{"id":37418,"date":"2017-08-19T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37418"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T04:19:35","slug":"amys-color-my-quilt-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/amys-color-my-quilt-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy’s Color My Quilt Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Amy's<\/a>
Amy’s Inspiration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After hearing Karen talk about her quilt<\/a>, I decided that I would do more of a strip piece for Amy, so she would have some pieces she could use to connect other pieces. I tried to keep the pieces long and thin-ish.<\/p>\n

\"Amy's<\/a>
Amy’s Color My Quilt piece in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Partway through the process, as I mentioned, I took out the piece and took a look at it.<\/p>\n

I was trying very hard to adhere to the spirit of the words, but color balance kept creeping in to my work. In the case of color balance, left, of the in process piece, I thought it needed more blue towards the top.<\/p>\n

After working through all of my thoughts and feelings, I am pleased with the way this came out. I worked on it over the course of several weeks in between other things until I ran out of time. I also focused on the placement of the color rather than the width of the strips, etc. I did try to keep the strips from getting to wide, though I really wanted it to be long, so some are quite wide.<\/p>\n

\"Amy's<\/a>
Amy’s Color My Quilt piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to make it about a foot longer, but ran out of time. I am pleased and hope Amy will be, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After hearing Karen talk about her quilt, I decided that I would do more of a strip piece for Amy, so she would have some pieces she could use to connect other pieces. I tried to keep the pieces long and thin-ish. Partway through the process, as I mentioned, I took out the piece and … Continue reading “Amy’s Color My Quilt Finished”<\/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":[137,310,72,160,330,338],"class_list":["post-37418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-bamqg","tag-color","tag-group-project","tag-guilds","tag-other-artists","tag-quiltmaking-challenges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418","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=37418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}