{"id":1875,"date":"2009-05-30T06:25:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:56:51","slug":"exploring-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/exploring-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt Response #15: Exploring Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy of Creative Mom Podcast<\/a> posted a picture of one of her ATCs. It was the ATC response<\/a> to the March ATC project she does. I think the prompt was Lucky, but am not sure. I kept thinking about that ATC and the squares and wasn’t able to get them out of my mind.<\/p>\n

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CB2 Wall Decor, May 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THEN I saw a piece of art that resembled the ATC in the CB2<\/a> catalog and knew something was happening. Last hursday night, in the midst of the complete chaos into which my life had devolved, I went upstairs, opened up a sketchbook, which is too big and thus intimidating, and drew some connected squares. Then I went, rummaged around in my scrap basket and got some of those blues of which I am so fond lately. I cut them up into squares and glued them over the drawn squares.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My Squares, May 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then I closed the book, did my exercises and went to bed.<\/p>\n

The whole experience was good. A little surreal, but good.<\/p>\n

Update 5\/30\/2009<\/em> – After reading a magazine I was reminded of some quilts by Denyse Schmidt that also look like the above works. One is a quilt called What a Bunch of Squares<\/a> and the other was called Mental Blocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy of Creative Mom Podcast posted a picture of one of her ATCs. It was the ATC response to the March ATC project she does. I think the prompt was Lucky, but am not sure. I kept thinking about that ATC and the squares and wasn’t able to get them out of my mind. THEN … Continue reading “Creative Prompt Response #15: Exploring Squares”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[389],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}