{"id":52227,"date":"2021-03-12T07:06:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=52227"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:12:01","slug":"x-quilt-top-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/x-quilt-top-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"X Quilt Top Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52201\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52201\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"X Quilt Top Finished\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-860x1024.jpg 860w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-768x914.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-1290x1536.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-1720x2048.jpg 1720w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210308_151807_wm-1200x1429.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">X Quilt Top Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished piecing the top and back of the X Quilt.<\/p>\n<p>I started the backing on Saturday night (after finishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/retreat-pouch-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retreat Pouch<\/a>) by pulling some of my Philip Jacobs prints. Then I realized that I wanted to use up the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/pop-parade-xes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Parade prints<\/a>, which would take a lot longer since I didn&#8217;t have very large pieces. I compromised and used one large PJ piece and the rest are Pop Parade. I worked on the backing all day on Sunday, finishing just before it was time to make dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I still have a lot of Pop Parade fabric left, so I will make an improv donation quilt in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/hsts-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HST donation quilt<\/a>. I could use the improv piece for the backing. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished piecing the top and back of the X Quilt. I started the backing on Saturday night (after finishing the Retreat Pouch) by pulling some of my Philip Jacobs prints. Then I realized that I wanted to use up the Pop Parade prints, which would take a lot longer since I didn&#8217;t have very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/x-quilt-top-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;X Quilt Top Finished&#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":[496],"tags":[316,499],"class_list":["post-52227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-gifts","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\/52227","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=52227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52232,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52227\/revisions\/52232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}