{"id":28531,"date":"2015-07-14T05:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:00:10","slug":"foty-2014-arrangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/foty-2014-arrangement\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2014 Arrangement"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am finally starting on FOTY 2014. After finishing the “triplets”**, Field Day<\/a>, the Food Quilt #2<\/a> and Box Full of Letters<\/a>, I looked around to try and decide what to do. I cut a few pieces for FOTY 2015<\/a>, put in a new rotary cutter blade and decided not to dither. I took out the piece of FOTY 2014 and started in.<\/p>\n

\"Sorting<\/a>
Sorting FOTY 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First off was sorting. I took the two bins out and sorted the colors into general stacks. I had only two bins and was worried that I had lost some patches, but after taking out all the pieces, I realized I had a lot of patches with which to work.<\/p>\n

As I have mentioned many times, even sorting is a challenging part of this project. You can’t dilute a fabric’s color or hue. It is what it is. Of course, I could paint that fabric, or color it with markers, but that is not the point of the exercise.<\/p>\n

I am often a little disheartened by the sorting, because I think I will never be able to blend the colors. Somehow I do it and get a wonderful finished quilt.<\/p>\n

\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2014 Arranging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a general sorting, I started arranging. Like 2013’s piece<\/a>, I decided to start with white in the middle. I used and bought very little white in 2014, so all of the ‘white’ I have has another color on it. That is fine. Again, it is one of the challenges of this project.<\/p>\n

I wanted to get all the colors on the design wall on Sunday night when I started, but that was not to be. I found out a few things:<\/p>\n