{"id":12447,"date":"2012-03-05T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:28:12","slug":"block-a-long-46-2-square-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/block-a-long-46-2-square-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"Block-a-Long #46:  2 Square Columns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12449\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12449\" title=\"2 Square Columns #46\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2 Square Columns #46\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 Square Columns #46<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is related to<a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12389\" target=\"_blank\"> last week&#8217;s block<\/a> and would also make a great quilt by turning some of the blocks horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>The maker could also line all the blocks up vertically and have long columns of squares and rectangles.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of options for laying this block out in a quilt with similar blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The squares included in this design would be a good use for scraps and also for the Leaders and Enders technique.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46.pdf\">directions for this 2 Square Columns<\/a> block are included.<\/p>\n<p>If you have made blocks or a quilt from these patterns, please post a link in the comments section of the relevant block or on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1513852@N21\/\" target=\"_blank\">AQ Block-a-Long Flickr group<\/a>. I would love to see what you have made.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46quilt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452\" title=\"2 Square Column Quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46quilt-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2 Square Column Quilt\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46quilt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46quilt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2SquareCol46quilt.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2 Square Column Quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am going to wrap up this Block-a-Long pretty soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is related to last week&#8217;s block and would also make a great quilt by turning some of the blocks horizontally. The maker could also line all the blocks up vertically and have long columns of squares and rectangles. There are a number of options for laying this block out in a quilt with similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/block-a-long-46-2-square-columns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Block-a-Long #46:  2 Square Columns&#8221;<\/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":[401],"tags":[111,349,72],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-block-a-long","tag-blocks","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","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=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}