{"id":32045,"date":"2016-04-19T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=32045"},"modified":"2016-05-12T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T17:22:37","slug":"fabric-of-the-year-2015-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/fabric-of-the-year-2015-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabric of the Year 2015 Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a beginning layout photo to Instagram<\/a> and one reader (is that the right word for Instagrammers who follow your feed?) asked if I knew it was 2016. I politely explained that I was working with the patches from last year and hadn’t quite started 2016’s version yet. Unlike you, dear reader, s\/he does not read the blog and doesn’t know how this project works. ?<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I almost gave up on putting this one together. I just felt like I didn’t have it in me, which is why it is April and I am just laying out the pieces now.<\/p>\n

There are a few reasons. My design wall is the primary one. It is too small and I have just complained about it in my IRL circles rather than doing anything about it. I AM<\/strong><\/em> going to do something about it soon. I have a plan and having a plan means that I can execute that plan.<\/p>\n

Next reason is that the project is feeling a bit stale. I don’t think it really is, but it feels that way to me. Part of that feeling probably came from having three of the quilts rejected from QuiltCon. I keep telling myself that clearly the people who did not jury in my quilts cannot appreciate the work that goes into them.<\/p>\n

Third, I have a lot of projects on my plate and that I want to make. Doing one that is similar to the seven others I have made seems futile.<\/p>\n

However, it is an excellent mind puzzle and color exercise, so I am back in the saddle and I have given myself until April 26 to get the piece laid out.<\/p>\n

\"Sorted<\/a>
Sorted color piles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first step is to sort all the pieces into general color piles: all the blues together, all the reds, etc. Normally I have several plastic boxes with patches, but this year, I used a large Recchiuti<\/a> box and all were in one place. This step gives me an idea of how many patches in each color I have to work with.<\/p>\n

The first challenge is to get all the pieces on the design wall. I can do some basic laying out before all of them are on the wall, but I can’t refine the placement without seeing the whole piece.<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a>
Starting the layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of this writing, the patches are not all on the design wall. Since time is ticking, I need to work on getting that particular step done. It starts with putting a few patches in one color up and then the next. Making them all fit on this subpar design wall is the key. I am determined not<\/em> to trim them all this year, like I did last year, even if I have to layer the pieces more than I would usually.<\/p>\n

\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2015 – First Pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I finished a good chunk of the layout, the above photo shows my first pass.<\/p>\n

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I posted a beginning layout photo to Instagram and one reader (is that the right word for Instagrammers who follow your feed?) asked if I knew it was 2016. I politely explained that I was working with the patches from last year and hadn’t quite started 2016’s version yet. Unlike you, dear reader, s\/he does … Continue reading “Fabric of the Year 2015 Starts”<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[374],"tags":[315,299,17],"class_list":["post-32045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2015","tag-foty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32045","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=32045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}