{"id":55208,"date":"2022-02-18T07:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=55208"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T01:30:17","slug":"basting-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/basting-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Basting Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’d think that basting would be basting. As I mentioned the other day<\/a>, there are a couple of different kinds of basting. The other day I found that I can improve upon my glue basting.<\/p>\n

I have been trying to manage my bunny ears. Until now I have basted so the diamond bunny ears are folded in the same direction. For triangles, I make sure I fold them in all different directions, so all of the bunny ears don’t end up in one location when sewing.<\/p>\n

\"Basting:<\/a>
Basting: folding the bunny ears in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently, I saw a picture that someone posted of their glue basting and realized I could fold the bunny ears in.<\/p>\n

Don’t ask me why I didn’t think of this before. I just didn’t.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t quite sure how this would work out and I didn’t realize I could do it until I had only two diamonds and one triangle to fill in.<\/p>\n

\"Basting:<\/a>
Basting: bunny ears under control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The overall technique works. There are no bunny ears to manage. (photo right: shows the piece half basted).<\/p>\n

The only potential issue I see is that the area where the bunny ears would be are a lot thicker than the other areas. There are also several layers of glue. The triangle points are particularly thick.<\/p>\n

We’ll see if that is an issue and I’ll report back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’d think that basting would be basting. As I mentioned the other day, there are a couple of different kinds of basting. The other day I found that I can improve upon my glue basting. I have been trying to manage my bunny ears. Until now I have basted so the diamond bunny ears are … Continue reading “Basting Updates”<\/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":[506],"tags":[209,22,503],"class_list":["post-55208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","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\/55208","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=55208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55210,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55208\/revisions\/55210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}