{"id":26738,"date":"2015-02-08T06:14:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=26738"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:54:43","slug":"octagon-nine-patch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/octagon-nine-patch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Octagon Nine Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Octagon<\/a>
Octagon to Snowball Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am starting to think I should call this quilt the Snowball Nine Patch. Even though I think of the original shapes as octagons, I am turning them into snowballs. It is probably too late since, by now, I think of this quilt as the Octagon Nine Patch quilt, but it is a thought.<\/p>\n

Also, what is it with Nine Patches all of a sudden? First it was the Rick Rack Nine Patch <\/a>and now I have, as planned, added nine patches to this quilt.<\/p>\n

\"Octagon<\/a>
Octagon Nine Patch Detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I felt like I needed to add some nine patches to the octagon\/snowball pieces to see some progress. I know I am making progress with the ever increasing number of octagon\/snowball pieces, but I needed to see more. Making new scrappy blocks meant cutting a whole bunch of additional squares. Still, it was very gratifying when a couple of nine patches came to fruition.<\/p>\n

I am trying to decide if I need more cool colors. I used a lot of the cool colors on the Russian Rubix<\/a>.\u00a0 From the top photo, it looks like enough, but when I look closer I see the same fabrics over and over, then one of the circle blue octagons and one of the violet\/light purple with the squares and rectangles line drawing. I don’t know how many octagons I will need as I don’t know how large of a quilt I am making. I am trying to restrain myself and wait to cut more until I can put this on the large design wall to see what I see. At this point the quilt (with 64 Snowballs only) will be 208″, which is a respectable size. Adding the Nine Patches will, I think, double the size.<\/p>\n

I am getting to the point where this is starting to look like something. Perhaps this will become my number 1 project soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am starting to think I should call this quilt the Snowball Nine Patch. Even though I think of the original shapes as octagons, I am turning them into snowballs. It is probably too late since, by now, I think of this quilt as the Octagon Nine Patch quilt, but it is a thought. Also, … Continue reading “Octagon Nine Patch”<\/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":[379],"tags":[291,353,362],"class_list":["post-26738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-octagon-nine-patch","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\/26738","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=26738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}