{"id":16986,"date":"2013-03-06T06:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=16986"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:27:23","slug":"star-sampler-shelburne-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-shelburne-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Sampler: Shelburne Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3188sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17052\" alt=\"Star Sampler: Shelburne Star\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3188sm-300x298.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3188sm-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3188sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3188sm.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Sampler: Shelburne Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This block was kind of a pain to make, but the effect is really good. I am glad it came out well in terms of contrast, because if it had been a pain and looked bad, I would have been really disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was a good choice to use the background fabric in the center of the larger star around the smaller star as it sets off the smaller star.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to make one of these, here is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/StarSamplerBlock6.pdf\">Star Sampler: Shelburne Star<\/a> pattern. You can also find it in EQ7. Check out the Oh My Stars! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/1797000@N20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr Group<\/a> to see all the other renditions of the final project. You can see all the posts on this topic by searching the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/star-sampler\/\" target=\"_blank\">tag &#8220;Star Sampler.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This block was kind of a pain to make, but the effect is really good. I am glad it came out well in terms of contrast, because if it had been a pain and looked bad, I would have been really disappointed. I think it was a good choice to use the background fabric in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-shelburne-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Sampler: Shelburne Star&#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_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":[402],"tags":[349,199,362],"class_list":["post-16986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-blocks","tag-star-sampler","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\/16986","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=16986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}