{"id":299,"date":"2007-08-30T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/thinking-pink\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T23:57:24","slug":"thinking-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/thinking-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrGsIsrI\/AAAAAAAAA5M\/Sn8ax7JrjN0\/s1600-h\/RedSampler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrGsIsrI\/AAAAAAAAA5M\/Sn8ax7JrjN0\/s320\/RedSampler.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104348232549970610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Today, I was directed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpiecemakers.org\/\">Connecticut Piecemaker&#8217;s<\/a> site, which showed this quilt, a raffle quilt for their 2008  show.  You all know that I am a sucker for samplers and this one is a particularly fine example. I really like the variety of blocks and the fine use of red. The reds are very similar and I wish I could see the individual blocks closer to see if they are the same red, but such is life.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fair last weekend, I was thinking about pink fabrics. The Sampler above brought the thoughts back to my mind. I have over the past year or so had a bug in my ear about pink fabrics, so I have been buying them up &#8211; not like crazy, but selectively, just in glorious quantities. Now I have quite a lot of them, so naturally my thoughts turn to what I will do with them. This quilt got me thinking about a pink and white sampler:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrGsIssI\/AAAAAAAAA5U\/q9Hn-fTrHcE\/s1600-h\/PICT8847-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrGsIssI\/AAAAAAAAA5U\/q9Hn-fTrHcE\/s320\/PICT8847-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104348232549970626\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It looked better in person, but you get the idea. I am not thrilled about the contrast of a couple of the pinks, but all I need is a spark of an idea and I go off in my own direction anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrmsIstI\/AAAAAAAAA5c\/VDYmAFv9t3w\/s1600-h\/PICT8817-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RtZJrmsIstI\/AAAAAAAAA5c\/VDYmAFv9t3w\/s320\/PICT8817-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104348241139905234\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>This quilt has the look of the red quilt above in terms of a consistent value. All the fabrics are the same, so, of course, it would have consistent values. If I go forward with this idea, I would like to achieve this look, but with a variety of different fabrics. I&#8217;ll have to work hard at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was directed to the Connecticut Piecemaker&#8217;s site, which showed this quilt, a raffle quilt for their 2008 show. You all know that I am a sucker for samplers and this one is a particularly fine example. I really like the variety of blocks and the fine use of red. The reds are very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/thinking-pink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking Pink&#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":[331],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}