{"id":37683,"date":"2017-08-31T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37683"},"modified":"2018-05-06T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:27:36","slug":"tbt-pp-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/tbt-pp-quilts\/","title":{"rendered":"TBT: Pointillist Palette Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was dabbling in quiltmaking. I had made a couple of projects with fabrics I bought specifically for those projects. The Internet was just starting to be something that quiltmakers could use and I was on a Usenet Board where quilts were discussed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5526\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp1sunLg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp1sunLg.jpg\" alt=\"Pointillist Palette 1: Sun\" width=\"220\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp1sunLg.jpg 220w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp1sunLg-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 85vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pointillist Palette 1: Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I went to Seattle for a conference and visited a quilt store called In the Beginning. At that time, it wasn&#8217;t just a fabric line, but there was a huge store. It was one of the largest I had ever visited. I saw the Pointillist Palette fabric there &#8211; the whole line. I was amazed and thrilled. This was fabric I really liked. Up until then, I was trying hard to avoid dusty rose and teal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5529\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp2iceLg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5529\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pp2iceLg.jpg\" alt=\"Pointillist Palette 2: Ice\" width=\"220\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pointillist Palette 2: Ice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I like these quilts and think they might be the precursor, in some small way, to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/foty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fabric of the Year<\/a> quilts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14832\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pp3flow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14832\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pp3flow.jpg\" alt=\"Pointillist Palette #3: Flower\" width=\"216\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pointillist Palette #3: Flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wrote a lot about my inspiration in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pointillist-palette-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another post<\/a>, which is good since then I don&#8217;t have to rehash it. I did think about one of the quilts in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/pointillist-palette-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series back in 2014<\/a>. years ago, I know, but the thought hasn&#8217;t died. There is hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I was dabbling in quiltmaking. I had made a couple of projects with fabrics I bought specifically for those projects. The Internet was just starting to be something that quiltmakers could use and I was on a Usenet Board where quilts were discussed. I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/tbt-pp-quilts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TBT: Pointillist Palette Quilts&#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":[414,211],"class_list":["post-37683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-pointillist-palette","tag-vintage-tuesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683","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=37683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}