{"id":30706,"date":"2016-01-14T05:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=30706"},"modified":"2016-01-16T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:13:25","slug":"mighty-lucky-quilting-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/mighty-lucky-quilting-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Lucky Quilting Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mighty<\/a>
Mighty Lucky Quilting Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I talked about the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club<\/a> in a post on Tuesday<\/a>. I actually wrote those words a few days ago…before I saw the first challenge at BAMQG on Saturday<\/a>. At that time I wrote “I am interested to see what they do, but don\u2019t want to put another \u2018should\u2019 or \u2018must\u2019 on my list. I am also not much interested in playing with negative space or more on improvisation, which is to say that it may not be for me…”<\/p>\n

I like the name they have chosen. There is something about the words Mighty and Lucky and that make me feel powerful and capable. Silly, probably.<\/p>\n

Then I saw the results a few people brought for the first challenge.\u00a0The first challenge has to do with making and using bias. The idea of the ‘club’ isn’t, at least in the first month, just how to make nine patches and sew set in seams. Now I was interested.<\/p>\n

\"MLQC<\/a>
MLQC challenge sketches – January<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I signed up as soon as I got home and started imagining designs. I have wanted to learn to use one of those bias tape makers, but never took the time. As I let the challenge settle into my brain, the ideas started to come. While I was waiting to pick up my nephew from swimming, I did some doodles, not in a sketchbook as is suggested, but just in my journal, which is fine for me. My doodles stemmed from my thoughts of confetti streamers. I don’t think any of my sketches look like what is in my mind, but they are interesting regardless.<\/p>\n

\"MLQC<\/a>
MLQC challenge sketches – January<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drawing the ideas out in long rectangles made me think of the top of a quilt. The quilt would have blocks of different sizes put together in an interesting way. I was thinking that I would use turquoise as a background, perhaps different turquoises, and then red on top. I know you have seen it a million times, but I am stuck on that combination for the moment.<\/p>\n

I received, immediately, a nicely formatted PDF with the information about the challenge.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I got home and went looking for the bias tape makers. I am sure I bought a set and can’t find them anywhere, so, sadly, I bought more. Sadly, because I know I will find them as soon as the new ones arrive. I did not buy a 2″ bias tape maker. For this challenge, I think I will stick to thinner lines.<\/p>\n

I hope this is fun and am not adding to the ‘shoulds’ in my life.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked about the Mighty Lucky Quilting Club in a post on Tuesday. I actually wrote those words a few days ago…before I saw the first challenge at BAMQG on Saturday. At that time I wrote “I am interested to see what they do, but don\u2019t want to put another \u2018should\u2019 or \u2018must\u2019 on my … Continue reading “Mighty Lucky Quilting Club”<\/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":[374],"tags":[72,385,194],"class_list":["post-30706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-group-project","tag-mighty-lucky-quilting-club","tag-vendors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706","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=30706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}