{"id":288,"date":"2007-08-12T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/hanging-on-by-my-fingernails\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:00:05","slug":"hanging-on-by-my-fingernails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/hanging-on-by-my-fingernails\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging on By My Fingernails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr9gHP-pd3I\/AAAAAAAAA10\/7U_HiiOZWH0\/s1600-h\/PICT8751-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr9gHP-pd3I\/AAAAAAAAA10\/7U_HiiOZWH0\/s320\/PICT8751-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097898980871337842\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>As you can see, messy crafting runs in the family. I went to a scrapbook night with my sister Friday night. This is her work area. She does gorgeous pages! I created about 10 pages and they were all very basic. My theory is get those photos on pages and be done. When my photos are all up to date, I will take more time for each page. I am still set on the goal rather than really enjoying the process. I&#8217;ll get there yet. Sis takes her time with each page and really makes them wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>Time has been even shorter lately than before. Yesterday, we had a long car drive, so I brought my hand piecing and was able to finish another Cross Block (Flowering Snowball). I thought I would able to do more, but I have to face reality. It takes me about 1.5 hours to make each block.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr_18v-pd6I\/AAAAAAAAA2M\/DlBUfxQcuSQ\/s1600-h\/PICT8752-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr_18v-pd6I\/AAAAAAAAA2M\/DlBUfxQcuSQ\/s320\/PICT8752-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098063727226877858\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I can&#8217;t help but lay all of the blocks out each time I make a new block. Then I play around with them for a bit. I move them around so that no colors are too close to each other. I also try to make sure the backgrounds are duplicated too close to each other.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr9gIP-pd5I\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/I2yFxvTyInU\/s1600-h\/PICT8753-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rr9gIP-pd5I\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/I2yFxvTyInU\/s320\/PICT8753-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097898998051207058\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This time, I realized that having more choices for foregrounds and backgrounds makes me make better choices. I have been trying not to duplicate colors or fabrics in one block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, messy crafting runs in the family. I went to a scrapbook night with my sister Friday night. This is her work area. She does gorgeous pages! I created about 10 pages and they were all very basic. My theory is get those photos on pages and be done. When my photos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/hanging-on-by-my-fingernails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hanging on By My Fingernails&#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":[373],"tags":[86,348,331,46],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-ot-scrapbooking","tag-piecing","tag-quick-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}