{"id":56065,"date":"2022-06-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=56065"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:08:06","slug":"cutting-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/cutting-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Adrienne's<\/a>
Adrienne’s blocks with Julie’s circles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I talked about Adrienne’s Bullseye blocks a little the other day<\/a>. Once I put the whole thing on the design wall, I could take a look at what I had to work with. My first impression was that the piece was dark. Adrienne selected darker backgrounds than I did. Then Julie used some darker fabrics for circles.<\/p>\n

These are not bad choices by any stretch, just different than what I selected.<\/p>\n

\"Adrienne's<\/a>
Adrienne’s bullseye with 2d round circles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing I did was cut a bunch of pinks. I wanted to lighten up the piece, but also didn’t want to slap pink on any old block. I cut circles from the fabrics and tried them out in different places.<\/p>\n

The blocks are not in the place they will end up in the final quilt, so I matched the pinks to the circles that Julie cut. This helped me to work on the other blocks as well. As I chose each fabric for the second circle, there were fewer blocks to complete and the choices became clearer.<\/p>\n

The picture on the left doesn’t show all of the second circles selected, because I am still in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked about Adrienne’s Bullseye blocks a little the other day. Once I put the whole thing on the design wall, I could take a look at what I had to work with. My first impression was that the piece was dark. Adrienne selected darker backgrounds than I did. Then Julie used some darker fabrics … Continue reading “Cutting Circles”<\/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_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":[506],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-56065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-bullseye"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065","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=56065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56068,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56065\/revisions\/56068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}