{"id":40665,"date":"2018-06-14T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40665"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T23:09:33","slug":"stepping-stones-n-2-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/stepping-stones-n-2-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Stones n.2 Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40639\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stepping Stones n.2 - top half\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_20180603_165401_4563412780990431429946-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stepping Stones n.2 &#8211; top half<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made really good progress over the weekend. I had only a few seams to sew in order to finish half of the quilt. The quilt is starting to look like something!<\/p>\n<p>You might remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/stepping-stones-n-2-top-quarter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I finished the first quarter<\/a>\u00a0not that long ago and kind of got on a roll.<\/p>\n<p>I have had to cut a lot of blues and greens for the border, so that is taking time, but at least I can do a few at a time in between everything else.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this half makes me think that I might have to work on another one of these. I would like to see the framework of the red diamonds more filled in. On the other hand, if I used more red, would the Sawtooth Stars (check the middle, right under the red square) show up? Perhaps fabric with less contrast? Red and pink or orange and yellow? I&#8217;ll have to play around.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to work on the border of a new version. This border is ok, but not great. Not sure why, but it isn&#8217;t doing much for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made really good progress over the weekend. I had only a few seams to sew in order to finish half of the quilt. The quilt is starting to look like something! You might remember that I finished the first quarter\u00a0not that long ago and kind of got on a roll. I have had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/stepping-stones-n-2-half\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stepping Stones n.2 Half&#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":[331,353,163],"class_list":["post-40665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-stepping-stones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40665","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=40665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}