{"id":35697,"date":"2017-02-13T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35697"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:11:17","slug":"carpenters-wheel-first-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/carpenters-wheel-first-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter’s Wheel – First Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Carpenter's<\/a>
Carpenter’s Wheel – first piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hard on the heels of the Peacock<\/a> was a deadline for the Carpenter’s Wheel. Since I had started thinking of the background for each block in terms of low volume prints, there was a lot of text fabric included.When the text Challenge was announced at my modern guild, I immediately thought of this piece. It wasn’t exactly made specifically for this challenge, but it fit the theme and the blocks were just hanging around, so Text challenge quilt it was.<\/p>\n

That meant that I had to get some of it done before the big reveal, which was Saturday. I couldn’t be there due to #politicalwifery. Still, I had options for showing it.<\/p>\n

I used some mini charms, which I bought in Oregon<\/a>, to get the ball rolling, but picked up other text fabrics along the way as well. A few weeks ago, I spent some quality time with the Accuquilt and the 2.5 inch die cutting, what I hoped were, enough squares to make 3 background blocks.<\/p>\n

\"Carpenter's<\/a>
Carpenter’s Wheel – Feb 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I refused to compromise my vision, which started with the layouts<\/a> I worked on in the spring of last year. I wanted some good texture int he background, so multiple squares, rather than big squares of fabric it was to be. I began using the 2.5 inch squares as leaders and enders as I finished the back for The Peacock. I made a stack of 4 patches, which later turned into 3 background squares.<\/p>\n

\"Carpenter's<\/a>
Carpenter’s Wheel background block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to see how 4 inch squares would look mixed in. I chose the fabrics carefully and fussy cut in some cases. I thought they fit in and didn’t scream, so I used a couple in each block. This make the piecing go a little faster and add a little relief to the background.<\/p>\n

I had to sew into the evening on Thursday in order to give it to my SIL on Friday to take to the meeting. I succeeded and still got to spend time with DH. I have gotten some very nice comments on Instagram and hope, even if unfinished, it is well received at guild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard on the heels of the Peacock was a deadline for the Carpenter’s Wheel. Since I had started thinking of the background for each block in terms of low volume prints, there was a lot of text fabric included.When the text Challenge was announced at my modern guild, I immediately thought of this piece. It … Continue reading “Carpenter’s Wheel – First Piece”<\/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":[434],"tags":[375,331,353,252,362],"class_list":["post-35697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-carpenters-wheel","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35697","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=35697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69344,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35697\/revisions\/69344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}