{"id":547,"date":"2008-08-09T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/thinking-about-borders-vapnq\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T22:37:59","slug":"thinking-about-borders-vapnq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/thinking-about-borders-vapnq\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Borders v.APNQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SJ3BhlzcRmI\/AAAAAAAAB1w\/fDUpVggXiRs\/s1600-h\/bm-image-744285.jpe\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232551124902102626\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SJ3BhlzcRmI\/AAAAAAAAB1w\/fDUpVggXiRs\/s320\/bm-image-744285.jpe\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quilt shows are a good place to try and work out a quilt puzzle because there are, generally, more quilts at a quilt show than any other place you normally inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t really trying to work out a problem, but the idea of borders was rumbling around in the back of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I sincerely dislike borders t hat have no good DESIGN reason for being there. I don&#8217;t like borders that are just slapped on because the Quilt Police say you need a border or the quilt wasn&#8217;t quite large enough. I have engaged in this behavior, much to my chagrin, and endeavor not to do it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Thus you can imagine my delight when I saw this light and airy border on a Mariner&#8217;s Compass quilt. I LOVE the idea of giving the Mariner&#8217;s Compass some boundaries without hemming it in with a heavy and long piece of fabric. While it is not as cohesive as the self bordering technique can be to the design, I still find it to be very successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt shows are a good place to try and work out a quilt puzzle because there are, generally, more quilts at a quilt show than any other place you normally inhabit. I wasn&#8217;t really trying to work out a problem, but the idea of borders was rumbling around in the back of my mind. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/thinking-about-borders-vapnq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking about Borders v.APNQ&#8221;<\/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_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":[388],"tags":[7,312],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-borders","tag-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}