{"id":27336,"date":"2015-03-24T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=27336"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:27:13","slug":"libraries-and-peacocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/libraries-and-peacocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries and Peacocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to go deposit some checks the other day. Since I was walking I stopped by the library and borrowed the One Block Wonders book<\/a>. I started reading it before I went to bed the other night and I am less sure about the project.<\/p>\n

\"Majestic<\/a>
Majestic Beauties Peacocks Panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First, the original panel I was thinking of using probably won’t work, because it has too much white in the background. I found the fabric on the site called Melinda’s Fabric Shop<\/a>. I never used that shop before and they have quite a bit of variety as well as a good layout on their pages.<\/p>\n

Since the site had related prints right on the screen showing the panels, I looked through the other prints in the line and there are some others that might work for this project. I like the squares print that looks like tile (Wilmington Majestic Beauties Tiles, #F6898), but that print, according to the book might also not work because there is not enough variety in the colors and shapes.<\/p>\n

\"Peacocks<\/a>
Peacocks fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I kept looking and found another print with the peacocks that has more variety in the design and not as much white in the background. It also incorporates some single feathers and the tile. The heads of the birds are a smaller part of the design, which is also kind of a relief, because I really don’t want heads in many, if any, quilts that I make.<\/p>\n

The concern I have with this print is the size of the repeat. I can’t tell from the website so I sent them a message. The book says that there will be too many duplicates if the repeat is too small.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t looked through my large pieces of Philip Jacobs fabric, but need to do that before I go out and buy more fabric.<\/p>\n

I was pretty excited seeing Pam’s version<\/a>, but as I read the book, I am less excited. I am not thrilled about sewing more hexagons together either. Been there done that.\u00a0 The whole project just seems a lot less interesting after reading the book. Perhaps that is what I felt when the book first came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to go deposit some checks the other day. Since I was walking I stopped by the library and borrowed the One Block Wonders book. I started reading it before I went to bed the other night and I am less sure about the project. First, the original panel I was thinking of using … Continue reading “Libraries and Peacocks”<\/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":[301,331,360,429],"class_list":["post-27336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-one-block-wonder","tag-piecing","tag-possibilities","tag-the-peacock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336","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=27336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}