{"id":31831,"date":"2016-04-07T05:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=31831"},"modified":"2016-05-12T13:35:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:35:59","slug":"improv-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/improv-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31831 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/improv-again-2\/dscn1051sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Michelle-Nicholle&#039;s Improv piece before\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-31899\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-31899'>\n\t\t\t\tMichelle-Nicholle&#8217;s Improv piece before\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/dscn1043sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCN1043sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Annemarie&#039;s Improv Piece before\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-31854\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-31854'>\n\t\t\t\tAnnemarie&#8217;s Improv Piece before\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I got two new-to-me round robins last Friday. I didn&#8217;t have enough design wall space, so I took them out and looked at them. Different elements caught my attention &#8211; the squares in Annemarie&#8217;s and the applique&#8217; on Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31896\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31896\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31896 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"My addition to Annemarie's piece - detail\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm-768x969.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1050sm.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 85vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My addition to Annemarie&#8217;s piece &#8211; detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started with Annemarie&#8217;s after I finished the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cutting-corners-donation-top-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutting Corners donation top<\/a>. I decided to add\u00a0 the other corner to the top left. My corner has the same look at the corner on the right side. I wanted the elements to be related, but not to be derivative. I wanted to use more of the Alison Glass fabric, but there wasn&#8217;t any left in the packet.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at it after I had finished the squares. They looked too square. I had to make up some space (see the bottom strips where the blueberry fabric is?), so I added some strips and kept adding until my addition was large enough to fill the space. The strips look more improv than the squares. I can&#8217;t blame my hand for the cutting as it is much better. Habit, I guess.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31899\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31899 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Nicholle's Improv piece -before\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm-768x807.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1051sm.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s Improv piece -before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s was harder, mostly because it had the structure of a very traditional round robin. All the pieces in the round robin are getting quite large and Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s is no exception. It is also, I think, the largest piece on which I have worked. There were also only a few motifs I could use as inspiration, none of which were very exciting to me. More applique&#8217; would have been logical, but I just wasn&#8217;t in the mood. It was very difficult to think of an addition. I reached back to my early days of quiltmaking when I learned to do improv curved piecing. I added some of that. It is a simple addition, but effective, I think. I may add something else as my addition does seem like much, nor does it help the next person as a jumping off point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31900\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1054sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31900 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1054sm-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Nicholle's IRR after -detail\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1054sm-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1054sm-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1054sm.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s IRR after -detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31898\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1052sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31898 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1052sm-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Nicholle's IRR after\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1052sm-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1052sm-768x790.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1052sm.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 85vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s IRR after<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got two new-to-me round robins last Friday. I didn&#8217;t have enough design wall space, so I took them out and looked at them. Different elements caught my attention &#8211; the squares in Annemarie&#8217;s and the applique&#8217; on Michelle-Nicholle&#8217;s. I started with Annemarie&#8217;s after I finished the Cutting Corners donation top. I decided to add\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/improv-again-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improv Again&#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":[374],"tags":[137,72,160,22,371,370,353,332,208],"class_list":["post-31831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-bamqg","tag-group-project","tag-guilds","tag-hand-piecing","tag-improv","tag-improv-round-robin","tag-process","tag-projects","tag-round-robin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831","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=31831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}