{"id":48689,"date":"2020-02-25T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48689"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:07:24","slug":"thinking-about-frolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/thinking-about-frolic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Frolic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Half and quarter blocks are not my favorite. As a result, I have been thinking about setting Frolic! in a straight set in order to avoid those pesky half and quarter blocks. Since I haven’t had the time to actually move any blocks around on my design wall, I went trolling for examples of the Frolic! quilt on IG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I saw a number of blocks sets laid out in a straight set. Jeff Rutherford took a straight on photo<\/a> that really helped me visualize how the quilt might look. Little Bunny Allison also posted a straight on photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, I saw a previous Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt, On Ringo Lake, by Sew Angela<\/a>. She has some setting triangles, but they are just a few pieces. This layout keeps the quilt on on point, but avoids me having to make those half and quarter blocks.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I am just being lazy? There is a lot of piecing in this quilt (and all of Bonnie’s mystery quilts!) Barbara Reeves had a particularly nice example<\/a> of the quilt as Bonnie intended, so it is still a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half and quarter blocks are not my favorite. As a result, I have been thinking about setting Frolic! in a straight set in order to avoid those pesky half and quarter blocks. Since I haven’t had the time to actually move any blocks around on my design wall, I went trolling for examples of the … Continue reading “Thinking About Frolic!”<\/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":[486],"tags":[543,485,270,331],"class_list":["post-48689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-frolic","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-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\/48689","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=48689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65333,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions\/65333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}