{"id":14150,"date":"2012-07-10T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:49:00","slug":"inifnity-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/inifnity-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Inifnity Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14151\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1975sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14151\" title=\"Infinity Quilt Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1975sm-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Infinity Quilt Layout\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1975sm-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1975sm.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infinity Quilt Layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I want to give up on the <a title=\"26 Projects \u2013 June Update\" href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26-projects-june-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">26 Projects List<\/a> and do something fun, but somehow after finishing the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/new-meditation-on-quilt-backs\/\" target=\"_blank\">backs<\/a> last week, I pulled out the blocks <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/last-infinity-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">my SIL and I made<\/a> and started putting them together.<\/p>\n<p>These blocks are on the small side and I thought I would have to make more, but, as you can see, the blocks I have will make quite a large quilt.<\/p>\n<p>My first idea was to just lay them out the way they came out of the box and, then, move them around. I didn&#8217;t have to do much moving around, though. They came out pretty well when I laid them out. There is a quite a lot of variety in the fabrics and also a good balance of light and dark. There were a few places where I switch a couple of blocks so that a print was next to a tone-on-tone rather than next to another print.<\/p>\n<p>The adjustments I made were very small adjustments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1976sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14152\" title=\"Pre-sewing layout\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1976sm-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Pre-sewing layout\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1976sm-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1976sm.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-sewing layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is pretty much the layout I am using for sewing.<\/p>\n<p>I did have to move the row on the far right to the bottom to make the &#8216;wreaths&#8217; finish on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>I have not yet completed the borders as of this writing, but will do that later. I put on a Pure Elements Grey border, but will also put on another border of blue stripes as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1996sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14165\" title=\"Finished Infinity Top\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1996sm-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Finished Infinity Top\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1996sm-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PICT1996sm.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished Infinity Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was amazed at how fast this top went together. I am also very pleased with the movement created by the different fabrics. My SIL has a different palette than I do and the combination of her floral blue-greys with my aquas and turquoises is a great combination.<\/p>\n<p>This will be another large quilt, but will be good for a boy to grow into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to give up on the 26 Projects List and do something fun, but somehow after finishing the backs last week, I pulled out the blocks my SIL and I made and started putting them together. These blocks are on the small side and I thought I would have to make more, but, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/inifnity-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inifnity Quilt&#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":[284,362],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-infinity-quilt","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","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=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}