{"id":4343,"date":"2010-02-10T06:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:50:05","slug":"beach-town-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/beach-town-finishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Town Finishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday and Sunday, I had a lot of time for the first time in several weekends to work on quilt projects and I completely tanked in that department. Most of the time I sat around and couldn’t figure out what to do. I thought about making another giveaway for OWOH, but was talked out of it. I also just wasn’t motivated to do anything. I have a lot of quilt work to do and I really couldn’t focus.<\/p>\n

Finally, on Sunday, I pulled out Beach Town and decided to get the facing on and the sleeve ready so that I could take advantage of some hand sewing time I will have next weekend.<\/p>\n

\"Beach<\/a>
Beach Town Trimmed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yeah! Progress on Beach Town! Trimming is easy.<\/p>\n

\"Beach<\/a>
Beach Town Problem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, after trimming, I found a little section that needed a repair. One of the hazards of working using this free form method\u00a0 is getting too close to the edge. In an effort to avoid that problem, I didn’t get close enough. Yes, I could have trimmed it more, but I didn’t want to cut off any part of the sign.<\/p>\n

\"Beach<\/a>
Beach Town Repairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to go rummaging for fabric to find a match. I found some in the scrap bin. Then, I had to carefully lay the fabric and a small piece of batting out so that it didn’t look like a repair (don’t tell, please!). Finally, after it was all laid out and pinned together, I machine quilted the three little sections in matching thread and trimmed it again.<\/p>\n

\"Repaired<\/a>
Repaired Beach Town – detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the good things about this project was that I had to focus my mind on a\u00a0 specific task. One thing I learned was to give the edges a little extra space from important design elements.<\/p>\n

\"Facing<\/a>
Facing on and Turned<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I dug out the facing instructions I had made awhile ago and applied a facing to the Beach Town. I still need to practice making more facings. I’ll make another one for FOTY 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Facing<\/a>
Facing detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is the corner of the facing. As I mentioned, I have not sewn it down yet.<\/p>\n

\"Facing<\/a>
Facing and Sleeve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I use the Robbi Joy Eklow method of sleeve making. This most excellent sleeve making method method is in her book, Free Expressions<\/a>. This time I made the sleeve smaller than her directions specify. I hope it works in terms of a hanging rod to fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday and Sunday, I had a lot of time for the first time in several weekends to work on quilt projects and I completely tanked in that department. Most of the time I sat around and couldn’t figure out what to do. I thought about making another giveaway for OWOH, but was talked out … Continue reading “Beach Town Finishing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[390],"tags":[149,395,16,332],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-art-quilts","tag-beach-town","tag-finishing","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}