{"id":56600,"date":"2022-07-29T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=56600"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T23:31:57","slug":"tarts-return-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/tarts-return-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tarts Return…Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The Tarts Come to Tea – July 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, after YEARS of having this project on my to do list, I have pulled it out of the project box and started to finish the quilting. First, I am obsessed at the moment with crossing things off my to do list. Frankly, I am sick of looking at the same items month after month. Second, I need the project box for something else.<\/p>\n

Now that you are back in your chair a second time after being gobsmacked on to the floor, you read that right. I am machine quilting a real quilt. It isn’t a king sized quilt or anything, but it is also not fabric for a bag or a tablerunner. It is real quilting on a quilt.<\/p>\n

\"Tarts:<\/a>
Tarts: quilting center right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started working on it last Friday. I started with the frame of one of the blocks. I thought some straight line quilting would get be back in the groove.<\/p>\n

The good thing about that red frame is that the quilting would not show if I used red thread.<\/p>\n

You are probably remembering the Cha Cha Cha table runner<\/a>. Yes, I quilted that myself, as well as some fabric for bags this year, so it’s not like it has been 20 years since I actually quilted anything. It has<\/strong><\/em> been about 10 years since I worked on this project<\/a>. Recently, I have decided that UFOs are a bad thing for me<\/strong><\/em> and I want to eradicate them, as much as possible from my workroom.<\/p>\n

I had the box of thread I used for the other, already quilted Tarts blocks, so I picked out the red (Maderia rayon I used to use for embroidery) and got busy.<\/p>\n

\"Tarts:<\/a>
Tarts: quilting finished center right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was pretty pleased with how the process worked. I was a little nervous about doing the frame before the center, but it ended up all working out.<\/p>\n

I was particularly pleased that the quilting made the frame flat. It seemed really puffy when I started (first photo, above). I know that I need to work from the center out and I am doing that, mostly. I started with the frame, because I didn’t want the quilting to show while I worked out stitch length, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Tarts:<\/a>
Tarts: quilted frame detail (center right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think the stitching looks ok. It is not Colleen’s stitching, but it is not terrible either.<\/p>\n

Onward. Maybe I’ll finally finish this quilt, but one thing at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, after YEARS of having this project on my to do list, I have pulled it out of the project box and started to finish the quilting. First, I am obsessed at the moment with crossing things off my to do list. Frankly, I am sick of looking at the same items month after month. … Continue reading “The Tarts Return…Yet Again”<\/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":[322,231],"class_list":["post-56600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-machine-quilting","tag-tarts-come-to-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56600","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=56600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56648,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56600\/revisions\/56648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}