{"id":28843,"date":"2015-08-12T05:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=28843"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:56:03","slug":"improv-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/improv-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0464sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0464sm-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"Improv A Blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0464sm-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0464sm.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improv A Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After using some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/flying-geese-swap-report\/ ?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Geese<\/a> as leaders and enders, I switched to using the large Improv blocks as leaders and enders while putting together the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/flower-sugar-donation-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T Donation quilt<\/a>. The Improv quilt is not a good project for leaders and enders as I really should have it on the design wall and be looking at it all the time as I worked. I really wanted to make progress. This project has been shuffled from corner to corner of my workroom and I am forgetting my plan. My design walls were full of other projects, so it was what it was.<\/p>\n<p>I added a few more strips to make the center (A) blocks more even then sewed the four center blocks together. This breaks my &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/aq-projects-tutorials\/aq-tutorials\/chunking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chunking It<\/a>&#8221; rule, but I just wanted to see the four blocks together. Somehow with them together, I was able to start on the B blocks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28864\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439184449670.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439184449670-294x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Improv B Block #1\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439184449670-294x300.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439184449670-1004x1024.jpeg 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improv B Block #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They look pretty good and I got excited about working the B blocks. I had bits and pieces that I made in class that I hoped to use, though I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was thinking when I made them, so I kept going. The first one went together relatively quickly and that helped me move forward with the others. I am working on about 4 at once right now and expect to have a big group of them done at once. We will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After using some Flying Geese as leaders and enders, I switched to using the large Improv blocks as leaders and enders while putting together the T Donation quilt. The Improv quilt is not a good project for leaders and enders as I really should have it on the design wall and be looking at it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/improv-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improv Progress&#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":[137,349,448,352,371,331,353,252],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-cityscape-black-red-improv","tag-construction","tag-improv","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843","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=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}