{"id":205,"date":"2007-03-10T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/qa-contest-a-bust-for-lack-of-planning\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:42:05","slug":"qa-contest-a-bust-for-lack-of-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/qa-contest-a-bust-for-lack-of-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"QA Contest a Bust for Lack of Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my day to get the contest quilt done. I was struck with a brillant idea during my vacation before the New Year, but had technical difficulties and then got busy. I finally worked out almost all of my technical glitches with thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deirdreabbotts.com\/wordpress\/\">Deirdre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/debrichardson.com\/blog\/\">DebR<\/a> and Margi and began printing the various parts today. On a whim, I decided to look at the deadline again. I found that the March 12, which had been lodged firmly in my mind, was completely wrong. The deadline was actually March 1. Bleah! At least I didn&#8217;t make the whole thing only to only to have it returned to me.<\/p>\n<p>I still like the idea and will put the project on my WIP list. Here is what I did accomplish:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RfMJT6clMAI\/AAAAAAAAAXE\/4qs3qbiOctU\/s1600\/PICT8135cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RfMJT6clMAI\/AAAAAAAAAXE\/4qs3qbiOctU\/s320\/PICT8135cropped.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040382645669015554\" \/><\/a><br \/>I created a bunch of images and words on my computer then printed them on Inkjet Printing fabric sheets. I needed an eye, so I tried to trace one of <a href=\"http:\/\/pamelart.homestead.com\/titlepage.html\">Pamela Allen<\/a>&#8216;s eyes from my Self Portrait project, but it didn&#8217;t work. You can see my attempts in the upper right hand corner. The fabric from the printer sheet was too thick and I couldn&#8217;t really see through well enough for the eye to look good. A stroke of genius hit me and I copied the eyes, which were already sewed down to my Portrait Project, so I hotocopied them on to a piece of paper and cut them out. Then I ran one of the fabric sheets through the printer again.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RfMJUaclMBI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/ICPJPmjZu9g\/s1600\/PICT8136cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RfMJUaclMBI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/ICPJPmjZu9g\/s320\/PICT8136cropped.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040382654258950162\" \/><\/a><br \/>This is the background.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, I won&#8217;t feel the tyranny of having to finish a project this weekend. I will also be able to work on the backs of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RawStCF9ymI\/AAAAAAAAAJg\/lIvsAgdqzb4\/s1600-h\/PICT7808.JPG\">Thoughts on Dots<\/a><\/span> and the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RawSsiF9ylI\/AAAAAAAAAJY\/2Xy3aXeTpvo\/s1600-h\/PICT7810.JPG\">Nosegay<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my day to get the contest quilt done. I was struck with a brillant idea during my vacation before the New Year, but had technical difficulties and then got busy. I finally worked out almost all of my technical glitches with thanks to Deirdre, DebR and Margi and began printing the various parts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/qa-contest-a-bust-for-lack-of-planning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QA Contest a Bust for Lack of Planning&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[373],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-techniques"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}