{"id":5484,"date":"2010-05-17T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2024-09-03T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:28:59","slug":"eye-spy-tumbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/eye-spy-tumbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Spy & Tumbler"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tumblers,<\/a>
Tumblers, cut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been cutting patches for Julie<\/a>‘s Tumbler quilt for awhile. It seems only fair since she cut a boatload of hexagons for my Eye Spy quilt. Periodically, I get a bunch together and give them to her when I see her. They fit very nicely into a Recchiuti caramel box, so she gets a nice smell of chocolate along with her Tumblers. It occurred to me that I should surprise her sometime and give her a box of the actual chocolates!<\/p>\n

I kind of like having a list of patches to cut as I work through new fabric or fabric I am using. There is something nice about collecting a bunch of blocks and then putting them all together at the end of the year or the end of some other timeframe.<\/p>\n

The other day, Julie wrote about getting close to the end in a recent post<\/a>. She is struggling with the same issue I had and that is the edge. When I was finishing up the Eye Spy, I didn’t want to slice off several hexagons to make a straight edge. That is the suggestion that many resources had for the edge of an Eye Spy.<\/p>\n

\"Eye<\/a>
Eye Spy, Full<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also didn’t really want to sew a binding around all of those weird angles. I did that once<\/a> and once was enough. The one weird angle in the Chocolate Box was enough for me. As you may remember, I did some triangle gymnastics<\/a> on the Eye Spy to finish the edge in order to end up with a straight edge.<\/p>\n

I think this is a case of thinking about what design would be best for the quilt. Chopping off hexagons that were fussy cut to include an image would be jarring, I think. If I had thought ahead, I might have made the edge hexagons a solid or tone-on-tone fabric and not worried about chopping them off. Solid fabrics might have provided a kind of border effect.<\/p>\n

I am happy with my solution. It wasn’t the easiest solution, but I think it looks good. I am sure Julie will come up with a good solution as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been cutting patches for Julie‘s Tumbler quilt for awhile. It seems only fair since she cut a boatload of hexagons for my Eye Spy quilt. Periodically, I get a bunch together and give them to her when I see her. They fit very nicely into a Recchiuti caramel box, so she gets a … Continue reading “Eye Spy & Tumbler”<\/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":[352,269,330,331,353,141],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-construction","tag-eye-spy","tag-other-artists","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-williams-quilts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","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=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63964,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/63964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}