{"id":52096,"date":"2021-02-27T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=52096"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T19:39:08","slug":"plaid-donation-top-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/plaid-donation-top-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaid Donation Top Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I made a plaid donation top and back<\/a> with the leftovers from my cousin’s quilt<\/a>. As you might remember, I was glad to be done with all the plaids.<\/p>\n

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Plaid Donation Quilt in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday, I helped Tim put the piece on his longarm and he started to quilt it.<\/p>\n

He is quilting a combination of squares\/rectangles and swirls. He is not doing an all over pattern, but is quilting in the piecing, which I like.<\/p>\n

He and I have talked a lot about our tastes in quilting, so he knows I like my piecing to shine. He does all over patterns for some community quilts, but he often does custom for the quilts I have made.<\/p>\n

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Plaid Donation Quilt in progress – detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For donation quilts I do not tell him how to quilt them. I let them go after I am done piecing and let him decide the best design. Like Colleen<\/a>, longarming is really his jam and he is good at it. It is also something he enjoys. I leave him to it. In this case, he focused on the blocks and did a couple of different motifs in the various patches. He combined spirals and rectangles, which I thought looked really good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, I made a plaid donation top and back with the leftovers from my cousin’s quilt. As you might remember, I was glad to be done with all the plaids. Wednesday, I helped Tim put the piece on his longarm and he started to quilt it. He is quilting a combination of squares\/rectangles and … Continue reading “Plaid Donation Top Quilting”<\/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":[496],"tags":[137,355],"class_list":["post-52096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096","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=52096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52102,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52096\/revisions\/52102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}