{"id":51972,"date":"2021-02-16T07:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=51972"},"modified":"2021-03-01T18:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:35:42","slug":"x-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/x-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"X Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have rummaged through my dots drawers numerous times since I bought Pop Parade by Metro for P&amp;B Textiles. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/pop-parade-xes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recently<\/a>, the collection caught my eye and that is what I am using for my latest quilt.<\/p>\n<p>This quilt is from the book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3b1w5BW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quilt Big<\/a>** by Jemima Flendt. I tried to borrow it, but nobody had it, so I ended up getting a deal on it in Kindle format.<\/p>\n<p>This quilt had a rocky start. The Kindle format didn&#8217;t make for easy reference to the pattern. I finally figure that out and started cutting, but got confused by the directions, so I pulled all the fabrics I planned to use, then started cutting again. That made more sense, but not a lot. My confusion continue. Finally, I printed out a copy of the layout, looked up the sizes of squares I needed and cut using those two aids. After figuring out the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/simple-folded-corners-ruler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">folded corners ruler<\/a>, I sped along.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51983\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51983\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"X Quilt- Saturday work\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210214_103225_wm-sm.jpg 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 85vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">X Quilt- Saturday work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made good progress on Saturday. I thought I might finish cutting and sewing the blocks together. HAHAHAHA!!! There was a lot more cutting than I anticipated. I guess I got oriented to the pattern on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have rummaged through my dots drawers numerous times since I bought Pop Parade by Metro for P&amp;B Textiles. Recently, the collection caught my eye and that is what I am using for my latest quilt. This quilt is from the book Quilt Big** by Jemima Flendt. I tried to borrow it, but nobody had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/x-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;X Quilt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[496],"tags":[331,252,499],"class_list":["post-51972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt","tag-x-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\/51972","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51998,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51972\/revisions\/51998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}