{"id":46638,"date":"2019-07-09T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46638"},"modified":"2021-07-19T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:59:32","slug":"half-hexies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/half-hexies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Hexies Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working steadily on the half hexie project while I watch TV after dinner. I am making progress, but it feels slow.<\/p>\n<p>I have started to make the piece wider by adding whole rows to the straight side of the piece. I can&#8217;t say whether I like this method, but it is controlled and does make the piece wider.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46640\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" title=\"Half hexie star top on the bed\" alt=\"Half hexie star top on the bed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20190708_175145_wm5353800895989461791-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half hexie star top on the bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday I heaved the top on the bed and checked to see how many more rows I need.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally show my messy bed, but this is the best way to show progress. The length is good, thought I do need to straighten up the top and bottom edges. From the photo, I think I need 6-8 more rows to make the quilt wide enough to cover the whole bed.<\/p>\n<p>Scrapitude Carnivale is under the Half Hexie piece so it might cause some visual confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working steadily on the half hexie project while I watch TV after dinner. I am making progress, but it feels slow. I have started to make the piece wider by adding whole rows to the straight side of the piece. I can&#8217;t say whether I like this method, but it is controlled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/half-hexies-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Half Hexies Again&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[477],"tags":[209,504,22],"class_list":["post-46638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-half-hexie-star","tag-hand-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638","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=46638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53587,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638\/revisions\/53587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}