{"id":53453,"date":"2021-07-12T07:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T14:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53453"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:23:47","slug":"rock-star-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/rock-star-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Star Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

My class is designing circle quilts. I decided that I had better try some of the rulers I have been suggesting my students try.<\/p>\n

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Rock Star Block Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I tried out one of the new blocks using the Wonder Curve ruler<\/a>. This is one of the blocks from their recent sew along. Sadly, they do not have a photo of the finished quilt in their IG feed. I think it will probably be a pattern sometime in the future. I wasn’t super enamored of their sampler, but I did like this block. I did think it would be a good test of the ruler, so I made one over the weekend.<\/p>\n

I am still liking the blue and red-violet combination that I used in Frolic!<\/a>. This blue is more turquoise than the blue-violet I used in Frolic!, however the combination is interesting. Also, the fabrics were handy and I didn’t have to rummage.<\/p>\n

This is the first Sew Kind of Wonderful project I have made since Metroscape<\/a> and Mod Lights<\/a>. As I mentioned when I made those projects, I really liked the Quick Curve ruler<\/a> and the mini Quick Curve ruler<\/a>. The Wonder Curve ruler<\/a> does those nice petal shapes, but I didn’t feel the love quite as much with this ruler. It could be that it was new to me and I only had a block pattern for directions. I didn’t watch the Live demos.<\/p>\n

I am interested in seeing what patterns the SKOW team produces. I wouldn’t make or put the Rock the Block sampler together like they did. I didn’t think the design worked, though the individual blocks were appealing. You see the sampler top finished in a video<\/a> at minute 5:30.<\/p>\n

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Rock Star block in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This block, after cutting the petals and putting the individual units together is a regular 9 patch. I thought about making a quilt with these blocks, but it doesn’t have enough appeal at the moment<\/em> to make me do it. I do like the way the center layout makes the block look woven.<\/p>\n

I am pretty impressed with SKOW, in general. Their rulers work well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My class is designing circle quilts. I decided that I had better try some of the rulers I have been suggesting my students try. I tried out one of the new blocks using the Wonder Curve ruler. This is one of the blocks from their recent sew along. Sadly, they do not have a photo … Continue reading “Rock Star Test”<\/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":[349,553,498,344],"class_list":["post-53453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-blocks","tag-sew-kind-of-wonderful","tag-specialty-ruler","tag-tests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53453","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=53453"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53464,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53453\/revisions\/53464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}