{"id":24305,"date":"2014-08-10T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24305"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:50:54","slug":"tale-of-two-cities-more-blocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/tale-of-two-cities-more-blocks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale of Two Cities &#8211; More Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a lot of additional progress since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/tale-of-two-cities-more-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">last City Sampler\/Tale of Two Cities update<\/a>, but I have made a little. Frankly, I haven&#8217;t been at the machine much, so little progress has been made on anything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24306\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5157sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5157sm-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"City Sampler no.21\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5157sm-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5157sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5157sm.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Sampler no.21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was able to sneak in some of the background fabric on this block (No.21), because that one square is surrounded completely by other fabric. I am interested to know how those bits of background will look once I have all the blocks done.<\/p>\n<p>As I look at it, I remember Sue&#8217;s (from CQFA) Eat, Play, Sleep, Repeat baby quilts. Blown up this might make an interesting baby quilt. Not that I made baby quilts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24394\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-20140809_201326-1_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-20140809_201326-1_wm-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"City Sampler No.22\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-20140809_201326-1_wm-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-20140809_201326-1_wm-1015x1024.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 85vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Sampler No.22<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also made it to No.22, after a couple of tries. AND, Patti and Nicki will be pleased to know that I used strip piecing! I didn&#8217;t really get it that the strips needed to be different sizes for different parts of the block. Sometimes I wonder about my brain.<\/p>\n<p>I really hate to admit it, but I think I have too many projects going on that are in a similar stage.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of piecing, no shortage of leaders and enders means that only a little is getting done on any of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More blocks was a bit ambitious of a title, but hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 29, 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/tale-of-two-cities-more-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tale of Two Cities &#8211; More Blocks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>June 5, 2014 \u2013 Various &amp; Sundry #5 June 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/various-sundry-5-june-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">brief mention<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>June 4, 2014 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/tale-of-two-cities-early-june-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tale of Two Cities \u2013 Early June 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 5, 2014 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/tale-of-two-cities-blocks-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tale of Two Cities Blocks \u2013 Finally<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 7, 2014 \u2013 Pretties (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/various-sundry-5-june-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">brief mention<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>April 3, 2014 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/tale-of-two-cities-start\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tale of Two Cities Start<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS Go buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1440232148\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1440232148&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a>. If nothing else it is a good block dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a lot of additional progress since my last City Sampler\/Tale of Two Cities update, but I have made a little. Frankly, I haven&#8217;t been at the machine much, so little progress has been made on anything. I was able to sneak in some of the background fabric on this block (No.21), because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/tale-of-two-cities-more-blocks-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tale of Two Cities &#8211; More Blocks&#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":[349,272,263],"class_list":["post-24305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-blocks","tag-city-sampler","tag-tale-of-two-cities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305","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=24305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}