{"id":19731,"date":"2013-08-24T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=19731"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:53:30","slug":"meditation-on-swoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/meditation-on-swoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation on Swoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16421\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT3033sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16421\" alt=\"Swoon Top\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT3033sm-300x277.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT3033sm-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/PICT3033sm.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swoon Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps I should have called this post &#8220;Second Guessing Myself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January I finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/swoon-top\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swoon top<\/a> and a short time later I sent it to the quilter.<\/p>\n<p>I got it back last week. As usual, she did a fantastic job. I am merrily sewing down the binding, generally enjoying my cheerful Swoon in all its pink and orange loveliness.<\/p>\n<p>THEN.<\/p>\n<p>Camille Roskelly, the designer of the Swoon quilt, <a href=\"http:\/\/camilleroskelley.typepad.com\/simplify\/2013\/08\/a-summer-swoon.html\" target=\"_blank\">posts<\/a> a new Swoon she has just finished.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I love her work. I love her fabrics. I would probably love her if she were a friend. But this newest quilt makes me wonder if I should have made the background all the same so the Swoony motifs float. I thought I was being so clever making the blocks different. Now I don&#8217;t feel so clever. I feel like I did it wrong. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The post is making me wonder if I should make a Swoon out of the Joel Dewberry Notting Hill fabric. I do love that fabric. Perhaps this all isn&#8217;t so bad after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I should have called this post &#8220;Second Guessing Myself&#8221;. Back in January I finished the Swoon top and a short time later I sent it to the quilter. I got it back last week. As usual, she did a fantastic job. I am merrily sewing down the binding, generally enjoying my cheerful Swoon in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/meditation-on-swoons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meditation on Swoons&#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":[353,171],"class_list":["post-19731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-process","tag-swoon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731","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=19731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}