{"id":45542,"date":"2019-04-01T07:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45542"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T00:31:05","slug":"more-purple-improv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/more-purple-improv\/","title":{"rendered":"More Purple Improv"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45530\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Improv mid-March\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535534894596619128513711214115-1200x658.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Improv mid-March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made quite a bit of progress during the last little while using this piece as leaders and enders for the FOTY 2017. I started out with some largish chunks and grew it.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a huge fan of improv piecing, as you have heard a million times. I have to admit, however, it is fairly mindless and a good way to use up random scraps.<\/p>\n<p>When I come across a larger piece, I am cutting it up into some of the shapes I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/hunting-gathering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunting and Gathering<\/a> for other projects. I especially need to beef up my collection of 2&#8243; cool colors after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/en-provence-quilt-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">En Provence<\/a> quilt.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45544\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Improv - late March\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15537888146844235988065444916490-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Improv &#8211; late March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So I am still beavering away to make something large enough for a baby quilt. The pieces are much more square, but I still have work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made quite a bit of progress during the last little while using this piece as leaders and enders for the FOTY 2017. I started out with some largish chunks and grew it. I am not a huge fan of improv piecing, as you have heard a million times. I have to admit, however, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/more-purple-improv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Purple Improv&#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":[137,310,537,355,371],"class_list":["post-45542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-bamqg","tag-color","tag-color-improv-series","tag-doing-good","tag-improv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542","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=45542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62166,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions\/62166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}