{"id":28343,"date":"2015-06-28T10:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=28343"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:48:21","slug":"a-few-more-stepping-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-few-more-stepping-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few More Stepping Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28345\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0380sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0380sm-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"SS Block June 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0380sm-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0380sm.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SS Block June 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I thought it had been an eternity since I wrote about this project, but it turns out it has only been about 10 days. June has flown by at mach 10 so I can&#8217;t really keep track. Since that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hey-remember-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">last post<\/a>, I have made at least one more\u00a0 block.<\/p>\n<p>I am liking the blocks better, especially since I am able to see them all on the design wall together. They look ok separately, but the secondary design really explodes into wonderfulness when I put them all together.<\/p>\n<p>I have about 7 blocks now and the urgency of laying them on the bed to see how many more blocks I need to make is becoming more urgent. Why I can&#8217;t grab the blocks and walk downstairs with them is a mystery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28346\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0381sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0381sm-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"6 Blocks Together\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0381sm-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN0381sm.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">6 Blocks Together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group of 6 blocks together looks really nice. (6 makes for a more even picture than 7.) I am glad I was strict with myself on the colors, because I think it is looking good. There is a rogue red patch, which I don&#8217;t understand, but I probably will just leave it.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, despite the wide variety of fabrics, I still feel like I don&#8217;t have enough to make the piece look scrappy enough. I probably need to get over myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it had been an eternity since I wrote about this project, but it turns out it has only been about 10 days. June has flown by at mach 10 so I can&#8217;t really keep track. Since that last post, I have made at least one more\u00a0 block. I am liking the blocks better, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-few-more-stepping-stones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Few More Stepping Stones&#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":[379],"tags":[331,252,163],"class_list":["post-28343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt","tag-stepping-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343","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=28343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}