{"id":23276,"date":"2014-05-22T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23276"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:13:48","slug":"and-so-it-begins-foty-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/and-so-it-begins-foty-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"And So It Begins…FOTY 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Look at FOTY 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some theatre we visit occasionally has a “First Look” feature. It is one of the half hour’s worth of ads that plays before the movie actually starts! This is your first look at Fabric of the Year 2013.<\/p>\n

I want to stress FIRST<\/em> look. I have a long way to go to get this quilt top pieced. There is a lot of rearranging that needs to happen.<\/p>\n

The first step to get to the first look was that I had to\u00a0 get the squares out of the Fabric Closet. That was pretty easy, so I sorted them into rough color piles, e.g. ROYGBIV plus grey, black and white.<\/p>\n

Pink Chalk Fabrics sends a post card with an order. It has some gorgeous piece on the front and sizes of quilts on the back. I saw the lifestyle shot on a post card I received from them. After getting FOTY 2012<\/a> back, I knew I needed to do something a little different. How could I compete with that quilt? At some point in the FOTY 2013 cutting process, I put the squares and the image on this postcard together in my head and decided to arrange the piece in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n

Then I got out the post card<\/a> that is inspiring this piece and started putting them up on the design wall. I just slapped them up, only further sorting roughly into light, medium and dark.<\/p>\n

First observations<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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  1. The picture above may not even begin to resemble the finished quilt.<\/li>\n
  2. I couldn’t fit the pinks on the design wall<\/li>\n
  3. Even though the Basic Textures by Patty Young (used on Fresh Fruit) are all the same value, they can’t all be next to each other.<\/li>\n
  4. I might need to consolidate the greens a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Vitals<\/strong><\/p>\n