{"id":53492,"date":"2021-07-24T07:04:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53492"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:14:34","slug":"yellow-improv-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/yellow-improv-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Improv Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53493\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_100849_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53493\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_100849_wm-sm-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Improv Donation Top in Progress\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_100849_wm-sm-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_100849_wm-sm-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/20210709_100849_wm-sm.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow Improv Donation Top in Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Slowly but surely this piece is growing. The top section, which I think of as the main piece, is about 20&#215;20 now. I am working on growing the bottom piece to fit on to the top piece. At the moment the bottom piece is&nbsp; made up of 3 different pieces.<\/p>\n<p>I find that I need triangles in <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-improv-donation-top-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these pieces<\/a> to add interest. The additional, non-yellow, colors add interest, but I find that if I have too many squares and rectangles the eye doesn&#8217;t move around as much. In this piece, however, there isn&#8217;t much contrast and that helps the eye not linger on the squares and rectangles.<\/p>\n<p>I learned this from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/wp-15494929653602224138522189886067.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Thing<\/a>, the first top in this series. Those bars, which aren&#8217;t even really green, provide a focal point, but I find that the focal point takes away from the rest of the quilt. Good thing I&#8217;ll have enough green scraps to make another!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly but surely this piece is growing. The top section, which I think of as the main piece, is about 20&#215;20 now. I am working on growing the bottom piece to fit on to the top piece. At the moment the bottom piece is&nbsp; made up of 3 different pieces. I find that I need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/yellow-improv-grows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yellow Improv Grows&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[496],"tags":[137,537,355,72,371],"class_list":["post-53492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-bamqg","tag-color-improv-series","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-improv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492","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=53492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53495,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53492\/revisions\/53495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}