{"id":49947,"date":"2020-07-03T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49947"},"modified":"2020-11-23T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T02:44:13","slug":"foty-2018-finished-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/foty-2018-finished-top\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTY 2018 Finished Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49948\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49948\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"FOTY 2018 Finished Top\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-1024x925.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-1536x1388.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-2048x1851.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200701_170752_wm-1200x1084.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOTY 2018 Finished Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Work is closed for summer break this week. As a result, I worked like a demon all week and was able to finish the FOTY 2018 top and back. I didn&#8217;t need to finish it. Since I was taking quilts to Colleen today, I decided taking four quilts is better than taking three.<\/p>\n<p>The quilt wasn&#8217;t difficult to piece since all the squares are 2.5 inches. The difficult part was keeping the pieces in order as I sewed. After I got pairs sewed together, I started using the opposite side of the quilt as leaders\/enders and that made the process go faster.&nbsp; I also had a lot of time Wednesday to sew.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly the way I imagined it to come out. I kind of wanted it to be more like <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/spectrum-of-colors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellsworth Kelly&#8217;s piece<\/a>. I think to achieve that, I needed more black.<\/p>\n<p>Add the black has kind of reinvigorated my interest in this series. I might continue after FOTY 2019. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is closed for summer break this week. As a result, I worked like a demon all week and was able to finish the FOTY 2018 top and back. I didn&#8217;t need to finish it. Since I was taking quilts to Colleen today, I decided taking four quilts is better than taking three. The quilt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/foty-2018-finished-top\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FOTY 2018 Finished Top&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[486],"tags":[315,377,459,17],"class_list":["post-49947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-fabric","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2018","tag-foty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49947","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=49947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49955,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49947\/revisions\/49955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}