece) and went to work. I got surprising results. The surprising part was that I finally became with one mitered corners. I finally understand the ins and outs of creating a mitered corner. I have known, in a theoretical way, how to do it, but this was the first time the process and theory really made sense to my brain and hands together.<\/p>\n

This is no masterpiece, but it does prove that quiltmakers can learn something from every piece. I find it somewhat freeing to not care about the overall piece. I have cared about each specific element or technique or process, but not the whole piece. The point of this piece is learning.<\/p>\n

And, in that, this piece has value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The center of this piece has been on my design wall for a long time. I made it to try and get my head around sewing diamonds together for FOTY 2010. I didn’t feel like I could toss it even though it isn’t my best work. Eventually, I decided to use it to test my … Continue reading “Test Piece”<\/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":[401],"tags":[344],"class_list":["post-12384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-tests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384","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=12384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}