{"id":20380,"date":"2013-10-02T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=20380"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:07:20","slug":"scrapitude-four-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/scrapitude-four-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrapitude Four Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I succumbed to the Siren<\/a> call of the mystery quilt. Just like Jason and the Argonauts or Odysseus or the sailors passing Die Lorelei<\/a>, I couldn’t resist their call and am working on the Scrapitude Mystery Quilt.<\/p>\n

The Scrapitude Mystery Quilt was created by Sandy’s friend charlotte after the ladies in their guild begged. Sandy put out the [Siren] call and many of The Twilters joined in. I found an already cut batch of 2.5″ squares, so I joined as well. Lame reasoning, I have to say, because there are a whole bunch of other shapes I need to cut as well.<\/p>\n

\"Scrapitude<\/a>
Scrapitude First 4 Patches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turned out to be good, though, because I needed something easy where I could accomplish a lot in a short amount of time.<\/p>\n

I only had about 3 hours to sew yesterday and was able to finish 25 four patches and make a huge dent in the 112 I still need to make.<\/p>\n

One of the first sewing directions was to make 25 four patches out of the foreground fabric (e.g. not the background). I found a container of 2.5 squares I had cut sometime ago and started out with those. I was able to make good progress and finish the first 25 pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

\"2.5"<\/a>
2.5″ Squares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next 112 would be a little harder and I knew that before even starting the sewing.\u00a0 Part of the difficulty was that I hadn’t, yet, picked a background. Fortunately there were enough dots with white backgrounds already cut to sell me on the idea of dots as a background. I toyed with the idea of blacks on whites, but went with the dots. There aren’t enough dots in my life ever. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

There were a lot of orange squares in the container, so, periodically, I rummaged through my scrap bins and cut some other colors. A lot of what I was cutting were greens. It is fun delving into my scrap bin. First, I use up scraps, which is always a bonus. Second, I enjoyed thinking about the fabrics through which I was rummaging and the original projects for which they were used. I found a lot of Philip Jacobs prints and joyfully cut those up to use.<\/p>\n

\"112<\/a>
112 4 Patches in Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now I have about half of the 112 finished. I have had to use some yardage for the background, but I\u00a0 have plenty of dots, so it is ok.<\/p>\n

Sandy has a tutorial on her blog on making 4-patches<\/a>. Nonnie pointed out a very interesting 4-patch<\/a> tutorial on the NZ blog, Bee in my Bonnet. I have not tried this tutorial and she doesn’t give sizes, so I don’t know how it works. It looks cool, though.<\/p>\n

Why Should You Care<\/strong>: Perhaps you want to join in or use the directions for an activity for your guild?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I succumbed to the Siren call of the mystery quilt. Just like Jason and the Argonauts or Odysseus or the sailors passing Die Lorelei, I couldn’t resist their call and am working on the Scrapitude Mystery Quilt. The Scrapitude Mystery Quilt was created by Sandy’s friend charlotte after the ladies in their guild begged. Sandy … Continue reading “Scrapitude Four Patches”<\/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":[349,270,331,236,122],"class_list":["post-20380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-blocks","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing","tag-scrapitude","tag-scraps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380","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=20380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}