{"id":290,"date":"2007-08-18T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/quilting-arts-too-hot-tips\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T23:59:09","slug":"quilting-arts-too-hot-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/quilting-arts-too-hot-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting Arts &quot;Too Hot&quot; Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quiltings Arts recent e-mail newsletter had some great ideas for quilting when it is too hot to actually put needle to fabric. I am reproducing them here, but the ideas belong to Quilting Arts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;color:#3e335e;\"><strong>Too hot to quilt?  Design!<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#333333;\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#333333;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<ul><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#333333;\"><\/p>\n<li><strong>Photograp<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">h<\/span>. Take pictures of your (and others&#8217;) gardens to  use later as inspiration for landscapes, color combinations, and abstracts or  for digital manipulation and photo transfer.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Sketch.<\/strong> Draw flowers or vegetables up close, paying  attention to seeds, stamens, leaves, and veins.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Gather.<\/strong> Beach glass, shells, interesting sticks, outdated  maps, seed pods, and so on can provide inspiration and materials for your next  quilt.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Shop<\/strong>. Now is the time to take advantage of end-of-season  sales on fibers and fabrics or to get a jump on the new fall colors and  innovations.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Plan.<\/strong> Just like gardeners plan their gardens in winter,  quilters can get organized for the next &#8220;season&#8221; of quilting at the end of the  summer. Make a schedule of shows to enter and due dates; list gift projects and  deadlines for finishing them; take inventory of your tools and supplies, and  replenish them, so when inspiration strikes, you&#8217;ll be ready!<\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see a link to back issues of t he eNewsletter, but you can subscribe to future issues on their site.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Designing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiltings Arts recent e-mail newsletter had some great ideas for quilting when it is too hot to actually put needle to fabric. I am reproducing them here, but the ideas belong to Quilting Arts. Too hot to quilt? Design! Photograph. Take pictures of your (and others&#8217;) gardens to use later as inspiration for landscapes, color &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/quilting-arts-too-hot-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quilting Arts &quot;Too Hot&quot; Tips&#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":[312],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}