{"id":35652,"date":"2017-02-07T05:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35652"},"modified":"2017-02-06T19:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T02:08:56","slug":"city-sampler-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/city-sampler-update\/","title":{"rendered":"City Sampler Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35589\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35589\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1710sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1710sm-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Newest City Sampler Blocks - January 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1710sm-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1710sm-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1710sm.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newest City Sampler Blocks &#8211; January 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/city-sampler-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">last update<\/a> on this project feels like an eternity ago. It was really just in December, though as time flies by, it feels like an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned briefly, I spent most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/retreat-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">CQFA Retreat<\/a> working on City Sampler blocks. I was determined to make some serious progress on these blocks. I am pleased to say that I did make progress. I have completed all blocks. The next step is sashing and setting.<\/p>\n<p>I was having a lot of trouble with my seam allowance so you can see some of the blocks look a little off. I may rip out and remake a few, but I will mostly allow the sashing to make up the difference. I felt like such an amateur fighting with my machine.<\/p>\n<p>I put 42 up on the wall to see what they look like. I&#8217;ll definitely need to rearrange them, but I am pleased with the overall look and cohesiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last update on this project feels like an eternity ago. It was really just in December, though as time flies by, it feels like an eternity. As mentioned briefly, I spent most of the CQFA Retreat working on City Sampler blocks. I was determined to make some serious progress on these blocks. I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/city-sampler-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Sampler Update&#8221;<\/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_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":[434],"tags":[272,263],"class_list":["post-35652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-city-sampler","tag-tale-of-two-cities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35652","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=35652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}