{"id":24816,"date":"2014-09-21T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T12:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24816"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:25:29","slug":"field-day-hm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/field-day-hm\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Day. Hm."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Field Day September 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After I took FOTY 2013<\/a> off the wall and before I put the Russian Rubix<\/a> up on the wall, I put the very few Field Day blocks up to see what I had.<\/p>\n

Well, it isn’t looking exactly as I expected or anticipated, though there are also not very many pieces yet.<\/p>\n

The pattern calls for 5″x2.5″ strips sewn to 2.5″ squares. The top center (2d column) piece is that shape and the correct size. I thought I would make the piece more interesting and vary the sizes of the non-Sangria background and the Field Day fabric. The top left hand piece in the first column is what I came up with.<\/p>\n

Hhmm. Clearly I had trouble with the math, even though I measured everything, took the seam allowance into consideration, etc. I am going to use those pieces, but I am not going to make any more of them. I am going to stick with the boring 5″x2.5″ strips sewn to 2.5″ squares.<\/p>\n

I also think I will put the Goldenrod in between the columns. I think that would add interest.<\/p>\n

This is definitely a dark piece and I wasn’t anticipating that. I’ll have to get it done soon, so that it isn’t on the design wall in the winter when it is dark and cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I took FOTY 2013 off the wall and before I put the Russian Rubix up on the wall, I put the very few Field Day blocks up to see what I had. Well, it isn’t looking exactly as I expected or anticipated, though there are also not very many pieces yet. The pattern calls … Continue reading “Field Day. Hm.”<\/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":[280,331],"class_list":["post-24816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-field-day-zipper","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816","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=24816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}