{"id":39246,"date":"2018-01-09T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=39246"},"modified":"2018-01-07T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:03:17","slug":"ta-dots-and-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ta-dots-and-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ta Dots and Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a list of projects I had in process in my journal and found a lot. Seeing them on paper seemed to galvanize me in a way that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26-projects-new-year-new-resolve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeing them here<\/a> did not. I like having them here as it makes me accountable, but the combination of paper and bytes works for me.<\/p>\n<p>One problem has been that I have had my design wall set up since last January. I have been using my small design wall, but really need a larger one. I have been hoping to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sell the Pind Design wall<\/a> (you know you want it!), but no luck so far. I finally spent time on New Year&#8217;s Day setting it up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39241\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129.-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Ta Dots and Stripes in process\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129.-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129.-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129.-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wp-1515357586129.-1200x831.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ta Dots and Stripes in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For whatever reason, the first project I put up was the Ta Dots and Stripes quilt. Yes, that is the new name.<\/p>\n<p>I started working on it as a donation quilt using the Leaders and Enders method while I worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/planned-improv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Planned Improv blocks<\/a>. I made some progress, but it is easy to get confused about where what goes.<\/p>\n<p>I found some more dots and decided to make another row of HSTs, so I prepared them at Sew Day and sewed them when I got home. It will make the quilt a little larger.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the quilt would be a donation quilt, but after I sewed a number of the sections together, I think it will become a Niece-phew quilt for one of the nephews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a list of projects I had in process in my journal and found a lot. Seeing them on paper seemed to galvanize me in a way that seeing them here did not. I like having them here as it makes me accountable, but the combination of paper and bytes works for me. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ta-dots-and-stripes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ta Dots and Stripes&#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":[453],"tags":[331,353,252,455,362],"class_list":["post-39246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt","tag-ta-dots-and-stripes","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\/39246","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=39246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}