{"id":44451,"date":"2018-12-10T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44451"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:25:18","slug":"metroscape-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/metroscape-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MetroScape Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44434\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"MetroScape Back\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650-768x711.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wp-15439744929718210385350732991650-1200x1110.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MetroScape Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sewing the back is my least favorite part of the quiltmaking process. Quilting doesn&#8217;t count since I usually don&#8217;t do it. This particular back took longer than expected, because I prepared all the fabric twice.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to use the stripes for the back because I hadn&#8217;t used much of them on the front.\u00a0 I proceeded to cut up the <em>dot<\/em> fabrics for the back.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, not a typo. I did the exact opposite of what I intended. I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t really matter, so I took down all the dots and started again. I had made the binding in advance so I could use all of the stripes I wanted as long as I could deal with the diagonal cut out of the yardage for the binding.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the photo, I was able to make a back. It seems a little darker than I intended, but it could just be the contrast of the white from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/metroscape-top-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">front<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewing the back is my least favorite part of the quiltmaking process. Quilting doesn&#8217;t count since I usually don&#8217;t do it. This particular back took longer than expected, because I prepared all the fabric twice. I decided to use the stripes for the back because I hadn&#8217;t used much of them on the front.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/metroscape-back-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MetroScape Back&#8221;<\/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":[453],"tags":[473,331,353,553,498],"class_list":["post-44451","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\/44451","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=44451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67710,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44451\/revisions\/67710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}