{"id":35832,"date":"2017-03-01T05:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35832"},"modified":"2017-02-16T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:15:40","slug":"cqfa-february-atcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/cqfa-february-atcs\/","title":{"rendered":"CQFA February ATCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35823\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1719sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35823 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1719sm-e1487296994187-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"February CQFA ATCs\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1719sm-e1487296994187-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DSCN1719sm-e1487296994187.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February CQFA ATCs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made a second CQFA meeting in a row. It was exciting to have two weekends in row to devote to doing what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>As per usual, I made ATCs for the meeting. I never quite know what design I am going to use until I do it. Often, I look in my scrap drawer to see what is available. On this day, I had straightened up the scraps from some tunics I had made. There were some large pieces of Philip Jacobs fabric available without much rummaging and I used that to make the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, I also wanted to use some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/thistle-dew-quilt-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">my new Sue Spargo Perl-type cottons<\/a> and came up with this design to do so. I had some trouble getting the stitch to be smooth, but as I worked through the cards, I got the optimal length worked out.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed from looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/atcs-again-finally\/\" target=\"_blank\">last group of ATCs<\/a> that I tend to embellish them.<\/p>\n<p>As in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/cqfa-show-and-tell\/\" target=\"_blank\">October<\/a>, few people made ATCs. Bron and I were the only ones who had any to share, so we exchanged one each with each other. I made an extra one when I got home and will use these for the April meeting, assuming I can attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a second CQFA meeting in a row. It was exciting to have two weekends in row to devote to doing what I wanted. As per usual, I made ATCs for the meeting. I never quite know what design I am going to use until I do it. Often, I look in my scrap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/cqfa-february-atcs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CQFA February ATCs&#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_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":[113,114,160,324],"class_list":["post-35832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-atcs","tag-cqfa","tag-guilds","tag-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832","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=35832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}