{"id":27774,"date":"2015-04-29T05:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=27774"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:07:20","slug":"foty-2015-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/foty-2015-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2015 Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27778\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2015 Begins\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2015 Begins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, I have cut off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/foty-2014-end-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY 2014<\/a> and started in on FOTY 2015. I have yet to put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/fabric-of-the-year-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY 2014<\/a> together, but that task is coming soon. I have to clear off some of the &#8216;debris&#8217; before I start on another project as design wall intensive as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/foty\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY<\/a> quilts tend to be. At the moment, both design walls are filled with other projects.<\/p>\n<p>The important part is that it is 2015 and FOTY 2015 is in progress. I had a number of pieces of fabric that I had pressed, but hadn&#8217;t cut into, so those fabrics were the start of this version of the series. Also, with all of the sewing I did on Sunday, I had a lot of squares of &#8216;previous&#8217; fabrics to add to the stack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27777\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2015 Annotated\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0249sm-1.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2015 Annotated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided that I liked the idea I used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/finished-foty-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY 2012<\/a> where I had smaller patches for fabrics already in my stash that I pulled out in that year. This time, the sizes will be a little different: 5.5&#8243; x 3&#8243; rectangles and 3&#8243; x 3&#8243; squares. They should fit together nicely.<\/p>\n<p>I have already had the first batch of patches on the design wall and taken them off again and started on the second. We are off to an excellent start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I have cut off FOTY 2014 and started in on FOTY 2015. I have yet to put FOTY 2014 together, but that task is coming soon. I have to clear off some of the &#8216;debris&#8217; before I start on another project as design wall intensive as the FOTY quilts tend to be. At the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/foty-2015-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOTY 2015 Begins&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[379],"tags":[315,377,299,17],"class_list":["post-27774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2015","tag-foty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774","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=27774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}