{"id":1971,"date":"2009-06-03T06:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2016-02-14T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T03:38:54","slug":"flowering-snowball-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/flowering-snowball-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Snowball Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pict4052sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1972\" title=\"Flowering Snowball, May 31, 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pict4052sm-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Flowering Snowball, May 31, 2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pict4052sm-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pict4052sm-1024x1004.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/pict4052sm.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowering Snowball, May 31, 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As promised, here is an up to date picture of the Flowering Snowball (Cross Blocks). I found myself short of backgrounds the other day when I had the perfect opportunity to hand stitch.<\/p>\n<p>I laid it out in order to see what background fabrics I should cut. I don&#8217;t want to have too many of the same fabrics. I want it to look scrappy.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see I have 3 more blocks for the middle section before I start on the outside. I need to make the pattern pieces for the outside, too. I thought of combining the pieces that will become background, but I may just leave them as individuals, so that I can use a variety of fabrics. The former method means the rest of the project will progress much more quickly. The latter means that I won&#8217;t have to figure out a new piecing order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, here is an up to date picture of the Flowering Snowball (Cross Blocks). I found myself short of backgrounds the other day when I had the perfect opportunity to hand stitch. I laid it out in order to see what background fabrics I should cut. I don&#8217;t want to have too many of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/flowering-snowball-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowering Snowball Work&#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":[389],"tags":[170,22,332],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-flowering-snowball","tag-hand-piecing","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","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=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}