{"id":53844,"date":"2021-09-05T07:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53844"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:32:26","slug":"closing-in-on-rosette-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/closing-in-on-rosette-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing in on Rosette #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took Friday off work, mostly because I was tired and just needed an extra day. I thought I would tack an extra day on to Labor Day, which would allow me to get stuff done around the house and sew quite a bit. Also, I really need to take some boxes to the donation place. I have a big pile from clearing out my workroom. DH contributed to the pile. He was encouraged to clear off his piles as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have made some good progress on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/la-passacaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Passacaglia<\/a> as you have no doubt seen. I really want to keep up with this project. I think getting behind would put this squarely on my UFO list. I am a little behind as Rosette #2 has been sent out. I am waiting for it. I have until Tuesday to finish this Rosette.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53854\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200428_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53854\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200428_wm-sm-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rosette #1 center\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200428_wm-sm-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200428_wm-sm-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200428_wm-sm.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosette #1 center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thursday night, after work, I sewed the center together. I had been working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/la-pass-assembly-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearts<\/a> and cones as I thought that would be the most bang for my buck. Still, not having the center completed started to bother me. I decided that would be my after work goal.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t perfect, but I am pleased with the way it came out. In the overall scheme of La Passacaglia, the slight imperfections won&#8217;t show. It was my first time fussy cutting to create a new look (new fabric design) in the manner <a href=\"https:\/\/paulanadelstern.com\/gallery.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula Nadelstern<\/a> works. It felt like a huge achievement to finish the center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53853\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53853\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rosette #1 - almost finished\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210827_200522_wm-sm.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 85vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosette #1 &#8211; almost finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once the center was done, I laid out what I had sewed and looked at it.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo you can see the hearts and cones in the outer part of the rosette are not yet sewn together. I also have 4 more cones and 3 more hearts to make before I can sew the whole piece together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Friday off work, mostly because I was tired and just needed an extra day. I thought I would tack an extra day on to Labor Day, which would allow me to get stuff done around the house and sew quite a bit. Also, I really need to take some boxes to the donation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/closing-in-on-rosette-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Closing in on Rosette #1&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[496],"tags":[209,22,503],"class_list":["post-53844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-english-paper-piecing","tag-hand-piecing","tag-la-passacaglia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844","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=53844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53952,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions\/53952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}