{"id":18615,"date":"2013-06-06T05:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2016-07-24T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:27:49","slug":"ribbon-star-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/ribbon-star-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon Star Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PICT3491sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18616\" alt=\"Ribbon Star Old (L), New (R)\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PICT3491sm-300x154.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PICT3491sm-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/PICT3491sm.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ribbon Star Old (L), New (R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You might remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/ribbon-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">drama<\/a> of the first Ribbon Star. You also might remember that I made the star over using half square triangles rather than parallelograms.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I never really liked the new version, which you can see on the right of the above picture. I used it, because I had no choice, but I didn&#8217;t really like that particular lavender fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I decided that I would remake the first block. The first block had a lot of problems, not the least of which was that the parts were a variety of different sizes. I unsewed all the squares, rearranged some of the colors and resewed them so that the block, basically, fit together. Many of the seam allowances are so far short of 1\/4&#8243; that I really worry about their integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Still I am really happy that I get to use the original version of the block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember the drama of the first Ribbon Star. You also might remember that I made the star over using half square triangles rather than parallelograms. I have to admit that I never really liked the new version, which you can see on the right of the above picture. I used it, because I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/ribbon-star-redux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ribbon Star Redux&#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":[349,252,199],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-blocks","tag-project-quilt","tag-star-sampler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","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=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}