{"id":34366,"date":"2016-10-19T05:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=34366"},"modified":"2016-10-17T12:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T19:14:35","slug":"stepping-stones-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/stepping-stones-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Stones Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent some time over the weekend working on the Stepping Stones. I am ready to just piece without thinking. It never seems to work out, though. I always have to do some deciding or planning or math<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This past weekend required all three. As you might remember from my last update, I had some HSTs to make and was putting it off. I finally made them when I needed some easy piecing. I made a bunch so I would have some choice when I made a few more blocks to complete the top. After I made the HSTs and completed the leftover partial block, the question of the border came to mind.<\/p>\n

\"Stepping<\/a>
Stepping Stones Revised<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sat down to look at the EQ plan I had and found that I hadn’t completed it. I wasn’t 100% happy with the border I designed for the original Stepping Stones quilt<\/a>. It is in no way terrible, but I wanted to finish off the groups of squares (red 4 patches set in groups of four, above).<\/p>\n

\"Stepping<\/a>
Stepping Stones, EQ version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I played around with EQ and came up with a new design. I am not sure it is the final for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. I don’t know that the groups of red 4 patches in the corners add anything<\/li>\n
  2. I am not sure about the blue\/green HSTs in the very corner. They add a little something, like breaking up a series of squares, but they don’t have any reference anywhere else in the quilt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \"Stepping<\/a>
    Stepping Stones #2 Border Trial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    I am absolutely sure that I am happy with the red points that go into the border to finish off the scrappy lines of red that are made of HSTs throughout the quilt.<\/p>\n

    I want to get the border settled so I can start putting the whole top together via chunking<\/a>. For chunking, I need to start in one of the corners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I spent some time over the weekend working on the Stepping Stones. I am ready to just piece without thinking. It never seems to work out, though. I always have to do some deciding or planning or math. This past weekend required all three. As you might remember from my last update, I had some … Continue reading “Stepping Stones Progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[312,331,252,163],"class_list":["post-34366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-design","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt","tag-stepping-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}