{"id":24605,"date":"2014-08-30T06:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24605"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:25:55","slug":"more-on-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/more-on-field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t know why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/field-day-zipper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Field Day prints<\/a> appeal to me so much, but they do. They really aren&#8217;t my colors and more than one person has said that they aren&#8217;t my colors. I needed to be careful not to use a background that would make the top\/piecing too depressing for me to work on.<\/p>\n<p>I found that the backgrounds I <a title=\"Field Day Zipper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/field-day-zipper\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted before<\/a> were too &#8230; too&#8230;. too something. Too wrong? Too boring? Too expected. They weren&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p>I took some of the rectangles, as I said in the Thursday post, with me to Beverly&#8217;s to pick out a different background. Maureen met me there and helped.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24605 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151656910-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151656910-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24603\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24603'>\n\t\t\t\tPurple\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151592574-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151592574-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24601\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24601'>\n\t\t\t\tGrape\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151498794-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151498794-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24600\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24600'>\n\t\t\t\tViolet\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151419354-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151419354-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24598\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24598'>\n\t\t\t\tGoldenrod\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151345278-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151345278-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24597\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24597'>\n\t\t\t\tSunset\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wpid-wp-1409151289094-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1409151289094-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-24596\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-24596'>\n\t\t\t\tSangria\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Kelly suggested some kind of bright turquoise. I went to the store fully intending to buy some kind of turquoise. They didn&#8217;t have the new Jamaica colorway, which I thought would be perfect. I wasn&#8217;t excited about some of the other turquoises that were available. So, I started looking at other colors. I picked up Sangria and really liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Maureen pulled some other colors and we looked at them as well. I bought more than one background color, because I still haven&#8217;t decided. I may make more than one just to use the different backgrounds and see the difference in the look of the quilts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t know why the Field Day prints appeal to me so much, but they do. They really aren&#8217;t my colors and more than one person has said that they aren&#8217;t my colors. I needed to be careful not to use a background that would make the top\/piecing too depressing for me to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/more-on-field-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on Field Day&#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":[315,280],"class_list":["post-24605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-fabric","tag-field-day-zipper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605","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=24605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}