{"id":40411,"date":"2018-05-12T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40411"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T02:33:05","slug":"stepping-stones-n-2-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/stepping-stones-n-2-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Stones n.2 is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40412\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Stepping Stones n.2 - May 2018\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180506_160432_wm5157975480008525152-1200x1047.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stepping Stones n.2 &#8211; May 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/octagon-nine-patch-ready-for-quilting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octagon Nine Patch<\/a> is ready to go to Colleen and I put the Stepping Stones blocks back on the design wall. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/stepping-stones-n-2-progresses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last time I talked about this<\/a> was only in March, so not an eternity ago. There is a lot of work to do on this piece: more cutting for the border. I am tempted to sew the upper patches into blocks and then sew the upper blocks together. I can&#8217;t really fit the whole piece on my design wall and that seems like a good solution. I am afraid I will end up with some blocks with all the same fabrics next to each other, however. I know it will look a lot better sewn together. It looks a lot more defined in the photo than it does in person.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t decide if I am determined to get this done this time or not. I started this in about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/revisiting-the-stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December of 2014<\/a>, so it has been hanging around awhile. I should get it pieced and off to the quilter. I am not quite feeling the love. What a shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Octagon Nine Patch is ready to go to Colleen and I put the Stepping Stones blocks back on the design wall. The last time I talked about this was only in March, so not an eternity ago. There is a lot of work to do on this piece: more cutting for the border. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/stepping-stones-n-2-is-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stepping Stones n.2 is Back&#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":[353,252,163,362],"class_list":["post-40411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-process","tag-project-quilt","tag-stepping-stones","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\/40411","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=40411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}