{"id":29024,"date":"2015-08-23T05:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=29024"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:55:26","slug":"improv-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/improv-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still feeling like I am in some weird in between place with my projects. There are projects where I am at a strange point that seems to be stopping me. I have to count up all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/foty-2014-progress\/\">FOTY squares<\/a> and figure out how big I need to make the quilt. I need to cut some more squares for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/more-o9p\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octagon Nine Patch<\/a>, which has been languishing for, what feels like, a long time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29023\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Improv Top in Progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improv Top in Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided to work on the Improv quilt again and get that project farther along.I finished a second &#8216;B&#8217; and decided to sew it, along with the first &#8216;B&#8217; block on to the quilt. I like what is happening and I can see where I go next, to a certain extent, but I think those 2 blocks look heavy. I might put them on the bottom, but I will see if I can lighten them up with more red on the three sides.<\/p>\n<p>One idea I had from looking at the photo above is to make sure some red meets the red on the bottom and continues over almost to the corner. That will mean making that part of that corner side block last and making sure I remember. I think if I do that, there will have to be a bit of one of the black and white prints in the corner &#8211; or a strip of red alternated with black and white prints.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29028\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29028\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-2-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Improve top - turned\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-2-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-2-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCN0498sm-2.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 85vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Improve top &#8211; turned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also thought of making those blocks the bottom. Heaviness works on the bottom. The photo (left) is the same one as above, just turned so you don&#8217;t have to turn your head.<\/p>\n<p>It looks ok, but I remembered that there will be other blocks on each side of those new &#8216;B&#8217; blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, all the blocks are sewn together. I just wanted them sewn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still feeling like I am in some weird in between place with my projects. There are projects where I am at a strange point that seems to be stopping me. I have to count up all of the FOTY squares and figure out how big I need to make the quilt. I need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/improv-progress-2\/\" 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-29024","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\/29024","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=29024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}