{"id":37991,"date":"2017-09-06T21:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T04:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37991"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:11:59","slug":"qst-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/qst-success\/","title":{"rendered":"QST Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably noticed that I was a little annoyed yesterday with the continuing En Provence saga. I am ready to put blocks together.<\/p>\n

Monday morning, I got some tea and sat looking at the weird orange sun<\/a>. I was very pleased to have another day off.<\/p>\n

\"QST<\/a>
QST Doodle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I whined about the unfairness of mystery quilts \ud83d\ude09 to my journal, I started to sketch out colors and make little drawings. Then I looked at some En Provence photos I had saved and thought about what additional color I wanted to add in. I made some<\/p>\n

\"QST<\/a>
QST Doodle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Suddenly, I was happy. I decided on a color scheme or a potential color scheme. I had a plan and so everything fell into place.<\/p>\n

Later that day, when my mom came over, I looked up some tutorials on quick piecing quarter square triangles. Some I couldn’t understand, but then I found one that is a great tutorial<\/a>. It had the fabrics placed in the same places I wanted them, which meant I didn’t have to work that little piece out. It’s a small thing, but was important to me at that moment. Also, all the steps were laid out with photos, so I could see everything. I found another tutorial<\/a> that I would like to try, but haven’t. The look of the second one is much more modern, but I can’t vouch for the quality of the instructions yet.<\/p>\n

I used four fabrics to make some test blocks and they came out great. I was very pleased with the tutorial, my sewing, life in general.<\/p>\n

\"Test<\/a>
Test QSTs and fabrics ready to sew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That night was Craft Night, so I spent the time cutting all the fabrics I need. I used fabrics from my Aqua bin and I think I haven’t used fabrics from that bin in a long time. Some are old and don’t seem to have any FOTY<\/a> parts cut from them. It seems odd, since I love Aqua and many of the fabrics are great. I have to press them, but they are cut, marked and pinned and ready to sew.<\/p>\n

This step didn’t turn out to be as nightmarish as I though. I guess it is all about attitude<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably noticed that I was a little annoyed yesterday with the continuing En Provence saga. I am ready to put blocks together. Monday morning, I got some tea and sat looking at the weird orange sun. I was very pleased to have another day off. As I whined about the unfairness of mystery quilts … Continue reading “QST Success”<\/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":[543,435,270,110],"class_list":["post-37991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-en-provence-mystery-quilt","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-preparation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991","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=37991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65360,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions\/65360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}