{"id":40338,"date":"2018-05-03T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40338"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T02:56:45","slug":"weekend-progress-o9p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/weekend-progress-o9p\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Progress- Octagon 9 Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40343\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Octagon 9 Patch - April Progress\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20180429_215108_wm-1200x918.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Octagon 9 Patch &#8211; April Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I worked on the Octagon Nine Patch quite a bit over the weekend, despite the several hours I spent helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/ruths-hand-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clear out my MIL&#8217;s house<\/a>. I am pleased with my progress.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to do a complicated border, but the quilt demanded something more than a plain border and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/self-bordering-technique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-bordering<\/a> is way better than sewing on a plain border any day! This means I am creating more Snowball units with the intention of &#8220;finishing off&#8221; the Nine Patches. In between the border snowball units I will put squares of grey. I am hoping it will look more woven this way, but I don&#8217;t know. You can see some of it coming together in the lower right hand corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the Octagon Nine Patch quite a bit over the weekend, despite the several hours I spent helping clear out my MIL&#8217;s house. I am pleased with my progress. I didn&#8217;t want to do a complicated border, but the quilt demanded something more than a plain border and self-bordering is way better than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/weekend-progress-o9p\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Progress- Octagon 9 Patch&#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":[291,331,353,252,362],"class_list":["post-40338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-octagon-nine-patch","tag-piecing","tag-process","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\/40338","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=40338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}