{"id":30449,"date":"2015-12-23T05:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:25:44","slug":"wacky-weekend-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/wacky-weekend-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Weekend Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wacky probably isn&#8217;t a good way to describe the sewing I did over the weekend, but the alliteration is good. I was working on finishing things and didn&#8217;t work on one particular project. I worked on many. I finished two Christmas gift projects (look for posts next week) and was doing some making that was for finishing up projects.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds boring, but it was really good for me. I felt like I was clearing the decks and really getting projects off my list and making space in my head for new projects. Or other projects to finish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30453\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1450731562074-jpeg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"The Great Unwashed - washed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074.jpeg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Unwashed &#8211; washed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First, I washed a bunch of fabric. I wanted some of it for some squares and additions to projects, so I washed two loads. See that Philip Jacobs print? Don&#8217;t you love it? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>One load I washed was lights so I could cut some squares for a couple of projects. As a result, I was able to add to my collection of squares and rectangles for FOTY 2015, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-few-good-stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Stepping Stones project<\/a> and add some fabrics to the most recent Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel block.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1450731491817-jpeg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731491817-300x293.jpeg\" alt=\"Carpenter's Wheel #7\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731491817-300x293.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731491817-768x750.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731491817-1024x1000.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel #7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel block has been sitting on the design wall half assembled for awhile. I now have enough pieces to start sewing it together, but I am not 100% sure I like that orange center. I am afraid it looks like a big hole.<\/p>\n<p>I made the binding for the Black and Red Improv quilt. I will send that off to Colleen so she can apply it to the quilt when she returns from her holiday travels. That was a huge load off my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I also made several pairs of Flying Geese units for the swap with TFQ. I needed to beef up my supply, though I am afraid I have too many pieces and parts and the swap will end before I run through them.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I think Sunday was exceptionally productive. I felt good to be sewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wacky probably isn&#8217;t a good way to describe the sewing I did over the weekend, but the alliteration is good. I was working on finishing things and didn&#8217;t work on one particular project. I worked on many. I finished two Christmas gift projects (look for posts next week) and was doing some making that was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/wacky-weekend-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wacky Weekend Work&#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":[331],"class_list":["post-30449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","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\/30449","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=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63296,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions\/63296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}