{"id":43294,"date":"2018-09-10T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=43294"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:37:34","slug":"color-my-quilt-gerres-shards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/color-my-quilt-gerres-shards\/","title":{"rendered":"Color My Quilt: Gerre&#8217;s Shards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Gerre brought her shards to we could all look at them. Gerre has left her handbag at home, so didn&#8217;t have her phone and couldn&#8217;t take photos. I volunteered and texted her photos as I took them. 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It was kind of fun to work with other people moving shards around. I think Gerre was kind of excited, too, as it gave her ideas about placement.<\/p>\n<p>I had issues with the plum (see upper part of first photo, left). I thought the plum should be dispersed throughout the quilt.<\/p>\n<p>We also tried to move the white around so it wasn&#8217;t all clustered in one place (see bottom two rows).<\/p>\n<p>There was advice about putting the pieces together into chunks and cutting pieces up. I think it got people excited about layout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Gerre brought her shards to we could all look at them. Gerre has left her handbag at home, so didn&#8217;t have her phone and couldn&#8217;t take photos. I volunteered and texted her photos as I took them. There are a lot of photos! Being the opinionated ladies that we are, we all had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/color-my-quilt-gerres-shards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Color My Quilt: Gerre&#8217;s Shards&#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":[137,438,72,330,331],"class_list":["post-43294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-bamqg","tag-color-my-quilt","tag-group-project","tag-other-artists","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\/43294","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=43294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}