{"id":12925,"date":"2012-04-11T06:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12925"},"modified":"2016-06-28T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:47:12","slug":"foty-2012-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/foty-2012-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2012 – Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2012 Patches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week’s patches are from the batches I have washed recently. I have been trying to press a few yards as a warm up for my quiltmaking sessions. Trying to do that means that I am making progress on the ironing and cutting.<\/p>\n

I was afraid that I just wouldn’t get to the washing and cutting and ironing this year. I know people say that they get so much fabric that they can’t wash it all before they use it anymore. I can’t imagine using a lot of fabric I haven’t washed. The unwashed fabric stinks so when I press it.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned<\/a>, the squares and rectangles are a pleasure to work with so far.<\/p>\n

A lot of the black on white prints come from working on the Flowering Snowball. I cut two of the purples (above towards the right side of the photo), because the motif is so large that the pieces I cut look very different from each other. I like that print a lot, especially the background color. We’ll see if I remember once I start arranging and laying out the quilt top.<\/p>\n

\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2012 Patches, too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a lot of white in the prints I have cut so far this year. I wonder if this will be the year of the much lighter quilt? The white doesn’t bother me so much, but we will see once I start arranging.<\/p>\n

I also found that I have started to press and cut the larger pieces that have been languishing. In some cases, at TFQ’s suggestion, I am just pressing the edges and leaving the rest of the piece until I use it. Most of them are not very wrinkled, so I think it will work out.<\/p>\n

\"Patches<\/a>
Patches for FOTY 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also have to say that using rectangles and squares makes it much easier to photograph the patches when they are cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s patches are from the batches I have washed recently. I have been trying to press a few yards as a warm up for my quiltmaking sessions. Trying to do that means that I am making progress on the ironing and cutting. I was afraid that I just wouldn’t get to the washing and … Continue reading “FOTY 2012 – Progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":[315,377,187,17,364],"class_list":["post-12925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-401","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2012","tag-foty","tag-hunting-gathering","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","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=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}