{"id":28126,"date":"2015-06-01T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=28126"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:52:31","slug":"improv-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/improv-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"4<\/a>
4 ‘A’ Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday was a BAMQG Improv class at Always Quilting with Tina Michalik<\/a>. I really liked it and it wasn’t\u00a0 long enough, mostly because I was on a roll sewing and wanted to keep it up. Mostly I took it as a reward for smiling and being the perfect soon-to-be First Lady.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t really start an Improv quilt on my own in my workroom. It isn’t that I don’t\u00a0 like the technique, the issue is that I have other things\u00a0 to work on and the technique never comes to mind.<\/p>\n

The last Improv quilt I made was the Women’s Work quilt<\/a> I started in the Gwen Marston workshop. I like that quilt and remember the freedom I felt making the blocks. There was a similar feeling in the class yesterday. I think because of the constraints on my time lately I really liked that feeling of freedom.<\/p>\n

I switched around the background and foreground so the red is actually the foreground according to Tina’s pattern. I wanted the interplay of the prints as the background. I may have been wrong in that choice as I am not liking what I have made so far. I like the interplay of fabric motifs and the black, white, greys with the red, but the center is too cross like. The center is sewn together, but I am considering unsewing and resewing in the way that Tina suggested. I am a little angry at myself because I did not even turn the blocks in Tina’s direction to consider laying them out with the red as the negative space.<\/p>\n

\"Kelly's<\/a>
Kelly’s ‘A’ Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kelly used some Alison Glass and Anna Maria Horner prints and I love the way hers looks.<\/p>\n

Regardless, I want the prints area to be fatter, so I think taking the four blocks apart is in my future.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to think about it.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was a BAMQG Improv class at Always Quilting with Tina Michalik. I really liked it and it wasn’t\u00a0 long enough, mostly because I was on a roll sewing and wanted to keep it up. Mostly I took it as a reward for smiling and being the perfect soon-to-be First Lady. I wouldn’t really start … Continue reading “Improv Class”<\/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":[137,448,371,351],"class_list":["post-28126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-bamqg","tag-cityscape-black-red-improv","tag-improv","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28126","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=28126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}