{"id":38839,"date":"2017-11-21T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=38839"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:10:41","slug":"more-en-provence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/more-en-provence\/","title":{"rendered":"More En Provence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38841\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2088sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2088sm-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"En Provence, November 19, 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2088sm-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2088sm-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2088sm.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">En Provence, November 19, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started out late on Sunday with the piece above. I had finished chopping about a million ingredients for various Thanksgiving dishes and was delighted to find that I had some time to sew.<\/p>\n<p>I had sewn most of the last row together, but had a few more seams, so I put those together and found, suddenly that I was able to layout the last row on the left half of this top. Shocking! I thought I had miles together.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know why I keep being surprised by this quilt &#8211; how much I have sewn, how much I have left, how well it looks. Perhaps I should call it En Provence Surprise?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38845\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2089sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2089sm-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"En Provence, November 21, 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2089sm-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2089sm-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSCN2089sm.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">En Provence, November 21, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had to fold down the piece before I could layout the top row. I could have reached, but why? It would have been a stretch every time I sewed two pieces together or checked the pressing. I wasn&#8217;t up for it.<\/p>\n<p>It is extremely gratifying to see the top row even if it is just laid out and not sewn yet.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Star is at a stopping point until I lay it out and decide on a final design, so I used donation blocks as leaders and enders. I finished 2.5, which isn&#8217;t shabby.<\/p>\n<p>I know it is all En Provence All the Time on the blog these days. It is what I am working on except for gifts, which I am not working on enough and can&#8217;t show at the moment any way. You&#8217;ll have to bear with me for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started out late on Sunday with the piece above. I had finished chopping about a million ingredients for various Thanksgiving dishes and was delighted to find that I had some time to sew. I had sewn most of the last row together, but had a few more seams, so I put those together and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/more-en-provence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More En Provence&#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":[543,435,72,270,331,252,362],"class_list":["post-38839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-en-provence-mystery-quilt","tag-group-project","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing","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\/38839","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=38839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65351,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions\/65351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}