{"id":49053,"date":"2020-04-01T07:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49053"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:28:36","slug":"some-people-cant-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/some-people-cant-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Some People Can&#8217;t Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No joke. I really can&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/frolic-whole-blocks-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other day I crowed<\/a> about finally finishing all the whole blocks for Frolic! I was really thrilled. I made progress!!!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49056\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200328_182559_wm_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49056\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200328_182559_wm_sm-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"Frolic! Back on Point\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200328_182559_wm_sm-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200328_182559_wm_sm-768x698.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200328_182559_wm_sm.jpg 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frolic! Back on Point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t actually finish all the blocks. I just counted wrong. I thought I had made 5 rows of 5, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200319_202029_wm-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the photo<\/a>, you can clearly see 4 rows of 5.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t figure it out until I was working on the corner and put the blocks on point. In trying to place them correctly, I realized I was short.<\/p>\n<p>WTH?<\/p>\n<p>I counted, recounted, looked for missing blocks and finally at the photos. I realized what I had done and that I was just so anxious to finish that I had counted wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This was supposed to be fun, not a long and difficult process. I don&#8217;t mind difficult quilts with a lot of pieces, but I am still not quite recovered from Flying Away.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to decide whether to work with the blocks I have or make another 5 blocks. Those whole blocks have 65 pieces each. While I have some already made, I don&#8217;t have all made. 5 more blocks is not that many, but still.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No joke. I really can&#8217;t count. The other day I crowed about finally finishing all the whole blocks for Frolic! I was really thrilled. I made progress!!! \ud83d\ude41 I didn&#8217;t actually finish all the blocks. I just counted wrong. I thought I had made 5 rows of 5, but in the photo, you can clearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/some-people-cant-count\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some People Can&#8217;t Count&#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":[486],"tags":[485,331,353],"class_list":["post-49053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-frolic","tag-piecing","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053","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=49053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}