{"id":2738,"date":"2009-08-13T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:22:01","slug":"foty-2009-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/foty-2009-progresses\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2009 Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2739\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2739\" title=\"FOTY blocks, August 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265sm-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY blocks, August 2009\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265sm-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265sm-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265sm.jpg 1571w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 85vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY blocks, August 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Slowly, but surely the FOTY 2009 blocks are stacking up. I doubt that FOTY 2009 will be as large as <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/PICT4152sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY 2008<\/a>, however I consider it to be more complex so smaller is better. I know I know, sewing in addition to cutting is part of the quiltmaking process and doesn&#8217;t necessarily constitute &#8216;complex.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09 I just like to see if you are paying attention sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>As I said before, these blocks make great warm up blocks before a serious bout of sewing, so that is what I did on Saturday after getting the 9K set up again.\u00a0 If you look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4259sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s post, you can see one of the green blocks under the feed dogs.<\/p>\n<p>I decided not to combine the two Ginger Blossom prints that I used in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/opposite-tote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Striped Tote with Flowers<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/completed-tote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flowered Tote with Stripes<\/a>. They already had enough cavorting and will get some more time to do so when I make the quilt for which I have been <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pict3829sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">collecting fabric<\/a>. I really like the effect of the dots with the flowers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2731\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265crop1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2731\" title=\"FOTY detail pink\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265crop1-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY detail pink\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265crop1-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4265crop1.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 85vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY detail pink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had some hot pink dots that I hadn&#8217;t yet made into a block, so I used that with the flower print. Haven&#8217;t done anything with the stripes. I need to press some more fabric and then we&#8217;ll see what transpires.<\/p>\n<p>I do really like that pink Gigner Blossom flower print for some reason. It makes me feel happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, but surely the FOTY 2009 blocks are stacking up. I doubt that FOTY 2009 will be as large as FOTY 2008, however I consider it to be more complex so smaller is better. I know I know, sewing in addition to cutting is part of the quiltmaking process and doesn&#8217;t necessarily constitute &#8216;complex.&#8217; \ud83d\ude09 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/foty-2009-progresses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOTY 2009 Progresses&#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":[389],"tags":[349,315,225,17,332],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-blocks","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2009","tag-foty","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}