{"id":28764,"date":"2015-08-05T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=28764"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T18:47:44","slug":"a-few-good-stepping-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-few-good-stepping-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Good Stepping Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28738\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0456sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0456sm-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"New Stepping Stones Blocks - August 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0456sm-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0456sm.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Stepping Stones Blocks &#8211; August 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using leaders and enders I made a few more Stepping Stones blocks. They are looking really awesome, I think. I love the way the red and blue really create distinct secondary designs. This was a little hard to see in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2013\/stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous quilt<\/a>. From far away the previous quilt looks great, but close up you can&#8217;t see the pattern as well as you can in this turquoise and red version.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28742\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0458sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0458sm1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stepping Stones - starting to look like something\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0458sm1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0458sm1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCN0458sm1.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stepping Stones &#8211; starting to look like something<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have added a few new fabrics to the mix for this quilt. My original idea of using all Bonnie and Camille fabrics is pretty much out the window. They were a good starting place, but much too limiting. With all the fabrics I have added, I still don&#8217;t think there are enough. I get annoyed when I see two fabrics together.\u00a0 I am starting to see the appeal of charm quilts.<\/p>\n<p>The picture to the right is the new blocks with a few of the old ones to show you the effect of the whole design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using leaders and enders I made a few more Stepping Stones blocks. They are looking really awesome, I think. I love the way the red and blue really create distinct secondary designs. This was a little hard to see in my previous quilt. From far away the previous quilt looks great, but close up you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-few-good-stepping-stones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Few Good 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":[349,163],"class_list":["post-28764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-blocks","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\/28764","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=28764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}