{"id":45426,"date":"2019-03-22T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45426"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T00:19:49","slug":"finished-aqua-red-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/finished-aqua-red-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Aqua-Red Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45438\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aqua-Red Sampler finished\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528828398947451241887461304640-1200x1256.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 85vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua-Red Sampler finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shortly after I finished the binding on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/finished-metroscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metroscape<\/a>, I started and finished the binding on this sampler. I am pleased to have another finish! With this finish, I am crossing something off the list that has been on it for a long time. That feels great.<\/p>\n<p>I showed it at BAM last Saturday and I was gratified at the response. I don&#8217;t think this sampler looks fuddy-duddyish, but I wasn&#8217;t sure how that more modern audience would take it. They liked it and it makes me want to pull out the Handbag Sampler and get back to it. I do think I would like to make some smaller blocks to go in a new sampler I might start, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2014\/star-sampler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Star Sampler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45437\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aqua-Red Sampler back - finished\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15528827080863892483298232223304-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua-Red Sampler back &#8211; finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after I finished the binding on Metroscape, I started and finished the binding on this sampler. I am pleased to have another finish! With this finish, I am crossing something off the list that has been on it for a long time. That feels great. I showed it at BAM last Saturday and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/finished-aqua-red-sampler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Aqua-Red Sampler&#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":[465,128,380,142],"class_list":["post-45426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-aqua-red-sampler","tag-completed-project","tag-sampler","tag-sampler-quilt-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45426","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=45426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}