{"id":17422,"date":"2013-03-28T06:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17422"},"modified":"2016-06-28T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:03:58","slug":"modern-quilt-studios-quiltcon-homework-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/modern-quilt-studios-quiltcon-homework-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Quilt Studio&#8217;s QuiltCon Homework #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17459\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/QuiltConHomework5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17459\" alt=\"Quilt Con Homework #5\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/QuiltConHomework5-300x222.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/QuiltConHomework5-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/QuiltConHomework5.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quilt Con Homework #5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weeks wrote &#8220;<b>Think broadly. <\/b>Don\u2019t get hung up on labels; you needn\u2019t adhere to making one type of quilt\u2014even though we consider ourselves modern quilters, there\u2019s something to be learned from every genre of quilting. Which types of quilting could you learn from?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might like bright fabrics like me, but it won&#8217;t kill me to look at a quilt made with Civil War fabrics or a quilt splashed with house paint. I like to keep an open mind when looking at quilts. I have come across quilts that I thought were hideous. Nonetheless, I looked at them and found something I could use. It might have been a spark of a color or a little block or piecing trick or some clever embellishment. By taking the time to <em>look<\/em>, I <em>saw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I can learn from all types of quilting, even those types that I wouldn&#8217;t want to do myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*No copyright claimed on Modern Quilt Studio image. thanks to Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle for allowing me to use it. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/craftnectar.com\/2013\/02\/23\/quiltcon-homework\/\" target=\"_blank\">original blog post<\/a> on the Craft Nectar blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks wrote &#8220;Think broadly. Don\u2019t get hung up on labels; you needn\u2019t adhere to making one type of quilt\u2014even though we consider ourselves modern quilters, there\u2019s something to be learned from every genre of quilting. Which types of quilting could you learn from?&#8221; You might like bright fabrics like me, but it won&#8217;t kill me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/modern-quilt-studios-quiltcon-homework-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modern Quilt Studio&#8217;s QuiltCon Homework #5&#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":[357],"class_list":["post-17422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422","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=17422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}