{"id":44500,"date":"2018-12-16T07:05:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44500"},"modified":"2018-12-15T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:53:00","slug":"testing-for-ring-toss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/testing-for-ring-toss\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing for Ring Toss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ring Toss Test Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been cutting a little bit for Ring Toss, but it is slow going. The rotary templates are all weird shapes and I need to get into the swing of it. Still, I wanted to test a block to see about highlighting the rings. Thus, I cut a bunch of pieces the other day with the intention of making a block.<\/p>\n

I am still thinking about whether to get the booklet. Nobody at the guild seems to have one to loan to me and I am sure I don’t need it for very long. I just want to look at the photos of the border since there are border pieces and I don’t see how they fit into the rest of the quilt.<\/p>\n

My first thoughts, after looking at this block for a day or so, is that it is too small. At about 9″, the block is too small. It isn’t that I can’t piece it, I can. It is that the shapes are so great that they are lost in the tiny piecing. Also, the piecing is too fiddly for the number of pieces in the block (17).<\/p>\n

At this size, I am not making a whole quilt. I could upsize the block, however. I tried drawing it, had some EQ problems, got help and now have an 18″ block to try. I won’t have the templates, however, for this upsized drawing. I think I will print templates, try one block and see what I think.<\/p>\n

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