{"id":48785,"date":"2020-03-03T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48785"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:07:06","slug":"frolic-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/frolic-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Frolic! Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s Frolic! &#8216;progress&#8217; and my lack of time to tinker with projects during the week lately, I felt like putting Frolic! away and working on something else. This is not a good strategy for me and would not have helped the project. I also don&#8217;t want <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/26-projects-2020-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more UFOs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I decided on Friday that I go back to Clue 4 and start there. I decided I would spend a little time cutting as not having the pieces to work with seemed to be hampering me.<\/p>\n<p>I have to acknowledge that I did sew blocks together last weekend and that was some project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48784\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48784\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Frolic! - end of February 2020\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-1024x869.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-1536x1304.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-2048x1738.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200229_202736_wm-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frolic! &#8211; end of February 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I, however, wanted major progress and that required cutting more pieces. I cut about 15 &#8216;sets&#8217; on Friday night. When I was ready to sew on Saturday, that made a difference. I still had to do some cutting, but I was able to get a lot of sewing done. The blocks are not all sewn, but they are well on their way and my design wall is more full.<\/p>\n<p>The best part was that I felt like I did good work and felt hopeful about this project again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s Frolic! &#8216;progress&#8217; and my lack of time to tinker with projects during the week lately, I felt like putting Frolic! away and working on something else. This is not a good strategy for me and would not have helped the project. I also don&#8217;t want more UFOs. I decided on Friday that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/frolic-relief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frolic! Relief&#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":[486],"tags":[543,485,270],"class_list":["post-48785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-frolic","tag-mystery-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785","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=48785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65331,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48785\/revisions\/65331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}