{"id":43556,"date":"2018-09-26T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=43556"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:27:04","slug":"metroscape-piecing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/metroscape-piecing\/","title":{"rendered":"MetroScape Piecing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"MetroScape<\/a>
MetroScape start<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wondered about whether I would enjoy making this block after finding the ruler and the pattern the other day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has a lot of curves, which can be problematic in general. I also had to use a special ruler. Sometime special rulers create great effects and sometimes they are a disaster.<\/p>\n

I started out easy with 4 blocks that create the center. All of the center blocks will be dots and stripes. Sewing four squares together was easy.<\/p>\n

\"MetroScape<\/a>
MetroScape curves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I dove in and started cutting curves. I had some issues but it was mostly operator error. Cutting the first block took me a long time as I attempted to navigate the pattern and fabric choices.<\/p>\n

I am planning on using dots on the outer part of the block, but I don’t know if I will have enough dots to differentiate the blocks enough. I am scared of trying to line up the stripes, but I might try one block with stripes to see how it looks.<\/p>\n

I did realize that the pattern is called MetroSCOPE\u00a0<\/em>not MetroScape. Well, I am going with MetroScape regardless. I don’t have a better name and it kind of reminds me of landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wondered about whether I would enjoy making this block after finding the ruler and the pattern the other day. It has a lot of curves, which can be problematic in general. I also had to use a special ruler. Sometime special rulers create great effects and sometimes they are a disaster. I started out … Continue reading “MetroScape Piecing”<\/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":[473,331,353,553,498],"class_list":["post-43556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-metroscape","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-sew-kind-of-wonderful","tag-specialty-ruler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43556","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=43556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67720,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43556\/revisions\/67720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}