{"id":52247,"date":"2021-03-14T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=52247"},"modified":"2021-03-11T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:23:02","slug":"x-quilt-top-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/x-quilt-top-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"X Quilt Top and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52201\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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 the X Quilt top and back&nbsp; and took it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sewlittletimequilting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colleen<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty pleased with the way this came out, though I think I would like to try the pattern with different fabrics. The Pop Parade fabrics are not clear enough. Also, I think I needed to choose fabrics with larger designs. While the viewer gets a surprise when coming close too the quilt, I think the large size of some of the pieces would have more impact if the motifs were large or had more contrast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52248\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210309_161151_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52248\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210309_161151_wm-sm-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"X Quilt Back\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210309_161151_wm-sm-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210309_161151_wm-sm-768x855.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210309_161151_wm-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 85vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">X Quilt Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I do like the different sizes of the Xes. I think that is really good design.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the Xes really used a lot of fabric, too. The quilt and back took 10 yards. If I need to make progress on fabric usage, this is the quilt I will make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the X Quilt top and back&nbsp; and took it to Colleen last week. I am pretty pleased with the way this came out, though I think I would like to try the pattern with different fabrics. The Pop Parade fabrics are not clear enough. Also, I think I needed to choose fabrics with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/x-quilt-top-and-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;X Quilt Top and Back&#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":[499],"class_list":["post-52247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","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\/52247","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=52247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52249,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52247\/revisions\/52249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}