{"id":17137,"date":"2013-03-10T06:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17137"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:26:47","slug":"star-sampler-8-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-8-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Sampler: 8&#8243; Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17140\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3213sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17140\" alt=\"Green Basic Star\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3213sm-300x296.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3213sm-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3213sm.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Basic Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have started the 8&#8243; blocks this week. We are doing 4 each week and one of them will be a Basic Star. Being honest, I did the green one as a test when we started talking about the project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17139\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3214sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17139\" alt=\"Four 8&quot; Blocks\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3214sm-300x291.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3214sm-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PICT3214sm.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four 8&#8243; Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was able to finish the other three blocks this weekend. I am pleased with them. I have added a couple more lavenders. I am not sure about them, but I will use at least a few more pieces so they don&#8217;t look odd.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the blocks this week and they are Basic Star (top, left), Hourglass Star (top, right), Four Patch Star (bottom, right), Four Patch Variation (bottom, right).<\/p>\n<p>We have 40 total of these blocks to make and I might make some of the Basic Stars in advance.<\/p>\n<p>I have been doing some prep of the 4&#8243; blocks, cutting the backgrounds and the corners in readiness for when I need some leaders and enders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have started the 8&#8243; blocks this week. We are doing 4 each week and one of them will be a Basic Star. Being honest, I did the green one as a test when we started talking about the project. I was able to finish the other three blocks this weekend. I am pleased with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/star-sampler-8-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Sampler: 8&#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":[349,199,362],"class_list":["post-17137","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\/17137","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=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}