{"id":48090,"date":"2019-12-20T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48090"},"modified":"2019-12-20T08:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:31:16","slug":"windmill-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/windmill-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Windmill Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along time ago, Friend Julie<\/a> and I started cutting Windmill shapes for each other. It’s possible that the last time I posted about this project was in 2012<\/a>. Last weekend, I decided that it was time to sew them together. This project is coming off the Hunting and Gathering list.<\/p>\n

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Windmill first sewn blocks – layout 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The blades sew together very quickly once I got the placement correct.<\/p>\n

My first layout, shown left, was kind of a wonky looking zigzag. I was starting to change the layout to the one shown below, so the upper right hand corner blocks are in a different layout. Check the bottom. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The zigzag layout has its charms. Then I texted Friend Julie and she called the pieces blades, so I started thinking about them in a kind of fan format.<\/p>\n

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Windmill first sewn blocks – layout 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I rearranged the blocks into that format. I am not sure about this quilt in general. I think I might need to use all warm colors or all reds and pinks or something. I think both layouts look strange.<\/p>\n

At some point, I decided to cut background fabrics, so that the foreground blades would be highlighted. The idea works; I am just not sure if I like the whole effect.<\/p>\n

Also, I have a lot of these blades. I think I can make at least two quilts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along time ago, Friend Julie and I started cutting Windmill shapes for each other. It’s possible that the last time I posted about this project was in 2012. Last weekend, I decided that it was time to sew them together. This project is coming off the Hunting and Gathering list. The blades sew together very … Continue reading “Windmill Starts”<\/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":[331,254],"class_list":["post-48090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-piecing","tag-windmill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48090","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=48090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}