{"id":40518,"date":"2018-05-24T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40518"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:04:47","slug":"spiky-16-patch-n-2-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/spiky-16-patch-n-2-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiky 16 Patch n.2 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at my three Spiky 16 patch blocks and trying to decide if I can get away with a quilt made from 3 blocks. As I mentioned, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/hrts-in-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">need to make some HRTs<\/a> and I haven&#8217;t had a chance to finish them up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40522\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137600940406006419100236163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137600940406006419100236163-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spiky 16 Patch - offset test n.1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137600940406006419100236163-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137600940406006419100236163-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137600940406006419100236163-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiky 16 Patch &#8211; offset test n.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had an idea to make sort of a square with the on point blocks offset. the effect wasn&#8217;t quite what I was expecting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40520\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"Spiky 16 Patch - offset test n.2\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107-768x663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107-1024x884.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-1527137522494645090702968169107-1200x1036.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiky 16 Patch &#8211; offset test n.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I tried to offset the blocks again leaving space for a fourth block. It still didn&#8217;t work the way I expected. It isn&#8217;t what I want.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"Spiky 16 Patch Long Layout Test\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wp-15271378511532530283949759242366-1200x468.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiky 16 Patch Long Layout Test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, I thought about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/color-group-donation-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donation quilt that Kathleen and I put together<\/a> from color blocks. This gave me my last idea of the day for laying out three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think three blocks will work, but I wish they would. I&#8217;ll get busy making more blocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at my three Spiky 16 patch blocks and trying to decide if I can get away with a quilt made from 3 blocks. As I mentioned, I need to make some HRTs and I haven&#8217;t had a chance to finish them up. I had an idea to make sort of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/spiky-16-patch-n-2-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiky 16 Patch n.2 Again&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[453],"tags":[137,349,355,551,464],"class_list":["post-40518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-half-rectangle-triangles","tag-spiky-16-patch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40518","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=40518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66730,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40518\/revisions\/66730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}