{"id":39583,"date":"2018-02-19T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=39583"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:13:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T06:13:39","slug":"foty-2016-ready-to-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/foty-2016-ready-to-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2016 Ready to Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am reporting on another quilt top\/back ready to quilt. The last one was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/triple-star-top-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triple Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39584\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fabric of the Year 2016 Top\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180211_160801_274-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fabric of the Year 2016 Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fabric of the Year 2016 is ready to take to Colleen. I spent enough time on gradating the colors together, but quickly realized that there were some prints that weren&#8217;t going to gradate and I needed to not beat my head against the wall.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased with the way it came out, but those blacks and browns are just a PITA and really, really irritating.<\/p>\n<p>This quilt is affectionately called &#8216;Year of the Duck&#8221;, thanks to SIL#2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39586\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2016 Back\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm-768x801.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm-982x1024.jpg 982w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180211_182920_wm-1200x1251.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2016 Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really wanted to use a certain Philip Jacobs fabric for the back, but I restrained myself, because I want to use it for something I can see or use more often. I compromised and used a lovely peony-old fashioned rose-some other kind of random flower print.<\/p>\n<p>FOTY 2017 is coming up in the queue. Not next, but soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am reporting on another quilt top\/back ready to quilt. The last one was the Triple Star. Fabric of the Year 2016 is ready to take to Colleen. I spent enough time on gradating the colors together, but quickly realized that there were some prints that weren&#8217;t going to gradate and I needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/foty-2016-ready-to-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOTY 2016 Ready to Quilt&#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":[315,377,404,17,331],"class_list":["post-39583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2016","tag-foty","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583","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=39583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}