{"id":565,"date":"2008-08-24T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bullseye-progress\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:35:54","slug":"bullseye-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bullseye-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullseye Progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t really decide if I am making progress on this project. It has been on my wall for awhile and all the ways I have tried to arrange the pieces have not been successful or satisfactory. I want to finish it and get it off my wall, because it is a dark quilt and doesn&#8217;t make me feel happy when I look at it. I like the quilt, it is just the wrong time of year to have a dark quilt on the wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJMdieSWI\/AAAAAAAAB5g\/I2oGM8bcw0A\/s1600-h\/PICT2184sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237837213812541794\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJMdieSWI\/AAAAAAAAB5g\/I2oGM8bcw0A\/s320\/PICT2184sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Until yesterday, the above photo shows the most recent design. It had been on the wall for awhile and I knew it wasn&#8217;t working, but was considering sewing it together just to be done with it.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this layout looks like two separate quilts, which is not good. I suppose I could put one on the front and one on the back. Not happening. I want a cohesive\/unified design. I seriously like the snaky bit highlighted with the warm colored (red and pink) fabrics, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to include it and all the other patches. I like the half block wedges (see photo below) that end up, often, in the corners, s, in this iteration, I tried to replicate those on the left side of this layout. It doesn&#8217;t solve the problem of two quilts in one and the wedges don&#8217;t show up very well in the overall piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCKinp2SsI\/AAAAAAAAB54\/gDpLsy7Z2_8\/s1600-h\/PICT2185det.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237838693996579522\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCKinp2SsI\/AAAAAAAAB54\/gDpLsy7Z2_8\/s320\/PICT2185det.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wedge detail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJM_E5zVI\/AAAAAAAAB5o\/ieJfRxqR8D0\/s1600-h\/PICT2185sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237837222815321426\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJM_E5zVI\/AAAAAAAAB5o\/ieJfRxqR8D0\/s320\/PICT2185sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Detail showing my attempt at the wedge design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCM31_iIlI\/AAAAAAAAB6A\/PZbb3_B1uM0\/s1600-h\/PICT2191sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237841257646137938\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCM31_iIlI\/AAAAAAAAB6A\/PZbb3_B1uM0\/s320\/PICT2191sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I saw a quilt of Kerr\/Ringle&#8217;s called XO in the <a href=\"&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1592531520\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1592531520&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&quot;&gt;The Modern Quilt Workshop: Patterns, Techniques, and Designs from the FunQuilts Studio&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=artquiltmaker-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1592531520&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;border:none !important; margin:0px !important;&quot; \/&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Quilt Workshop<\/a> book. The blocks had patches the same shape as my bullseye wedges, but Bill and Weeks had added a thin strip of fabric in between. Above shows my attempt at using their idea. I considered trying a purple\/violet fabric, but ultimately didn&#8217;t choose this option, because I was too lazy to find the right fabric and think I came up with a better idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJNRerSiI\/AAAAAAAAB5w\/wHTovTCGDMk\/s1600-h\/PICT2192sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237837227755260450\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLCJNRerSiI\/AAAAAAAAB5w\/wHTovTCGDMk\/s320\/PICT2192sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYesterday morning, I had a brainwave and the above layout is it. Is isn&#8217;t finished and there are still a couple of problems to work out, but so far I like this layout the best of all. The red\/pink snake is gone, but so is the two quilts in one problem. Some of the problems I have to work out are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fabric placement<\/li>\n<li>how to work with the many more pieces I have than are shown with a small design wall.<\/li>\n<li>getting the whole piece to be cohesive while using all (or most of the blocks)<\/li>\n<li>Making the piece fit in a square or rectangular format without adding blank pieces of fabric. I added blank pieces in <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/feelin-blue-too-top-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feelin&#8217; Blue<\/a> and don&#8217;t want to do that again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these are as insurmountable as the layout. I think I have a good one here and will move forward with until such time as it is finished or I decide it was a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t really decide if I am making progress on this project. It has been on my wall for awhile and all the ways I have tried to arrange the pieces have not been successful or satisfactory. I want to finish it and get it off my wall, because it is a dark quilt and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/bullseye-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bullseye Progress?&#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_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":[388],"tags":[135,72,331,252],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-bullseye","tag-group-project","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}