{"id":23782,"date":"2014-06-22T05:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23782"},"modified":"2016-07-24T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:08:40","slug":"foty-2013-even-better-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/foty-2013-even-better-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2013 Even Better Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5056sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5056sm-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2013: Mid-Late June 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5056sm-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5056sm.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2013: Mid-Late June 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am not ready to piece yet, but I am so much farther along than I was when I last checked in.<\/p>\n<p>I know a number of you liked the falling water\/color gradation effect, but process wins and it wasn&#8217;t working for me.<\/p>\n<p>This is so much better. I couldn&#8217;t have done it without the work I did on the first version. I did extensive sorting of the colors, as you may have noticed if you enlarged the photos and looked carefully. I expect that most of you didn&#8217;t have time and will just take my word for it.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive sorting that I did really helped me leap frog over the preliminary shuffling that I have done in the past. I&#8217;ll have to keep that in mind for the future.<\/p>\n<p>I still have a lot of work to do, but I am feeling better about the piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous Posts that Might be of Interest<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Start of it All: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/coalescing-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalescing Ideas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/foty-2013-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Falling Water Version<\/a> of FOTY 2013<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/inspiration-and-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Version<\/a> of TFQ&#8217;s Fabric of the Year Quilt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not ready to piece yet, but I am so much farther along than I was when I last checked in. I know a number of you liked the falling water\/color gradation effect, but process wins and it wasn&#8217;t working for me. This is so much better. I couldn&#8217;t have done it without the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/foty-2013-even-better-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOTY 2013 Even Better Progress&#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":[381],"tags":[315,221,17,331,353,362],"class_list":["post-23782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2013","tag-foty","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782","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=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}