{"id":35659,"date":"2017-02-08T05:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2017-02-06T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T02:47:54","slug":"carpenters-wheel-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/carpenters-wheel-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35660\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1715sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1715sm-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Carpenter's Wheel - Feb 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1715sm-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1715sm-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1715sm.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel &#8211; Feb 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am trying out a new concept for the Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel blocks. It is not a completely new concept because the idea comes from the layouts I tried back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/carpenters-wheel-layouts-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">April when I was playing with layouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1085sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">circle layout<\/a> and am moving in that direction. As mentioned, I wouldn&#8217;t put the two blocks in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>I was relieved and pleased to see, when I put the blocks up on the wall, that the foreground pieces were not overwhelmed by the background. The Carpenter&#8217;s Wheels stand out well. I do think I need to cut some larger pieces to mix in. It will take me a thousand years to sew so many 2.5&#8243; squares together and I think larger squares would add interest. I&#8217;ll have to try it out and see, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to get these 6 sections sewn together so SIL can take the piece to the meeting. I have a lot of work to do to get there, so we will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying out a new concept for the Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel blocks. It is not a completely new concept because the idea comes from the layouts I tried back in April when I was playing with layouts. I still like the circle layout and am moving in that direction. As mentioned, I wouldn&#8217;t put the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/carpenters-wheel-moving-forward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carpenter&#8217;s Wheel Moving Forward&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[434],"tags":[375,331,353],"class_list":["post-35659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-carpenters-wheel","tag-piecing","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659","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=35659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}