{"id":5417,"date":"2010-05-10T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:36:13","slug":"brain-dead-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/brain-dead-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Dead Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It's a Merry & Bright Wrap! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have had some time to reflect on this project. I realized that “brain dead projects” have a place in my quiltmaking process.<\/p>\n

“Brain dead project” sounds fairly derogatory and I don’t mean the concept to be.\u00a0 To me, a brain dead project is a project that I can work on that has very few decisions involved. I have put off writing this post while I tried to think of a better term.\u00a0 I haven’t succeeded yet. I am sure one of my brilliant readers will come up with one.<\/p>\n

Quiltmaking is, in a way, an intellectual process for me. My normal way of working is that something intrigues me – a block, a fabric, a tool – and I start playing with it. The circles are a good example. I saw a quilt<\/a>, began thinking about how to make it and what I wanted to convey and ended up in a class<\/a>. The process with the circle quilt is not over by a long shot. It is still in the percolating process.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, my normal process takes too much thinking. The It’s a Merry & Bright Wrap quilt was the perfect project when I needed just to sew. I didn’t have to choose the colors (except for a couple of background additions) and I didn’t have to figure out the piecing. I bought the pattern, which was a choice, but after that, it was basic sewing and pressing. I only had to focus on the more technical details of putting the quilt together.<\/p>\n

I need this kind of project sometimes. It keeps my hands busy and allows my mind to wander. When I made this top (which still needs borders) I was having a hard time and the fewer decisions the better.<\/p>\n

I am happy with the way the quilt turned out (so far) and that I got to learn to use a Jelly Roll. Yes, my quilt looks like everyone else’s. Sometimes that is ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had some time to reflect on this project. I realized that “brain dead projects” have a place in my quiltmaking process. “Brain dead project” sounds fairly derogatory and I don’t mean the concept to be.\u00a0 To me, a brain dead project is a project that I can work on that has very few … Continue reading “Brain Dead Projects”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[390],"tags":[353,332],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-process","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}