{"id":17072,"date":"2013-03-09T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2016-07-24T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:11:25","slug":"star-sampler-12-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-12-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Sampler: 12&#8243; Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17073\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3208sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17073\" alt=\"Star Sampler: 18 12&quot; Blocks\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3208sm-300x160.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3208sm-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3208sm.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Sampler: 18 12&#8243; Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All, except one, of the 12&#8243; stars finally made it onto my portable design wall. I finally finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/foty-2012-back\/ \" target=\"_blank\">back of FOTY 2012<\/a> and was able to take the pieces and parts off the design wall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17082\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3207sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17082\" alt=\"Star Sampler blocks\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3207sm-300x285.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3207sm-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3207sm.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Sampler blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I was waiting for space to open up, I layered the blocks one on top of the other on my smaller design wall, so I could keep track of the blocks. This is unsatisfactory as I like to see what I am working on, compare fabrics I am considering for use against what I have already used and get a sense of how many times I have used a fabric. That doesn&#8217;t work well when I have to layer the blocks.<\/p>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t be helped, though, as the blocks are large and there are a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>Also, take a look at the original <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtandfound.wordpress.com\/oh-my-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quilt-a-long instructions<\/a>. You can see all the posts on this topic by searching the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/star-sampler\/\" target=\"_blank\">tag \u201cStar Sampler.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All, except one, of the 12&#8243; stars finally made it onto my portable design wall. I finally finished the back of FOTY 2012 and was able to take the pieces and parts off the design wall. While I was waiting for space to open up, I layered the blocks one on top of the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-12-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Sampler: 12&#8243; Blocks&#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":[199,362],"class_list":["post-17072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","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\/17072","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=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}