{"id":454,"date":"2008-04-05T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/making-bullseyes-part-2\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:19:52","slug":"making-bullseyes-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/making-bullseyes-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Bullseyes, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post about <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/making-bullseyes-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making bullseyes<\/a>, I left you ready to sew the circles on. Tips on appliqueing the circles to the background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use a quarter inch foot.<\/li>\n<li>start sewing less that a quarter inch from one of the folds. This ensures that your stops and starts will be covered when you sew the pieces of the bullseye together later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fB1uoZ0qI\/AAAAAAAABcw\/7CBHr2lu4FU\/s1600-h\/PICT0260-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185826624735138466\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fB1uoZ0qI\/AAAAAAAABcw\/7CBHr2lu4FU\/s320\/PICT0260-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Then you sew. Once you sew the circle on, you get the finished product pictured above.<\/p>\n<p>To cut out the back, carefully separate the top and the back of the block. Pinch a little bit of the back, inside the sewn line about a quarter inch from the sewn line. Make a small cut, being careful not to cut through to the front. Cut around the inside of the sewn line. I use a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discountyarnsale.com\/pd_gingher_g6r.cfm\">applique scissors<\/a>, which help to protect the front from cutting through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fIWOoZ0sI\/AAAAAAAABdA\/OEb_0tGYCIo\/s1600-h\/PICT0264-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185833780150653634\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fIWOoZ0sI\/AAAAAAAABdA\/OEb_0tGYCIo\/s320\/PICT0264-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Here is a block once I have cut out the back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fIouoZ0tI\/AAAAAAAABdI\/qVlWJ8DoEhM\/s1600-h\/PICT0266-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185834097978233554\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/R_fIouoZ0tI\/AAAAAAAABdI\/qVlWJ8DoEhM\/s320\/PICT0266-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Here is a close up of the sewn line and the cutting line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post about making bullseyes, I left you ready to sew the circles on. Tips on appliqueing the circles to the background: use a quarter inch foot. start sewing less that a quarter inch from one of the folds. This ensures that your stops and starts will be covered when you sew the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/making-bullseyes-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making Bullseyes, Part 2&#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":[388],"tags":[135,321,330,340],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-bullseye","tag-lessonsteaching","tag-other-artists","tag-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55628,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/55628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}