{"id":45416,"date":"2019-03-20T07:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45416"},"modified":"2022-04-03T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:32:04","slug":"more-process-purple-strip-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/more-process-purple-strip-top\/","title":{"rendered":"More Process in Purple Strip Donation Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished all the blocks and began to think about the color of the plain blocks. Tim doesn&#8217;t like white backgrounds and since he will most likely quilt this top, I decided to look for something else.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45411\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Purple strip donation quilt with yellow-green\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464-1024x992.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526072866329039969727767603464-1200x1162.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple strip donation quilt with yellow-green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Across from purple on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607053500\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1607053500&amp;linkId=c50220d413251db0fa65a0b962ff0fc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Studio Color Wheel<\/a> is chartreuse. I admit this is a bold choice and I was thinking about it quite a bit before I went hunting for fabric. Finally, I decided that I needed to make visual decisions visually and cut up some fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I like the boldness of the color combination, but something wasn&#8217;t quite right.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45416 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15526074353367074208228051066126-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526074353367074208228051066126-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Grey solid background #1\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45412\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45412'>\n\t\t\t\tGrey solid background #1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15526071987535872292647072684431-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526071987535872292647072684431-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Grey solid background #2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45410\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45410'>\n\t\t\t\tGrey solid background #2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I was just about to sew it together when Tim saw the photo and suggested grey. Purple is hard for me to work with, because it really darkens my workroom to a depressing state. Adding grey made me think it would just get worse. I knew the yellow-green was the right color for the purple, so I found a couple of greys and tried it.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the greys based on fabrics I didn&#8217;t think I would use for something else. These were both in that category because they have a taupe cast too them, which is not my preference for grey. I prefer the cooler white-greys.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Purple strip donation quilt with grey solid \" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017-768x725.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017-1024x967.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15526070161939172148073444621017-1200x1133.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple strip donation quilt with grey solid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Immediately, I knew that the grey solid (#1) was a much better choice. It will be suitable for a boy and isn&#8217;t too depressing.<\/p>\n<p>I have begun sewing the plain blocks to the strip blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I saved the green for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished all the blocks and began to think about the color of the plain blocks. Tim doesn&#8217;t like white backgrounds and since he will most likely quilt this top, I decided to look for something else. Across from purple on my Studio Color Wheel is chartreuse. I admit this is a bold choice and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/more-process-purple-strip-top\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Process in Purple Strip Donation Top&#8221;<\/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":[477],"tags":[137,512,355,371,353],"class_list":["post-45416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","tag-doing-good","tag-improv","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45416","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=45416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55589,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45416\/revisions\/55589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}